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After the Sunset: Just one more heist
and he’ll retire, master thief Pierce
Brosnan promises his girlfriend (Salma
Hayek). But a pesky FBI agent (Woody
Harrelson) comes to his island paradise.
Bret Ratner directs; also stars the great
Don Cheadle. R. Opened 12/22. Movies 12.
Annie Hall (1977): Woody Allen stars in
and directs an irrepressible Diane Keaton.
Film took the big Academy Awards: pic-
ture, director, star (Keaton), screenplay
(Allen). Great supporting actors and
Gordon Willis’s cinematography. PG. Plays
at 8 pm on 12/23 in Café Paradiso.
Aviator, The: Martin Scorsese’s 169-
minute film about lover, aviation pioneer
and eccentric billionaire industrialist
Howard Hughes stars Leonardo DiCaprio
as Hughes, with Cate Blanchett, Kate
Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin,
Jude Law, Alan Alda, Frances Conroy and
Ian Holm. PG-13. Opens 12/25. Cinemark.
Cinema World.
Darkness: Fright-filled horror movie writ-
ten and directed by Jaume Balagueró, it’s
about a family that moves into a haunted
house where horrible things happened.
Stars Anna Paquin, with Lena Olin, Iain
Glen and Giancarlo Giannini. Depite mild
rating, film is reported to be nightmare-
material. PG-13. Opens 12/25. Cinemark.
Fat Albert: Bill Cosby character debuts in
a live-action and animated film based on
Cosby’s stand-up routines about growing
up in Philly. Directed by Joel Zwick. PG.
Opens 12/25. Cinemark.
Kinsey: Bill Condon’s excellent film about
human sexual researcher Alfred Kinsey
stars Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and
492 E. 13th
Peter Sarsgaard. Frank, open-hearted and
genuinely humorous, this is a must-see
movie. An entertaining and enlightening
antidote to the bedroom politics of the
religious right and one of 2004’s best, the
film gets my highest recommendations. R.
Opens 12/25. Bijou. See review this issue.
Ladder 49: Stars John Travolta and
Joaquin Phoenix) as Baltimore firemen.
PG. Opened 12/22. Movies 12.
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Wes
Anderson’s new ensemble comedy stars
Bill Murry as a famed underwater adven-
ture filmmaker who’s run into some big
waves and is going under. Co-stars Owen
Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett,
Michael Gambon and Willem Dafoe. R.
Opens 12/25. Cinema World. Cinemark.
Life of Brian: Terry Jones directs the
crazed Monty Python players in this irrev-
erent 1979 fantasy about a ‘’savior” born
just down the street from Jesus’ creche.
Jones, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael
Palin, Terry Gilliam and Graham Chapman
star. R. At 7 pm on 12/28 in Cozmic Pizza.
Meet the Fockers: Jay Roach follows
Meet the Parents (2000) with Ben Stiller’s
bride and in-laws to-be Teri Polo, Robert
De Niro and Blythe Danner meeting his
rather eccentric parents, Dustin Hoffman
and Barbara Streisand. Culture clash writ
small. PG-13. Opened 12/22. Cinemark.
Cinema World.
Phantom of the Opera, The: The Andrew
Lloyd Webber musical is brought to the
screen by Joel Schumacher. It stars Emmy
Rossum in a break-through performance.
PG-13. Opened 12/22. Cinemark.
Shall We Dance: American remake of the
sublime Japanese film of the same title.
Sorry to report it, but Jennifer Lopez
plays the dance teacher and Richard Gere
the shy man who learns to dance. See the
original to compare to this all-Hollywood
effort. PG-13. Opened 12/22. Movies 12.
Unlocking DaVinci’s Code The Full
Story: Plays at 3 pm on 12/25 on National
Geographic Channel (NGC).
Films open the Friday following EW
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Blade: Trinity: Vampire hunter Blade
(Wesley Snipes) is back. Meanwhile, vam-
pire leaders are bringing back the rejuve-
nated Dracula, their progenitor, who’s now
called Drake (Dominic Purcell). Yikes!
Written and directed by David Goyer and
based on the Marvel Comics character, the
film also stars Kris Kristofferson, Ryan
Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey and
Natasha Lyonne. R. Cinemark.
Bourne
Supremacy,
The: Paul
Greengrass (writer, director of Bloody
Sunday) directs Matt Damon as assassin
Jason Bourne in the second installment of
Robert Ludlum’s espionage thrillers Also
stars Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles,
Kurt Urban and Franka Potente. One of
the summer’s best films. Highly recom-
mended. PG-13. Movies 12. Online
archives.
Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason:
Lackluster Bridget Jones sequel stars
Renee Zellwegger, Colin Firth and Hugh
Grant again. Directed by Beeban Kidron,
romantic comedy also stars Jacinda
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Gonzalo and Tim Allen and is directed by
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Marin and M. Emmet Walsh. PG. Cinemark.
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Does not play 12/24. Cinemark. Online
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Finding Neverland: Johnny Depp stars as
British playwright J.M. Barrie, based on
Allan Knee’s play, The Man Who Was Peter
Pan. Directed by Marc Foster, it also stars
Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha
Mitchell and Dustin Hoffman. Winslet and
Depp’s performances are radiant, but the
real star of the show is 12 year-old Freddie
Highmore, playing the actual child, Peter
Llewelyn Davies, who inspired Barrie’s
play. The picture is heartbreaking, gor-
geous and probably too complicated for
young children. PG. Cinema World. See
review this issue.
