Enter the Void (09 Noé) [BD], Slant Magazine
Machete (10 Rodriguez) [BD], Slant Magazine
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (10 Wright), In Review Online
Soul Kitchen (09 Akin), In Review Online
Around a Small Mountain (09 Rivette), In Review Online
Winter's Bone (10 Granik), In Review Online
The Carter (08 Lough) [DVD], Slant Magazine
Fight Club (99 Fincher) [BD], Slant Magazine
Chasing Amy (97 Smith) [BD], Slant Magazine
Natural Born Killers (94 Stone) [BD], Slant Magazine
Requiem for a Dream (00 Aronofksy) [DVD], Slant Magazine
Adam (09 Mayer), Slant Magazine
The Ugly Truth (09 Luketic), Slant Magazine
I Love You, Beth Cooper (09 Columbus), Slant Magazine
Two Lovers (08 Gray), Blog
Fast Company (79 Cronenberg) [BD], Slant Magazine
Dexter, Season 2 [BD], Slant Magazine
JFK (91 Stone) [BD], Slant Magazine
El Norte (08 Nava) [BD], Slant Magazine
The Man Who Fell to Earth (76 Roeg) [BD], Slant Magazine
The Third Man (49 Reed) [BD], Slant Magazine
Bottle Rocket (96 Anderson) [BD], Slant Magazine
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5/22 Sunshine for the Poor (01 Guiraudie) B+
5/21 About Elly (09 Farhadi) B+
5/20 Hanezu (11 Kawase) C-
5/17 /Still Life/ (06 Jia) A
5/16 The Taste of Money (12 Im) C-
5/16 The Hunt (12 Vinterberg) C
5/15 Paradise: Love (12 Seidl) B-
5/13 /To the Wonder/ (12 Malick) A
5/11 The Decalogue 1 (88 Kieslowski) B+
5/08 The Moderns (88 Rudolph) A-
5/08 High Hopes (88 Leigh) B
5/08 Time of the Wolf (03 Haneke) B-
5/07 Night Mayor (09 Maddin) short
5/07 Tales from the Gimli Hospital (88 Maddin) C
5/07 The Sacrifice (86 Tarkovsky) A
5/05 L'argent (83 Bresson) A
5/04 Iron Man Three (13 Black) B
5/03 Upstream Color (13 Carruth) A
5/03 /Blood Simple/ (84 Coen) A
5/02 /The Company/ (03 Altman) B+
5/02 A Talking Picture (03 de Oliveira) C+
4/30 The Forest for the Trees (03 Ade) B
4/30 Mama (13 Muschietti) C+
4/27 The Angels' Share (12 Loach) B-
4/27 My Neighbor Totoro (88 Miyazaki) B
4/26 Pain & Gain (13 Bay) C
4/26 To the Wonder (12 Malick) A
4/26 The Lords of Salem (12 Zombie) B
4/25 Poised for Parabolas (03 Kirby) short
4/25 Lenten Light Conversions (04 Kirby) short
4/25 /Very Nice, Very Nice/ (61 Lipsett) short
4/23 Very Nice, Very Nice (61 Lipsett) short
4/20 /Fargo/ (96 Coen) A-
4/14 The Place Beyond the Pines (12 Cianfrance) C
4/14 The Three Musketeers (11 Anderson) B
4/13 /The Thin Red Line/ (98 Malick) A
4/13 Evil Dead (13 Alvarez) C-
4/11 Reality (12 Garrone) B
4/09 Gamer (09 Neveldine/Taylor) C
4/08 Le Gai savoir (69 Godard) C-
4/07 M Hotel (11 Weerasethakul) short
4/05 Bull Durham (88 Shelton) B+
4/01 Sympathy for the Devil (68 Godard) B
3/30 /Raging Bull/ (80 Scorsese) A
3/29 My Friend Ivan Lapshin (86 German) B
3/28 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (43 Powell & Pressburger) A
3/27 The Return (03 Zvyagintsev) C+
3/26 /The Thin Blue Line/ (88 Morris) A
3/26 /Who Framed Roger Rabbit/ (88 Zemeckis) B+
3/26 The Insider (99 Mann) A-
3/25 Spring Breakers (12 Korine) B
3/24 Mauvais Sang (86 Carax) A-
3/23 Made in U.S.A. (66 Godard) C+
3/20 Topsy-Turvy (99 Leigh) B+
3/19 Distant Voices, Still Lives (88 Davies) B+
3/18 Duck Soup (33 McCarey) A-
3/16 Like Someone in Love (12 Kiarostami) A-
3/08 Disorder (09 Huang) B+
3/07 Beyond the Hills (12 Mungiu) B+
3/06 Je vous salue Sarajevo (93 Godard) short
