The Incredibles  - Great animation, better humor.

Hotel Rwanda - Don Cheadle IS the movie.

The Aviator - Didn't think DeCaprio could pull it off.   Was I wrong.

Million $ Baby - Clint, Hillary, and

Beyond the Sea - In other years, Spacey could get best actor.....

Ray - But not this year.  Jaimie Fox.  Who gets it for this film....

and....

Collateral - The best looking film of the year.

Farenheit 9/11 - I was so angry when I left the theater, and the guy STILL got re-elected.

The Notebook - Completely touching.

De-Lovely - A wonderful story, and movie.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - One of these days, Jim Carrey gets nominated as best actor.

The Next Group (Runner's Up)

Sideways - I needed a drink after this one.

Kinsey - I needed a condom after this one.

Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie 2003 - I needed a tissue after this one.

Saved! - The best farce movie of the year.

Finding Neverland - Depp excellent.

Phantom of the Opera - but was the teaser trailer more exciting?

Osama - notable because it was the first film made in Afghanistan post-Taliban.  This is what your tax money went for - a new movie industry.

Born to Brothels - a documentary set in Calcutta's red light district.

The Last Shot - I love movies about movies being made.

Cute Date Movies That Are Worth Seeing Again:

Wimbledon - I really dig Paul Bettany.  Dunst plays like a girl.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - I really dig Angelina!

Mean Girls - cute idea, well executed.

Hidalgo - Why the long face?  There IS a happy ending.

In Good Company - the GOOD Dennis Quaid movie of 2004

First Annual Adam Sandler Makes Two Good Movies in a Year Award: 50 First Dates and Spanglish

Worst Movies of the Year
And these are just the pieces of manure I actually saw:

The Life Aquatic - I got sucked into Rushmore just like this one.  Too out there even for me.

Closer - Talk talk talk talk talk one good panty scene with Natalie Portman talk talk talk talk.

Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2 - Not even good enough to be on my Stupid Sequels list.

13 Going on 30 - Do we ever have to see another 13 year old in a 30 year old body story again?  Wasn't BIG enough?  And while we are at it, many thanks to Tom Hanks for NOT making a sequal called Big Enough.

A Day Without a Mexican - A great premise horribly executed

Napoleon Dynamite - I am willing to cave in on the fact that I just did not get this one and may have to see it again.... "Iddddiot."

The Day After Tomorrow - Great seeing New York get creamed.  The BAD Dennis Quaid movie of 2004

White Chicks - Come on... They didn't even look like the two other chicks.

Alfie -  First 5 minutes are good.  If you want to pay for the rest of them, that is your problem.

Welcome to Mooseport - Just sad.

The Very Long Engagement - Just too long and boring.

The Blair Witch Project - Still the worst pile of crap ever made.

Six Stupidist Sequels of the Year

• Scary Movie 4
• Barbershop 2 
• Agent Cody Banks 2
• Bridget Jones 2
• Scooby Doo 2
• Anacondas - Hunt for the Blood Orchid
• And TWO  good ones:
• Spiderman 2
• Kill Bill 2

Four Re-Makes that Did Not Need Re-Making

• Manchurian Candidate
• Flight of the Phoenix
• The Stepford Wives
• Alfie

Worst Same Plot Duo of the Year 
(Or, if at first you don't succeed, make another bad movie with the same story):