The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

"The American military comes across as bungling and ineffective as protectors. If people thought we didn't know what we were doing in Iraq before, this is yet more evidence of our incompetence."

Beverly Berning

L'Iceberg (2005)

"In stillness and frantic movement these characters somehow survive and endure. We aren't laughing out loud. But we are staring in stunned gasping delight."

Harry Chotiner

Flying Scotsman ()

"To cut to the chase, The Flying Scotsman is the skillfully-portrayed, honest story of an interesting, complex and troubled cyclist. For bike racing enthusiasts there is much meat here, but the film may ultimately fail to fully engage and inspire a more g"

Emily S. Mendel

Jindabyne (2006)

"By the end of his films- this idiosyncratic style, complex plotting, and core values about intimacy produce a combination of exhaustion, well-being, and a bit of unease. At the conclusion of "Jindabyne," while Lawrence's torturous journey has given more"

Harry Chotiner

The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de pages) (2006)

"A film of impeccable style, with every note hit to perfection, but without much soul."

Beverly Berning

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (Esma's Secret - Grbavica) (2007)

"Jasmila Zbanic also deserves our admiration for casting Karanovic, and for making a film of great power about the fate of that ultimate contradiction -- a child born out of hatred."

Beverly Berning

Little Children (2006)

"The success Fields has with this film comes through the uncomfortable intersection between comedy, melodrama and tragedy. Oh, and romance."

Michael Wade Simpson

Marie Antoinette (2006)

"As a serious film, only an American could love Marie Antoinette. To the French, it must be gravely insulting. As an unwitting camp, it may have a great future."

Les Wright

Babel (2006)

"There is some hope, in Iñárritu's world, each of the characters may have a family and love, but this is shown to be, at best, a diversion against the real world, which is a much more intolerable, incomprehensive place."

Michael Wade Simpson

How to Draw a Bunny (2004)

"Simply put, Ray Johnson was neither good nor original. All that he did in his 'art' was done before and better by others. That the same can be said of his documentarian's film may be a small synchronicity, but that's all it is. What it is not is art."

Dan Schneider

Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin) (2007)

"In Summer in Berlin, director Andreas Dresen presents the portrait of a friendship between two women, Nike (Nadja Uhl) and Katrin Engel (Inka Friedrich). In the German tradition of the Kammerspielfilm, this is a closely and lovingly observed study in psyc"

Les Wright

Le Petit Lieutenant (2006)

"To cut to the chase...this is a very French, understated, intelligent, slow, police procedural that ultimately engrosses and then surprises the viewer. If you don't see it in a theater, it would be a great rental."

Emily S. Mendel

The Good Shepherd (2006)

"The Good Shepherd tells a compelling, complex, personal and political story and tells it extremely well. It's an engrossing film."

Emily S. Mendel

Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs) (2007)

"If the movie was meant to render sympathy to Brisseau, it only reinforces how monstrously repugnant he is. The audacity to suggest his complete innocence makes the whole thing seem like black comedy, only the core sentiment is not funny."

George Wu

Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) (1959)

"Despite that, Black Orpheus, while not being a cinematic full meal nevertheless is a sweet piece of candy, and thus has to be judged more on its entertainment value than its artistic value; mindful that, unlike the Orphic films of Cocteau, it, at least su"

Dan Schneider

Man Push Cart (2006)

"A sad, powerful, austere experience of a movie, this is the story of a man who has known profound, compound loss."

Les Wright

Dreamgirls (2006)

"Dreamgirls is a splashy film with a great cast, strong performances, terrific music and an engrossing, though...familiar, story."

Emily S. Mendel

Fisherman and His Wife ()

"Meanwhile, Dörrie sends up, more with humor than rebuke, the present decade's global-wide obsession with its win-at-all-cost competitive spirit, the blurring of boundaries between profit-making and service providing, the West's infatuation with Japanese d"

Les Wright

Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

"Every stone, every piece of fabric, every pushed-up bosom is fetishized to ludicrous extremes. Zhang apparently wants to dazzle the eyes with the visuals, but Curse is one of the gaudiest looking movies ever made."

George Wu

The Lives of Others (2006)

"Relative newcomer screenwriter and director Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck makes a remarkably self-confident and promising debut with the tensely sublime film The Lives of Others...The Lives of Others is a rare film achievement, arguably a "perfect" film"

Les Wright

Gwoemul (The Host) (2007)

"Boon shows that he has the film grammar of a Spielberg in how well he conveys his story cinematically... Boon will go places that Spielberg won't though."

George Wu

God Grew Tired Of Us (2007)

"It deflates upon arriving in the vast, familiar blandness we know as America."

Michael Wade Simpson

Fisherman and His Wife ()

Hannibal Rising (2007)

"An exercise in cheap pop psychology and connect-the-dots back story."

Scott Von Doviak

Unknown (2006)