Movie Releases by Genre

Jersey Guy

Jersey Guy

April 25, 2003 | R
The life of a twenty-five-year-old Garden State native becomes topsy-turvy after he meets a New York model.
Metascore:
16
User Score:
tbd
Medea

Medea

April 18, 2003
Lars von Trier's 1987 pre-Dogma version of the classical tragedy by Euripides.
Metascore:
84
User Score:
7.8
Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master

Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master

April 18, 2003 | R
Ancient Japan meets CGI in thismythological drama.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
6.5
Lilya 4-Ever

Lilya 4-Ever

April 18, 2003 | R
Set in contemporary Russia, this film recounts 13-year-old Lilya's struggle to survive the grim streets.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
8.0
Ali Zoua: Prince of the Streets

Ali Zoua: Prince of the Streets

April 16, 2003
A memorable and moving portrait of the lives of street kids living in Casablanca's abandoned lots. (Anthology Film Archives)
Metascore:
55
User Score:
7.5
Better Luck Tomorrow

Better Luck Tomorrow

April 11, 2003 | R
The story of a group of overachieving Asian-American high school honor students in a conservative Los Angeles suburb who lead a double life of mischief and petty crimes that alleviate the pressures of perfection. (Paramount)
Metascore:
67
User Score:
7.2
XX/XY

XX/XY

April 11, 2003 | R
A unique coming of age story about friends on the threshold of adulthood and how they breech that uneasy time, still struggling to maintain their true sense of being. (IFC Films)
Metascore:
52
User Score:
3.5
Marion Bridge

Marion Bridge

April 11, 2003 | Unrated
This film speaks volumes about sibling and parental relationships with a beautifully realized tale of loss, healing and humor. [Film Movement]
Metascore:
71
User Score:
8.4
The Young Unknowns

The Young Unknowns

April 11, 2003 | Unrated
The story of how fierce consumption of alcohol and drugs causes an aspiring filmmaker (Gummersall) to fight with his best friend (Bailey) over the course of a drunken day lounging about at the home of his famous TV commercial director father.
Metascore:
43
User Score:
tbd
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion [re-release]

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion [re-release]

April 4, 2003 | R
A detective (Gian Maria VolontĆØ) kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime in this 1970 Italian drama.
Metascore:
89
User Score:
7.8
A Man Apart

A Man Apart

April 4, 2003 | R
Sean Vetter (Diesel), a tough DEA agent, sets out to avenge the brutal murder of his wife in a botched hit. (New Line Cinema)
Metascore:
36
User Score:
5.3
Levity

Levity

April 4, 2003 | R
Manuel Jordan (Thornton) is a man caught between two worlds: the one which existed before he was incarcerated, and the one into which he's released 22 years later. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
45
User Score:
6.2
The Man Without a Past

The Man Without a Past

April 4, 2003 | PG-13
The second installation of Aki KaurismƤki's "Finland Trilogy," this touching and amusing film portrays a man who must start his life anew when he is brutally mugged and loses his memory. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
84
User Score:
7.3
Cet amour-lĆ 

Cet amour-lĆ 

April 2, 2003
The true story of the passionate love affair between celebrated French author Marguerite Duras and Andrea, her much younger muse and apprentice. (New Yorker Films)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
tbd
The Good Thief

The Good Thief

April 2, 2003 | R
Inspired by the Jean-Pierre Melville classic "Bob Le Flambeur," Neil Jordan's clever, sexy caper features a complex plot full of copies and originals. (Fox Searchlight)
Metascore:
68
User Score:
7.5
Assassination Tango

Assassination Tango

March 28, 2003 | R
From acclaimed actor, writer, and director Robert Duvall comes Assassination Tango, a complex thriller, fascinating character study, and provocative look at the intoxicating world of Argentine tango. (United Artists)
Metascore:
51
User Score:
tbd
Raising Victor Vargas

Raising Victor Vargas

March 28, 2003 | R
Victor Vargas (Rasuk), a 16-year-old Dominican boy growing up on New York's Lower East Side, finds his self-image as a burgeoning ladies man deflated when the neighborhood finds out that he's dating an unpopular and overweight girl.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
6.3
Basic

