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Current Reviews
** Tomorrow, When the War Began (2011)
there's the kernal of a great story here, but it didn't end up on the screen.
*** Life Without Principle (2011)
a solid dramedy about unbridled greed and consumerism.
*** Haywire (2011)
Sexy, smart, simple and tough as nails.
***** Braquo Series 1 (2009)
Outstanding!
* The Darkest Hour (2011)
the ministry of silly runs
** Who’s Minding the Store? (1963)
about as funny as cancer.
**** Awkward (Season 1) 2011
Easy A, in half hour increments.
*** El Bulli (2011)
chef Ferran Adria's avant-garde gastronomic bastion of food porn.
**** The Fades (Series 1)
...baby-bear horror
***** Melancholia (2011)
the work of a mad genius
** The Descendants (2011)
almost exactly what you'd expect it be
*** The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
there's no mouse for Spielberg's latest mousetrap.
**** World On A Wire (1973)
a rediscovered masterwork by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Immortals (2011)
Fiscalus Irresposibilious leads the fight to save the Grecians from burning in financial Hellenia.
Bullitt (1968)
isn't the film that I remember watching in the mid '70s
The Kid With a Bike (2011)
another stellar example of the slow cinema oeuvre
Hugo (2011)
another Scorsese masterpiece
A Separation (2011) PAL DVD
an outstanding film from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
The Searchers...
The Interrupters (2011)
sits atop the best documentaries from 2011 shortlist
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
“Unusually good”
Paradise Lost (1996)
documentary or non-fiction advocacy film?
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
Kill all the bugs you can.
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
an exciting, well-paced and angry piece of filmmaking from Brazilian director José Padilha
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)
a film about taking the road less traveled and living outside the rules
Hobo with a Paint Brush (2011)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Lech Majewski's The Mill And The Cross
Kill List 2011 (PAL Import)
a fatalist nightmare.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
buying this probably put me on some sort of "watch" list.
Drive (2011)
"Critics Bait"
3 Existential Road movies while I wait for Drive
Richard Fleisher's The Last Run (1971), Walter Hill's The Driver (1978) and Richard C. Sarafian's Vanishing Point (also 1971)
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