Second Thoughts: Adventureland

Nearly all of the reviews of contemporary reviews I've posted on this blog from its inception leading up to about July were submitted in...

Babel

Alejandro González Iñárritu sits at his desk, looking pensively at a screenplay he's just read. After taking a few deep breaths, he pick...

Pan's Labyrinth

[Warning -- contains spoilers] Guillermo Del Toro has always been fascinated with Gothic fantasy, both the Victorian romance/horror and the ...

The Wind Will Carry Us

Having seen only two of his films, I'm already discovering what it means to be an Abbas Kiarostami fan. Foremost is patience, the likes ...

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire is a film of constant juxtapositions, between light and dark, mortal and immortal, old and new, inner thou...

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

A s I sit here tonight, cradling a full stomach and nursing a head cold, I've turned to two things for comfort: Nyquil (so forgive me if...

Silent Light

A farmer, Johan (Cornelio Wall), lives in Northern Mexico with his children and wife, Esther (Miriam Toews). They are Mennonites, an Anabapt...

Days of Being Wild

Wong Kar-wai's first film, As Tears Go By , was a cookie-cutter crime drama that borrowed heavily from Scorsese's Mean Streets but ...

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Anyone who knows my opinions concerning Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series might wonder why I bothered to see the second film in the fou...

Aguirre: The Wrath of God

When people learn that I hope to become a film critic after I graduate college, they immediately ask me what my favorite film is. I'm no...