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2001

A+ / ****

Amores Perros ( Alejandro González Iñárritu )
Mulholland Dr. ( David Lynch )
Werckmeister Harmonies ( Béla Tarr )

A / ****

Faithless ( Liv Ullmann )
Ghost World ( Terry Zwigoff )
Royal Tenenbaums, The ( Wes Anderson )

A- / ***1/2

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence ( Steven Spielberg )
Amélie ( Jean-Pierre Jeunet )
Bully ( Larry Clark )
Lost and Delirious ( Léa Pool )
Gosford Park ( Robert Altman )
In the Bedroom ( Todd Field )
Man Who Wasn't There ( Joel Coen )
Moulin Rouge ( Baz Luhrmann )
Panic ( Henry Bromell )
Under the Sand ( François Ozon )
Waking Life ( Richard Linklater )
With a Friend Like Harry ( Dominik Moll )

B+ / ***1/2

Baby Boy ( John Singleton )
Code Unknown ( Michael Haneke )
Deep End, The ( Scott McGehee and David Siegel )
Devil's Backbone, The ( Guillermo Del Toro )
Donnie Darko ( Richard Kelly )
Gleaners and I, The ( Agnès Varda )
In the Mood for Love ( Wong Kar-Wai )
Joy Ride ( John Dahl )
Little Otik ( Jan Svankmajer )
Monsters, Inc. ( Pete Docter )
No Man's Land ( Danis Tanovic )
Ocean's 11 ( Steven Soderbergh )
Pledge, The ( Sean Penn )
Princess and the Warrior, The ( Tom Tykwer )
Score, The ( Frank Oz )
Sexy Beast ( Jonathan Glazer )
Shallow Hal ( Peter and Bobby Farrelly )
Together ( Lukas Moodysson )
Va Savoir ( Jacques Rivette )
Widow of Saint-Pierre, The ( Patrice Leconte )

B / ***

American Rhapsody, An ( Éva Gárdos )
Anniversary Party, The ( Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming )
Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise )
Bridget Jones's Diary ( Sharon Maguire )
Brother ( Takeshi Kitano )
Business of Strangers, The ( Patrick Stettner )
Center of the World, The ( Wayne Wang )
Closet, The ( Francis Veber )
Day I Became a Woman, The ( Marzieh Meshkini )
Dish, The ( Rob Sitch )
Down from the Mountain ( Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, and D.A. Pennebaker )
Endurance, The: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition ( George Butler )
Enemy at the Gates ( Jean-Jacques Annaud )
Fat Girl ( Catherine Breillat )
Focus ( Neal Slavin )
Heartbreakers ( David Mirkin )
Hedwig and the Angry Inch ( John Cameron Mitchell )
Heist ( David Mamet )
Innocence ( Paul Cox )
Iris ( Richard Eyre )
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ( Kevin Smith )
Kandahar ( Mohsen Makhmalbaf )
L.I.E. ( Michael Cuesta )
Last Resort ( Pawel Pawlikowski )
Legally Blonde ( Robert Luketic )
Life and Debt ( Stephenie Black )
Long Night's Journey Into Day ( Frances Reid and Doborah Hoffman )
Lord of the Rings, The: The Fellowship of the Ring ( Peter Jackson )
Majestic, The ( Frank Darabont )
Memento ( Christopher Nolan )
Others, The ( Alejandro Amenábar )
Our Lady of the Assassins ( Barbet Schroeder )
Our Song ( Jim McKay )
Shrek ( Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson )
Sobibor, 14 October 1943, 4 p.m. ( Claude Lanzmann )
Spy Kids ( Robert Rodriguez )
Startup.com ( Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim )
Swordfish ( Dominic Sena )
Tailor of Panama, The ( John Boorman )
Tape ( Richard Linklater )
Taste of Others, The ( Agnès Jaoui )
Time and Tide ( Tsui Hark )
Turandot Project, The ( Allan Miller )
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust ( Yoshiaki Kawajiri )
When Brendan Met Trudy ( Kieron J. Walsh )
Zoolander ( Ben Stiller )

B- / ***

Ali ( Michael Mann )
America's Sweethearts ( Joe Roth )
Bread and Roses ( Ken Loach )
Caveman's Valentine, The ( Kasi Lemmons )
Charlotte Gray ( Gillian Armstrong )
Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The ( Woody Allen )
Daddy and Them ( Billy Bob Thornton )
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ( Hironobu Sakaguchi )
Hearts in Atlantis ( Scott Hicks )
Jurassic Park III ( Joe Johnston )
Monster's Ball ( Marc Forster )
Rat Race ( Jerry Zucker )
Road Home, The ( Zhang Yimou )
Serendipity ( Peter Chelsom )
Shipping News, The ( Lasse Hallström )
Sidewalks of New York ( Edward Burns )
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine ( Bahman Farmanara )
Songcatcher ( Maggie Greenwald )
Spy Game ( Tony Scott )
Training Day ( Antoine Fuqua )
Vanilla Sky ( Cameron Crowe )

