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2005 Stories by Melissa Levine

• Heath in Heat

  published December 21, 2005

  For your Heath Ledger holiday-movie options, you have a) a cowboy in love with another man, and b) history's most infamous womanizer. Since the... More >>

• Springtime for Mel

  published December 14, 2005

  In 1968 it was a movie. In 2001 it became a musical. Now it's a movie again? Yep, and there's actually pretty good reason to return The... More >>

• Three's Company

  published November 30, 2005

  Yes, the title's a problem. Three of Hearts was a 1993 romantic comedy starring Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn, and William Baldwin, a... More >>

• 13 Million Yogis Can't Be Wrong

  published November 30, 2005

  It's no secret that documentaries have finally gained some currency in the American media. With the help of Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, and a... More >>

• Spent

  published November 23, 2005

  Ever since its Broadway debut in 1996, Rent has generated a loyal, almost cultlike following. Showered with praise, the Pulitzer... More >>

• Closet Case

  published November 23, 2005

  Sometimes a movie just works, in spite of its many mistakes. It may not be particularly original or smart; it may wobble on shaky legs and feel... More >>

• Supersore

  published November 23, 2005

  With nearly 9 percent of the U.S. retail market to itself, contributing to $288 billion in annual sales, Wal-Mart takes in more revenue than most... More >>

• Spell It Out

  published November 9, 2005

  Richard Gere? That's the first thought that came to mind upon learning that Mr. Salt-and-Pepper-Sexy-Buddhist-Wasp had been cast as Saul Naumann... More >>

• Wild, Then Crazy

  published October 26, 2005

  Does Steve Martin have multiple personality disorder -- or is he just brilliantly in tune with some things and wildly out of touch with others?... More >>

• Strange Brew

  published October 19, 2005

  When watching Where the Truth Lies, a film noir about a young celebrity journalist's obsession with a comedy duo from the 1950s, a single... More >>

• ISO Substance

  published October 5, 2005

  Indian virgin seeks willing woman. Wanted: heavy metal chef. Redheaded family seeks redheaded pet. For hire: preop transsexual e$cort. "I am... More >>

• Say Cheese

  published October 5, 2005

  Ah, Wallace and Gromit. Who doesn't get a little lift at the sound of those names? Who doesn't feel the edges of her mouth begin to tickle toward... More >>

• Moore's the Pity

  published September 28, 2005

  It's always hard to pan an earnest film, especially one by a first-time director. And The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, a plucky striver... More >>

• Something Missing

  published September 21, 2005

  In 2001, Jonathan Safran Foer made an astounding literary debut. "A Very Rigid Search," published by the New Yorker, was his hilarious,... More >>

• Proof Positive

  published September 21, 2005

  In the tradition of A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting comes Proof, a psychological drama about a math genius and the... More >>

• The Opposite of Suck

  published September 21, 2005

  About once a year -- twice, if we're lucky -- a first-time director shows up with something original, electrifying, and humane, a film that shows... More >>

• Low Yield

  published August 31, 2005

  At the opening of The Constant Gardener, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of the novel by John le Carré, we hear a... More >>

• Drift Wood

  published August 24, 2005

  The problem with making black-lacquered high school satire is this: Heathers came out in 1989, and it pretty much did the trick. There's... More >>

• A Tale of Two Bastards

  published July 20, 2005

  Toward the end of Saraband, the uneven new film from legendary director Ingmar Bergman, a character sits down with his daughter, a taut... More >>

• Miracle on Ice

  published June 29, 2005

  If you're short on reasons to be grateful these days, look no further than March of the Penguins, the astonishing if imperfect nature... More >>

• Love in Reverse

  published June 22, 2005

  For the first 30 minutes of 5x2, François Ozon's new film about a relationship that fails, the young French director seems well on his... More >>

• Girls Interrupted

  published June 15, 2005

  Not many people saw Lost and Delirious, the 2001 boarding-school drama about two girls in obsessive love, and that was probably for the... More >>

• Glorious Sea

  published June 15, 2005

  What Winged Migration was to birds, Deep Blue is to the ocean -- a breathtaking nature documentary cheapened slightly by... More >>

• Freedom Fries

  published June 8, 2005

  McLibel -- "the story of two people who wouldn't say McSorry" -- may by the first film in history whose most dramatic moment hinges on a... More >>

• One for the Girls

  published June 1, 2005

  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a flawed movie born of a flawed novel, but let this be clear: Girls will eat it up with a spoon.... More >>