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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE            12 Angry Men (1957)      "Makes no self-saluting motions to greater importance, which gives the material the much-desired breathing room it needs to reach full potency." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            1408 (2007)      "A savvy slab of undecorated cheese, made compelling by its unflinching willingness to dive into its material headfirst." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)      "My God, it's full of stars: a fitting DVD package for the greatest film ever made." [dvd review]      Slant Magazine       4/4      2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)      "Central to the profundity of the film is the notion that few things are more meaningful than a child's first steps, the emotive impact of this scenario manifest in every one of the film's dizzying set pieces, albeit multiplied to epic proportions." [movie review]      Slant Magazine            28 Days Later (2003)      "The film itself seems to exist in a state of perpetual imbalance... between life and death, the real and the surreal, civilization and chaos." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            28 Weeks Later (2007)      "Suggests the kind of fable as might be shared from generation to generation, albeit in its own nerve-racking, nihilistic way of directing these metaphors into our psyche." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            28 Weeks Later (2007)      "A merely competent package for one of the finest horror films of the past few years." [dvd review]      The Projection Booth            3:10 to Yuma (1957)      "Though it is masterful in stretches, it ultimately mistakes feel-good qualities for truly satisfying ones." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            The 4th Dimension (2006)      "The 4th Dimension prevails for both its overall lack of pretension, as well as a more implicit approach to such psychological mind games." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       3.5/4      Adventureland (2009)      "Deserving of Citizen Kane status in its insight, emotional depth, and yes, entertainment." [movie review]      Suite101.com            Alien Resurrection (1997)      "Has more visual flair than any of George Lucas' Star Wars films, and at times is almost as fun." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)      "The film's centerpiece battle runs only eight minutes, yet its hellfire feels twice as long as Saving Private Ryan's D-Day onslaught." [movie review]      The House Next Door            American Zombie (2007)      "Lee's film proves that it's a genre as viable as ever, endlessly flexible and perpetually illuminating." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Vol. 6 (2008)      "The season entire suggests a creation struggling to outdo itself and coming up short in the process." [movie review]      Suite101.com            Art School Confidential (2006)      "Simultaneously champions creative desire while calling out the artistic realm's share of pretentious blowhards." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       4/4      Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)      "Assault on Precint 13's powerful exercise in democracy...is nothing short of one for the ages." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Away From Her (2007)      "Something of an antithesis to the fake fuzziness of any Hallmark movie of the week." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       2.5/4      Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2007)      "Banished effectively evokes the manner in which events of the past are carried into the present via cultural traditions, artifacts, and unspoken local histories." [movie review]      Slant Magazine            The Bank Job (2008)      "The film comes out on the upper side of things by managing to avoid blue balls." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Berlin Alexanderplatz (1983)      "If greatness is determined less by perfection than by sheer forward thrust, I can think of few better examples than Berlin Alexanderplatz." [movie review]      The House Next Door            Berlin Alexanderplatz (1983)      "This Criterion release could have been entirely without features and it would still rank among the finest DVDs of the year." [dvd review]      The House Next Door       3/4      The Betrayal (2008)      "A probing, textured mix of historical and personally shot footage set to an effectively disembodied voiceover." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       4/4      The Birth of a Nation (1915)      "Links the divide between American past and American present." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Black Snake Moan (2007)      "Its sleazy, scuzzy nature comes not from a forward desire to push the standards of taste but a been-there sense of the ways of the world." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       3/4      Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)      "Draws out the unseen riches that exist within what may otherwise appear typical or commonplace." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       2.5/4      Bloodline (2008)      "As purportedly nonfictional cinema, Bloodline poses an implicit dilemma to viewers and critics: How do we know if what we're watching is real?" [movie review]      Slant Magazine       3/4      Boy Interrupted (2009)      "Not unlike Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, personal anguish here proves emotionally cathartic." [movie review]      Slant Magazine            The Brave Little Toaster (1988)      "Disney can't touch this." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Braveheart (1995)      "The only thing missing from this set is the preview for Gibson's next film: Dead Things I Beat with a Mace and Smear Across My Hairy Catholic Chest." [dvd review]      Slant Magazine            Bug (2007)      "A freakishly metaphorical look at the self-destructive implications of paranoia gone awry." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       4/4      The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)      "The influence of Robert Wiene's Caligari is so great that it threatens to obscure the work itself." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       2.5/4      A Cantor's Tale (2006)      "Effectively portrays this practice as a deeply spiritual marriage of religious commitment and artistic perseverance." [movie review]      Slant Magazine            Casino Royale (2006)      "This is James Bond before sassy self-awareness set in, and it rattles the cages more than any number of explosions could in letting us know why he's still relevant today." [movie review]      The Stranger Song            Children of Men (2006)      "As uncertain and spontaneous as its events are in the moment, Children of Men feels too tightly wound for its own good." [movie review]      The Stranger Song            The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)      "Appreciable is its willingness to tantalize with slow reveals, thus allowing its otherwise obvious religious readings to imbue themselves more fully into the unfolding narrative." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Cloverfield (2008)      "I, for one, would be using the F-bomb far more gratuitously if faced with a possible encounter with a creature that could well swallow me whole." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Cloverfield (2008)      "Cloverfield comes to us packaged like a secret government file; if they wanted to maintain the illusion, why not go all the way as did the film?" [dvd review]      The Projection Booth       B+      Commando (1985)      "You're welcome, California!" [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Confusions of an Unmarried Couple (2009)      "Functions as coach to the titular quarreling couple, almost rigorously evenhanded and unbiased as it details the opposing viewpoints and recollections." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       2.5/4      Crank High Voltage (2009)      "Both exhilarating and exhausting, it falls just short of a fever pitch." [movie review]      Suite101.com       3/4      The Dark Knight (2008)      "The film itself evokes the collision of an unstoppable force with an immovable object." [movie review]      Suite101.com            Dawn of the Dead (1978)      "Romero's framing of social ills via his rotting, walking metaphors is ingenious but it's the more subtle, unspoken statements that register with the greatest force." [movie review]      The Projection Booth            Day of the Dead (1985)      "This deconstruction is so thorough and encompassing that the climactic explosion of zombie mayhem - revealing and awesome though it is - is practically an afterthought." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       3/4      Days and Clouds (2008)      "Money makes the world go round in Days and Clouds, a darling relationship drama that probes our collective fears about financial instability with an almost profoundly empathetic detachment." [movie review]      Slant Magazine            Dead Alive (1993)      "Rarely has the urge to expectorate one's lunch been a feeling so sublime." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       B      Dead Snow (2009)      "The pre-credits opening - a hilariously self-aware, subversive chase scene scored to "In the Hall of the Mountain King" - stands as an easy comedic high point." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       3.5/4      Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)      "The most ambitious work of its kind." [movie review]      Slant Magazine            Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)      "Though disappointingly lax in the features department, Dear Zachary is a work that truly speaks for itself." [dvd review]      Slant Magazine            Death Proof (2007)      "Death Proof doesn't simply comment on its genre inspirations - it adds to their very legacy." [movie review]      The Projection Booth       2.5/4      Desert Bayou (2007)      "Succeeds in furthering the much-needed dialogue on a defining event in our current political moment." [movie review]      Slant Magazine

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