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M What price for a child killer?
THE MACHINIST Christian Bale as a skeleton
MACHUCA Two boys - one rich, the other poor - form a friendship against the turbulance of 1970s Chile
MADAME SATÃ The rough trade/Jean Genet world
of pederasts, whores and drug fiends
MAD HOT BALLROOM Afterschool rumba
MAD LOVE A bodice ripper in
any language
THE MAGDALENE SISTERS One of the finest ensembles of the last several years
MAIKU HAMA PRIVATE EYE TRILOGY Slick contemporary Japanese film noir
MAIL ORDER WIFE An arranged marriage caught on camera
MAJOR DUNDEE: THE EXTENDED VERSION Sam Peckinpah's restored Western/Civil War epic
MAMBO ITALIANO Doing the time warp instead
A MAN CALLED MAGNUM From Naples, with firepower
MANDERLAY Lars von Trier’s Pollyanna has a somewhat different ending than Disney’s
THE MAN ON THE TRAIN Audience award for best film, 2002 Venice Film Festival
MAN PUSH CART Alone in America: An austere film about an austere life
A MAN'S GOTTA DO Anything and everything to make his family happy, including reading his daughter's diary
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Sex, drugs, rock and roll collide with David Bowie's alien from outer space
THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST Academy award nominee for best foreign language film
MARATHON A New York neurotic on a crossword bender
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS Tuxedoed migration on ice
MARIA FULL OF GRACE From the frying pan into the fire
MARILYN HOTCHKISS BALLROOM DANCING & CHARM SCHOOL Proof the tango is therapeutic (also see: Shall We Dance?)
MAROONED IN IRAQ Will undoubtedly resonate with viewers
MASCULIN FÉMININ (1966) The Children of Marx and Coca Cola haven’t grown up (they’re now Toys’R’Us kids)
MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT A much needed explanation of the experimental artist/filmmaker
MAY 6TH Thriller based on the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn
MC5: A TRUE TESTIMONIAL Much ado about m-----------
MEAN CREEK Teenage flotsam
MELINDA AND MELINDA Two plots are not always better than one
THE MEMORY OF A KILLER A hit man must settle the final score before time - and his memory - runs out
MENDY Nice Jewish boy gone wild
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE A problematic play is now a problematic movie
MERCI DOCTEUR REY Phone sex, Puccini, & Vanessa Redgrave
METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER Headbanger head jobs
A MIGHTY WIND An added scene is the standout of the special features
MILK AND HONEY An imploding couple in the land of crime and slumming
MILLIONS Two young boys with an extra large allowance, courtesy of Heaven
MILWAUKEE, MINNOSOTA Far from Fargo: A quirky and greedy small town
MINI'S FIRST TIME Kids aren’t as innocent as you think they are – Scandalous!
MIRAGE The disappointments of childhood and Macedonia
MONDOVINO The world of wine where the glass is half-empty
MONSIEUR IBRAHIM "You're beautiful through women" and other words of wisdom
MONSTER A ferocious performance, but a tepid bio
MONUMENTAL: DAVID BROWER'S FIGHT FOR WILD AMERICA How the West was won - and lost
MOOLAADÉ One woman's protest against female circumcision
MOSTLY MARTHA "(Martina) Gedeck brings both a determination and warmth...reminiscent of Helen Hunt and Meryl Streep"
THE MOTEL A 13-year-old boy's hormones run wild in his mom's skanky workplace
THE MOTHER The randy granny and the future James Bond
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES Before he was an icon - on the road with Che
MOUNTAIN PATROL: KEKEXILI Relentless tension at 16,500 feet
MOUTH TO MOUTH A teenage runaway finds brotherhood - and fascism - in a cult
MR. SKEFFINGTON The Bette Davis vehicle, with commentary by its director, 99-year-old Vincent Sherman
MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT A star turn by Joan Plowright and an up-and-coming leading man
MÜNCHHAUSEN (1943) Joseph Goebbels' answer to The Wizard of Oz
MURDERBALL "We're not going for a hug, we're going for a gold medal"
MURDEROUS MAIDS A French crime of the century
MY ARCHITECT And well-known, but secretive father
MY BRILLIANT CAREER A landmark Australian film, with impressive debuts by both director & star
MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY The turmoil of & hope for Iraqi democracy through one Sunni's eyes
MY LIFE WITHOUT ME Or conflicts
MY LITTLE EYE Big Brother meets The Blair Witch Project
MY MOTHER'S SMILE DVD My idiot mother the saint
MY NAME WAS SABINA SPIELREIN As well as Carl Jung's love interest & Sigmund Freud's acolyte
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO DVD A deluxe DVD edition for the academically inclined
MYSTERIOUS SKIN To sir, with lust
MYSTIC RIVER Murky waters
MY SUMMER OF LOVE Wild abandonment has a price
MY VOYAGE TO ITALY A crash course of La Dolce Vita with Martin Scorsese
NAKED STATES A fascinating and revealing look
on American subcultures
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE Will Preston, Idaho, be his Waterloo?
