The Clearing (2004)

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

The Big Bounce (2004)

The Big Store (1941)

Even at the Marxes' nadir, Harpo lends physical energy, Chico gets some funny malapropisms...and Groucho is in fine fettle when he's allowed.

The Alamo (2004)

Stander (2004)

The South African tale of Andre Stander adds fuel to the old chestnut that truth is stranger than fiction...a wild and gripping ride.

Code 46 (2004)

Given the 'Big Brother' promise that 'the Sphynx knows best,' this fusion of our sci-fi noir future and Ancient Greek tragic past looks not unlike our uneasy present.

This Old Cub (2004)

From the "labor of love" file...This Old Cub focuses on what Santo means to the Cubs organization and the bleacher bums, and what the team and the fans mean to Santo.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)

Succeeds in hoisting Fox News by its own petard. Greenwald's approach may not be balanced, but it seems pretty fair.

Garden State (2004)

This may make me some sort of traitor to my generation, but I found Garden State—the auteur debut of TV star Zach Braff...—to be a derivative vanity project.

My Mother Likes Women (2004)

A graceless film about hateful people...apart from some Prague scenery in the last act, My Mother Likes Women is thoroughly ugly.

Open Water (2004)

There's not much here, but Open Water capitalizes on its slightness...[lets] our imagination do most of the work of putting the actors in sharks' way.

Collateral (2004)

Mann skips off convention like a stone on a river...impassively observing his Hitchcockian hero: dragged into action and struggling to save the day from a sympathetic devil.

Little Black Book (2004)

Festival Express (2004)

La Grande séduction (Seducing Doctor Lewis) (2004)

Confidences trop intimes (Intimate Strangers) (2004)

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

A Home at the End of the World (2004)

Thunderbirds (2004)

Catwoman (2004)

I, Robot (2004)

Zhou Yu de huo che (Zhou Yu's Train) (2004)

25th Hour (2002)

A Cinderella Story (2004)

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Riding Giants (2004)

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

King Arthur (2004)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Freer and more commanding, even as it serves the grand designs of a superheroic trilogy.

Night and Day (1946)

Before Sunrise (1995)

Before Sunset (2004)

White Chicks (2004)

La Finestra di fronte (Facing Windows) (2004)

Two Brothers (2004)

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

A strange hybrid of Verne's story, goofy Disney fare like The Absent-Minded Professor, and cheerily anachronistic Jackie Chan buddy comedies like Shanghai Knights.

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Garfield: The Movie (2004)

Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The Story of the Weeping Camel) (2004)

Control Room (2004)

A Day Without a Mexican (2004)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Baadasssss! (2004)

Jeux d'enfants (Love Me If You Dare) (2004)

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

Gojira (Godzilla) (1954)

Shrek 2 (2004)

The perfect sort of movie to pay attention to in the back of a minivan.

Troy (2004)