Kings and Queen

Charting the various literary sources, mythologies, psychological studies and cinematic antecedents that inform Arnaud Desplechin's King...

Schizopolis

A warped blend of Luis Buñuel, Richard Lester and the Dada movement (and much, much more), Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis is such an o...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight 's opening sequence is one of the most delightfully witty heist scenes you'll ever see: a suave man dressed in business...

On The Blind Side and Precious

For many, The Blind Side and Precious seem like antidotes to each other, the former offering a nonthreatening feel-good story primarily to...

The Limey

Steven Soderbergh's The Limey might be the acid test entry in his filmography, by which I mean any old fool might faintly recognize nam...

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson is one of a handful of interesting, unique directors working in America today whose work is marginalized by that most useless o...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence threw me when I first watched it last year; a fan of both Spielberg and Stanley Kubric...