NATHALIE A married man, his wife, and her mercenary prostitute
NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD Another Jonathan Demme concert film/tour de force
NEW YORK DOLL Cross-dressing rocker-turned-devout Mormon, Arthur Kane
NICOTINA A heist, a dream girl, and two marriages go up in smoke
NIGHT AND THE CITY A London-set film noir with one of the most brutal wrestling matches ever
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA You'll never listen to Il Trovatore in the same way
THE NIGHT LISTENER In a departure, Robin Williams, subtle; the film, not
NIGHT WATCH Even the vampires in Russia are corrupt bureaucrats
NINA'S TRAGEDIES And her loves: A wonderful mixture of absurdity and sadness
NINE LIVES Nine women: A roundelay of pain
NINE QUEENS It's how the con is being played that's important
9 SONGS Boy meets girl, have sex, break up
95 MILES TO GO On the road with Ray Romano
NOBODY KNOWS Four children fend for themselves - alone - in a Tokyo apartment
NOEL It's a melancholic life
NÓI Jeers from Iceland: A small town boy without a future
NOLA Corny as Kansas in August
THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE Handsome looking but flaccid pin-up bio pic
NORTHFORK "It's what we do with our wings that separate us"
NOVEMBER Courteney Cox Arquette in a psychological thriller-cum-directorial conceit
NOVO Falling in love again and again and again
NOWHERE IN AFRICA 2002 best foreign film Academy Award winner
NOWHERE MAN Angry ex-fiancée takes her ex's manhood hostage
OFF THE BLACK Too pleased with its own low-key qualities and mundaneness for its own good
OLIVER TWIST Dickens' orphan finds a kindred spirit in Roman Polanski
ON A CLEAR DAY Plucky British fish-out-of-the-water dramedy that swims past others
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA Sergio Leone's brutal and beautiful gangster saga in its entirety for the first time
ONE BRIGHT SHINING MOMENT: THE FORGOTTEN SUMMER OF GEORGE McGOVERN George McGovern Superstar
ONE FROM THE HEART And Coppola's wallet - his fabled financial flop is given the deluxe treatment
ONE LAST THING... So sweet you’ll need a root canal
ONG-BAK: THE THAI WARRIOR He got no strings: Martial arts action without CGI
ONLY HUMAN Or, all in the family
OPEN HOUSE Real estate, the musical! (not to be confused with Rent)
OPEN WATER Scuba drivers turned shark bait
OR (MY TREASURE) A teenaged daughter is the parent of her mother

OSAMA A girl disguised as a boy during the rule of the Taliban
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BED A game of musical beds
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET Rear Window in Copacabana
OT: OUR TOWN Grover's Corner in South-Central LA
THE OUTSIDER Critic Roger Ebert on director James Tobeck: "Every great director is
self-indulgent"
OVERNIGHT The amount of time it takes to become famous or forgotten
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