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• Last 10 Film Review's Posted. • Last 10 Films Seen.
Oldboy (dir. Chanwook Park, South Korea 2003) ***
I [heart] Huckabees (dir. David O. Russell, USA 2004) ***1/2
Sideways (dir. Alexander Payne, USA 2004) ***
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (dir. Wes Anderson, USA 2004) ***1/2
House of Flying Daggers (dir. Zhang Yimou, China 2004) *1/2
Team America: World Police (dir. Trey Parker, USA 2004) **1/2
Shaun of the Dead (dir. Edgar Wright, UK 2004) **1/2
Silver City (dir. John Sayles, USA 2004) *1/2
Forest for the Trees (dir. Maren Ade, Germany 2003) ***1/2
Not on the Lips (dir. Alain Resnais, France/Switzerland 2003) *
Oldboy (dir. Chanwook Park, South Korea 2003) ***
• Finding Neverland (dir. Marc Forster, USA 2004) *1/2
• Hotel Rwanda (dir. Terry George, USA 2004) **
I [heart] Huckabees (dir. David O. Russell, USA 2004) ***1/2
• Wilby Wonderful (dir. Daniel MacIvor, Canada 2004) *1/2
Sideways (dir. Alexander Payne, USA 2004) ***
• The Company (dir. Robert Altman, USA 2003) ***
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (dir. Wes Anderson, USA 2004) ***1/2 
• The Aviator (dir. Martin Scorsese, USA 2004) **1/2
House of Flying Daggers (dir. Zhang Yimou, China 2004) *1/2
List of 2004 Films Seen Since Starting Site [Rated] List of Older (pre-2004) Films Seen Since Starting Site [Rated]
2004 Top 10 List [Coming Someday] Previous Top 10 Lists [Ongoing]
Films Seen Since Starting Site [Rated] All Films Seen [Alphabetically, Unrated], All Films Seen [By Year, Unrated]
• Occasional Commentary/Non-Film Reviews. • Stuff I don't feel like writing about.
The Office: Special ****
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith **1/2
Beyond Good and Evil, Ubisoft ****
Metroid Prime, Retro Studios/Nintendo ***1/2
Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby **
Fury, by Salman Rushdie **1/2
Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden *
Yes Minister, by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn ***1/2
Down and Diry Pictures, by Peter Biskind **1/2
Reefer Madness **1/2 and Fast Food Nation ***, by Eric Schlosser
Bachelor's Anonymous, by P.G. Wodehouse ****
My Life As A Fake, by Peter Carey *1/2
Success, by Martin Amis **
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2003, edited by Dave Eggers *1/2
Who The Devil Made It, by Peter Bogdonavich ***
The Office: The Complete Second Series ****1/2
Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee ***1/2
Necessary Illusions, by Noam Chomsky ***1/2
• Poker for Dummies, **
• Attack Poodles, by James Wolcott **1/2
• Death is Not the End, by Ian Rankin **1/2
• Story, by Robert McKee **
• The Falls, by Ian Rankin ***
• A Question of Blood, by Ian Rankin ***
• Resurrection Men, by Ian Rankin ***
• Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth **1/2
• The Acme Novelty Date Book 1986-1995, by Chris Ware *1/2
• The Constant Gardener, by John Le Carre ***1/2
• Eight Ball # 23, by Daniel Clowes ***
• Making Movies, by Sidney Lumet ***1/2
• Nobody's Perfect, by Anthony Lane ***1/2
• A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy O'Toole ***
• Time Out Film Guide, 2004 ***1/2
• The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro ****
• A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry ***
• Anil's Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje ****
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers ***1/2
• You Shall Know Our Velocity, by Dave Eggers *
• Heavy Water, by Martin Amis *1/2
• Other Movie Sites.
• Patron saints of internet-movie-reviewdom Mike D'Angelo and Theo Panayides have both seen way too many movies (yes, this is envy).
• Where's the plot summary? James Berardinelli and Roger Ebert, that's where.
• Stephanie Zacharek et al. at Salon.com, David Edelstein at Slate, and Peter Bradshaw at The Guardian all write about movies.
• Stanley Kauffman of The New Republic and Jonathan Rosenbaum of The Chicago Reader both march to the beat of their own drummer.
• The film reviews at The Onion are surprisingly good.
AICN and Chud have the zombie, horror, and exclamation point markets cornered.
Rotten Tomatoes compiles a cross-section of reviews from all over, although they do err on the side of more established movie reviewers.
• Finally, the Internet Movie Database is either an invaluable research tool or the answer to the common deathbed question: 'where did all the time go?'