Year: 2005 Archives

A History of Violence (USA) (New Line) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: David Cronenberg Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris

Aeon Flux (USA) (MTV Films/Paramount) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Karyn Kusama Cast: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo

Assault on Precinct 13 (USA) (Focus Features) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Jean-François Richet Cast: Ethan Hawke, Lawrence Fishburne, Drea de Matteo, Maria Bello, Gabriel Byrne

Batman Begins (USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman

Breakfast on Pluto (Ireland/UK) (Sony Pictures Classics) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Ruth Neega, Laurence Kinlan

Brokeback Mountain (USA) (Focus Features/Paramount) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Ang Lee Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams

Broken Flowers (USA/France) (Focus Features) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Jim Jarmusch Cast: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Julie Delpy, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Jessica Lange

Capote (USA) (United Artists/Sony Pictures) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Bennett Miller Cast: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper

Cinderella Man (USA) (Miramax/Universal/Touchstone) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Ron Howard Cast: Russel Crowe, Renee Zellwegger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko

Constantine (USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Francis Lawrence Cast: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz

Corpse Bride (UK) (Warner Bros) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Christopher Lee

Crash (USA) (Lions Gate Films) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Paul Haggis Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillippe, Jennifer Esposito

D.E.B.S. (USA) (Samuel Goldwyn) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Angela Robinson Cast: Sarah Foster, Jordana Brewster, Meagan Good, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie

De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (France) (Canal+/Wellspring Media) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Jacques Audiard Cast: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham, Jonathan Zaccai

Derailed (USA) (Miramax/Weinstein) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Mikael Håfström Cast: Vincent Cassel, Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston

Elektra (USA) (20th Century Fox) (2005) *1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Rob Bowman Cast: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Kirsten Prout

Elizabethtown (USA) (Paramount) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Cameron Crowe Cast: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (USA) (Magnolia Pictures) (2005) ****1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Alex Gibney

Fantastic Four (USA) (20th Century Fox) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Tim Story Cast: Ioan Gruffud, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon

Flightplan (USA) (Touchstone Pictures/Image Entertainment) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Robert Schwentke Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean

Four Brothers (USA) (Paramount) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: John Singleton Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, Garret Hedlund

Good Night, and Good Luck (USA) (Warner Independent Pictures) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: George Clooney Cast: David Stratham, Robert Downey Jr, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney

Grizzly Man (USA) (Lions Gate) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Werner Herzog Cast: Timothy Treadwell

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK/USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Mike Newell Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Stanislav Ianevski, Michael Gambon

Havoc (USA/Germany) (Media8/New Line) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Barbara Kopple Cast: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips

Hitch (USA) (Columbia Pictures) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Andy Tennant Cast: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James

Howl's Moving Castle (Japan) (Ghibli) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Hayao Miyazaki Cast: Chieko Baysho, Takoya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa

Hustle & Flow (USA) (MTV/Paramount) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Craig Brewer Cast: Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, Taraji Henson, DJ Qualls

In Good Company (USA) (Universal) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Paul Weitz Cast: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson

In Her Shoes (USA) (20th Century Fox) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Curtis Hanson Cast: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Anson Mount, Shirley MacLaine

Jarhead (USA) (Universal) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Sam Mendes Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx

Joyeux Noel (France/Germany/UK/Belgium/Romania) (Nord-Ouest/Sony Pictures Classic) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Christian Carion Cast: Guillaume Canet, Daniel Bruhl, Benn Furmann, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis

Junebug (USA) (Sony Pictures Classics) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Phil Morrison Cast: Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Benjamin McKenzie

Just Like Heaven (USA) (DreamWorks) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Mark Waters Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo

King Kong (New Zealand/USA) (Universal) (2005) ****1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Peter Jackson Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Colin Hanks

Kingdom of Heaven (USA/Spain/UK/Germany) (20th Century Fox) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Marton Csokas, Eva Green

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Shane Black Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan

Kung Fu Hustle (Gong Fu) (China/Hong Kong) (Columbia/Sony Pictures) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Stephen Chow Cast: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Siu Lung Leung

L'Enfant (Belgium) (RTBF/Sony Pictures Classics) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Cast: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François

Last Holiday (USA) (Paramount) (2006) Year: 2005Year: 2006iMDB

Director: Wayne Wang Cast: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Gérard Depardieu

Layer Cake (UK) (Sony Pictures) (2004) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Matthew Vaughn Cast: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, George Harris

Lord of War (USA) (Lions Gate) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Andrew Niccol Cast: Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ethan Hawke

Mad Hot Ballroom (USA) (Paramount) (2005) ****1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Marilyn Agrelo Cast: Madeleine Hackney, Rodney Lopez, Victoria Malvagano, Alex Tchassov

Madagascar (USA) (DreamWorks) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith

Manderlay (Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands / France / Germany / USA) (IFC Films) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Lars von Trier Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankole, Willem Dafoe, Danny Glover, Lauren Baccal

March of the Penguins (USA/France) (Canal +/Warner Independent Pictures) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Luc Jacquet Cast: Morgan Freeman (Narrator)

Match Point (UK/Luxembourg) (DreamWorks/BBC) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Woody Allen Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode

Me and You and Everyone We Know (USA) (Film Four) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Miranda July Cast: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff

Memoirs of a Geisha (USA) (Columbia/Dreamworks) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Rob Marshall Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Li Gong, Ken Watanabe, Kaori Momoi, Kenneth Tsang

Millions (Ireland) (BBC/Pathe/Fox Searchlight) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Danny Boyle Cast: Alexander Nathan Ethel, Lewis Owen McGibbon, James Nesbitt

