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2002

A+ / ****

Alas, none

A / ****

Adaptation. ( Spike Jonze)
Far from Heaven ( Todd Haynes )
Pianist, The ( Roman Polanski )
Russian Ark ( Alexander Sokurov )
Songs from the Second Floor ( Roy Andersson )
Talk to Her ( Pedro Almodóvar)
 

A- / ***1/2

Bloody Sunday ( Paul Greengrass )
Domestic Violence ( Frederick Wiseman )
Gangs of New York ( Martin Scorsese )
Insomnia ( Christopher Nolan )
Kid Stays in the Picture, The ( Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgan )
Rabbit-Proof Fence ( Phillip Noyce )
13 Conversations About One Thing ( Jill Sprecher )
Time Out ( Laurent Cantet )
Y Tu Mamá También ( Alfonso Cuarón )

B+ / ***1/2

About Schmdt ( Alexander Payne )
All About Lily Chou-Chou ( Shunji Iwai )
All or Nothing ( Mike Leigh )
Ararat ( Atom Egoyan )
Chicago ( Rob Marshall )
CQ ( Roman Coppola )
Daughter from Danang ( Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco )
Devils on the Doorstep ( Jiang Wen )
Femme Fatale ( Brian De Palma )
Heaven ( Tom Tykwer )
Hours, The ( Stephen Daldry )
Lady and the Duke, The ( Eric Rohmer )
Last Orders ( Fred Schepisi )
Lord of the Rings, The: The Two Towers ( Peter Jackson )
Lovely & Amazing ( Nicole Holofcener )
Man from Elysian Fields, The ( George Hickenlooper )
Minority Report ( Steven Spielberg )
Moonlight Mile ( Brad Silberling )
Monsoon Wedding ( Mira Nair )
Morvern Callar ( Lynne Ramsay )
Panic Room ( David Fincher )
Piano Teacher, The ( Michael Haneke )
Quiet American, The ( Phillip Noyce )
Rules of Attraction, The ( Roger Avary )
Son's Room, The ( Nanni Moretti )
Spirited Away ( Hayao Miyazaki )
Sunshine State ( John Sayles )
Truth About Charlie, The ( Jonathan Demme )
25th Hour ( Spike Lee )
24 Hour Party People ( Michael Winterbottom )
Unfaithful ( Adrian Lyne )

B / ***

ABC Africa ( Abbas Kiarostami )
Alias Betty ( Claude Miller )
Auto Focus ( Paul Schrader )
Biggie and Tupac ( Nick Broomfield )
Bowling for Columbine ( Michael Moore )
Catch Me If You Can ( Steven Spielberg )
Cat's Meow, The ( Peter Bogdanovich )
Changing Lanes ( Roger Michell )
8 Mile ( Curtis Hanson )
8 Women ( François Ozon )
El Bola ( Achero Mañas )
Enigma ( Michael Apted )
Farewell, The ( Jan Schütte )
Grey Zone, The ( Tim Blake Nelson )
Home Movie ( Chris Smith )
How I Killed My Father ( Anne Fonataine )
I'm Going Home ( Manoel de Oliveira )
Italian for Beginners ( Lone Scherfig )
Kissing Jessica Stein ( Charles Herman-Wurmfield )
Late Marriage ( Dover Koshashvili )
Lilo & Stitch ( Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders )
Me Without You ( Sandra Goldbacher )
Merci Pour le Chocolat ( Claude Chebrol )
Mostly Martha ( Sandra Nettelbeck )
My Wife Is an Actress ( Yvan Attal )
Narc ( Joe Carnahan )
Nicholas Nickleby ( Douglas McGrath )
Nine Queens ( Fabián Bielinsky )
'R Xmas ( Abel Ferarra )
Read My Lips ( Jacques Audiard )
Real Women Have Curves ( Patricia Cardoso )
Roger Dodger ( Dylan Kidd )
Solaris ( Steven Soderbergh )
Spider-Man ( Sam Raimi )
Storytelling ( Todd Solondz )
Sum of All Fears, The ( Phil Alden Robinson )
We Were Soldiers ( Randall Wallace )
Wild Thornberries Movie, The ( Cathy Malkasian and Jeff McGrath )