Basic

March 28, 2003 | R
When a legendary commander (Jackson) and several of his men turn up missing, the last thing the government wants is a rogue DEA agent (Travolta) investigating the disappearance. As the investigation unfolds, the agent is placed in direct conflict with the Army's official investigating officer (Nielsen) and nothing is as it seems. (Sony)
Metascore:
34
User Score:
7.4
Unknown Pleasures

Unknown Pleasures

March 26, 2003
A harrowing account of disillusioned young people living in China. (New Yorker Films)
Metascore:
61
User Score:
7.3
One Swallow Brought Spring

One Swallow Brought Spring

March 21, 2003
This film powerfully evokes the spectacular Rhone Alps, the beauty, simplicity and hardships of farm life, taking chances and dealing with the necessary sacrifices, the ever-present conflict between city and rural, past and present, the cycles of nature and life. (Films Philos)
Metascore:
64
User Score:
5.5
Gaudi Afternoon

Gaudi Afternoon

March 21, 2003 | R
Award-winning director Susan Seidelman's latest film takes place in Barcelona where the flamboyant Gaudi architecture matches the twists and turns of this delightful comic adventure. (Quad Cinema)
Metascore:
44
User Score:
5.8
Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher

March 21, 2003 | R
Dreamcatcher, the film based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, tells of four young friends who perform a heroic act -- and are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves… (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
35
User Score:
5.1
Chuen jik sat sau

Chuen jik sat sau

March 21, 2003 | R
The story of a rivalry between two professional killers.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
7.8
Japan

Japan

March 19, 2003 | Unrated
Taking its title from the Japanese symbol of the rising sun, Reygadas unapologetically uses widescreen cinema, the most lush of formats, as a backdrop for exploring thorny issues of life and death. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
76
User Score:
4.8
Zhantai

Zhantai

March 14, 2003
Focusing on a Chinese theatrical troupe in 1979, this film follows a group of performing artists who change with the cultural and political changes in their country.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
6.8
Under the City's Skin

Under the City's Skin

March 14, 2003
An Iranian woman takes dramatic measures to save her home and family.
Metascore:
77
User Score:
7.0
The Hunted

The Hunted

March 14, 2003 | R
An FBI deep-woods tracker (Jones) captures a trained assassin (Del Toro) who has made a sport of hunting humans.
Metascore:
40
User Score:
8.2
Willard

Willard

March 14, 2003 | PG-13
Socially inept and saddled with a miserable job, Willard shares a powerful bond with the rats who dwell in his basement. When Willard's world is turned upside down by tragedy, those responsible must answer to his rapidly growing pack of ravenous, fearsome friends. (New Line Cinema)
Metascore:
61
User Score:
6.9
Spun

Spun

March 14, 2003 | Open
America's answer to "Trainspotting," this film follows a speed freak on a three day adventure.
Metascore:
41
User Score:
8.3
Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham

March 12, 2003 | PG-13
A British film about a teenage girl named Jess (Nagra) living in London who must make a choice between following the traditions of her Indian family or pursuing her dream of becoming a soccer sensation. (Fox Searchlight)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
7.5
Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun

March 7, 2003 | Not Rated
Bruce Willis stars as Lt. A.K. Waters, the loyal veteran officer of a Navy S.E.A.L unit. When he's sent into the heart of Africa, the usually hard-bitten Waters finds himself deeply conflicted at having to choose between following orders and the dictates of his own conscience. (Sony)
Metascore:
48
User Score:
6.5
Journey to Western Xia Empire

Journey to Western Xia Empire

March 7, 2003
This epic set in medieval China tells the story of a mother searching for her infant, who was kidnapped by warriors.
Metascore:
51
User Score:
tbd
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

March 7, 2003 | TV-MA
Over the course of four days, four suburban families will open up and lean on one another, sharing their burdens and joys, and help each other remember, it is the people we know and love - not the objects we own - that provide real hope and security to face whatever life throws at us. (IFC Films)
Metascore:
58
User Score:
7.3
Nowhere in Africa

Nowhere in Africa

March 7, 2003 | R
A love story spanning two continents, Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. (Zeitgeist Films)
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.8
Short Eyes (re-release)

Short Eyes (re-release)

March 7, 2003 | R
A re-release of 1977's brutal prison drama about the experiences of a child molester behind bars.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
tbd
Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon

March 7, 2003 | R
A rigorously honest exploration of relationships between people with wildly divergent world views. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
61
User Score:
8.4
Irreversible

