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It is impossible to describe There Will Be Blood in one word but if forced to, I would say powerful. If I had to further describe in using just...
A film that redefines purity on screen from one everlasting moment to the next.
To me this creative artsy indie comedy is about as close you can come to a perfect and complete film. This is my fifth time watching it and I...
A genuine experience that will leave you completely nourished. A cat’s whisker away from being a masterpiece.
Alfonso Cuaron’s Science Fiction film Children of Men is devastatingly beautiful. The film is full of ugly greys and a tone that suggests nothing other than failure and yet, it’s...
The storyline of Cashback is nothing unique; an art student named Ben has a falling out with a longtime girlfriend and is devastated. Still, Cashback is a smart and...
Oldboy is a powerful Korean film that is as mesmerizing as it is disturbing. It is one that would not be able to be distributed in America because of...
An existential masterpiece.
A deeply dark and devastating experience, Son of Saul is one of the best directorial debuts in years.
An exhilarating must-watch around the feminine experience of five fierce Turkish girls.
You know it’s a good movie when you have such high expectations for it and after seeing it, it surpasses what you expected. In fact, it made me want...
Leviathan opens with a passage from the Bible, a fitting prelude to the immense scale of the 90 minutes that immediately follow. The film itself is far from an...
Complex and totally far fetched, but utterly unique and something very beautiful.
Stagecoach is an old-school movie in every sense of the word. The characters are stripped down, traditional, Western stereotypes. The plot is a straight-forward race through hostile territory, with...
Vividly imagined, Iñárritu provides his most stunning and bizarre work to date.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a poetic fairy tale told through the point of view of a child’s imagination who has unflinching determination to find her place in...
Was I a little upset that I did not catch Blue Is the Warmest Color while at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year? Absolutely I was. Especially when...
In Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset (1995), twentysomethings Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a gruffly charming American, and Celine (Julie Delpy), a French beauty with a wily intellect, meet on a train...
Darren Aronofsky does it again. If you thought a film about ballet could not possibly be entertaining, think again. Black Swan overcomes the hype that surrounds it, a difficult...
Having been greatly impressed by recent works such as A Separation and About Elly, I was curious to learn what other hidden gems I could uncover from Iranian cinema....
Awesome, just – awesome. This short documentary, The Naked Zinester, explores the life and work of Aaron Tsuru and from Jon Nix’s directorial style we get to go up...
Dogtooth is disturbing anti-social satire that is shot in an art-house sort of way. After the conclusion of most films, you can form an opinion fairly soon after the...
The Skin I Live In is a psychological thriller from the highly acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. His work is often compared to Alfred Hitchcock’s and it is easy...
On New Year’s Day 2009, Oscar Grant, a black 22-year-old Bay Area resident was pulled off a BART train and taken into custody by a police officer. Unarmed and...
Since its birth, rock music has thrived on rumour and myth. For example, you don’t have to search too long before finding urban legends about various musicians who supposedly...
You know a Lars Von Trier movie is good when it feels like you’ve just spent two educationally arousing hours in the university for the cinematically gifted. As soon...
A complimentary companion to Volume 1 while distinctly upping the ante in both shock and style.
Never leaving the rural French lakeside setting on which it opens, Alain Guiraudie’s new film Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du lac) establishes an economy from its opening frame....
Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One may just be the most haunting movement in Gomes' glorious, deeply melancholic, symphony.
I knew half way through the first part of the excellent film Carlos, that it would be the best film I would see in 2010. Carlos is at the...
Perfect performances and an excellently adapted script create a visceral emotional experience.
A lonely vampire girl preys on the bad men of her city in this atmospheric and near-perfect Iranian indie horror-western.
A gripping courtroom drama surrounding an Israeli woman's divorce.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a very complex Western that pits a traditional gun-slinging setting with a reformist mindset and the resulting tensions are intriguing and exciting....
All is Lost reveals the true essence of who Robert Redford is as an actor as much as any other film in his career, which spans over half a century....
If you, like millions of others, plan on heading into Dawn of the Planet of the Apes this weekend ready to gobble up yet another action-heavy summer mega movie, expect to get way more...
The Square captures the chaotic energy of the Egyptian mass protests of 2011 and 2013, a rush of sights and sounds shot at street level that blitzes the senses as...
A biting view of Amy Winehouse's talents and demise is both broad and personal and altogether stirring.
Based on the poem “Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski this indie directed by Patrick Biesemans captures each feeling and sentiment from every line of the poem. The beautiful visuals and...
With the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s march on Washington having just passed, and with the historically deplorable Columbus Day holiday upcoming, we can’t be reminded enough...
