 | Crash - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $0.05 A masterpiece, this Altman-esque film about race relations and the collision of life-paths over 36 hours in LA is a great debut for writer/director Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby)!
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 | Millions
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.75 An unexpected and brilliant family film from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle!
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 | Dear Frankie
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $15.95 A terrific film from Shona Auerbach about a deaf boy whose mom pays a sailor to pose as his dad!
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 | Junebug
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.98 A lovely debut for director Phil Morrison, who paints a beautiful picture of a goofy North Carolina family and the Chicago outsider who joins them.
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 | Breakfast on Pluto
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.20 The loopiest film yet from loopy director Neil Jordan, this concerns a transvestite who makes his/her way through the world by any means necessary.
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 | Hustle & Flow (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.10 Terrence Howard gives an electrifying and inspiring performance as a pimp turned rapper in Craig Brewer's debut film!
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 | The Constant Gardener (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.64 Fernando Mereilles (City of God) makes a brilliant follow-up based on the John LeCarre novel!
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 | Nine Lives
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.67 Writer/director Rodrigo Garcia's second film is an amazing series of 9 short stories--each done in a single Steadicam take! Brilliant performances by all! The last one's a stunner!
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 | Munich (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $19.99 Steven Spielberg's haunting and powerful epic treatment of the revenge taken by Israelis on the Palestinians who committed the Munich Olympic massacre!
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 | Match Point
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $1.44 Writer-director Woody Allen's best film since Deconstructing Harry (1997)! Great film noir-ish feel!
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 | Capote
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $0.53 Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance leads the pack in Bennett Miller's film about the writing of IN COLD BLOOD!
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 | The Devil's Rejects - Unrated Director's Cut Widescreen
Buy used from: $2.87 Writer/director Rob Zombie did a brilliant job with this funny and shocking horror sequel to House of a 1000 Corpses!
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 | Domino (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $0.49 Tony Scott's hyperkinetic treatment of the late model turned bounty hunter Domino Harvey!
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 | The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.88 The most unexpected and brilliant comedy of the year, from Judd Apatow, with real heart and feeling!
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 | Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $0.75 George Clooney's follow-up to his 2002 directorial debut (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), this is the brilliant story of Edward R. Murrow's fight with Senator McCarthy!
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 | The Ice Harvest (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $0.49 Harold Ramis directs this brilliant cross between Elmore Leonard and Blood Simple (the 80s Coens debut) with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton!
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 | Me and You and Everyone We Know
Buy used from: $4.98 Writer/director/star Miranda July's film debut is a brilliant romantic comedy of sorts that kind of has that Altman-esque feel again! With Deadwood's John Hawkes as the love interest!
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 | Melinda and Melinda
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.97 Writer/director Woody Allen's second best film of the year is a tragi-comic tale of two potential paths for one distraught young woman.
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 | Mysterious Skin (Deluxe Unrated Director's Edition)
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $10.50 Writer/director Gregg Araki finally makes a great movie (based on someone else's novel) about a gay hustler and an alien abductee!
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 | Palindromes
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.00 Todd Solondz's painful and brilliant meditation on a theme: several actors play one girl going through pregnancy!
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 | Rory O'Shea Was Here
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $1.98 Damien O'Donnell's great film about a paraplegic who befriends a guy with cerebal palsy. The two run amok in Dublin!
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 | Sarah Silverman - Jesus is Magic
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.50 One of the flat-out funniest films of this or any year! Silverman overcomes the filmmaking prat-falls of director Liam Lynch to make a great comedy film!
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 | Sin City - Unrated (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $7.34 This terrific neo-noir/graphic novel adaptation by Robert Rodriguez is the single most stylized and great-looking film of the year! Mickey Rourke is amazing!
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 | Syriana (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $0.01 George Clooney leads an all-star cast in the Altman-esque drama about the oil industry from Traffic writer Stephen Gaghan!
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 | Walk the Line (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $1.00 James Mangold's film about the life and love of Johnny Cash. With astonishingly dead-on performances!
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