Take The City And Run

Directed by Jonathan Demme
Great performance(s), no doubt. The way Demme lingers on shots to allow you to just watch Young and others sing or play is admirable and refreshing in contrast to the way so many live performances are shot and edited in the MTV era — especially considering how gorgeous the look of the […]

Directed by Bryan Singer
Clark Kent: You may sometimes be an outcast, but you will never be alone.
It’s been said that this is meant to be a sequel to 1978’s Superman Returns and 1980’s Superman II, with little or no regard for the later Superman III or Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. That’s all well […]

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3. Big Night
4. Fargo
5. Waiting For Guffman
6. Secrets & Lies
7. Bound
8. Everyone Says I Love You
9. Sling Blade
10. Trainspotting

Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Let’s face it: it is basically impossible for a documentary to be completely unfiltered. Just the very fact that a camera and microphone can only capture so much of an environment or event means there’s no way that a documentary can claim to show every point of view. But […]

Directed by John Ford
Olivia Dandridge: You don’t have to say it, Captain. I know all this is because of me… because I wanted to see the West… because I wasn’t, I wasn’t “Army” enough to stay the winter.
Captain Nathan Brittles: You’re not quite “Army” yet, miss… or you’d know never to apologize… it’s a sign […]

Directed by Richard Linklater
Celine: Well, who says relationships have to last forever?
Really quite a simple premise: a man and a woman meet, decide to spend a night roaming Vienna together. And they talk. Lots of talk. Talk about nothing and everything. It could easily be boring or obnoxious, but it’s not. Ethan Hawke and Julie […]

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Willard: It’s a way we had over here with living with ourselves. We cut ‘em in half with a machine gun and give ‘em a Band-Aid. It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies.
Hypnotic and totally engrossing. Once the final scenes roll around, you […]

Directed by Spike Jonze
Lotte Schwartz: Don’t stand in the way of my actualization as a man.
Much darker than I remembered. I think the reason it works is that it’s really a comedy — how can the concept not be funny? — but it’s mostly played out as a straight drama, which instills a necessary sense […]

Directed by Jared Hess
A disappointing follow-up to Napoleon Dynamite. It has its moments, but overall, it’s just not as good as it could be. Maybe the problem is that Jack Black is basically playing a version of the same character he usually plays, so there’s not as much to discover about the character as there […]

Directed by Deborah Scranton
Sergeant Shangraw: Well, I think it’s a fantastic opportunity for the Iraqis to establish a new history in the country and be able to be a free and democratic society, which in turn should stabilize the whole Middle East and create a freer and more stable earth as we know it.
Specialist Moriarty: […]

Directed by Michel Gondry
Dave Chappelle: This is the concert I always wanted to see!
Toward the end of the film, after the climactic onstage reunion of the Fugees, Lauryn Hill explains how she, Pras, and Wyclef Jean always had a “synergy” she could feel when they performed together and that she was able to feel it […]

Directed by Robert Altman
Garrison Keillor: Every show is your last show. That’s my philosophy.
Enjoyable, but it’s hard to tell if it will prove to be as significant as past Altman films. Altman likes to be somewhat enigmatic even when his message is pretty clear. Like so many of his films, this one has something to say, but […]