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THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD "Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass; it's all show biz."
SAFE CONDUCT Bertrand Tavernier's epic of France under the Nazi occupation
SAINT RALPH Dead Poets Society made easy
SAINTS AND SINNERS Get me to the church on time
SARABAND A tart valentine by 85-year-old Ingmar Bergman
SATAN'S LITTLE HELPER Gullibility + Evil = Mayhem
SAVED! Finding salvation in high school hell
SAVE THE GREEN PLANET One oddball's crusade against the evil Andromedans
SAVING FACE An unwed pregnant, middle-aged mother and her gay daughter face derision
SAW Literally losing an arm and a leg
A SCANNER DARKLY The legacy of middling Philip K. Dick adaptations trudges onward
SCHINDLER'S LIST With a powerful DVD special feature documentary
SCHIZO Coming of age in Kazakhstan's criminal clime
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP Eternal Sunshine of Michel Gondry’s Mind
THE SEA "You can't freeze love like a gutted fish"
THE SEAGULL'S LAUGHTER Hot mama heats up Iceland
THE SEA INSIDE Whose vida is it anyway?
THE SEA IS WATCHING Written by the late Akira Kurosawa, his first and only love story
SEARCHING FOR THE WRONG-EYED JESUS "The South is more than a state of mind, it's an atmosphere"
SEASIDE The 2002 Cannes Film Festival's Camera D'Or for best first film
SECRETS OF A CALL GIRL/THE SENSUOUS NURSE Breasts, Italian style
SECRET THINGS Sexual passion brought way out in the open
SECUESTRO EXPRESS Son of City of God: Cocaine and kidnappers go together in this harrowing thriller
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED Classic sex farce: shotgun wedding all'Italiana
SEDUCING DOCTOR LEWIS An entire French-Canadian town puts out - the welcome mat
SEEING OTHER PEOPLE Keeping score on scoring
SEPARATE LIES The impressive directorial debut of screenwriter Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park)
SEQUINS Sparkling drama of a pregnant teenager on her own
THE SET-UP A gritty and visceral film noir directed by Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)
SEVEN BEAUTIES "A rotten comedy, a lousy farce called living"
SEVENTH HEAVEN A more sensual than religious experience
SEX IS COMEDY But torturous and laborious (if you're an actor)
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMÉO DALLAIRE Returning to Rwanda, confronting nightmares
SHATTERED GLASS Grand delusions and the press
SHAUN OF THE DEAD Zombie anarchy in the U.K.
SHE HATE ME Mild-mannered sap turned babymaking machine
SHERRYBABY Maggie Gyllenhaal as an ex-con/heroin addict reclaiming her child (sound familiar?)
SHE'S ONE OF US And will do anything to belong
SHORT CUTS Robert Altman's misanthropic epic of misogyny
SHORT CUT TO NIRVANA: KUMBH MELA Spiritual sideshow
SIDEWAYS Unlike Merlot, this comedy is transcendent
A SILENT LOVE The bride who came from the Web
SILENT WATERS Religion tears a mother and son apart
SILVER CITY John Sayles' election year follies
SINCE OTAR LEFT... "Hands down the most heart-rending French film to be released in the U.S. in the last year."
SIR! NO SIR! Dissenting band of brothers
SISTERS IN LAW A crusading attorney fighting for the rights of abused women, young and old, in West Africa
SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY Of art and architecture
A SKIN TOO FEW: THE DAYS OF NICK DRAKE Died young, stayed enigmatic
SKY BLUE Anime meets Saturday morning cartoons
SLACKER Richard Linklater's debut ponderings
A SLIPPING DOWN LIFE Fantasies collide with hard-knock realities
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT Ingmar Bergman's sensuous and charming romantic comedy
SOME LIKE IT HOT Nobody's perfect, but this Billy Wilder comedy may be
SOMERSAULT A post-pubescent Lolita, as if played by a guilt-ridden Sue Lyon
SON FRÈRE (HIS BROTHER) A moving and painful reconciliation
THE SON'S ROOM Golden Palm Award Winner, 2001 Cannes Film Festival
SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS The trial of Nazi resister & victim
SORRY HATERS A post-9/11 taxi ride from hell
SPELLBOUND “When
you fight in a war, everyone has to come through”
SPIDER Engrossing and repellantly grim
SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... AND SPRING What goes around comes around in a resplendent setting
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE The imploding-family comedy
STAGE BEAUTY She's a man, baby
STALIN'S WIFE A historical whodunit: Was the dictator's younger wife murdered or did she commit suicide?
STANDER "Everyone is dishonest; it's a matter of degree"
THE STATEMENT Michael Caine as a Nazi war criminal on the run
STATE OF FEAR: THE TRUTH ABOUT TERRORISM The rise of the first media dictatorship in the Americas
A STATE OF MIND The Cold War lives on: Inside Stalinist North Korea
THE STATION AGENT Can't we all just get along?
STEAL ME Oedipus on the range
STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE After 6,000 years, the outside world breaks an Indian village's isolation
STOLEN A bad documentary about great art
STONE READER An avid fan’s quest for a long-lost author
THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL As if it were told by Robert Flaherty, not Walt Disney
STRANGERS WITH CANDY “Jerri, what does V-I-C-T-O-R-Y spell?” “Fandango?”
STRAY DOG "Bad luck either makes the man or destroys him."
