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Death Warmed Over Againnew
Whatever kudos go to writer/director Dan Harris for the length of his reach in this family-crisis drama tend to be overshadowed by inexperience and enslavement to genre.
Out Like a Lambnew
Set, for the most part, in the underground Berlin bunker where Adolf Hitler spent his last days, Downfall is a grim and sometimes guilt-ridden examination of the Third Reich in collapse. But it's also weirdly sympathetic.
Movies That Heated Up Cinemas in 2004new
Not one of the political documentariess distributed this year made a fraction of Fahrenheit 9/11's earnings, and deservedly so, because not one outraged, engaged or entertained the way Michael Moore's film did.
Celebrating the Underhyped Movies of 2004new
Plenty of fine films opened to little or no fanfare this year. New Times reviewers pick their favorite movies that didn't draw the adulation they deserved.
The Pitch |
Bill Gallo, Melissa Levine, Jean Oppenheimer, Luke Y. Thompson and Robert Wilonsky |
12-27-2004 |
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Tags: Various Directors, 2004's Best Films, Control Room, I Heart Huckabees, Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, Kitchen Stories, Mean Creek, My Architect, Overnight, She Hate Me, Silver City, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space, The Corporation, The Manchurian Candidate, The Mother, The Story of the yearinreview 2004, The Terminal, The Twilight Samurai, Tokyo Godfathers, Weeping Camel
Small Movies Came Up Big in 2004new
New Times critics pick as their top film of the year Alexander Payne's Sideways, which juxtaposes a wine freak's brittle angst with his friend's doofy recklessness.
The Unlikely Lambsnew
Carandiru reveals the human side of prisoners inside the infamous Sao Paulo detention center, then leads us to their slaughter.