Irreversible

March 7, 2003 | Not Rated
A dark revenge drama about a woman who is brutally raped and the retribution her boyfriend exacts.
Metascore:
51
User Score:
7.4
Ten

Ten

March 5, 2003 | Not Rated
A look at the modern sociopolitical landscape of Iran as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female passengers. [Zeitgeist Films]
Metascore:
86
User Score:
8.2
Dischord

Dischord

February 28, 2003
Gypsy's music rocked the world until the alternative rock violin star inexplicably disappears. Soured by the industry's commercialism, Gypsy (Gianzero) slips away with her husband, Lucian (Borba), a famous New Age composer, to the desolate environs of off-season Cape Cod. While Gypsy searches for personal and creative peace, the couple's retreat is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of Lucian's estranged brother, Jimmy (Ryan). (Artistic License Films)
Metascore:
14
User Score:
tbd
Poolhall Junkies

Poolhall Junkies

February 28, 2003 | R
The story of a compulsive gambler (Callahan) who has managed to overcome his obsession, but is drawn back into the world of pool-shooting when he needs to try to save his brother (Rosenbaum).
Metascore:
36
User Score:
8.4
Cradle 2 the Grave

Cradle 2 the Grave

February 28, 2003 | R
America's gritty hip-hop ethos collides with the poetic intensity of Hong Kong cinema in the action thriller Cradle 2 the Grave, an explosive fusion of Eastern martial arts and Western street culture. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
36
User Score:
8.1
Foreign Sister

Foreign Sister

February 28, 2003
Focusing on the relationship between an Israeli woman and the Ethiopian Christian illegal woman she hires as a housekeeper, this film depicts the heartbreaking lives of many of the 300,000 foreign workers in Israel today. (Quad Cinema)
Metascore:
46
User Score:
tbd
Bolivia

Bolivia

February 26, 2003 | Unrated
A timely and urgent feature, rich in ideas and sensibility, Bolivia portrays, through an intimate look at its characters, an Argentina in a state of social emergency. (Cinema Tropical)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
tbd
Gods and Generals

Gods and Generals

February 21, 2003 | PG-13
Gods and Generals, the screen adaptation of Jeff Shaara's heralded best-selling novel and prequel to the acclaimed drama "Gettysburg," is and epic and sweeping portrayal of a nation divided at the start of the Civil War. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
30
User Score:
5.4
Tales of Erotica

Tales of Erotica

February 21, 2003 | R
Three of the 24 brilliant and witty short films produced by award-winning Regina Zeigler. (Quad Cinema)
Metascore:
24
User Score:
7.7
Till Human Voices Wake Us

Till Human Voices Wake Us

February 21, 2003 | R
A supernatural romance, this film probes the mystifying nature of attraction, memory, identity and a ghostly past that will not go away. (Paramount Classics)
Metascore:
39
User Score:
tbd
Dark Blue

Dark Blue

February 21, 2003 | R
Over the course of four days, a brutal murder and a racially charged trial trigger and explosive chain of events that resonate throughout Los Angeles. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., two of the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad officers (Russell, Speedman) must track down cold-blooded killers and also face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. (MGM)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
7.9
Open Hearts

Open Hearts

February 21, 2003 | R
Adhering to the guidelines of the celebrated Dogme 95 manifesto, this film focuses on a young engaged couple in Copenhagen who finds their relationship changed forever when the man is hit by a car and paralyzed.
Metascore:
77
User Score:
7.3
Lawless Heart

Lawless Heart

February 21, 2003 | R
A sharp, modern love story where lust, love and loyalty are stretched to their limits. Told from three different perspectives, Lawless Heart reveals the comic and subtle realities of modern relationships. (First Look Pictures)
Metascore:
75
User Score:
4.5
The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale

February 21, 2003 | R
David Gale (Spacey) is a man who has tried to live by his principles, but in a bizarre twist of fate, this devoted father, popular professor and respected death penalty opponent finds himself on Death Row for the rape and murder of a fellow activist (Linney). He decides to confide in a reporter (Winslet) who quickly realizes that a man's life is in her hands. (Universal Pictures)
Metascore:
31
User Score:
6.7
All the Real Girls

