Reviews
Works released in 2005
- 107.6 Degrees (2005)
- 165 Hässelby (2005)
- “A Black and White Cartoon About Roof Tiling” (2005)
- A Feast for Crows (2005)
- A History of Violence (2005)
- “A World Where Justice Is Just” (2005 entry)
- Accelerando (2005)
- Africa: America’s New Oil Target (2005)
- “An Attempt at a Short Film: Remarks on Accepting the Japan Foundation Award for 2005” (2005)
- Anansi Boys (2005)
- “And Thereafter” (2005)
- “Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?” (2005)
- Aria: The Animation (2005)
- “At the End of the Sentence” (2005)
- BBS: The Documentary (2005)
- Banner of the Stars III (2005)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- Being Cyrus (2005)
- “Between You and Me” (2005)
- “Big Girl” (2005)
- Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (2005)
- “Bomb” (2005)
- “Borderline” (2005)
- Bride of Silence (2005)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Broken Flowers (2005)
- Cake (2005)
- Capote (2005)
- Casanova (2005)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- “Chocolate” (2005 entry)
- Chromartie High – The Movie (2005)
- “Cigarette Burns” (2005 entry)
- Cinderella Man (2005)
- Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
- Constantine (2005)
- Coolies: How Britain Re-Invented Slavery (2005)
- Corpse Bride (2005)
- “Coucou Clock” (2005)
- Damekko Doubutsu (2005)
- “Dance of the Dead” (2005 entry)
- “Deer Woman” (2005 entry)
- Det är dax att gå upp nu (2005)
- Doom (2005)
- “Dreams in the Witch-House” (2005 entry)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005)
- Emma (2005)
- “En nattsaga” (2005)
- Enemy Image (2005)
- Fantastic Four (2005)
- “Fear of Girls” (2005)
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
- “Flight of the Conchords” (2005)
- Flightplan (2005)
- Freakonomics (2005)
- Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005)
- Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
- Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
- Gamer Br (2005)
- Gitmo (2005)
- God Save the King (2005)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
- Grape Scented (2005)
- Grave of the Fireflies (2005)
- Grizzly Man (2005)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel (2005)
- Hanteringen av odöda (2005)
- Hard Candy (2005)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
- “Haze” (2005)
- He Is My Master (2005)
- Hell Girl (2005)
- Hidden (2005)
- “Homecoming” (2005 entry)
- Honey and Clover (2005)
- Honey and Clover: Chapter L (2005)
- Hostel (2005)
- Hustle & Flow (2005)
- “Incident on and Off a Mountain Road” (2005 entry)
- Inside Deep Throat (2005)
- Into the Blue (2005)
- I’m Going to Tell You a Secret (2005)
- “I’ve Always Wanted to Create a Film About Which I Could Say, ‘I’m Just Glad I Was Born, so I Could Make This’” (2005)
- “Jack-Jack Attack” (2005)
- Jarhead (2005)
- “Jenifer” (2005 entry)
- Junebug (2005)
- “Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek” (2005)
- Kamichu (2005)
- Karin (2005)
- Kicking & Screaming (2005)
- King Kong (2005)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
- Knife of Dreams (2005)
- Knights of the South Bronx (2005)
- Lady Vengeance (2005)
- Lamune (2005)
- Land of the Dead (2005)
- Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
- Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture (2005)
- “Look for Me” (2005)
- “Looking for an Icon” (2005)
- Lord of War (2005)
- Madagascar (2005)
- Manderlay (2005)
- Manga (2005)
- March of the Penguins (2005)
- Masters of Horror (2005, contains 13)
- Max av en ren slump (2005)
- McLibel (2005)
- Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
- “Milch” (2005)
- Mirrormask (2005)
- Mother of Mine (2005)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
- Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)
- Munich (2005)
- Mushishi (2005)
- Noein: To Your Other Self (2005)
- Nomad: The Warrior (2005)
- North Country (2005)
- Old Man’s War (2005)
- Oliver Twist (2005)
- “Open Your Mind” (2005)
- Our Daily Bread (2005)
- Pani Poni Dash (2005)
- Park Football (2005)
- “Popcorn” (2005)
- Pride & Prejudice (2005)
- “Ptikobj” (2005)
- Punk Attitude (2005)
- Pushing Ice (2005)
- “Red Ears” (2005)
- “Remark to the Staff of the Ghibli Museum at the Screening of ‘Mon Mon the Water Spider,’ ‘The Day I Bought a Star,’ and ‘House Hunting’” (2005)
- Rent (2005)
- “Right of Left” (2005)
- “Robert Westall’s Blackham’s Wimpey: Proposal for a Book with a Supplementary Guide of Random Thoughts” (2005)
- Serenity (2005)
- Shuffle (2005)
- Sin City (2005)
- Sky High (2005)
- Speed Grapher (2005)
- Star War – The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West (2005)
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005)
- Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
- Storm (2005)
- Strangers with Candy (2005)
- Strawberry Marshmallow (2005)
- Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
- Svensk filmindustri: Det stora svenska filmäventyret (2005)
- Syriana (2005)
- Taiko Drum Master (2005)
- “Tango nero” (2005)
- Terrible Tastes of Great Dictators (2005)
- Thank You for Smoking (2005)
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
- “The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation” (2005 entry)
- The Anime Companion 2 (2005)
- The Aristocrats (2005)
- The Ax (2005)
- “The Big Empty” (2005)
- The Book of the Dead (2005)
- The Brothers Grimm (2005)
- “The Call of Cthulhu” (2005)
- “The Calorie Man” (2005)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
- “The Clap” (2005)
- The Colbert Report (2005)
- The Constant Gardener (2005)
- The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
- The Descent (2005)
- The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
- The End of the World as We Know It (2005)
- The Fall of Fujimori (2005)
- The Fog (2005)
- The Girl from Auschwitz (2005)
- The God Who Wasn’t There (2005)
- The Great Raid (2005)
- “The Great Zambini” (2005)
- “The Grotlyn” (2005)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- The Interpreter (2005)
- The Island (2005)
- The Jacket (2005)
- The Lonely Barber (2005)
- The Longest Yard (2005)
- “The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper” (2005)
- “The Magnificent Forty-Niners” (2005)
- The Manga Guide to Calculus (2005 entry)
- The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2005)
- “The Moto Hagio Interview” (2005)
- The New World (2005)
- The Quatermass Experiment (2005)
- “The Question Is Whether You Really Find It Interesting or Not” (2005)
- “The Raftman’s Razor” (2005)
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
- The Skeleton Key (2005)
- The Squid and the Whale (2005)
- “The Story of 1” (2005)
- The Upside of Anger (2005)
- The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)
- “The Writer” (2005)
- Tideland (2005)
- Train Man (2005)
- Tristram Shandy (2005)
- Tsotsi (2005)
- Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected (2005)
- Two for the Money (2005)
- Unknown White Male (2005)
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- “Vicious Beauties: The Secret World of the Jellyfish” (2005)
- Walk the Line (2005)
- Wallander: Mastermind (2005)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Wedding Crashers (2005)
- “What’s Expected of Us” (2005)
- “What’s Important for the Spirit: Text of a Speech to Be Given on the Occasion of Receiving the Japan Foundation Award for 2005” (2005)
- Why We Fight (2005)
- “With All My Might” (2005)
- Æon Flux (2005)