3/06 Die Hard (88 McTiernan) A-
3/05 Fallen Angels (95 Wong) B
3/04 /Amour/ (12 Haneke) B+
3/03 The Wind Will Carry Us (99 Kiarostami) B+
3/02 /Django Unchained/ (12 Tarantino) B+
2/28 Pierrot le fou (65 Godard) A-
2/27 Chopper (00 Dominik) B
2/25 No (12 Larraín) B+
2/21 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (12 Resnais) A-
2/21 Wrong (12 Dupieux) B-
2/20 Down with Love (03 Reed) B
2/19 Room 237 (12 Ascher) B
2/18 New Rose Hotel (98 Ferrara) B+
2/16 Oscar Animated Shorts (12 various) shorts
2/14 Caesar Must Die (12 Tavianis) C+
2/13 Side Effects (13 Soderbergh) B
2/07 Outside Satan (11 Dumont) C+
2/05 Berberian Sound Studio (12 Strickland) C+
1/30 /South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut/ (99 Parker) B+
1/28 Trust (90 Hartley) A
1/27 /Days of Heaven/ (78 Malick) A
1/25 /The Dante Quartet/ (87 Brakhage) short
1/25 Here I Am (62 Baillie) short
1/25 Whores' Glory (11 Glowagger) C
1/21 Wuthering Heights (11 Arnold) C+
1/21 The Last Stand (11 Kim) C+
1/21 /Badlands/ (73 Malick) A
1/20 /Chinatown/ (74 Polanski) A
1/20 /Zero Dark Thirty/ (12 Bigelow) B+
1/19 The Innkeepers (11 West) C+
1/19 Equilibrium (02 Wimmer) D
1/19 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (74 Fassbinder) A
1/19 Silver Linings Playbook (12 Russell) C+
1/16 This Is 40 (12 Apatow) C
1/16 Damned If You Don't (87 Friedrich) A-
1/15 /Full Metal Jacket/ (87 Kubrick) B+
1/13 Zero Dark Thirty (12 Bigelow) B+
1/13 Cosmic Ray (61 Conner) short
1/12 Nobody Walks (12 Russo-Young) C
1/10 Walker (87 Cox) C
1/10 The Dead (87 Huston) B+
1/9 Ishtar (87 May) A-
1/8 Not Fade Away (12 Chase) B-
1/6 Withnail & I (87 Robinson) C-
1/6 /Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy/ (11 Alfredson) B
1/5 /Jules and Jim/ (62 Truffaut) A-
1/5 The World's Greatest Sinner (62 Carey) C
1/4 Capitalism: Child Labor (06 Jacobs) short
1/3 The Paperboy (12 Daniels) D
1/3 Opera (87 Argento) B+
1/2 Keep the Lights On (12 Sachs) C+
1/2 A Burning Hot Summer (11 Garrel) C
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To the Wonder
dir. Terrence Malick
Malick locates the mundane in the ineffable and the ineffable in the mundane. The way Malick shoots the everyday locales of middle America–the laundromats and Sonic drive-thrus–recasts them as every bit as marvelous as Mont Saint-Michel. (Critics who see this as yet another story of surburbia’s suffocating boredom are either not paying attention or projecting their own prejudices.) The sublime and the material aren’t mutually exclusive. They coexist, one in the other.
Read more at Nonsense on Stilts
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Machete
dir. Robert Rodriguez
Seemingly more interested in ridicule than homage, Rodriguez buries everything transgressive and prurient about grindhouse under layer after layer of obvious, calculated irony.
Read more at Slant Magazine.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
dir. Edgar Wright
The balancing act between satirical pastiche and homage is a tricky one; if there were still any doubts as to Wright’s ability, Scott Pilgrim should put them to rest.
Read more at In Review Online.
Soul Kitchen
dir. Fatih Akin
Broad and goofy and intentionally brainless. Though it takes a while to get going, a movie this single-mindedly eager to please is awfully hard not to like.
Read more at In Review Online.