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Action
Films with intense car chases, gun fights, and/or explosions of some sort

1.5 stars Blade Trinity (2004)
3.5 stars Collateral (2004)
1.5 stars Eagle Eye (2008)
3 stars Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
4 stars Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
1.5 stars Hellboy (2004)
3 stars Hero (2002)
2 stars I, Robot (2004)
2.5 stars Kill Bill: Vols. 1 & 2 (2003-4)
1 stars Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
3 stars National Treasure (2004)
2.5 stars Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
1.5 stars Pearl Harbor (2001)
3 stars Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
0.5 stars Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
3 stars Spider-Man 2 (2004)
3.5 stars Superman Returns (2006)
3 stars The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
3.5 stars The Incredibles (2004)
3 stars The Last Samurai (2003)
3 stars The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3 stars The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
3.5 stars The Rundown (2003)
1 stars The Sum of All Fears (2002)
4 stars The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
3 stars Troy (2004)
2 stars Underworld (2003)
2.5 stars X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
3 stars X2 (2003)


Animation
Films with images painstakingly crafted by people with a lot of time on their hands

2.5 stars A Scanner Darkly (2006)
2 stars Shark Tale (2004)
3.5 stars Shrek 2 (2004)
3.5 stars The Incredibles (2004)
3 stars The Polar Express (2004)
3 stars Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)


Caper
Films with some sort of heist or robbery, usually criminal in nature

2 stars A Fished Called Wanda (1988)
3.5 stars Confidence (2003)
3 stars Matchstick Men (2003)
2 stars Ocean’s Twelve (2004)


Comedy
Films with a bunch of jokes resulting the ha-ha kind of funny

2 stars A Fished Called Wanda (1988)
4 stars About a Boy (2002)
2 stars Along Came Polly (2004)
1.5 stars American Wedding (2003)
3 stars Anchorman (2004)
1.5 stars Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
3 stars Click (2006)
1.5 stars Connie and Carla (2004)
3 stars Dodgeball (2004)
2.5 stars Elf (2003)
1 stars Going the Distance (2004)
3.5 stars Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
0.5 stars Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
3.5 stars Mean Girls (2004)
2.5 stars Meet the Fockers (2004)
1.5 stars Men in Black II (2002)
1.5 stars My Father the Hero (1994)
2 stars Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
3.5 stars Old School (2003)
2 stars Saved! (2004)
2 stars Shark Tale (2004)
3.5 stars Shaun of the Dead (2004)
2 stars She’s the Man (2006)
3.5 stars Shrek 2 (2004)
1.5 stars Starsky & Hutch (2004)
2 stars Stuck On You (2003)
4 stars Swingers (1996)
1.5 stars The Big Lebowski (1998)
2.5 stars The Break-Up (2006)
2 stars The Girl Next Door (2004)
1 stars The Ladykillers (2004)
3.5 stars The Rundown (2003)
3.5 stars The Terminal (2004)
2.5 stars The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
3.5 stars W. (2008)
3 stars Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
2 stars Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)


Documentary
Films with real people talking about real issues, primarily boring ones

2.5 stars An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
3 stars Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)


Drama
Films with people who tend to cry and whine a lot

3.5 stars 21 Grams (2003)
2.5 stars A Scanner Darkly (2006)
4 stars About a Boy (2002)
1 stars Australia (2008)
3 stars Big Fish (2003)
3 stars Blindness (2008)
4 stars Brokeback Mountain (2005)
3.5 stars Catch Me If You Can (2002)
3 stars Changeling (2008)
4 stars Cidade de Deus (2002)
2 stars Coach Carter (2005)
3.5 stars Cold Mountain (2003)
3.5 stars Confidence (2003)
3.5 stars Garden State (2004)
3.5 stars Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
2 stars Goodfellas (1990)
3 stars Hero (2002)
1.5 stars Hope Springs (2003)
3 stars Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
3 stars Mansfield Park (1999)
1 stars Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
3 stars Matchstick Men (2003)
3 stars Menace II Society (1993)
2 stars Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
3 stars Munich (2005)
3.5 stars My Life Without Me (2003)
3 stars Mystic River (2003)
0.5 stars Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
1.5 stars Pearl Harbor (2001)
3.5 stars Runaway Jury (2004)
2 stars Saved! (2004)
2 stars Taking Lives (2004)
3.5 stars The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
3.5 stars The Joy Luck Club (1993)
3 stars The Last Samurai (2003)
3 stars The Life of David Gale (2003)
2 stars The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
3.5 stars The Terminal (2004)
2.5 stars The United States of Leland (2003)
3 stars Troy (2004)
3.5 stars W. (2008)


Fantasy
Films with overly imaginative storylines similar to those crackheads tell you on the bus

3 stars Big Fish (2003)
3 stars Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
4 stars Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
3 stars Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
3.5 stars Shrek 2 (2004)
3 stars The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3 stars The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
3 stars The Polar Express (2004)
2 stars Underworld (2003)


Foreign
Films with a lot of subtitles, a language class cleverly concealed in a film

4 stars Cidade de Deus (2002)
3 stars Hero (2002)


Horror
Films with crazy murderers and/or supernatural bogeymen—sorry, bogey-persons

2.5 stars Gothika (2003)
0.5 stars Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
2.5 stars The Grudge (2004)
4 stars What Lies Beneath (2000)
2 stars When a Stranger Calls (2006)


Musical
Films with people who sing what they feel, which is kind of creepy if you think about it

4 stars The Phantom of the Opera (2004)


Romance
Films with a lot of kissing or a culmination of angst, leading to one big kiss at the very end

2 stars Along Came Polly (2004)
3 stars Big Fish (2003)
1.5 stars Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
4 stars Brokeback Mountain (2005)
3.5 stars Cold Mountain (2003)
1.5 stars Connie and Carla (2004)
2.5 stars Emma (1996)
3.5 stars Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
1.5 stars Hope Springs (2003)
0.5 stars Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
3 stars Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
0.5 stars Little Black Book (2004)
1.5 stars My Father the Hero (1994)
1.5 stars Pearl Harbor (2001)
2.5 stars The Break-Up (2006)
2 stars The Girl Next Door (2004)
4 stars The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
2.5 stars Tristan + Isolde (2006)
2.5 stars Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)


Sci-Fi
Films with a medley of cyborgs, mutants, aliens, and the nerds who worship them

2 stars I, Robot (2004)
1.5 stars Men in Black II (2002)
0.5 stars Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
0.5 stars Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
2 stars Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
3.5 stars Superman Returns (2006)
4 stars The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
2.5 stars X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
3 stars X2 (2003)


Suspense
Films with some kind of mystery leading to a shocking conclusion: the butler did it

3 stars Changeling (2008)
2.5 stars Gothika (2003)
2.5 stars Hannibal (2001)
3 stars Munich (2005)
3 stars Mystic River (2003)
3.5 stars Runaway Jury (2004)
1.5 stars Secret Window (2004)
2 stars Taking Lives (2004)
3 stars The Life of David Gale (2003)
2 stars The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
1 stars The Sum of All Fears (2002)
4 stars What Lies Beneath (2000)


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