All the Real Girls

February 14, 2003 | R
A small-town Romeo falls in love with his best friend's little sister.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
6.8
Gerry

Gerry

February 14, 2003 | TV-MA
Two friends, both named Gerry, get lost while hiking in the desert.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
4.9
Ordinary Sinner

Ordinary Sinner

February 14, 2003
This film depicts the lives of three college students struggling to find their place in a tough world.
Metascore:
35
User Score:
tbd
Painted Fire

Painted Fire

February 14, 2003 | Unrated
Im Kwon-taek's ninety-fifth film tells the story of renowned nineteenth-century painter Jang Seung-up (Choi Min-Sik), an artist whose revolutionary work - and persona - has forever changed the face of Korean art. (Kino International)
Metascore:
78
User Score:
7.0
Stone Reader

Stone Reader

February 12, 2003 | PG-13
In this documentary, a filmmaker discovers a great unknown book and set out on a quest to learn why the book and writer vanished. (JETFilms)
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.1
May

May

February 7, 2003 | R
A hybrid of camp horror and psychological thriller.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
1.3
America So Beautiful

America So Beautiful

February 7, 2003
This film follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. (B Good Films)
Metascore:
36
User Score:
8.0
Kedma

Kedma

February 7, 2003
This is the true story, set in May of 1948, of a shipload of hundreds of Jewish immigrants who made their way across Europe to Palestine (which became Israel a week later) seeking a new home, only to be shot at by British troops.
Metascore:
36
User Score:
2.4
Deliver Us from Eva

Deliver Us from Eva

February 7, 2003 | R
A trio of men plot to free themselves from their mates' unattached and seemingly omnipresent older sister Eva (Union). (Focus Features)
Metascore:
46
User Score:
5.6
Biker Boyz

Biker Boyz

January 31, 2003 | PG-13
An action-packed contemporary Western on wheels with desperados who live every day on the edge. Lawyers and city workers by day, they take to the streets in their leathers to race by night. (DreamWorks)
Metascore:
36
User Score:
6.5
Chaos

Chaos

January 29, 2003
When a bourgeois French couple witnesses a young prostitute being violently attacked by a group of men just outside of their car, all three of their lives are changed.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
4.8
Amen.

Amen.

January 24, 2003 | Unrated
Newly commissioned SS Lieutenant and respected civilian chemist, Kurt Gerstein, discovers that the Zyklon B pellets he has developed to disinfect soldiers' drinking water are being used to gas interred Jews by the thousands. Recruited to help streamline the death camp process by a team of SS officers, Gerstein secretly approaches the Swedish Consulate, the German Protestant community and finally Vatican representatives in the hopes of exposing this unspeakable crime. (Kino International)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
7.5
En kƦrlighedshistorie

En kƦrlighedshistorie

January 17, 2003
Kira (Stengade) is a young woman and mother of two who has recently been released from a two year stay at a mental institution. Arriving home in the care of her husband, Mads (Mikkelsen), this film tells the story of her difficult road to recovery and readjustment in the world outside psychiatric treatment, made more difficult by her discovery that Mads had an affair during her hospitalization.
Metascore:
48
User Score:
tbd
Divine Intervention

Divine Intervention

January 17, 2003
Palestinian director and performer Elia Suleiman delivers a darkly comic masterpiece. Suleiman utilizes irreverence, wit, mysticism and insight to craft an intense, hallucinogenic and extremely adept exploration of the dreams and nightmares of Palestinians and Israelis living in uncertain times. (Avatar Films)
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.3
City of God

City of God

January 17, 2003 | R
Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God.' A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where Police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. This is the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and ultimately may be him only way out. [Miramax]
Metascore:
79
User Score:
8.8
Crimson Gold

Crimson Gold

January 16, 2003 | Unrated
A murder and a suicide occur early one morning in a jewelry store. Behind this headline lies the story of a desperate man's feelings of humiliation in a world of social injustice.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
8.3
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

January 10, 2003 | Not Rated
Corey (Alain Delon) is an aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel (Gian-Maria VolontƩ), a murderer, escapes from the custody of Mattei (Bourvil), a cat-loving police superintendent. Corey robs Rico (AndrƩ Ekyan), his mob boss, then enlists Vogel and an ex-police sharpshooter, Jansen (Yves Montand), in a jewel heist. While Corey is harried by the vengeful Rico, Mattei pressures Santi, a nightclub owner and pimp, to help him trap the thieves.
Metascore:
92
User Score:
8.2
The Son

