Mini-Review: One of - if not the best teacher in the classroom movies. My favorite of 2008 for its incredibly believable characters, quiet direction, and attempt at utter realism.
Mini-Review: A movie to be remembered. Beautiful, horrific, jarring, and ultimately satisfying.
Mini-Review: Too self-indulgent to be a classic. Del Toro is good, though.
Mini-Review: One of the most beautiful, realistic portrayals of poverty captured in recent cinema. Michelle Williams doesn't act - she lives the part.
Mini-Review: Kind of impossible to rank - it's hilariously enjoyable but completely and utterly inept. Seriously, the production values and pacing make Ed Wood look like Orson Welles; but it's certainly one of the gems of so-bad-it's-good cinema.