Moartea domnului Lazarescu (Romania) (Mandragora/Tartan USA) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Cristi Puiu Cast: Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (USA) (20th Century Fox/Regency) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Doug Liman Cast: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie

Mrs. Henderson Presents (UK) (BBC/Weinstein) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Stephen Frears Cast: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins

Munich (USA) (Dreamworks/Universal) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathie Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Geoffrey Rush

Must Love Dogs (USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Gary David Goldberg Cast: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney, Stockard Channing

Nessun messaggio in segreteria (Italy) (Pablo) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Paolo Genovese, Luca Miniero Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Carlo Delle Piane, Lorenza Indovina, Nicole Murgia, Anna Falchi

Nine Lives (USA) (Magnolia Pictures) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Rodrigo Garcia Cast: Glenn Close, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Holly Hunter, Robin Wright Penn, Sissy Spacek, Joe Mantegna, Amanda Seyfried

North Country (USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Niki Caro Cast: Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Sean Bean, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand

Palindromes (USA) (Wellspring) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Todd Solondz Cast: Emani Sledge, Valerie Shusterov, Hannah Freiman, Will Denton, Sharon Wilkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Paradise Now (Palestine) (Warner Independent Pictures) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Hany Abu-Assad Cast: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal

Pride & Prejudice (UK) (Focus Features) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Joe Wright Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFayden, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland

Proof (USA) (Weinstein/Miramax) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: John Madden Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis

Quando sei nato non puoi piu nasconderti (Italy/France/UK) (Aquarius/TF1) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana Cast: Matteo Gadola, Ester Hazan, Vlad Alexandru Toma, Alessio Boni, Michela Cescon

Revolver (France/UK) (Europa/Redbus) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Andre Benjamin, Vincent Pastore

Robots (USA) (Fox Animation/20th Century Fox) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha Cast: Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Halle Berry, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Mel Brooks

Saraband (Sweden) (Sony Pictures Classic) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Ingmar Bergmann Cast: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius

Saving Face (USA) (Sony Pictures) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Alice Wu Cast: Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Lynn Chen

Saw II (USA) (Lions Gate) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman Cast: Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell

Shopgirl (USA) (Buena Vista) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Anand Tucker Cast: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman

Simon (Netherlands) (Spaghetti Film) (2004) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Eddy Terstall Cast: Cees Geel, Marcel Hensema, Rifka Lodeizen, Daan Ekkel

Sin City (USA) (Dimension Films) (2005) ****1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez Cast: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson

Sky High (USA) (Buena Vista) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Mike Mitchell Cast: Michael Angarano, Kurt Russel, Kelly Preston

Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage (Germany) (Goldkind/Zeitgeist) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Marc Rothemund Cast: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (USA) (20th Century Fox) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: George Lucas Cast: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson

Steamboy (Japan) (Sony Pictures) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo Cast: Ikki Sawamura, Katsuo Nakamura, Masane Tsukayama

Syriana (USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Stephen Gaghan Cast: Kayvan Novak, George Clooney, Amr Waked, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper

The 40 Year Old Virgin (USA) (Universal Pictures) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Judd Apatow Cast: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener

The Aristocrats (USA) (ThinkFilm) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Paul Provenza

The Brothers Grimm (Czech Republic/USA) (Miramax/MGM) (2005) **Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (USA) (Disney/Buena Vista) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Andrew Adamson Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy

The Constant Gardener (UK) (Focus Features) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Fernando Meirelles Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (USA/UK) (Disney/Spyglass) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Garth Jennings Cast: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel

The Island (USA) (Dreamworks/Warner Bros) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Michael Bay Cast: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean

The Jacket (USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: John Maybury Cast: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson

The Libertine (UK) (Weinstein) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Cast: Laurence Dunmor Cast: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Richard Coyle

The Matador (USA/Germany/Ireland) (Miramax) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Richard Shepard Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis

The New World (USA) (New Line Cinema) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Terrence Malick Cast: Collin Farrel, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer

The Promise (Mo Gik) (China/Hong Kong/Japan/South Korea) (The Weinstein Company) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Kaige Chen Cast: Dong-Kun Jang, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Liu Ye

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (USA) (Warner Bros) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Ken Kwapis Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd

The Squid and the Whale (USA) (Samuel Goldwyn) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Noah Baumbach Cast: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, William Baldwin

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (USA/France) (Europa Corp/Sony) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Tommy Lee Jones Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo

The Upside of Anger (USA) (New Line) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Mike Binder Cast: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russel, Alicia Witt

The Weather Man (USA) (Paramount) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Gore Verbinski Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis

The White Countess (UK/USA/Germany/China) (Sony Pictures Classics) (2005) ****Year: 2005iMDB

Director: James Ivory Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada

Transamerica (USA) (Weinstein) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Duncan Tucker Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers

Tsotsi (South Africa/UK) (Moviworld/Miramax) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Gavin Hood Cast: Presley Chweneyagae, Zola, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi

Waiting... (USA) (Lions Gate Films) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Rob McKittrick Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Anna Farris, Justin Long, David Koechner, John Francis Daley

Walk the Line (USA) (20th Century Fox) (2005) ****1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: James Mangold Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (UK) (DreamWorks) (2005) ***Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Steve Box, Nick Park Cast: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter

War of the Worlds (USA) (Paramount) (2005) **1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin

Water (India/Canada) (Fox Searchlight) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Deepa Mehta Cast: Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Sarala, Seem Biswas

Wedding Crashers (USA) (New Line Cinema) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: David Dobkin Cast: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Christopher Walken

Where the Truth Lies (Canada/UK) (ThinkFilm) (2005) ***1/2Year: 2005iMDB

Director: Atom Egoyan Cast: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman