Salt

[Note: there's no way to discuss this film without getting into some spoilers. It's just the way the film is structured. So, fair wa...

It Might Get Loud

It Might Get Loud is based on a foundation so simple and ingenious that it's incredible that a dozen fan films haven't been made in...

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson

Appropriate to its subject, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson begins not with the various accolades expected of a puff piece d...

Black Narcissus

What is it about classical British directors and their upfront focus on sensuality? Chaplin may not have let his ephebophilic predilections ...

Le Gai Savoir

Portions of Godard's Le gai savoir were filmed before he jetted off to London to muck about with the Rolling Stones, but the final prod...

Sympathy for the Devil (a.k.a. One Plus One)

[Note, in the wake of Jean-Luc Godard's final work of his "classic" period, Week End , I will continue to review works by the ...

Insomnia (2002)

That Christopher Nolan's first film, Following , should go largely unheralded makes sense. The public often views an artist's first ...

Breaking Bad — Season 2

*Warning – contains spoilers* Breaking Bad 's second season leaps so far above the bar it set for itself with the first seven episodes t...

The Parallax View

When The Manchurian Candidate hit theaters in 1962, critics loved its audacity, its tight structuring and the freshness and twist of irony ...

The Prestige

Every year promises at least one case where two films hit theaters with remarkably similar premises, and the stale nature of Hollywood progr...