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Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)

Triumphant coming-of-age drama (complete with horses!) [aimed] at little girls and their captive-audience fathers.
North Country (2005)

Feature films about sexual harassment are hardly a dime a dozen, so Niki Caro's North Country—gawky though it may be at times—comes as welcome.
Quality of Life (2005)

Benjamin Morgan's provocative debut Quality of Life is a true San Francisco movie. Shot and edited in the Mission District, this fly-on-the-wall drama about graffiti writers makes brilliant use of lo...
Domino (2005)

Mysterious daddy issues, a color scheme that washes everything in fluorescent urine and lime-green Jello, and....editing so jittery it'll send you into rapid eye movement.
In Her Shoes (2005)

[Jerks] every tear in the "chick-lit" book...but the fertile combination of Hanson, Grant, and the stars allows blossoms of truth and humor to spring up out of the mulch.
Bad Timing (1980)

Exemplifies the rich, acquired taste of the Roeg film.
Oliver! (1968)

Makes an epic impact, fully exploiting cinema to chase the intensity of a live musical while also allowing time for intimate expression of character.
Lady in White (1988)

Far from perfect, but what it lacks in finesse, it makes up in shaggy-dog charm....the fun is in the journey.
YES (2005)

Few filmmakers could be consciously redolent of Moliere, Dylan Thomas, and James Joyce and pull it off, but apparently writer-director Sally Potter is first in that class.
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Tinkers around with an intriguing premise but with little creative facility for dialogue or structure...[splits] the difference between fans and neophytes, impressing neither.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Charming...inspired....ridiculously entertaining.
Good Night, And Good Luck. (2005)

A theatrical movie infused with the energy of live TV....Good Night, and Good Luck. reminds us that, when played right, journalism is a dangerous game.
Waiting... (2005)

A movie for young people, and they're welcome to it. Anyone older than teenage already will have seen every joke in Waiting... in more finely crafted, funnier movies.
Into the Blue (2005)

Primarily, Into the Blue displays plenty of priceless booty (and the treasure is impressive, too...).
Thumbsucker (2005)

Kirn's sharp-tongued novel would suggest an Alexander Payne film rife with arch satire, but Mills ultimately goes for a more deeply affecting emotional study.
Roll Bounce (2005)

Affectionate retro fun that coasts on soul sounds of the '70s and Cosby Kids-styled camaraderie.
Touch the Sound (2005)

Glennie and Reidelsheimer prove equally adept at tapping into found sound and transforming it into art.
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)

[Burton paints] death as a (literally) more colorful plane of existence than life, the ultimate subversive joke in a movie full of them.
Batman (1943)

Columbia Pictures' Batman is just about as good as the next serial, which spells plenty of two-fisted fun.
Just Like Heaven (2005)

Painfully predictable romanticized crap, but dealing as it does with mortal tragedy—death, brain-death, and loss—it's also unscrupulous and exploitative.
Winter Solstice (2005)

Something that's increasingly rare: a stringently subtextual drama....when they finally arrive, the epiphanies are small ones.
Schultze gets the blues (2005)

Defiantly slow-paced, Schultze gets the blues embraces a neglected subject: the wanderlust of the retiree.
Batman and Robin (1949)

Though rudimentary by ordinary film standards...diverting entertainment for innocent youngsters.
Zan Ziadi (Unwanted Woman) (2005)

A veil of censorship frustrates Milani, but also inspires her to clever means of skull-penetrating overstatement and subliminal understatement.
Reel Paradise (2005)

Can be voyeuristically interesting...[but] James fails to justify this for-hire, backfired vanity project in an age glutted with reality TV.
An Unfinished Life (2005)

Provides a useful contrast to good dramas....Redford and Freeman should have invested their chops elsewhere.
Crustacés et Coquillages (a.k.a. Côte d'Azur) (2005)

If the memory of the film flits away soon after viewing, the comic beats are amusing.
Margaret Cho: Assassin (2005)

Soft in the middle, and none of Cho's stories here take on an epic scope....[Yet] the comedienne remains endearingly naughty.
Transporter 2 (2005)

Transporter 2 has the narrative skills and libido of a newly pubescent boy.
A Sound of Thunder (2005)

Sing, muse! Sing of a century-hence future when we shall all/Drive impractically bulky cars and pay through the teeth/To hunt dinosaurs on a TimeSafari to the past!
Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) (2005)

Iglesia's comic cautionary tale observes the monsters created by "every man for himself" attitudes.
Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress) (2005)

Here's a rare one: a novel adapted to film by the author himself. Sijie Dai wrote Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress in 2000, and shortly thereafter directed his own screenplay. Though the film...
Sahara (2005)

As Hollywood actioners go these days, this one's quite tolerable in its guilty-pleasure way. Feel free to saddle up.
Eternal (2005)

A terrible script, pedestrian direction, and acting that's mediocre at best signify that Eternal...[is] ready-made, moderately sexy fodder for late-night Skin-emax.
Pretty Persuasion (2005)

Nothing is less shocking than a movie that's constantly trying to shock....more bite than bark, but it's all dog.
Witness (1985)

Humanizes the conflict of peace versus the arguable necessity of violence.
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

Inspiration is inherent in Brown's story, but Sheridan, co-screenwriter Shane Connaughton, and Lewis refuse to sanctify him.
Francesco, giullare di Dio (a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis) (1950)

Though Roberto Rossellini's Francesco, giullare di Dio...tells stories of a Roman Catholic saint, it should not be branded merely as a religious film.
Red Eye (2005)

Wes Craven banishes the memory of Cursed to bring us a lean thriller that's just right for armrest-gripping.
Valiant (2005)

Valiant is sadly boring, and while its rote mechanics may function nominally on children, it's going to be a long 76 minutes for the adults.

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