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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5/9 Babe: Pig in the City (98 Miller) B
5/7 The Deep Blue Sea (11 Davies) B+
5/3 The Long Day Closes (92 Davies) A-
4/26 The Cabin in the Woods (12 Goddard) B
4/21 /Broadway Danny Rose/ (84 Allen) B+
4/20 The Blue Angel (30 von Sternberg) C+
3/21 Miss Bala (11 Naranjo) B+
3/18 Kill List (11 Wheatley) C-
3/18 /A Separation/ (11 Farhadi) A
2/9 Harmful Insect (01 Shiota) B-
2/5 Histoire(s) du cinéma (98 Godard) A
2/2 Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (01 Costa) B
2/1 Haywire (12 Soderbergh) B-
1/31 One, Two, Three (61 Wilder) B-
1/29 Schindler's List (93 Spielberg) A-
1/28 At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (07 Cronenberg) short
1/28 A Dangerous Method (11 Cronenberg) B+
1/27 Flowers of Shanghai (98 Hou) A
1/26 Last Year at Marienbad (61 Resnais) A-
1/25 Kiss Me Deadly (55 Aldrich) A
1/20 L'humanité (99 Dumont) B
1/19 Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (61 Menken) short
1/18 Yojimbo (61 Kurosawa) A
1/17 Bellflower (11 Glodell) C-
1/16 M (31 Lang) A
1/15 Terri (11 Jacobs) B
1/14 Petition (09 Zhao) B
1/13 Carnage (11 Polanski) C+
1/1 Rampart (11 Moverman) C
12/30 Young Adult (11 Reitman) C+
12/29 /Certified Copy/ (10 Kiarostami) A
12/29 /Film Socialisme/ (10 Godard) B+
12/28 Nostalgia for the Light (10 Guzmán) C+
12/28 Sleeping Beauty (11 Leigh) C+
12/27 The Artist (11 Hazanavicius) C+
12/27 Moneyball (11 Miller) B-
12/26 The Descendants (11 Payne) C+
12/25 Weekend (11 Haigh) B
12/25 Shit Year (10 Archer) C+
12/24 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (11 Fincher) B+
12/24 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (11 Alfredson) B+
12/23 House of Pleasures (11 Bonello) A-
12/23 Le Havre (11 Kaurismäki) B
12/22 We Need to Talk About Kevin (11 Ramsay) C
12/17 Restless (11 Van Sant) D+
12/14 Shame (11 McQueen) C+
12/14 A Separation (11 Farhadi) A
12/6 /Melancholia/ (11 von Trier) A-
11/28 Putty Hill (11 Porterfield) B-
11/26 The Skin I Live In (11 Almodóvar) C-
11/25 Attack the Block (11 Cornish) B-
11/23 Hugo (11 Scorsese) B
11/21 Martha Marcy May Marlene (11 Durkin) B+
11/20 Tabloid (10 Morris) B
11/17 Alphaville (65 Godard) B-
11/15 /The Boss of It All/ (06 von Trier) B+
11/14 J. Edgar (11 Eastwood) B-
11/13 Take Shelter (11 Nichols) B
11/10 /Antichrist/ (09 von Trier) B+
11/9 /The Five Obstructions/ (04 Leth & von Trier) B
11/8 The Idiots (98 von Trier) B
11/7 Medea (88 von Trier) C+
10/27 /Mysteries of Lisbon/ (10 Ruiz) B+
10/24 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (67 Godard) A-
10/17 Epidemic (87 von Trier) C
10/13 Pina (11 Wenders) B-
10/4 Senna (10 Kapadia) B
10/3 The Wages of Fear (53 Clouzot) A-
10/3 /Drive/ (11 Winding Refn) B+
9/29 Melancholia (11 von Trier) A-
9/27 The Kid with a Bike (11 Dardennes) B+
9/25 Contagion (11 Soderbergh) C+
9/22 The Guard (11 McDonagh) B-
9/18 Drive (11 Winding Refn) A-
9/10 The Trip (10 Winterbottom) C+
9/5 The Element of Crime (84 von Trier) C+
9/3 Ballast (08 Hammer) B
9/3 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (11 Wyatt) C+
9/2 My Dinner with Andre (81 Malle) C+
8/27 /Beginners/ (10 Mills) B+
8/24 The Future (11 July) C+
8/12 The Lovers (58 Malle) B-
8/11 Une Femme Mariée (64 Godard) A-
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Enter the Void
dir. Gaspar Noé
Noé remains a phenomenal stylist and technician, and there are moments in Enter the Void not quite like anything else in narrative cinema. It seems designed for drug-enhanced viewings, where everything stupid and faux-provocative might be outweighed by its acid-trip sensory overload. But viewed sober, the film's buzz wears off after about 30 minutes, and the movie keeps going, inexplicably, until, like a bad trip, you just wish it would stop.
Read more at Slant Magazine.
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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.