The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012)

Let's get a couple of things out of the way. The Avengers  opens on such a hollow note that its entire first act struggles to find any k...

Shutter Island

I noticed when I signed into my Blogger account to write this a whopping five posts in a row discussing Martin Scorsese's much-belated B...

Collateral

The best case for Michael Mann's visual genius can be made by comparing his depictions of Los Angeles in Heat , his most well-known and ...

The Brothers Bloom

It's perfectly possible that The Brothers Bloom , despite its erroneous title -- one of the brothers is named Bloom, and neither seems t...

Where the Wild Things Are

There are so many places where Spike Jonze's third feature Where the Wild Things Are could go wrong. If I told you that the first ten m...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Love is a dangerous game. It's a nerve-wracking, devastating affair full of desperation, anger, regret, and a pain so indescribable that...

Zodiac

David Fincher is certainly no stranger to crime thrillers: his breakthrough Se7en remains one of the best pieces of neo-noir ever produced....

Blindness

There’s a lot of promise that comes with “Blindness,” the new film based on the richly metaphorical, Nobel Prize-winning book by José Sarama...