Movies 2002 
| January |
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Rating" |
"Personal
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| In the Bedroom |
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| Gosford Park |
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| Ocean's Eleven |
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| Intimacy |
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| Beautiful Mind |
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| February |
| Lantana |
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| Storytelling |
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| Serendipity* |
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| Bandits* |
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| March |
| Monsoon
Wedding |
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| Burnt Money |
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| Iris |
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| Ghost
World ** |
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| Pornstar - Ron
Jeremy |
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| April |
| Y Yo Mama Tambien |
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| Kate
and Leopold * |
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| Pi ** |
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| Changing
Lanes |
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| May |
| Don't Tell Anyone ** |
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| Nine Queens |
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| Moulin Rouge** |
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| Kissing
Jessica Stein |
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| Taxi ** |
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| Star Wars II |
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| June |
| Spiderman |
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| Zoolander** |
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| Minority
Report |
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| Timecode** |
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| The Piano
Teacher |
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| July |
| The Others** |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest |
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| AKA |
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| End Game |
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| Crazy Richard |
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| Smokers Only |
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| Road
to Perdition |
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| Read My Lips |
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| August |
| Signs |
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| Adventures of
Felix** |
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| Blue
Eden** |
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| The
Good Girl |
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| September |
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| October |
| Igby Goes Down |
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| K-19
Widowmaker* |
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| The Panic Room** |
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| Insomnia* |
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| November |
| Frida |
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| Showgirls ** |
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| AutoFocus |
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| Far From
Heaven |
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| Men in Black
II* |
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| The Big Picture** |
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| Solaris |
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| December |
| Personal Velocity |
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| Brideshead
Revisited** |
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| Star Trek -
Nemesis |
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| The Two Towers |
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| Lovely and
Amazing** |
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| Adaptation |
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*On the airplane
** On DVD
Movie Ratings:
I have tried to assign an "objective" rating to each movie based on my
perceptions of the movie's ability to achieve its goals and the true worthiness
of those goals (storytelling, creation of mood, artful presentation, etc.). I
have a second rating which represents my personal "take" on the movie.
Sometimes movies that are great seem to have little personal heft. You would not
want to see them over and over. You are not even sure your friends would want to
see them once, but they are still considered great. Other films seem to have
less critical success but they touch a note within. These are movies that you
remember for a long time despite their lack of "credentials." In the
past few years as I have seen more and more films, I have taken to reading more
and more reviews. I am disappointed in how shallow many of the reviews are. They
suffer from a surfeit of "how clever I am" on the part of the reviewer
as well as a misunderstanding of the movie. I may write some reviews of special
films for this page, but I feel a need to complain about the overly personalized
version of reviews that are out there. Pauline Kael would roll over in her grave
if she had to read some of the thin gruel that passes for clever movie reviews
these days. Which is not to say that I agree with everything that Pauline Kael
said: far from it! But I do appreciate the way that a good reviewer can separate
personal feelings from the objective assessment of a film. And I also appreciate
a reviewer who can see a film as something more than a plotline that needs to be
critiqued. The least interesting part of many movies is the plot! Having said
that, here are a couple of invaluable links to movies. And now... it's showtime.
Internet Movie Database -- The
"Bible" of movie references on the Internet
Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews --
A list of many major reviews of movies
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