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Pedro Almodóvar's films are often compared to soap operas, in form if not function. He relishes interpersonal politics -- secrets and lies, hidden relationships, connections whose intricacies unfurl in emotional confrontations. Almodóvar fools us by spooning out low-minded intrigue that...


Tulpan Sergei Dvortsevoy created an impressive coming-of-age tale with this majestic treatment of life on the Kazakh steppe, following the return of Asa, a young sailor eager to make a place of his own in the traditional nomadic lifestyle. But...


When I saw Hayao Miyazaki's newest feature Ponyo a year ago (a subtitled copy burgled from the internets) I was disappointed, mostly for unfair reasons. I've made no bones around here about my unrepentant enthusiasm for all things Miyazaki, but...


Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow heavily relies on the past, far too content to stack homage upon homage than to forge something unique. The film is little more than a formula larded with references to Wirkola's favorite films, making Dead Snow...


The title of Götz Spielmann's film, Revanche, can be construed simply as a synonym for revenge, which is certainly a facile motivation for this dark neo-noir, but doing so misses an important political dimension in the word. Revanchism also refers...



12 Angry люди


We Will Not Compromise on This


Push Review


Gran Torino Review


The Best Books of 2008


The Last Airbender Gets a Cast


Man on a Wire Review


Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Review


Nightmare Before Christmas


Happy-Go-Lucky


Max Payne


Quarantine


Flash of Genius


Fireproof


Death Race


Star Wars: The Clone Wars


Edge of Heaven, The


Meet Dave


Hancock


Arkansas


Badlands


Onion Movie


Sling Blade


Little Brother by Cory Doctorow


Diary of the Dead


Frontier(s)


In the Bedroom


Forbidden Kingdom


Smart People


Farscape, Season Three


Ruins, The


Stop-Loss


Shutter


Bank Job, The


Paranoid Park


Spiderwick Chronicles


4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days


Meet the Spartans


Le Samourai


Taxi to the Dark Side


Persepolis


The Year's Best Fiction


National Treasure: Book of Secrets


Water Horse: The Legend of the Deep


Control


Tree of Smoke


Golden Compass, The


Bender's Big Score


Hitman


Beowulf


P2


Things We Lost in the Fire


Fearless


Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, The


Resident Evil: Extinction


On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan


D-War


Hatchet


Halloween


Black Narcissus


War


10 Sci-Fi Films You Should See (But Probably Haven't)


Skinwalkers


Underdog


This is England


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


Sunshine


Transformers


Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer


DOA: Dead or Alive


Mr. Brooks


Shrek the Third


28 Weeks Later


Condemned, The


Vacancy


Disturbia


Wind That Shakes the Barley, The


Reaping, The


Battle of Algiers, The


Meet the Robinsons


Hills Have Eyes 2, The


TMNT


Premonition


Lives of Others, The


Astronaut Farmer, The


Bridge to Terabithia


Messengers, The


Blood and Chocolate


Primeval


Freedom Writers


Night at the Museum


Eragon


Apocalypto


Turistas


Adolescent Cartoons for a Post-Adolescent World


Let's Go to Prison


Return, The


Flushed Away


Saw III


Flags of Our Fathers


Marine, The


Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The


Flyboys


Gridiron Gang


Frontiers: A Look at the Films of Terrence Malick


Accepted


Step Up


Covenant, The


Descent, The


Miami Vice


My Super Ex-Girlfriend


Little Man


Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest


Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The


See No Evil


Poseidon


American Haunting, An


United 93


Silent Hill


Wild, The


Flight of the Phoenix


Alien vs. Predator


40-Year-Old Virgin, The


Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, The


Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


Greatest Game Ever Played, The


Get Rich or Die Tryin'


Exorcism of Emily Rose, The


Metallica: Some Kind of Monster


Dawn of the Dead


Land of the Dead


Son of the Mask


Perfect Man, The


Kingdom of Heaven


Lord of War


Howl's Moving Castle


Take the Lead


Devil's Rejects, The


King's Ransom


Transporter 2


Napoleon Dynamite


Sky High


Roll Bounce


Stay Alive


Oliver Twist


Jacket, The


Honeymooners, The


Collateral


Unleashed


Hostage


Madagascar


BloodRayne


Sahara


Zathura