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November 15, 2004
Overnight

This jittery documentary is as raw as the filmmakers’ rattled nerves.

November 15, 2004
Noel

Five heartbroken and lonely New Yorkers somehow get chatty and find each other on Christmas Eve.

November 15, 2004
The Polar Express

Strap yourself in and try not to vomit, because this is more of a theme-park event than a movie.

November 15, 2004
Finding Neverland

This fictionalized version of author J. M. Barrie's life stars Depp as a sweet man trapped in a loveless marriage.

November 15, 2004
Dr. Kinsey, I Presume?

In this nuanced biopic, Liam Neeson shows us the pathos inside the sex researcher.

November 8, 2004
Animate This

The latest triumph from Pixar: a buoyant, heartfelt, hilarious superhero action-comedy.

November 1, 2004
Bio Hazards

Jamie Foxx’s brilliant performance as Ray Charles rips right through this otherwise unremarkable biopic.

October 25, 2004
The Grape Escape

Running from commitments and failures, two college buddies romp through California, sampling the local wine�and women�in Sideways.

October 11, 2004
Upstate, Uptown, and Beyond

Three festivals bring the world to the city—another brings the city to Woodstock.

October 18, 2004
Tea and Sympathy

And abortions. That’s what Vera Drake offers working-class girls in distress, in Mike Leigh’s realist portrait of postwar London.