Arlington Road
Pellington's paranoia trip is too earnest for its own good.
Distraction
If postwar modernism was about focus, post-millennium modernism is a paradigm of distraction.
After Hours
Wrong place, wrong time, too wacky for words. But still Scorsese.
The Sports Writer
Introducing Frank Bascombe, a New Jersey suburbanite who can't stop thinking about his own life, and that of a nation.
Amores Perros
One snarl leads to another and before you know it you can't stop watching.
Spartan
Typical Mamet: Pistol-clip dialogue, conspiracies in the making.
Far From Heaven
This ode to the imperfect 50s is dead-end doused homophobia and racism.
The Birth
Quirk leaned forward, his glasses and cigars not quite on the verge of spilling from his chest pocket.
Poisons
The West is fascinated by ethical coercion that post-Holocaust civility ostensibly eliminates.
Slick loathing
No leader in recent Italian history has received the media scrutiny heaped on Berlusconi.
Forrest Gump
The 1960s as imagined by the village idiot. Credit Hanks' mimicry.