The Son

January 10, 2003
A divorced carpentry instructor at a vocational training center finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious student. [New Yorker Films]
Metascore:
86
User Score:
8.2
The Slaughter Rule

The Slaughter Rule

January 8, 2003 | TV-MA
A bittersweet drama about lonely people dealing with loss and vulnerability.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
7.9
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

December 31, 2002 | R
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. This is the story of the double life of legendary showman Chuck Barris -- television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. (Miramax)
Metascore:
67
User Score:
8.4
Love Liza

Love Liza

December 30, 2002 | R
A showpiece of comic and human desperation, a wonderfully inspired tale of a survivor and the possibilities and impossibilities for resolution. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
58
User Score:
7.0
The Pianist

The Pianist

December 27, 2002 | TV-MA
Wladyslaw Szpilman, a brilliant Polish pianist, a Jew, escapes deportation. Forced to live in the heart of the Warsaw ghetto, he shares the suffering, the humiliation and the struggles. He manages to escape and hides in the ruins of the capital. A German officer comes to his aid and helps him to survive. (Focus Features)
Metascore:
85
User Score:
8.0
Chicago

Chicago

December 27, 2002 | PG-13
A new interpretation that takes the award-winning Broadway show into fresh and expansive cinematic realms, Chicago shifts adroitly from the reality of intrigue, rivalry and betrayal to spectacular fantasies of music and dance, offering tongue-in-cheek commentary on the cult of celebrity and the scandalous lengths to which people will go to attain it. [Miramax]
Metascore:
81
User Score:
7.9
The Hours

The Hours

December 27, 2002 | PG-13
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. [Paramount]
Metascore:
80
User Score:
8.3
Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

December 27, 2002 | PG
Based on one of Charles Dickens' most beloved novels, this is the story of a young man who experiences a change of fortune upon the death of his father.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
6.1
Max

Max

December 27, 2002 | R
A tale that careens through art, politics, love, hope, intolerance, obsession and destructive malevolence to provide an original and intimate portrait of a major turning point in modern history. (Lions Gate Films)
Metascore:
56
User Score:
7.1
Sonny

Sonny

December 27, 2002 | R
The story of a young man, Sonny (Franco), living in New Orleans and trained to follow the family tradition as a paid male prostitute for wealthy women.
Metascore:
31
User Score:
7.5
Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can

December 25, 2002 | PG-13
Frank W. Abagnale (DiCaprio) worked as a doctor, a lawyer and as a co-pilot for a major airline -- all before his 21st birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud had netted him millions of dollars in stolen funds. FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Hanks) has made it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him, baiting him to continue the chase. [DreamWorks]
Metascore:
75
User Score:
8.5
Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar

December 20, 2002 | R
An aimless supermarket clerk (Morton) in a small Scottish town gets a new lease on life upon discovering her boyfriend dead under their Christmas tree.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
5.7
Narc

Narc

December 20, 2002 | R
A fast-paced, hard-boiled tale of cops and scandal, drugs and deception.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
7.6
Smokers Only

Smokers Only

December 20, 2002 | R
This film traces the life of a young woman who has lost her job as a singer and her budding friendship and attraction to a male hustler in Buenos Aires. (Strand Releasing)
Metascore:
35
User Score:
tbd
Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York

December 20, 2002 | R
Set in New York City between 1840 and 1863, this is the story of a young man named Amsterdam (DiCaprio) who seeks vengeance against Bill "The Butcher" Poole (Day-Lewis), the man who killed his father as a result of warfare between the powerful Manhattan gangs.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.5
Thorns

Thorns

December 20, 2002 | R
Six shady Indian residents of L.A. land in jail for questioning long enough for them to complain about ethnic stereotyping on the part of the cops, and to hatch a scheme to rob the bank that handles the LAPD payroll.
Metascore:
41
User Score:
7.4
Spider

Spider

December 20, 2002 | R
A psychological thriller about a man (Fiennes) trying to piece his life back together after his premature release from a mental institution.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
7.1
25th Hour

25th Hour

December 19, 2002 | R
The story of the last twenty-four hours Monty Brogan (Norton) gets to spend with his two best friends and his girlfriend before he goes to prison for seven years for pushing heroin.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
8.3
Antwone Fisher