B- / ***

Austin Powers in Goldmember ( Jay Roach )
Barbershop ( Tim Story )
Believer, The ( Henry Bean )
Blood Work ( Clint Eastwood )
Bourne Identity, The ( Doug Liman )
Brotherhood of the Wolf ( Christophe Gans )
Brown Sugar ( Rick Famuyiwa )
Cherish ( Finn Taylor )
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( George Clooney )
Count of Monte Cristo, The ( Kevin Reynolds )
Elling ( Petter Næss )
40 Days and 40 Nights ( Michael Lehmann )
Frida ( Julie Taymor )
Gangster No. 1 ( Paul McGuigan )
Hollywood Ending ( Woody Allen )
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog ( Michael Kalesniko )
Importance of Being Earnest, The ( Oliver Parker )
Jackass: The Movie ( Jeff Tremaine )
K-19: The Widowmaker ( Kathryn Bigelow )
Maid in Manhattan ( Wayne Wang )
Orange County ( Jake Kasdan )
Pumpkin ( Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder )
Ring, The ( Gore Verbinski )
Road to Perdition ( Sam Mendes )
Rookie, The ( John Lee Hancock )
Santa Clause 2, The ( Michael Lembeck )
Secretary ( Steven Shainberg )
Signs ( M. Night Shyamalan )
Simone ( Andrew Niccol )
Son of the Bride ( Juan José Campanella )
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams ( Robert Rodriguez )
Standing in the Shadows of Motown ( Paul Justman )
Star Trek: Nemesis ( Stuart Baird )
Stuart Little 2 ( Rob Minkoff )
They ( Robert Harmon )
Treasure Planet ( Ron Clements and John Musker )
Trials of Henry Kissinger, The ( Eugene Jarecki )
Triumph of Love, The ( Clare Peploe )
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge ( Shohei Imamura )

C+ / **1/2

Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The ( Peter Care )
Fast Runner, The (Atanarjuat) ( Zacharias Kanuk )
Frailty ( Bill Paxton )
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( Chris Columbus )
Undercover Brother ( Malcolm D. Lee )
Yellow Asphalt ( Dan Vereté )

C / **

About a Boy ( Chris and Paul Weitz )
Antwone Fisher ( Denzel Washington )
Big Fat Liar ( Shawn Levy )
Birthday Girl ( Jez Butterworth )
City by the Sea ( Michael Caton-Jones )
Dahmer ( David Jacobson )
Die Another Day ( Lee Tamahori )
Emperor's New Clothes, The ( Alan Taylor )
Evelyn ( Bruce Beresford )
Festival in Cannes ( Henry Jaglom )
Good Girl, The ( Miguel Arteta )
Harrison's Flowers ( Elie Chouraqui )
Human Nature ( Michel Gondry )
Igby Goes Down ( Burr Steers )
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist ( Steve Oedekirk )
Murder by Numbers ( Barbet Schroeder )
My Big Fat Greek Wedding ( Joel Zwick )
Mystic Masseur, The ( Ismail Merchant )
One Hour Photo ( Mark Romanek )
Paid in Full ( Charles Stone III )
Personal Velocity ( Rebecca Miller )
Possession ( Neil LaBute )
Powerpuff Girls Movie, The ( Craig McCracken )
Punch-Drunk Love ( Paul Thomas Anderson )
Return to Never Land ( Robin Budd and Donovan Cook )
Sweet Home Alabama ( Andy Tennant )
Trouble Every Day ( Claire Denis )