Flight of the Phoenix: Using Robert
Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film as his base,
John Moore updates the main story, in
which crash survivors in the vast, remote
Gobi Desert attempt to put their fractured
plane together and fly out. Stars include
Giovanni Ribisi, Dennis Quaid and Jacob
Vargas. PG-13. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Forgotten, The: Julianne Moore is a
grieving parent. She learns from her psy-
chiatrist (Gary Sinese) and others that her
8-year-old son never existed. Directed by
Joseph Ruben, the film also stars Dominic
West, Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache,
Anthony Edwards. PG-13. Movies 12.
Garden State: Zach Braff wrote, directed
and stars in this funny, resonant romantic
comedy, which co-stars Natalie Portman,
Peter Sarsgaard and Ian Holm. Braff and
Portman help the film get to a truth about
what it is to be 20-something in the early
years of the 21st century. Highest recom-
mendations. R. Movies 12. Online
Archives.
Head in the Clouds: John Duigan’s lame
WWII drama fizzles, despite starring roles
by Charlize Theron, Penélope Cruz and
Stuart Townsend. Patronizing, air-brushed
version of Europe during 1930s and ‘40s.
Pure escapist fare. Not recommended. R.
Through 12/24. Bijou. Online archives.
I Heart Huckabees: Selirious, laugh-out-
loud comedy from David O. Russell (Three
Kings, Flirting with Disaster) stars Jason
Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Dustin
Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert, Mark
Wahlberg, Naomi Watts and Jude Law.
One of 2004’s top films, it gets my very
highest recommendations. R. Through
12/24. Bijou. Online archives.
Incredibles, The: Writer, director Brad
Bird and Pixar Animation Studios create
an action-adventure story set in suburbia
where a former top crime fighter, Mr.
Incredible, gets the call to jump back into
actions. PG. Cinemark. Online archives.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of
Unfortunate Events: The New York
Times calls the Lemony Snicket books
“mordantly funny,” but the stories of the
misadventures of three orphans who fall
into the hands of an evil count are popular
with children and adults. Jim Carrey plays
said count, three game kids bedevil him,
and Meryl Streep, Timothy Spall, Billy
Connolly, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge,
Jane Adams and Catherine O’Hara help.
Directed by Brad Silberling and written by
Robert Gordon. PG. Cinema World.
Cinemark.
Napoleon Dynamite: Jared Hess’ indie
comedy stars Jon Heder as a high school-
er, who lives in Idaho with his grandmoth-
er. The Village Voice says, “the film is an
epic, magisterially observed pastiche on
all-American geekhood, flooring the com-
petition with a petulant shove.” PG.
Movies 12.
National Treasure: Directed by Jon
Turteltub
and
producer
Jerry
Bruckheimer, adventure stars Nicolas
Cage searching for treasure George
Washington hid during the Revolutionary
War. Sean Bean plays his British rival
who’s anxious to score the treasure first.
PG. Cinema World. Cinemark.
Ocean’s Twelve: Director Steven
Soderbergh returns with the gang: George
Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don
Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Julia
Roberts and newby Catherine Zeta-Jones.
A recent group interview in Premiere
makes reveals they had a blast making
this sequel. Highly recommended for its
unabashedly confident entertainment
value. PG-13. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Online archives.
Polar Express, The: Robert Zemeckis
directs a wholly CG animation adventure,
starring Tom Hanks in multiple roles in this
adaptation of children’s book by Chris Van
Allsburg. Called “performance capture,”
the technique uses actors’ live-action per-
formances to drive the emotions and
movements of the digital characters. G.
Cinemark. Cinema World.
Ray: Jamie Foxx plays late, great Ray
Charles in this musical, biographical
drama, directed by Taylor Hackford. Co-
stars Kerry Washington, Regina King,
Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Terrence
Dashon Howard, Richard Schiff, Aunjanue
Ellis and Sharon Warren. Outstanding per-
formance by Foxx. One of the year’s finest
films. PG-13. Movies 12. Online archives.
Shark Tale: In this computer-animated
feature, a lovable tropical fish with the
voice of Will Smith takes on the underwa-
ter Mafia when he assumes responsibility
for killing the godfather of the Great White
Sharks. Other voices include those of Jack
Black, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger,
Angelina Jolie and Martin Scorsese; Eric
Bergeron. Directed by Vicky Jenson. PG.
Movies 12.
Sideways: Fresh social comedy by
Alexander Payne follows two guys on a
bachelor week in California wine country.
Great performances by Paul Giamatti
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Church (“Wings”) sweetens the tale, as do
Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh. One of
the best films of the year. Don’t miss. R.
Bijou. Online archives.
Sky Captain and the World of
Tomorrow: Starring Jude Law, Gwyneth
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cial effects sci-fi action film was shot without
sets and locations. Brainchild: writer/direc-
tor Kerry Conran in collaboration with pro-
ducer Jon Avnet. Other stars include
Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon and Bai
Ling. PG. Movies 12. Online archives.
Spanglish:
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L.
Brooks’s
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Leoni, Anne Bancroft and Paz Vega. A
non-English speaking woman goes to
work for an upscale LA family. PG-13.
Cinemark. Cinema World.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Animated fea-
ture starring one of Nickelodeon’s most
absorbing characters. Voices by Alec
Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson and others.
PG. Through 12/24. Cinemark.
Without a Paddle: High-speed comedy
adventure stars Seth Green, Matthew
Lillard and Dax Shepard as clueless adven-
turers who go into the Oregon wilderness
in search of lost treasure. PG-13. Movies 12.
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