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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.
Safety Last! (1923)

In packed movie houses, with audiences invariably gasping and giggling on every cue, it's a near-religious experience.
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.
Supercross (2005)

Dude, I am bummed.
3-Iron (2005)

Kim Ki-duk's happily unhinged drama comfortably occupies the middle ground between his baroque thriller The Isle and his meditative Spring, Summer....
9 Songs (2005)

May I humbly suggest you go to a concert or have sex instead? Heck, do both.
Grizzly Man (2005)

We're spared the sounds [of Treadwell's death], but haunted by our own mental image, one more example of the individual's capacity to create his own reality.
Four Brothers (2005)

Call Four Brothers a guilty pleasure....Singleton may go for easy laughs, but he gets them; the gut-level jolts may be ridiculous, but he delivers them (with style).
Ghostbusters II (1989)

Bottom line: with Murray on fire and enough clever dialogue to rival its predecessor, Ghostbusters II is good enough to put post-milennial comedy to shame.
Broken Flowers (2005)

Has little more ambition than to make Murray the funny valentine of one of Jarmusch's mood pieces....indeed, some of the best moments are wordless.
Junebug (2005)

The balancing act of character contradictions ultimately becomes more about itself than true human behavior.
Ma Mère (2005)

Glazed-over looks, naked flesh, inane philosophizing, and sand dunes announce that we're in Antonioni-land, circa Zabriskie Point.
Nina's Tragedies (2005)

Passing eccentricities of character, but serious trouble staging honest and coherent emotional scenes....a surplus of preciousness and a deficit of truth-ringing reality.
Sud Pralad (Tropical Malady) (2005)

Weerasethakul's confident composition of sight and sound induces a trance-like state with an elegant suggestion: that all-consuming love is for old souls.
Sky High (2005)

Dissatisfying to an adult audience accustomed to more sophisticated parody....will resonate with young viewers on their way to high school.

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