C- / **

Abandon ( Stephen Gaghan )
Analyze That ( Harold Ramis )
Bad Company ( Joel Schumacher )
Banger Sisters, The ( Bob Dolman )
Big Trouble ( Barry Sonnenfeld )
Blue Crush ( John Stockwell )
Clockstoppers ( Jonathan Frakes )
Collateral Damage ( Andrew Davis )
Country Bears, The ( Peter Hastings )
Drumline ( Charles Stone III )
Eight Crazy Nights ( Seth Kearsley )
Eight Legged Freaks ( Ellory Elkayem )
Emperor's Club, The ( Michael Hoffman )
Four Feathers, The ( Shekhar Kapur )
Hart's War ( Gregory Hoblit )
Harvard Man ( James Toback )
High Crimes ( Carl Franklin )
Hot Chick, The ( Tom Brady )
I Spy ( Betty Thomas )
Ice Age ( Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge )
In Praise of Love ( Jean-Luc Godard )
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie ( Mike Nawrocki and Phil Vischer )
Life or Something Like It ( Stephen Herek )
Love Liza ( Todd Louiso )
Max ( Menno Meyjes )
Mothman Prophecies, The ( Mark Pellington )
Mr. Deeds ( Steven Brill )
Red Dragon ( Brett Ratner )
Salton Sea, The ( D.J. Caruso )
Scorpion King, The ( Chuck Russell )
Scotland, Pa. ( Billy Morrissette )
Snow Dogs ( Brian Levant )
Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones ( George Lucas )
Super Troopers ( Jay Chandrasekhar )
Sweetest Thing, The ( Roger Kumble )
Tadpole ( Gary Winick )
To End All Wars ( David L. Cunningham )
Tuxedo, The ( Kevin Donovan )
Two Weeks Notice ( Marc Lawrence )
Wendigo ( Larry Fessenden )
World Traveler ( Bart Freundlich )

D+ / *1/2

Blade II ( Guillermo Del Toro )
Crocodile Hunter, The: Collision Course ( Jason Stainton )
Death to Smoochy ( Danny De Vito )
Deuces Wild ( Scott Kalvert )
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ( Callie Khouri )
Friday After Next ( Marcus Raboy )
Hey Arnold! The Movie ( Tuck Tucker )
Interview with the Assassin ( Neil Burger )
John Q ( Nick Cassavetes )
Juwanna Mann ( Jesse Vaughan )
Knockaround Guys ( Brian Koppelman and David Levien )
Like Mike ( John Schultz )
Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat ( David Raynr )
Men in Black II ( Barry Sonnenfeld )
New Guy, The ( Ed Decter )
Reign of Fire ( Rob Bowman )
Scooby-Doo ( Raja Gosnell )
Serving Sara ( Reginald Hudlin )
Showtime ( Tom Dey )
Slackers ( Dewey Nicks )
Sorority Boys ( Wallace Wolodarsky )
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron ( Kelly Ashbury and Lorna Cook )
Swimfan ( John Polson )
Time Machine, The ( Simon Wells )
Tuck Everlasting ( Jay Russell )
Undisputed ( Walter Hill )
Walk to Remember, A ( Adam Shankman )
White Oleander ( Peter Kosminsky )
Windtalkers ( John Woo )
XXX ( Rob Cohen )

D / *

Adventures of Pluto Nash, The ( Ron Underwood )
All About the Benjamins ( Kevin Bray )
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever ( Wych Kaosayananda )
Crossroads ( Tamra Davis )
Empire ( Franc Reyes )
Enough ( Michael Apted )
Extreme Ops ( Christian Duguay )
Formula 51 ( Ronny Yu )
Full Frontal ( Steven Soderbergh )
Half Past Dead ( Don Michael Paul )
Impostor ( Gary Fleder )
National Lampoon's Van Wilder ( Walt Becker )
Queen of the Damned ( Michael Rymer )
Stealing Harvard ( Bruce McCulloch )
Transporter, The ( Corey Yuen )

D- / 1/2

Equilibrium ( Kurt Wimmer )
FearDotCom ( William Malone )
Ghost Ship ( Steve Beck )
Master of Disguise, The ( Perry Andelin Blake )
Resident Evil ( Paul Anderson )
Rollerball ( John McTiernan )
Trapped ( Luis Mandoki )

F / NO STARS

Dragonfly ( Tom Shadyac )
Halloween: Resurrection ( Rick Rosenthal )
Jason X ( James Isaac )

Reviews by:
David Perry
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