Collapse | Director Chris Smith | Score: 6.9 The most amazing thing about Chris Smith’s latest documentary is that even after what amounts to an 82-minute monologue by investigative journalist Michael C. Ruppert, you still can’t tell what to make…
Breathless | Dir. Jean-Luc Godard | Score: 7.8 The cigarette smoke is so thick and luminous in Godard’s infamous 1960 cinematic breakthrough, it hangs in the air like jungle steam, most often coming from the finger-thick Lucky Strike perpetually hanging…
Splice | Director Vincenzo Natali | Score: 3.7 Things that go goop in the night. Ah, yes, the dubious genetic science monster movie, we meet again. I have a biochemist friend who is always decrying the “science” in Hollywood films…
Looking for Eric | Director Ken Loach | Score: 6.4 Ken Loach’s amiable football fantasy involves a prototypical Loachian character, Eric (Steve Evets), a hard-luck postal worker who lives alone with two rabble rousing step sons and still pines for…
Fight Club: Blu-ray Edition | Director David Fincher | Score: 7.7 Before the puerile, drawn-out whimsy of Benjamin Button, David Fincher’s reputation as a peerless purveyor of stylish angst and mood was typified in his early triptych of groundbreaking thrillers…
The Greatest | Director Shana Feste | Score: 3.8 It’s rare that a preproduction location scout makes or breaks a film, but someone really needed to tell Shana Feste that the growing affects of global warming are not yet so…
Greenberg | Dir. Noah Baumbach | Score: 6.7 If Noah Baumbach has a singular skill — and this is not to suggest the talented writer/director is regulated to just one — it’s his ability to render somewhat hateful and self-hating…
Mother | Dir. Joon-ho Bong | Score: 7.4 Joon-ho Bong’s new film begins in a swaying field of yellowed, tall grass. A woman comes up a small rise, staring into the camera, an intense, but inscrutable look in her eyes. Music…
Shutter Island | Dir. Martin Scorsese | Score: 5.2 There’s little doubt that Martin Scorsese is one of America’s greatest living directors; but it’s also just as evident he’s lost a few miles off his fastball over the last decade…
The Ghost Writer | Dir. Roman Polanski | Score: 6.7 The first question that comes to mind watching Roman Polanski’s latest thriller — set mainly in a dreary, off-season Cape Cod — is where did they film the damn thing? (Germany, it…