Dec 13, 2007 Movies No Country for Old Men by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Review) The bleakest film the Coen Brothers have made to date.
Aug 31, 2007 Movies Once by John Carney (Review) A very fetching little musical romance that eschews the usual tropes associated with both musicals and romances.
Aug 5, 2007 Movies The Bourne Ultimatum Rules the Box Office, And That’s a Good Thing (Review) You can make money with films that deliver both adrenaline-soaked fights and chases as well as smart, challenging stories.
Jul 29, 2007 Anime Movies Paprika by Satoshi Kon (Review) To attempt to come up with a more detailed plot synopsis is sort of beside the point, and to be honest, I don’t even know if it’s possible.
May 5, 2007 Movies A State of Mind by Daniel Gordon (Review) A surprisingly candid view of even the most mundane aspects of North Korean culture.
Apr 22, 2007 Movies Hot Fuzz by Edgar Wright (Review) Consider it the filmic equivalent of a bacon double cheeseburger with a big side of greasy fries.
Mar 22, 2007 Movies Danielson: A Family Movie by J.l. Aronson (Review) It’s an inspiring vision of the way music could be, of the way music perhaps should be — especially in Christian circles.
Mar 13, 2007 Movies 300 by Zack Snyder (Review) The film’s look is so hyper-realistic, so stylized, that it ends up feeling sterile and artificial.
Feb 8, 2007 Movies The Amazing Screw-On Head by Chris Prynoski (Review) The world could always use some more goofily charming, historically irreverent sci-fi.
Feb 6, 2007 Movies Tom Yum Goong by Prachya Pinkaew (Review) Despite some really fun action scenes, Tom Yum Goong is a decidedly inferior film to its predecessor, Ong-Bak.
Jan 14, 2007 Movies Curse of the Golden Flower by Zhang Yimou (Review) I need to stop the review lest it just become a checklist of everything I dislike about the movie.
Jan 5, 2007 Movies Shut Up & Sing by Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck (Review) Ultimately a testament to such American values as love, friendship, family, and loyalty as much as free speech.
Dec 21, 2006 Movies Swing Girls by Shinobu Yaguchi (Review) Swing Girls is far better than it frankly has any right to be, thanks to the sheer amount of fun, enthusiasm, and aplomb it contains.
Dec 2, 2006 Movies District B13 by Pierre Morel (Review) The stunts and fights scenes have an edge and brutality that you just don’t see everyday.
Dec 2, 2006 Movies The Proposition by John Hillcoat (Review) The film always returns to its central violent themes with a crackling, harrowing intensity.
Dec 2, 2006 Movies Casino Royale by Martin Campbell (Review) For the vast majority of its 144 minutes, Casino Royale is absolutely thrilling.
Nov 30, 2006 Movies Geochilmaru by Kim Jin-Seong (Review) There’s something refreshing, even affecting, about the lo-fi approach that Geochilmaru takes to martial arts cinema.
Nov 21, 2006 Movies Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa (Review) Kurosawa’s film takes on topics and expounds upon themes that could have easily come from that most existential of books: Ecclesiastes.