Mini-Review: If you want to see an interesting gangster film, this is it. It's a great film. Stars Sam Jackson before he started doing every script under the sun. This is a film I recommend to everyone. See it.
Mini-Review: I don't think there is a better movie made in the last 30 years. It is brilliant in every aspect. I know I want to see more films of this caliber.
Mini-Review: An almost perfect film. They should have just stopped with this one. It operates on several levels, as a shoot-em-up with great special effects, as a compelling story, and as an occasion to think philosophically about the nature of desire and how often what we have to overcome is ourselves.
Mini-Review: A little bit of a let down with the special effects and the ending, but a captivating idea and some good cinematography. It was one of the movies that really stayed with me a long time, made me think about the structure of knowledge, how we know what we say we know and how we give an account of that. It's a kind of argument for postmodernism.
Mini-Review: The last time the Cohen brothers were funny. Brilliant film. One of the best comedies I have ever seen.
Mini-Review: When I first saw this film I loved it. It was haunting and poetic and full of great, lasting images and a sense of longing, always longing for something just out of reach. Not sure I would feel the same way seeing it again, but still. "I am writing to you in the dark" --just lovely.
Mini-Review: Convincing. Thrilling. Tense. Like falling down a big cliff on a rollercoaster.
Mini-Review: Lars von Trier is one of those directors I can't say I love, but I deeply respect. Dogville is a damn tough movie to watch, but it's brilliant and though it's long, it's just worth it.
Mini-Review: It's hard to find another director who does this kind of strange surreal, shockingly vivid images of Americana. Lynch makes the movie seem like we got to step to the side a bit and see what is going on just outside of the typical perspective.
Mini-Review: A terrible, slovenly movie, overcome with affection for the kids in front of the camera in the full bloom of their youthfulness. It's just downright boring and tiresome and I truly wanted to just leave in the middle.