25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)

I continue to love Spike Lee's 25th Hour , one of his most shamelessly white elephant features (topped only by Miracle at St. Anna  and,...

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)

Incorporating many elements of Wes Anderson's previous films,  Moonrise Kingdom  might be seen, even approvingly, as the director going ...

Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott, 2005)

I've been meaning to write a defense of the director's cut of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven  (one of my favorite movies of th...

Leaves of Grass

A stuttering mash-up of drama and stoner comedy, Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass plays as a cross between the podunk classicism of O...

Fight Club

My decision this year to revisit some of the more notable films of 1989 had obvious personal connections ('89 being the year of my birth...

The Incredible Hulk

2008 will certainly go down as the year of the superhero movie. There was a string of surprisingly great romantic comedies ("Forgetting...