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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       A-      12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)      "Porumboiu implies it doesn't matter who started the revolution as much as it matters what's happening right now and what's going to happen tomorrow. In Romania, it seems like not much." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      28 Days Later (2003)      "t could be accused of uneven-ness but, rather, I think the disparate sections speak to its broad, complex and multilayered assessment of modern life. It's far-reaching without ever becoming muddled or unfocused." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B+      28 Weeks Later (2007)      ""The rage virus," which turns the population into irrational, blood-thirsty brutes and activates a vicious military campaign, becomes an apt metaphor for the frenzied fear of terrorism pervading the post-9/11 (and post 7/7) West." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      3-Iron (2005)      "I suppose it could mark the way in which true love survives all obstacles, or show how love dies in the face of modernity's oppressive institutions. Either way, it's beautifully beguiling." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)      "The only problem with 4 Months%u2026 is that it comes too soon." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B+      The Abandoned (2007)      "In the Reagan years, there were subversive critiques of disingenuous "family values" moral posturing in films like 1987's The Stepfather; today, in the George W. Bush era, we have The Abandoned." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B      Adoration (2009)      "From any objective standard, [Egoyan's] films...are awful. So why are they so damn appealing?" [movie review]      Cinepinion            Antichrist (2009)      "For a while it's wonderful...grappling with the contours of grief, the effects of toddler suicide, the limits of psychotherapy and the dynamics of marriage. And then Charlotte Gainsbourg has to spoil it all by doing something stupid..." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B+      Apocalypto (2006)      "Apocalypto seems meant as a parable for what happens to the unChristianized savage--is it supposed to serve as a warning for secular humanists with their rampant abortions and callous stem cell research?" [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)      "Dominik's film may be lengthy, but it's never digressive nor superfluous; he knows exactly where he's been going the entire time." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B+      Atonement (2007)      "It's a gift to the senses, with the lush feel of a grand, old-fashioned period piece. Thankfully, however, it replaces that genre's characteristic stuffiness with pulsating vitality." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B-      Away We Go (2009)      "Jim and Pam: The Movie" [movie review]      Cinepinion            Baby Doll (1956)      "An actor's piece, a supreme example of The Power of the Method...about a South in transformation, both economically and culturally." [movie review]      The L Magazine       A-      Baghead (2008)      "Think Hannah Gets Pushed Down the Stairs. Or Hell-OL." [movie review]      The L Magazine       A      Barry Lyndon (1975)      "Barry Lyndon is akin to a three hour walk through the Metropolitan Museum of Art while listening to a book on tape." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      Be Kind Rewind (2008)      "Gondry finds his pathos in the tragic disconnect between life and invention." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)      "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is easily the best-acted film of the year, but what's more is that it's a sharp piece of cultural criticism about late capitalism and the depths of tragedy it's capable of producing." [movie review]      Cinepinion       4/5      The Betrayal (2008)      "A non-polemical rebuttal to the Palinheads tired of apologizing for America, The Betrayal shows there's still plenty to be sorry about." [movie review]      The L Magazine       A-      Black Book (2007)      "[Verhoeven] has triumphantly reemerged with this bitter romance that, incidentally, serves as a nice allegory for his American career." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      The Blair Witch Project (1999)      "Perfectly tapped into the pre-millennial, late-Clinton-era zeitgeist." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Blue Velvet (1986)      "A Nancy Drew nightmare of suburban depravity...but Velvet tackles more than red-county debauchery; it's not only about sex in America but sex in movies." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      The Box (2009)      "A parable about The Wars, about Americans' willingness to kill strangers in exchange for prosperity--as long as they don't have to get their own hands dirty, of course." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Bruno (2009)      "Bruno, really, works as a parodic primer on How to Become a Celebrity, mocking A- through D-listers, as well as those who aren't even on a list..." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B      The Camden 28 (2007)      "Essentially, the film is about acting consistently with one's faith." [movie review]      Cinepinion       4/5      Cargo 200 (2008)      "We have no choice but to call Cargo 200 a horror movie...like the best horror movies, though, it's no mere revulser but a violent political parable." [movie review]      The L Magazine       A-      Carnal Knowledge (1971)      "Carnal Knowledge does nothing if not remind us that life in post-war America was a lot dirtier than we're often led to believe." