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
Chungking Express (94 Wong) [BD], Slant Magazine
L.A. Confidential (97 Hanson) [BDD], Slant Magazine
The Godfather Trilogy (72, 74 and 90, Coppola) [BD], Slant Magazine
Taking Father Home (06 Liang), Slant Magazine
Forgiveness (06 Aloni), Slant Magazine
The Tree of Life (08 Volterra), Slant Magazine
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2/1 Gomorrah (08 Garrone) B-
1/31 A Prophet (09 Audiard) B-
1/30 Edge of Darkness (10 Campbell) C-
1/28 Christopher Strong (33 Arzner) B-
1/27 The Beaches of Agn
ès (08 Varda) B
1/23 Heathers (88 Lehman) B+
1/23 Drop Dead Gorgeous (99 Jann) C+
1/23 Clueless (95 Heckerling) B
1/22 Fish Tank (09 Arnold) C+
1/20 The Blue Light (32 Riefenstahl) B
1/18 The Carter (08 Lough) C
1/17 The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (09 Gilliam) C
1/17 Crazy Heart (09 Cooper) C
1/17 /The Brothers Bloom/ (08 Johnson) A-
1/16 The Spanish Prisoner (98 Mamet) B+
1/16 The Lovely Bones (09 Jackson) C-
1/16 Lake Tahoe (08 Eimbcke) B
1/15 /The Sun/ (05 Sokurov) B-
1/15 Heavenly Creatures (94 Jackson) A
1/13 /The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans/ (09 Werner) B+
1/9 The Muppet Movie (79 Frawley) B
1/9 Youth in Revolt (09 Arteta) C-
1/7 Female Perversions (96 Streitfeld) C-
1/5 A Single Man (09 Ford) C+
1/3 The Brood (79 Cronenberg) B+
1/3 /State and Main/ (00 Mamet) A-
1/3 /Up in the Air/ (09 Reitman) B
12/30 /Kings and Queen/ (04 Desplechin) B+
12/30 /A.I. Artificial Intelligence/ (01 Spielberg) A-
12/27 Import Export (07 Seidl) B+
12/27 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (07 Tsai) B+
12/26 /Inglourious Basterds/ (09 Tarantino) A
12/26 Sherlock Holmes (09 Ritchie) C
12/26 /You, the Living/ (07 Andersson) B+
12/25 Night and Day (08 Hong) B+
12/25 Bronson (08 Refn) B-
12/25 Nine (09 Marshall) C-
12/25 An Education (09 Scherfig) C
12/24 Police, Adjective (09 Porumboiu) B-
12/24 /Julia/ (08 Zonca) A-
12/22 /Summer Hours/ (08 Assayas) B+
12/21 /Avatar/ (09 Cameron) B
12/19 /Two Lovers/ (08 Gray) A-
12/18 Avatar (09 Cameron) B
12/17 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (09 Herzog) B+
12/17 The Messenger (09 Moverman) B-
12/16 /Punch-Drunk Love/ (02 Anderson) A
12/15 Polytechnique (09 Villeneuve) B
12/13 Jennifer's Body (09 Kusama) D-
12/13 Brothers (09 Sheridan) C-
12/13 Disney's A Christmas Carol (09 Zemeckis) C
12/13 /I ♥ Huckabees/ (04 Russell) A
12/12 Up in the Air (09 Reitman) B-
12/11 Invictus (09 Eastwood) C-
12/9 /A Serious Man/ (09 Coens) A
12/2 /35 Shots of Rum/ (08 Denis) A-
12/2 New York, I Love You (09 Various) C-
11/30 /The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou/ (04 Anderson) A
11/29 Sisters (73 De Palma) C+
11/28 The Road (09 Hillcoat) B-
11/27 /There Will Be Blood/ (07 Anderson) A
11/27 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (09 Krasinski) C+
11/27 Fantastic Mr. Fox (09 Anderson) A
11/27 /Silent Light/ (07 Reygadas) A
11/26 They Live (88 Carpenter) B+
11/25 The Last 15 (07 Campos) short
11/25 /Afterschool/ (08 Campos) A-
11/25 Afterschool (08 Campos) A-
11/24 /Hunger/ (08 McQueen) A
11/24 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (09 Daniels) D+
11/23 /What Time Is It There?/ (01 Tsai) A-
11/23 Trick 'r Treat (08 Dougherty) C+
11/23 Gosford Park (01 Altman) B
11/22 Julie & Julia (09 Ephron) C
11/22 The Men Who Stare at Goats (09 Heslov) C-
11/22 /INLAND EMPIRE/ (06 Lynch) A
11/21 /The Limits of Control/ (09 Jarmusch) B
11/21 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (02 Maddin) B
11/21 /Lost in Translation/ (03 Coppola) A-
11/16 The House of the Devil (09 West) B+

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Fight Club
dir. David Fincher, 1999
Reviled by undiscerning critics upon its release as a hateful celebration of anarchism, the film has over the years gained a passionate cult of mostly male viewers who have gotten it equally wrong.

Read more at Slant Magazine.

Chasing Amy
dir. Kevin Smith, 1997
For all its problems, Chasing Amy remains the relative high point of Smith's career, combining some of his strongest writing with an emotional maturity he's never since been able to match.

Read more at Slant Magazine.

Natural Born Killers
dir. Oliver Stone, 1994
Oliver Stone's shrill, empty-headed "satire" of our violence-loving media culture probably ranks among the most controversial films of the '90s. It's almost certainly among the most annoying.

Read more at Slant Magazine.

Requiem for a Dream
dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2000
Either a gut-wrenching, formally adventurous masterpiece or an ugly, flashy piece of empty-headed propaganda. Both are sort of right.

Read more at Slant Magazine.