About These Reviews



A Short List of Recommended Films



(Note: Clicking on any of the film titles below will generally place you, rather abruptly, in the middle of one of my weekly columns, and many of the reviews begin with some sort of reference to the preceding review, which you may not yet have read. When in doubt, therefore, scroll. You'll find my letter grades up at the top.)


  • π
  • Affliction
  • American History X
  • Antz
  • Babe: Pig in the City
  • Beloved
  • Beyond Silence
  • The Big Lebowski [umpteenth viewing, Nov 2011]
  • The Big One
  • The Borrowers
  • Brigands: Chapter VII
  • Brother
  • A Bug's Life
  • Bulworth
  • The Butcher Boy
  • Carla's Song
  • The Celebration
  • Celebrity
  • Central Station
  • The Chambermaid on the Titanic
  • Character
  • A Civil Action
  • Clockwatchers
  • Comrades, Almost a Love Story
  • The Cruise
  • Dark City [haiku]
  • Destiny
  • The Eel
  • Elizabeth
  • The Emperor's Shadow
  • Fallen Angels (1995) [second viewing, Aug 2011]
  • The Farm: Angola, USA
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [second viewing, Jul 2011]
  • Fireworks (Hana-Bi)
  • Four Days in September
  • A Friend of the Deceased
  • Funny Games
  • Gadjo dilo
  • Genealogies of a Crime
  • The Gingerbread Man
  • Gods and Monsters
  • Hav Plenty
  • He Got Game [second viewing, Apr 2012]
  • Henry Fool
  • High Art
  • Hilary and Jackie
  • Hurricane Streets
  • I Went Down
  • illtown
  • The Impostors
  • Insomnia
  • Junk Mail
  • The Kingdom II
  • The Last Days of Disco
  • Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) [third viewing, Oct 2011]
  • Life of Jesus
  • Little Voice
  • Live Flesh
  • Living Out Loud
  • Love and Death on Long Island
  • Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
  • Marius and Jeannette
  • Men with Guns [haiku]
  • A Merry War
  • The Mighty
  • Monument Ave.
  • Moon over Broadway [haiku]
  • Mother and Son
  • Mr. Jealousy
  • Mrs Dalloway [haiku]
  • Mulan
  • The Newton Boys
  • Next Stop Wonderland
  • Nil by Mouth
  • One True Thing
  • Out of Sight [third viewing, Jul 2011]
  • Post Coitum
  • Pleasantville [second viewing, Jan 2012]
  • A Price Above Rubies
  • Psycho
  • Public Housing
  • Ronin
  • Rounders
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • See the Sea
  • Seventh Heaven
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • A Simple Plan
  • Slam
  • Smoke Signals
  • Snake Eyes
  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
  • The Spanish Prisoner
  • Storefront Hitchcock
  • Taste of Cherry
  • There's Something About Mary
  • The Thief
  • The Thin Red Line
  • The Truman Show
  • TwentyFourSeven
  • Twilight [haiku]
  • Two Girls and a Guy
  • Un air de famille
  • Under the Skin
  • Unmade Beds
  • Velvet Goldmine
  • Very Bad Things
  • Voyage to the Beginning of the World
  • Western
  • Your Friends & Neighbors
  • You're Laughing