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...

Bird

Clint Eastwood started directing his own films as far back as 1971's Play Misty With Me , but even his acclaimed films received their ac...

The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

A tragically lesser-known work from once-masterful director Francis Ford Coppola (let's just leave the post-70s work out of it, shall we...

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Of all the old monsters, Dracula was always my favorite. As a kid I thought he was too cool to be frightening, what with the ability to turn...

Doubt

I tend to have problems with plays adapted for the film. Obviously this is not a blanket statement, since so many writers have moved a story...

All the Real Girls

Having seen all but Undertow , I'm just about ready to name David Gordon Green as my favorite modern director. He combines Terrence Mali...

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

A poster on one of the forums I frequent once described Forgetting Sarah Marshall as the "Apatow-produced film most like Freaks and Ge...

Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

The more Bergman films I watch the more I find myself arriving at one conclusion: Ingmar Bergman makes psychoanalysis in film redundant. Any...

Before Sunrise

The best romantic films are always the simplest, aren't they? Annie Hall , When Harry Met Sally , Chasing Amy , they all keep the confli...

Capote

Most biopics fancy themselves as insightful exposés of their subjects, revealing looks into the pathos and addictions and flaws that drove m...

Spun

Spun is just about the unlikeliest movie you'd expect to be saved by its actors, but it's easier to understand why when you look at...

Religulous

When I reviewed Kirk Cameron's Fireproof for my school paper, I incurred all sorts of hate mail for being a despicable atheist liberal....

Choke

When I hear of a movie in the pipeline based on a novel, I occasionally squeeze in the space to read the novel beforehand. I don't recom...

Changeling

I looked over my other reviews for Clint Eastwood's films, and I find that I bring up the fact that I just can't fall in love with t...

Battlestar Galactica — Season 1

It's almost wrong to call this a "re-imagining" of the original Battlestar Galactica . The original essentially condensed the ...

The Player

People often like to say that a director or an actor couldn't have made a certain movie of theirs when they were younger, that experienc...