
2004
50 First Dates
A love story that has to start over every morning — and a bloke who chooses to stay.
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Rewatching the films released in 2004 — the blockbusters, cult hits, forgotten favourites and movies that helped shape the decade.
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2004
A love story that has to start over every morning — and a bloke who chooses to stay.
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2004
Rituals, monsters and one guide who refuses to become a footnote.
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2004
A bald-faced celebration of bluster, television nonsense and one very large ego.
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2004
One night, one cab, one quietly terrible professional — and the city watching.
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2004
A mall, a nurse and a plan: Dawn of the Dead still bites back.
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2004
A ragged bunch, a laid‑back owner and one smug gym billionaire — still funny, still oddly affectionate about losers.
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2004
A love story that keeps insisting you remember it — even when the film forgets for you.
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2004
A darker, wiser Hogwarts year: friendship, fear and a Time‑Turner that still makes the stomach flip.
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2004
A demon who brushes his teeth, questions his destiny and turns found family into a superhero origin story.
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2004
A sceptical detective, a thinking robot and the Three Laws — still worth a watch.
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2004
A road of broken vows, samurai schooling and a very particular kind of motherhood.
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2004
A burnt-out guardian, a bright little girl and a very short list of people to forgive.
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2004
An outsider shows us how the Plastics keep their world turning — and why it’s still worth watching.
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2004
A boxing story about punches, promises and the cost of keeping them.
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2004
An awkward teen, a 'Vote for Pedro' T-shirt and a very particular kind of quiet weirdness.
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2004
A madcap hunt for a hidden fortune, held together by one very determined history nerd.
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2004
A slick European caper about debts, pride and pretending to be someone famous — led, of course, by Danny Ocean.
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2004
A biohazard blockbuster built around one woman and a corporation with very bad ideas.
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2004
Survival tests, moral maths and one bathroom that refuses to let you look away.
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2004
A pub crawl that turns into a coming-of-age, with zombies.
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2004
Ogres, in-laws and a swashbuckling cat — a sequel that still knows how to wag its tail.
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2004
Puppets, pop-satire and an embarrassingly effective send-up of the world’s biggest action movie instincts.
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2004
A man with holes in his memory, a state with holes in its conscience — and an awful lot of running.
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2004
Vin Diesel’s fugitive antihero, a crusading empire, and a universe that got a lot bigger — loudly.
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2004
Father, science and spectacle — Roland Emmerich's climate disaster in one loud breath.
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2004
A superhero story that is, at heart, a family argument about who gets to be special.
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2004
A stubborn love story shaped by memory, class and the patience to wait.
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2004
A man with no country, an airport full of rules — and a very small, stubborn quest for one last autograph.
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2004
Brothers, prosthetics and a very particular kind of undercover: it’s chaotic, rude fun — and still oddly watchable.
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2004
Deleted scenes, commentaries, bloopers and making-of documentaries turned every disc into a tiny film school.
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