Full Reviews

A PERFECT DAY (Ozpetek, 2008)
A PROPHET (Jacques Audiard, 2010)
A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP (Zhang Yimou, 2010)
AFGHAN STAR (Marking, 2009)
AFGHAN STORIES (Davies, 2002)
ALEXANDER (Stone, 2004)
ALIEN (Scott, 1979); ALIENS (Cameron, 1986); ALIEN 3 (Fincher, 1992)
ALL IN – THE POKER MOVIE (Tirola, 2009)
ANTICHRIST (Von Trier, 2009)
ARAYA (Benacerraf, 1959)
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Bresson, 1966)
AWAY WE GO (Mendes, 2009)
BABY FAT (Tucker & Nelson, 2004)
BAD EDUCATION (Almodóvar, 2004)
BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Godard, 1964)
BARRY LYNDON (Kubrick, 1975)
BATMAN BEGINS (Nolan, 2005)
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO (Oreck, 2009)
BEFORE SUNRISE & BEFORE SUNSET (Linklater, 1995 & 2004)
BIGGER STRONGER FASTER (Bell, 2008)
BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE (Von Garnier, 2007)
BORN INTO BROTHELS (Briski, 2004)
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Lee, 2005)
BROKEN FLOWERS (Jarmusch, 2005)
BUBBLE (Soderbergh, 2004)
BUSH’S BRAIN (Mealey, 2004)
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (Moore, 2009)
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES (Byler, 2002)
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS (Menzel, 1966)
CLOSER (Nichols, 2004)
CLOVERFIELD (Reeves, 2008)
COLD MOUNTAIN (Minghella, 2003)
COLLATERAL (Mann, 2004)
COME AND SEE (Klimov, 1985)
CRASH (Haggis, 2005)
CROSS BRONX (Golin, 2004)
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Lee, 2000)
DAY OF THE DEAD (Romero, 1985)
DIARY OF THE DEAD (Romero, 2008)
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Herzog, 2008)
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (Meyer, 1965)
FAT CITY (Huston, 1972)
FINDING NEVERLAND (Forster, 2004)
FRESH (Yakin, 1994)
FURY (Fritz Lang, 1936)
GAMERZ (Fraser, 2007)
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY (Whitney, 2004)
GERMANY YEAR ZERO (Rossellini, 1947)
GIGLI (Brest, 2003)
GOMORRAH (Garrone, 2008)
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Takahata, 1988)
HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (Cuarón, 2004)
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Newell, 2005)
HOLIDAY (George Cukor, 1938)
HULK (Lee, 2003)
HUSTLE & FLOW (Brewer, 2005)
I CAN’T SLEEP (Denis, 1994)
I.O.U.S.A. (Creadon, 2008)
IN PRAISE OF LOVE (Godard, 2001)
IN THE LOOP (Ianucci, 2009)
INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Tarantino, 2009)
IT (Badger, 1927)
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, 1946)
JARHEAD (Mendes, 2005)
JEZEBEL (Wyler, 1938)
JOHNNY GUITAR (Ray, 1954)
JONESTOWN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PEOPLE’S TEMPLE (Nelson, 2006)
JUNEBUG (Morrison, 2005)
KILL BILL (Tarantino, 2003-2004)
KING KONG (Jackson, 2005)
KING OF NEW YORK (Ferrara, 1990)
KOBE DOIN’ WORK (Lee, 2009)
KUNG FU HUSTLE (Chow, 2004)
L’AGE D’OR (Buñuel, 1930)
L’ARGENT (Bresson, 1983)
L’ENFANT (Dardennes Brothers, 2005)
LANCELOT OF THE LAKE (Bresson, 1974)
LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE (De Bont, 2003)
MAD HOT BALLROOM (Agrelo, 2005) & RIZE (Lachapelle, 2005)
MARIA FULL OF GRACE (Marston, 2004)
MASTER AND COMMANDER (Weir, 2003)
MEAN CREEK (Estes, 2004)
MIRACLE IN MILAN (De Sica, 1951)
MOTHER AND SON (Sokurov, 1997)
MOUCHETTE (Bresson, 1967)
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (Frank Capra, 1939)
MUST LOVE DOGS (Greenberg, 2005)
my top 100 of the 2000′s
MYSTIC RIVER (Eastwood, 2003)
NAZI MEDICINE (Michalczyk, 1997)
NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST (Sollett, 2008)
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (Fellini, 1957)
