MEMENTO (director/writer: Christopher Nolan; screenwriter: based on a short story by Jonathan Nolan; cinematographer: Wally Pfister; editor: Dody Dorn; cast: Guy Pearce (Leonard), Carrie-Anne Moss (Natalie), Joe Pantoliano (Teddy), Mark…

MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE (director/writer: Michael Radford; screenwriter: from the play by William Shakespeare; cinematographer: Benoit Delhomme; editor: Lucia Zucchetti; music: Jocelyn Pook; cast: Al Pacino (Shylock), Jeremy Irons (Antonio),…

MEXICAN, THE (director: Gore Verbinski; screenwriter: J.H. Wyman; cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski; editor: Craig Wood; cast: Brad Pitt (Jerry Welbach), Julia Roberts (Samantha Barzel), James Gandolfini (Leroy), David Krumholtz (Beck), Gene…

MIDNIGHT (director: Mitchell Leisen; screenwriters: from the story by Edwin Justus Mayer & Franz Schulz/Charles Brackett/Billy Wilder; cinematographer: Charles B. Lang; editor: Doane Harrison; music: Frederick Hollander; cast: Claudette Colbert…

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (director: Ernest B. Schoedsack; screenwriters: from the story by Merian Cooper/Ruth Rose; cinematographer: Roy Hunt; editor: Ted Cheesman; music: Roy Webb; cast: Terry Moore (Jill Young), Lora…

MILLION DOLLAR BABY (director: Clint Eastwood; screenwriters: Paul Haggis/based on stories from "Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner" by F.X. Toole; cinematographer: Tom Stern; editor: Joel Cox; music: Clint Eastwood;…

MINORITY REPORT (director: Steven Spielberg; screenwriters: Philip K. Dick (short story)/Scott Frank/Jon Cohen; cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski; editor: Michael Kahn; music: John Williams; cast: Tom Cruise (Detective Chief John Anderton), Samantha…

  MISADVENTURES OF MARGARET, THE (director/writer: Brian Skeet; screenwriter: based on the novel by Cathleen Schine "Rameau's Niece"; cinematographer: Romain Winding; editor: Clare Douglas; cast: Parker Posey (Margaret Nathan), Jeremy…

100 MILE RULE (director: Brent Huff; screenwriter: Drew Pillsbury; cinematographer: Giovani Lampassi; editor: Rick Fields; music: Tor Hyams; cast: Jake Weber (Bobby Davis), Maria Bello (Monica), David Thornton (Jerry), Michael…

MISS SADIE THOMPSON (director: Curtis Bernhardt; screenwriters: Harry Kleiner/based on the story "Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham); cinematographer: Charles Lawton Jr.; editor: Viola Lawrence; music: George Duning; cast: Rita Hayworth…