Arman

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Matt Stone

Updated with Old School (***½/*****) and Just Married (*½/*****).

Scott Weinberg

Updated with a few titles:

Spider - I dug a whole lot.

Into my Retro Section goes Permanent Midnight, which I thought was damn good.

And I also took one of my Festival Flicks and was able to switch it over to the Coming Soon list:

It's called Dummy and Artisan is planning to release in (in NY and LA as far as I know) on September 12th. I saw it at SXSW and just LOVED it. Adrian Brody, Illeana Douglas, Milla Jovovich, Ron Leibman and Vera Farmiga; it's an oddball romantic comedy that's a little heavy on the Jewish humor. But in a good way.

It's about a nebbish who starts dabbling in ventriliquism and ends up falling in love with the gal at the unemployment office. Milla's his riotgrrl best friend. Douglas is hilarious as the older sister.

I fully expected someone to pick this flick up once Brody won the Oscar. Nice to see it was Artisan...as long as the DVD doesn't get monkeyed with.

I'd absolutely recommend it to those who prowl the 'art house movie theaters' looking for something quirky and charming.

Ryan FB

Updated with Seabiscuit (8.1/10), Johnny English (6.3/10), and a few others.

On a slight tangent, man looking at the percent of rottens for the 2003 films I've seen vs. the non-2003 films is funny. I guess I just pick out older releases that I've actually heard good things about (instead of just getting dragged there with friends).

Edwin Pereyra

Updated with Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country - -


= Standouts
= Recommended
- - = Indifferent


Quality matters more than quantity.

Film Lists: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 • Best Films of 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 • Foreign & Independent Films: 2005, 2004, 2003

Matt Stone

Updated with American Wedding (***/*****).

Edwin Pereyra

Updated with Gary Ross' Seabiscuit.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country - -


= Standouts
= Recommended
- - = Indifferent


Quality matters more than quantity.

Film Lists: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 • Best Films of 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 • Foreign & Independent Films: 2005, 2004, 2003

Scott Weinberg

Added the surprisingly and consistently amusing American Wedding (3.5 out of 5), the depressingly charm-free Spy Kids 3-d: Game Over (2 out of 5), and the "easily as bad as everyone says it is" Gigli (1 out of 5).

Adam Lenhardt

Added Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (***/****) and American Wedding (***/****):

As for "Pirates..."; finally a pirate movie that doesn't try to be Citizen Kane on a boat. I don't know if anyone wants to see that and they never pull it off successfully anyway. The creative team here understands that the concept the public has of pirates is one created by cartoons, video games, and campfire stories. They don't try to do some historically accurate dramafest, they just made a fun, entertaining ride from beginning to end and it's all the better for that. Bonus points with Jack Sparrow. Most fun I've had in the theaters for a while, and a great score to boot.

"American Wedding" was the perfect third installment; part of the joy of this series is watching the characters we know and love hit milestones. Seeing where they were at the beginning of the movie was a gag in and of itself. Can we see "American Family" next?

Aaryn Chan

The Best movie i've seen this year is Ichi The Killer and My Sassy Girl, but they're not even Made In USA.

Does anyone actually reads our post or no one cares?

Jason Seaver

So you've seen, what, two movies this year?

(I love Miike, but I don't think I could watch that again)

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