Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004)

Ocean's Twelve  is one of my favorite Steven Soderbergh films and the best reflexive takedown of the sequel ever made. It jovially begin...

A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011)

David Cronenberg throws the audience for a loop from the start of A Dangerous Method . The stately opening credits, unfolding gracefully ove...

Black Swan

For a time, I fretted Black Swan would reduce its protagonist to a reductive set of sexual clichés, the virginal naïf whose madness could b...

Eastern Promises

[This post originally appeared at Cinema Viewfinder as part of the David Cronenberg Blog-A-Thon. Please take the time to check out a few ot...

La Haine

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing charted racial tensions over a single day in a heat wave-stricken New York City neighborhood. His was a ...