C+ / **1/2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ( Chris Columbus )
The King Is Alive ( Kristian Levring )

C / **

Audition ( Takeshi Miike )
Behind the Sun ( Walter Salles )
Black Hawk Down ( Ridley Scott )
Captain Corelli's Mandolin ( John Madden )
Chunhyang ( Im Kwon-Taek )
Crazy/Beautiful ( John Stockwell )
Fast and the Furious, The ( Rob Cohen )
From Hell ( Allen and Albert Hughes )
Golden Bowl, The ( James Ivory )
Intimacy ( Patrice Chéreau )
Iron Monkey ( Yeun Wo-Ping )
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius ( John A. Davis )
Kate & Leopold ( James Mangold )
O ( Tim Blake Nelson )
Princess Diaries, The ( Garry Marshall )
Recess: School's Out ( Chuck Sheetz )
Riding in Cars with Boys ( Penny Marshall )
Town is Quiet, The ( Robert Guédiguian )
Too Much Sleep ( David Maquiling )

C- / **

American Pie 2 ( J.B. Rogers )
Angel Eyes ( Luis Mandoki )
Animal, The ( Luke Greenfield )
Antitrust ( Peter Howitt )
Bandits ( Barry Levinson )
Beautiful Mind, A ( Ron Howard )
Blow ( Ted Demme )
Bubble Boy ( Blair Hayes )
Cats and Dogs ( Lawrence Guterman )
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles ( Simon Wincer )
Don't Say a Word ( Gary Fleder )
Evolution ( Ivan Reitman )
Glass House, The ( Daniel Sackheim )
I Am Sam ( Jessie Nelson )
Joe Somebody ( Joe Pasquin )
Josie and the Pussycats ( Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan )
K-Pax ( Iain Softley )
Kingdom Come ( Doug McHenry )
Lantana ( Marc Lawrence )
Last Castle, The ( Rod Lurie )
Life as a House ( Irwin Winkler )
Luzhin Defence, The ( Marleen Gorris )
Made ( John Favreau )
Max Keeble's Big Move ( Tim Hill )
Mexican, The ( Gore Verbinski )
Monkeybone ( Henry Selick )
Mummy Returns, The ( Stephen Sommers )
My First Mister ( Christine Lahti )
Novocaine ( David Atkins )
One Night at McCool's ( Harald Zwart )
Osmosis Jones ( Peter and Bobby Farrelly, Piet Kroon, and Tom Sito )
Rush Hour 2 ( Brett Ratner )
Someone Like You ( Tony Goldwyn )
Soul Survivors ( Stephen Carpenter )
Thomas in Love ( Pierre-Paul Renders )
Two Can Play That Game ( Mark Brown )
Wedding Planner, The ( Adam Shankman )

D+ / *1/2

Along Came a Spider ( Lee Tamahori )
American Outlaws ( Les Mayfield )
Behind Enemy Lines ( John Moore )
Dr. Dolittle 2 ( Steve Carr )
Driven ( Renny Harlin )
Hardball ( Brian Robbins )
Jeepers Creepers ( Victor Salva )
Knight's Tale, A ( Brian Helgeland )
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ( Simon West )
Pearl Harbor ( Michael Bay )
Planet of the Apes ( Tim Burton )
Scary Movie 2 ( Keenan Ivory Wayans )
Snatch ( Guy Ritchie )
Summer Catch ( Michael Tollin )
Sweet November ( Pat O'Connor )
Town & Country ( Peter Chelsom )
Valentine ( Jamie Blanks )
What's the Worst that Could Happen? ( Sam Weisman )

D / *

Corky Romano ( Rob Pritts )
Domestic Disturbance ( Harold Becker )
Double Take ( George Gallo )
Down to Earth ( Chris and Paul Weitz )
15 Minutes ( John Herzfeld )
Hannibal ( Ridley Scott )
How High ( Jesse Dylan )
Kiss of the Dragon ( Chris Nahon )
On the Line ( Eric Bross )
One, The ( James Wong )
Original Sin ( Michael Cristofer )
Rock Star ( Stephen Herek )
Say It Isn't So ( J.B. Rogers )
3000 Miles to Graceland ( Demian Lichtenstein )

D- / 1/2

Black Knight ( Gil Junger )
Exit Wounds ( Andrzej Bartkowiak )
Ghosts of Mars ( John Carpenter )
Glitter ( Vondie Curtis-Hall )
Head Over Heels ( Mark S. Waters )
Joe Dirt ( Dennie Gordon )
Musketeer, The ( Peter Hyams )
Not Another Teen Movie ( Joel Gallen )
Out Cold ( Brendan and Emmett Malloy )
Saving Silverman ( Dennis Dugan )
Series 7: The Contenders ( Daniel Minahan )
13 Ghosts ( Steve Beck )

F / NO STARS

Bones ( Ernest R. Dickerson )
Freddy Got Fingered ( Tom Green )
Pootie Tang ( Louis C.K. )
Tomcats ( Gregory Poirier )
Wash, The ( D.J. Pooh )

Reviews by:
David Perry
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