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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       5/10      J'me sens pas belle (2004)      "The film doesn't have the resonance of Tom Noonan's similarly plotted but scathing What Happened Was..., but it does have a certain easy charm." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Marathon (2005)      "In ... small moments the film shows glimmers of Jeong's genuine talent as a filmmaker." [movie review]      Twitch       5/10      When the Sea Rises (2006)      "It's lightweight and rather forgettable but laudable for its honest, respectful treatment of its characters." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      The Firm (1988)      "Clarke's specialties are anger and violence, and he captures them with a brutal precision that belies the inherent messiness of the action." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      3 Extremes (2005)      "Park is the one director represented here with both a great "extreme" tale and the means at his disposal to tell it to full effect." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Czech Dream (2007)      "However funny and trenchant it is in its critique of the forces that create and encourage rampant consumerism, the final joke is aimed squarely at the end user." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      Dead Man's Shoes (2006)      "...it's hard to imagine the film without Considine's amazing work." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      The Intruder (2005)      "...a strange and beautiful work, but it doesn't quite cohere." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      Somersault (2006)      "...it contains several startling, brilliant moments that bring its emotional and visual content together with tremendous clarity and power." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Vital (2005)      "Vital offers its share of disturbing images and gristly medical-lab sound effects, but in the end, its pursuit of closure is surprisingly hopeful." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       4/10      Downfall (2005)      "...succeeds, for the most part, in painstakingly depicting who did what when, but beyond that, it is a missed opportunity." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Gozu (2004)      "Miike has a knack for tapping into deep-seated cultural anxieties-- particularly male sexual anxiety--that few filmmakers can match." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       1/10      Izo (2004)      "...all but the most blindly loyal Miike fans will find sitting through this distended and monotonous film an ordeal." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       9/10      Turtles Can Fly (2005)      "Turtles Can Fly is humane, funny, and visually acute, but it never shies away from the ugliness that mars these innocent lives." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Inside Deep Throat (2005)      "...with its 1970s-style groovy graphics and tittering adolescent's view of sexuality, [it] has a willfully disreputable tone, but it provides surprising insight." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Mile Zero (2001)      "In its rawness, Mile Zero can be brutal to watch, but it has an emotional honesty found in too few dramas." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Caterina in the Big City (2005)      "...a funny, affecting, and intricate comedy that continually surprises and gets better as it goes along." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       2/10      Don't Move (2005)      "Someday filmmakers will recognize that blackened teeth and bad makeup make beautiful actresses neither ugly nor brave." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Wondrous Oblivion (2006)      "The film manages to generate genuine sweetness." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       4/10      The Other Side of the Street (2005)      "[These] could have been compelling characters, but The Other Side of the Street surrounds them with contrivance, and it quickly grows tedious." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Cavedweller (2004)      "Sharply focused performances...and the true grit of Allison's tale of pain and resilience keep the film from veering into Lifetime movie territory." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       4/10      Fear X (2003)      "Frustratingly opaque by design, Fear X offers viewers insufficient fear and excessive "X."" [movie review]      All Movie Guide       2/10      White Noise (2005)      "...quickly devolves into ludicrous plotting and cheap shock effects." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Magdalen (1996)      "Magdalen displays a well-developed visual style and a promising self-aware wit." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       10/10      Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)      "Capturing the joys and pains of romantic obsession as few filmmakers have before, Gondry and Kaufman have come up with a masterpiece." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Everyday People (2004)      "Although ambitious...Everyday People is a disappointing step backwards for the filmmaker." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Cautiva (2005)      "A finely wrought coming-of-age drama that crackles with political tension..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      In Your Hands (2006)      "There seems little point to the Dogme trappings...if the work is going to veer into such hyperbolic, melodramatic territory in its plot." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Three Step Dancing (2003)      "Despite tailing off in the second half, Three-Step Dancing...is clearly the work of an intriguing new talent." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Untold Scandal (2003)      "The world hardly needed another version of Dangerous Liaisons...but gifted writer/director E J-Yong still manages to make the material engaging." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)      "While the collection of vignettes offers a few great pleasures, in the context of Jim Jarmusch's oeuvre, it is slight." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Day of the Wacko (2002)      "An uneven and downbeat blend of lowbrow humor, literary character drama, and crude sociopolitical satire..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Silent Waters (2004)      "...it presents an engaging and informative depiction of Pakistan's tumultuous history from an intimate perspective." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       4/10      The Pact of Silence (2003)      "The film is filled with unclearly motivated, even bizarre, actions...that render its thriller plot substantially less engaging than it should be." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      A Hole In One (2004)      "...from the opening titles, with their jangling ice-pick imagery, the film builds an appropriate sense of needling uneasiness..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      Red Lights (2004)      "...Kahn slowly, skillfully drags his audience into the abyss." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Saved! (2004)      "Too timid to be truly subversive, Saved! is saved from being a middling high-school comedy by ... a light pop touch and a superb ensemble cast." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004)      "...while the film has an appropriately calm pace, befitting the lives it depicts, there is also an elementally powerful narrative drive..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Poster Boy (2006)      "Aside from topicality and good intentions, the film is reasonably engaging and well acted. But it's also more than a little bit overwrought." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      Blind Flight (2003)      "It's not a docudrama, so much as an intimate, psychologically acute tone poem..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Bored in Brno (2003)      "After a very funny and original opening...the film takes a disappointing turn." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      Main Hoon Na (2004)      "...exudes an infectious joy and a far-reaching love of cinema that puts the typical Hollywood summer blockbuster to shame." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       3/10      The Day After Tomorrow (2004)      "In 2004, watching downtown skyscrapers collapse...should cause more queasiness than the filmmakers intend, even if the buildings are located in Los Angeles." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Hum Tum (2004)      "While it's sweetly romantic, Hum Tum gratifyingly avoids melodrama." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004)      "...continually thwarts genre expectations with its somber, thoughtful treatment of the brutal subject matter." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Doppelganger (2003)      "Koji Yakusho delivers a wonderfully droll dual performance, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa uses split-screen effects brilliantly." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      The Corporation (2004)      "...engaging in the best sense of the word." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       2/10      Man on Fire (2004)      "It's a morally vacuous button-pusher with the soul of a sneaker commercial." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Happy Here and Now (2002)      "The film transcends what occasionally seems to be oddness for its own sake." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       9/10      A Rage in Harlem (1991)      "Forgoes good taste in the name of exuberant entertainment." [movie review]      All Movie Guide

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