Coming Soon |
May 6 |
| I'm Not There(Haynes has given us a picture that identifies humanity as machines looking for Truth in knowledge when the only Truth, baby, is Beauty.) |
| Teeth(nasty camp horror) |
| Dans Paris(melancholic mood with bursts of euphoria) |
| Delirious(doesn't exaggerate a brutal and unstable process) |
| The Business of Being Born(Its feminism is palpable but unspoken.) |
| I Really Hate My Job(three waitresses, one cook and a dishwasher) |
| Bella(During the screening I attended, nearly the entire theater burst out laughing at the violent death of a child.) |
| Over Her Dead Body(takes the low road more often than not) |
| First Sunday(weak) |
| P.S. I Love You(it isn't enough) |
| Military Intelligence and You!(changing the threat level from orange to tangerine to butterscotch) |
| How to Cook Your Life(Mr. Brown's personality.) |
| Tre(sexual chemistry running amuck) |
| Saawariya(incidental smoking) |
May 13 |
| Lost in Beijing(harsh vantage points) |
| Walk All Over Me(whip it good) |
| The Great Debaters(stumbling on a lynching or having to endure humiliation) |
| Raisin in the Sun (2008)(a deferred dream dries up like a raisin in the sun) |
| Botched(cheapness and ineptitude like badges of honour) |
| Untraceable(the first victim is a kitten) |
| Youth Without Youth(dogged by Europudding) |
May 20 |
| What Would Jesus Buy?(the church of consumerism) |
| Vexille(throbbing) |
| The Entrance(official) |
| Square Pegs(It behooves us...) |
| National Treasure: Book of Secrets(patriotic pornography) |
| Killing Zelda Sparks(official) |
| Park(bullets for the gun) |
| The Willow Tree(Tehran, Iran) |
May 27 |
| Grace is Gone(starts raw, gets rawer) |
| Cassandra's Dream(in his Raskolnikov mood) |
| Phenomena(insects have souls, too) |
| Interstate(Is it any good? Hell yes!) |
| Cleaner(commissioned by the New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna) |
| The Walker(featuring the shivery voice of Bryan Ferry) |
| Muhammad: The Last Prophet(utopian image) |
| Rambo(featuring the world's bloodthirstiest senior citizen) |
New Releases |
April 29 |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly(grim but beautiful) |
| 27 Dresses(looks nice and tastes like glue) |
| Nanking(anguish) |
| The Living End(true romantic longing) |
| Pearl Diver(mysterious family of Mennonite descent) |
| The Guatemalan Handshake(toast) |
| Bernard and Doris(Get crackin'.) |
| The Golden Compass(pity) |
| The Red Balloon(on the list of essentials) |
| White Mane(popular with children) |
April 22 |
| The Orphanage(What's beneath that wallpaper?) |
| Punk Love(It's a dark, realistic and sad film that made me cry several times.) |
| Trailer Park Boys: The Movie(Everyone dreams about the Big Dirty.) |
| Romulus, My Father(Australian) |
| Charlie Wilson's War(blowback and unforeseen consequences) |
| One Missed Call (2008)(on the shortlist for least essential movie of the decade) |
| Cloverfield(They're us.) |
| Hannah Takes the Stairs(mumblecore) |
| The Savages(strains the very definition of family) |
| Starting Out in the Evening(carefully modulated) |
April 15 |
| Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem(a city full of America's blandest stereotypes comes under siege) |
| Lars and the Real Girl(his need to finally become part of the world) |
| Juno(Good for her.) |
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead(the big surprise is that they're married . . . to each other!) |
| Bamako(an open-air courtyard in Mali) |
| Inside(Inside is gutsy) |
| I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With(exploit the menace) |
April 8 |
| There Will Be Blood(a bold, bald equation of the fruitless pursuit of capitalism with the essential, utter emptiness of religion) |
| P2(playfully accentuated by blood streaks) |
| The Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep(all sorts of hijinks) |
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story(I think this just about establishes a standard for gratuitous nudity.) |
| The World According to Shorts(an eclectic palate cleanser) |
| Resurrecting the Champ(see it) |
| The 11th Hour(so futile) |
| Music Within(endure the contemptuous glances of passersby) |
| Partition(ONE LOVE) |
| Lions for Lambs(humiliating) |
| Reservation Road(make male pain rewarding as a spectator sport) |
April 1 |
| The Good Night(Snap out of it, perhaps?) |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)(It all could have been much, much worse.) |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)(pitch-black humour and gleeful wallow in absurd mercilessness enjoyed) |
| Kaos(a deification of nature) |
| John from Cincinnati(in a tired coastal town) |
March 25 |
| Lost Highway(Lost Highway is also notable for the last film appearances of Richard Pryor, Jack Nance) |
| James Ellroy's Feast of Death(Ellroy's novels have been historical novels about the relationship of corruption and law enforcement.) |
| Them(Ils) |
| The Kite Runner(glum) |
| Wristcutters: A Love Story(a grubby, run-down limbo) |
| Kiltro(Chilean) |
| Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death ...and Insects(wry, darkly comic, twisted rock songs) |
| Jimmy Carter Man from Plains(Jimmy Carter is a true hero and a role model for the world.) |
| Pu-239(playing the new, and fatally rigged, game of capitalism) |
March 18 |
| Enchanted(It's like junk food you won't get a tummy ache from eating too much of.) |
| Atonement(an awakened conscience means less in real life than it does in books) |
| Southland Tales(Fiasco) |
| I am Legend(an idiot caught in a lie and babbling away to the conviction of no one) |
| Battlestar Galactica: Season 3(The Cylons) |
| Revolver(Actually, the film stock itself is better than the film deserves.) |
| Mulberry Street(genuine paranoia and pragmatism) |
| Borderland(too sophisticated to be overtly racist) |
| Love in the Time of Cholera(Lifetime by way of Telemundo) |
| The Seeker: The Dark is Rising(sulking over his fate) |
March 11 |
| Bee Movie(Big Honey) |
| No Country for Old Men(The world as we know it is ash--it was always ash.) |
| Dan in Real Life(life really is a mess, and love is a mess, and who would have it any other way?) |
| Five Days(One hot summer day a young mother and her children inexplicably vanish...) |
| Trained in the Ways of Men(Shelly Prevost) |
| Tin Man(a sorceress whose minions include jack-booted, leather-wearing Gestapo types and flying bat-like CGI monkeys emanating -- no lie -- from her villainous cleavage) |
| Nancy Drew(As a mystery, in the most literal sense, it's possibly the most mysterious film of the year.) |
| Hitman(as part of their commitment to professional invisibility, they're all shaved bald and tattooed with UPC symbols on the backs of their heads) |
| Summer Palace(mapping the zone in which eros intersects with politics) |
| Lake of Fire(luminous) |
March 4 |
| Male Fantasy(unapologetically crude affair blessed with all the technical prowess of early John Waters) |
| Experiment(for the 21st century) |
| My Kid Could Paint That(Every day, children do amazing things that parents try to record, understand, and convey, because adults want everyone to appreciate their kids as much as they do.) |
| En La Cama(Orgasmic relief coupled to confessional absolution is a great doubleshot!!) |
| Half Moon(commissioned by the New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna) |
| Things We Lost in the Fire(Bier is notable for her willingness to deal seriously and unapologetically with the strongest possible emotions.) |
| Into the Wild(I saw merely doom and desperation.) |
| Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium(So its not all rainbow-colored candy.) |
| Khadak(Winner Lion of the Future) |
| 101 Dalmatians(she provided the voice of the villainous, selfish socialite Cruella De Vil) |