STRAYED French war widow finds an unlikely romance
S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE Startling revelations of Cambodia's senseless past
SUPER SIZE ME A whopper of an exposé of our fast food fix
SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS The glamour and glory of the envelope-pushing New York drag star Jackie Curtis
SWIMMING POOL Danger: Shallow Waters
SYLVIA A bio of the poetry world's own Marilyn: Sylvia Plath
SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE A deaf mute, black-market organ dealers, and a fatal kidnapping (and that's not even half of it)
THE SYRIAN BRIDE A marriage made in no man's land
TADPOLE Little boy no more
TAKING SIDES Keitel's fortissimo vs. Skarsgård's pianissimo
THE TALENT GIVEN US A real-life family's loud, yet endearing road trip
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS And a wicked stepmother: A South Korean horror hit
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's fantastical hallucinations, set to Offenbach
A TALKING PICTURE The wonders of the world upstage the top-notch cast in this moving meditation and travelogue
TARNATION I was a teenage drama queen
TEKNOLUST Even cyber-babes need compassion
TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE Dueling cameras: A son takes on his famous father, cinematographer Haskell Wexler
TEN Contemporary Iran, from the dashboard's point of view
THE TENANTS Well red: Two angry & competitive writers (played by Snoop Dogg & Dylan McDermott) duke it out
TEOREMA Terence Stamp as Pier Paolo Pasolini's sexy savior
THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE The ravings of a super-human mastermind
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING “Michael Jordan plays ball, Charles Manson kills people, I talk”
THIEVES' HIGHWAY A gritty film noir with a case of white line fever
THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS Peter Falk steals the film, and a few hearts
THIRTEEN Look at me, look at me, look at me!!!
39 POUNDS OF LOVE A memorable and unconventional road trip
THIS DIVIDED STATE Sean Hannity v. Michael Moore in the "bluest" state, Utah
THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED Ridiculing the ridiculous: Behind the curtain of the Motion
Picture Association of America
THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA Blood on the border: Tommy Lee Jones' detailed directorial debut
THREE...EXTREMES Macabre terror trilogy from three rising Asian directors
3-IRON With golf club in tow, two lovers on the run
THREE OF HEARTS: A POSTMODERN FAMILY Boy meets boy meets girl
THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA The war of children in Chechnya
THREE TIMES An intoxicating Taiwanese trilogy
3 WOMEN Robert Altman's picturesque puzzle, made by a major studio no less
THROUGH THE FIRE From the Coney Island projects to the cover of Sports Illustrated
THUMBSUCKER Where everyone is a little bit different
THX 1138 George Lucas's 1984
TIME TO LEAVE Die young, stay pretty
THE TIN DRUM A boy beats to a different drummer in this Best Foreign Language Oscar-winning film
TITANIC The well-known disaster - from the point of view of Nazi Germany
TO BE AND TO HAVE An addition to 2003's winning documentary films
TOKYO GODFATHERS Twisted, tough and tender Japanese anime
TONY TAKITANI A tragic marriage of mannered minimalism
TORREMOLINOS 73 Married couple become two unlikely porn stars
TOUCHING THE VOID An incredible and miraculous real-life tale of man vs. nature
TOUCH OF PINK A Cary Grant devotee must end his Charade
TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE (ALL THE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD) The mourning muse of music
THE TRACKER Ordeal in the outback: An Australian Western
TRANSAMERICA Teary tranny & son hit the road
TRANSFIXED A tranvestite who's always at the wrong place, at the wrong time
TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS What monks can make of dreams
THE TRILOGY: AFTER THE LIFE The culmination of this compelling series
THE TRILOGY: AN AMAZING COUPLE Boisterous, bourgeois blunders
THE TRILOGY: ON THE RUN A strong beginning to three interwoven and spellbinding films
THE TRIP One liners fly fast and furious
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE A careening, captivating cartoon caper
THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE Even the use of jump cuts can't
enliven the tedium
TROPICAL MALADY A Thai gay melodrama ("The other day, when I gave you that Clash tape, I forgot to give my heart along with it")-cum-mind game
TRUST THE MAN Live and let live or "'til death do us part"
TRY TO REMEMBER: THE FANTASTICKS A tribute to the world's longest running musical
TSOTSI A South African thug with a heart of gold
TURTLES CAN FLY Children in a minefield: Kurdish Iraq before the 2003 war
28 DAYS LATER Part Outbreak, Night of the Living Dead,
and even Dracula
THE 24TH DAY A trick turns into a trial
TWENTYNINE PALMS Nude, on top of the mountain
21 GRAMS Powerhouse performances propelled by Penn
TWO MEN WENT TO WAR Daffed, defiant and dutiful
2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM My beloved father the Nazi leader
THE 2004 OSCAR SHORTS From wartime to playtime, something for everyone
2046 In the mood for a lot of love
TYCOON The new Russia as a conniving thug
TYING THE KNOT Unraveling the obstacles to gay marriage
UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ The Emperor's New Clothes
UNDERTOW Southern gothic Grand Guignol
UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (1948) Preston Sturges' comedic take on the green-eyed monster
UNION SQUARE The Panic in Needle Park 2004
UNKNOWN A strong suspense/action/thriller where Saw and Reservoir Dogs combine
UNKNOWN WHITE MALE The Man Without a Past combined with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
UNLIKELY HEROES Real-life acts of defiance during the Holocaust
UNO BIANCA A stylish Italian miniseries where a Serpico finds Law & Order
THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL The murder that help launched the Civil Rights Movement
UP AND DOWN Bought babies & fractured families: New Europe in flux
USHPIZIN Guess who's coming to the holiday dinner?
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