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Herzog, 1979)
OLD JOY (Reichardt, 2006)
ONG-BAK: THE THAI WARRIOR (Pinkaew, 2004)
OPERA (Argento, 1986)
OPERATION HOMECOMING (Robbins, 2007)
ORTHODOX STANCE (Hutt, 2008)
PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, 1959)
PISTOL OPERA (Suzuki, 2001)
PLAYTIME (Tati, 1967)
PRIMAL FEAR (Hoblit, 1996)
PRIMER (Carruth, 2004)
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki, 1997)
PSYCHO (Hitchcock, 1960)
QUANTUM OF SOLACE (Forster, 2008)
RED EYE (Craven, 2005)
RENT (Columbus, 2005)
RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey, 1935)
RUSHMORE (Anderson, 1998)
SAMURAI I: MUSASHI MIYAMOTO (Inagaki, 1954)
SAMURAI REBELLION (Kobayashi, 1967)
SANSHÔ THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
SCARFACE (Hawks, 1932) & SCARFACE (De Palma, 1983)
SCHOOL OF ROCK (Linklater, 2003)
SEED OF CHUCKY (Mancini, 2004)
SHERLOCK HOLMES (Guy Ritchie, 2009)
SILENT LIGHT (Reygadas, 2008)
SISTERS (De Palma, 1973)
SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki, 2001)
SPRINGTIME IN A SMALL TOWN (Tian, 2002)
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (Hitchcock, 1951)
SUGAR (Fleck & Boden, 2009)
SUNSET BOULEVARD (Wilder, 1950)
SUPER SIZE ME (Spurlock, 2004)
SUPERBAD (Mottola, 2007)
SUSPIRIA (Argento, 1976)
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (Burton, 2007)
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Curtiz, 1938)
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (Vincente Minnelli, 1952)
THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (Imamura, 1983)
THE BAND’S VISIT (Kolirin, 2008)
THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (Audiard, 2005)
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDRDOBE (Adamson, 2005)
THE CROWD (King Vidor, 1928)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Fincher, 2008)
THE DEPARTED (Scorsese, 2006)
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (Schnabel, 2007)
THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… (Ophüls, 1953)
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Buñuel, 1962)
THE KITE RUNNER (Forster, 2007)
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (Scorsese, 1988)
THE LEOPARD (Visconti, 1963)
THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD (Amorim, 2003)
THE MUSIC ROOM (Ray, 1958)
THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO (Clouzot, 1956)
THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS (Shinkai, 2004)
THE PROWLER (Joseph Losey, 1951)
THE QUEEN (Frears, 2006)
THE RED BALLOON (Lamorisse, 1956)
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE (Silverman, 2007)
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Baumbach, 2005)
THE STATION AGENT (McCarthy, 2003)
THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM (Mizoguchi, 1939)
THE SUN (Sokurov, 2009)
THE TALL TARGET (Mann, 1951)
THE THIN MAN (Van Dyke, 1934); AFTER THE THIN MAN (Van Dyke, 1936)
THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005)
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Demy, 1964)
THE UNFORESEEN (Dunn, 2008)
THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN (Donaldson, 2005)
THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa, 1957)
THROUGH THE FIRE: THE SEBASTIAN TELFAIR STORY (Hock, 2006)
TIMELINE (Donner, 2003)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Mulligan, 1962)
TOKYO! (Gondry, Carax, & Bong, 2008)
UNDERTOW (Gordon Green, 2004)
VERA DRAKE (Leigh, 2004)
W. (Stone, 2008)
WE OWN THE NIGHT (James Gray, 2007)
WHITE THUNDER (King, 2004)
YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG (Kempner, 2009)