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Kicking off our review of the year, Xan Brooks picks the twelve films you should have seen this year. Whether you’ve seen them or not, you can read on to recap a year coloured by deaths, controversies, and tax regulations.
January
Swimming to Cambodia Man Missing
The body of Spalding Gray, who used his experience of playing a bit role in a Hollywood film to create the memoir Swimming to Cambodia, was recovered from the East River in New York yesterday, two months after his disappearance.
February
The Oscars
With a new date, a month earlier than traditional, and bitter rows in the run-up over freebie videos for Academy voters, the 2004 Oscars seemed something of an unknown quantity. In fact, it well went much as foreseen; lots of gongs for Peter Jackson and a gushy acceptance speech from Charlize Theron in which she thanked her lawyer.
March
Passion of the Christ
By the time it got here, we’d had nearly a month of foamy-mouthed debate from the US, from both critics and supporters of Mel Gibson’s bloody crucifixion movie. The British reviewers mostly thought it over-the-top, and almost unwatchably violent.
April
The Curious Incident of Kevin Spacey and the Dog in the Night-time
Sick to the back teeth of controversy? Ready for a little apolitical intrigue, and media schadenfreude? By April so were we, so all credit to Kevin Spacey for livening up our month with this perpl
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