Antwone Fisher

December 19, 2002 | PG-13
The story of a man who digs inside himself to discover therein lies a king...A sailor with an explosive attitude, Fisher (Luke) is ordered to see a naval psychiatrist (Washington) about his volatile temper. Little did he know that his first step into the doctor's office would lead him on a journey home. (Fox Searchlight)
Metascore:
62
User Score:
7.8
Devils on the Doorstep

Devils on the Doorstep

December 18, 2002
By turns an elaborate wartime drama of China, suffering under Japanese occupation during the 1930s and 40s, and an absurdist comedy of madness, cultural disconnects and historical booby-traps that Samuel Beckett would recognize in an instant. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
70
User Score:
7.1
The Jimmy Show

The Jimmy Show

December 13, 2002 | R
Set in the 1970's and 1980's, this is the story of a failed New Jersey inventor (Whaley) who embarks on a career as a standup comedian.
Metascore:
39
User Score:
8.0
Maid in Manhattan

Maid in Manhattan

December 13, 2002 | PG-13
A Cinderella story about a maid (Lopez) in a luxury hotel and her encounter with a prominent politician (Fiennes).
Metascore:
45
User Score:
8.2
About Schmidt

About Schmidt

December 13, 2002 | R
Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) has arrived at several of life's crossraods all at the same time. With no job, no wife, and no family, he is desperate to find something meaningful in his thoroughly unimpressive life. He sets out on a journey of self-discovery, exploring his roots across Nebraska in a 35-foot motor home. (New Line Productions)
Metascore:
85
User Score:
7.6
Drumline

Drumline

December 13, 2002 | PG-13
A unique look at the world and culture of show-style marching bands ar America's black universities. (20th Century Fox)
Metascore:
63
User Score:
6.3
Evelyn

Evelyn

December 13, 2002 | PG
This story of an Irish man's fight to keep his family intact is an uplifting testament to a father's love and the power of the human spirit. (MGM)
Metascore:
55
User Score:
7.2
Pellet

Pellet

December 13, 2002
MaƱas's film vividly brings viewers into a world of fathers and sons in which perception doesn't always match reality. (Film Movement)
Metascore:
70
User Score:
8.0
Intact

Intact

December 13, 2002 | R
Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has fashioned an enigmatic tale of four people...lives intertwined by destiny...subject to the laws of fate...who discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible...in a deadly game from which only one of the will emerge intact. (Lions Gate Films)
Metascore:
59
User Score:
6.8
The Guys

The Guys

December 13, 2002 | PG
In this powerfully moving and unexpectedly humorous film, a New York City journalist (Weaver) is called upon to help a fire captain (LaPaglia) with a series of eulogies for the men he lost at the World Trade Center. (Focus Features)
Metascore:
60
User Score:
tbd
My Kingdom

My Kingdom

December 6, 2002 | Unrated
Loosely based on Shakespeare's "King Lear," this film focuses on a power stuggle in a contemporary Liverpool crime family.
Metascore:
45
User Score:
tbd
Adaptation.

Adaptation.

December 6, 2002 | R
The lives of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage), author Susan Orlean (Streep) and orchid poacher John Laroche (Cooper) become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others' in this adaptation of the best-selling "The Orchid Thief." [Columbia Pictures]
Metascore:
83
User Score:
8.0
Empire

Empire

December 6, 2002 | R
The story of gangster Victor Rosa's (Leguizamo) quest for the American Dream as he tries to escape his criminal past and free himself from the trapppings of easy money on the violent streets of the South Bronx. This is the first release Arenas Entertainment, the new Latino film label in partnership with Universal Pictures. (Arenas Entertainment)
Metascore:
38
User Score:
5.3
Equilibrium

Equilibrium

December 6, 2002 | R
In a future society, citizens are prevented from expressing emotions and are controlled by militaristic police with the enforced use of a dehumanizing drug.
Metascore:
33
User Score:
8.3
Blackboards

Blackboards

December 6, 2002
A group of male teachers crosses the mountainous paths of the remote Iranian Kurdistan region. Carrying large blackboards on their backs, they wander from village to village in search of students. (Kimstim Films)
Metascore:
64
User Score:
tbd
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