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B+      Cassandra's Dream (2008)      "Allen [is] like an old uncle at a holiday gathering, telling the same old story year after year, but it's such a good story and he tells it so well (and, hell, you love the guy) that you can't help but want to hear him tell it again and again." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A+      City Lights (1931)      "Perhaps the purest example of the cinema's potential for pathos." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      The Class (2008)      "The student-teacher movie finally done right...[it] unobtrusively doubles as a microcosmic exploration of France's failed melting pot society; Cantet handles the literal and the symbolic with dexterity, allowing both to exist independently." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      Cloverfield (2008)      "Cloverfield is about terrorism's human effects, not its spectacle." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      Contempt (1964)      "Fritz Lang famously quips that Cinemascope, in which the film is shot, is only good for capturing snakes and funerals, and so we get a film full of slimy, serpentine characters and a memorial service for the cinema." [movie review]      Cinepinion       4/5      Coraline (2009)      "[It] might be thematically unremarkable, even dishearteningly cynical, but it compensates with an unpredictable visual vocabulary that's anything but." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B+      Dans Paris (2007)      "Deceptively, it goes down in a flash, easy and breezy, but its complexity, optimism and joie de cinema linger." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      The Darjeeling Limited (2007)      "The Darjeeling Limited is, thankfully, a movie about learning to stop feeling sorry for yourself, not about the satisfaction of wallowing in one's own misery (proving that Anderson is a hipster only deceptively.)" [movie review]      Cinepinion       B+      The Dark Knight (2008)      "It plays for the heart, for the guts, in order to distract the head from the questionable politics it promotes--namely, fascism." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      Day Night Day Night (2007)      "If anything, [the film] is a deromanticization of suicide bombing, at least its preparatory aspects, exposing them [as] relentlessly repetitive and banal, although the film manages to make them more absorbing than they have any right to be." [movie review]      Cinepinion       3/5      Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)      "In an era surfeited with cheaply produced DV-and-iMovie documentaries, Dear Zachary stands out as the work of a true filmmaker." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B+      Death Proof (2007)      "Death Proof feels like it could stand to lose a reel, or all of its second half for that matter." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B-      Deathwatch (2002)      "An unapologetically unromantic and downright cynical view of both war and soldierhood (no magnetic yellow ribbons here), Deathwatch...looks like an vehement counterpoint to the era's dominant strain of Anglo-American sisboombah warmongering." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006)      "More than just a standard portrait of the artist, it's a portrait of an artist gone sincerely insane, and of the toll that the madness takes on those around him, without the romanticism history usually affords the tales of such deranged men of talent" [movie review]      Cinepinion            District 9 (2009)      "Because District 9 packs some social-issues seriousness into its sci-fi wackiness, I'm tempted to hold it to a higher standard than it could live up to; the movie is superlative popcorn fare, but disappointing Cinema..." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)      "The very Cold War Strangelove doesn't feel so relevant at the moment--unless we apply its nuclear anxieties not to American politics but to, say, Pakistan." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Drag Me To Hell (2009)      "Goofy old-school racism..." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B+      Duplicity (2009)      "The story's joints creak under gutsy narrative demands, but Gilroy's serviceable direction manages to keep the scriptopuzzle together. The film's pleasures derive from watching him get away with it." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Every Little Step (2009)      "At turns compelling and dull, moving and irritating, funny and eye rolling--much like A Chorus Line itself." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      A Face in the Crowd (1957)      "A Face in the Crowd...feels more relevant than ever, as its prescient commentary on television's effect on America's culture--and, most notably, its political sphere--has proven true ten times over in the decades since it was made." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A-      The Fall (2008)      "Tarsem joins the great rank of directors who have made us believe that cinema is a reason in and of itself to live." [movie review]      Cinepinion       4/5      Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)      "The sort of Gorey- and Addams-esque creepery that Tim Burton pastiches for a living." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B+      The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)      "Flight of the Red Balloon is as exhausting, in its languor, as the febrile culture Hou seems to criticize." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B+      Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)      "If you can't be Woody Allen, it's better not even to try." [movie review]      Cinepinion

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