ON DVD/BLU-RAYThe PrestigeFor Memento director Christopher Nolan, The Prestige marks a decisive return to form. It’s a film about two magicians, once part of the same act, holding a mutual grudge. Each goes to extraordinary lengths trying to disrupt the other’s career in a story that is, itself, full of illusion and misdirection.
ON DVD/BLU-RAYMiami ViceThis hard-boiled cop movie inflates with a sense of romantic wonder and possibility.
ON DVD/BLU-RAYThe HostThe Host is a fairly delightful combination -- dysfunctional-family comedy set against a Gojira-style monster movie about mutant Mother Nature run amuck.
IN THEATERSA Scanner DarklyIn the near-future science fiction world of A Scanner Darkly, narc agents are polymorphous detectives, wearing “scramble suits” that cycle, both visually and aurally, through scores of identity fragments to avoid detection by face-recognition systems.
Screening Log
- Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013) 73/100
- Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2012) 56/100
- her (Spike Jonze, 2013) 46/100
- Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013) 85/100
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) 92/100
- American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013) 44/100
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, 2013) 19/100
- Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow, 2013) 71/100
- Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013) 62/100
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2013) 88/100
- Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) 70/100
- The Counselor (Ridley Scott, 2013) 77/100
- Bad Grandpa (Jeff Tremaine, 2013) 48/100
- All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor, 2013) 71/100
- Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013) 57/100
- John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness * (John Carpenter, 1987) 85/100
- Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 2009) 91/100
- Riddick (David Twohy, 2013) 53/100
- After Tiller (Martha Shane and Lana Wilson, 2013) 54/100
- Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton, 2013) 61/100
- Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013) 63/100
- You're Next (Adam Wingard, 2011) 64/100
- Q * (Larry Cohen, 1982) 65/100
- The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013) 68/100
- The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai, 2013) 67/100
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) 66/100
- Passion (Brian De Palma, 2012) 53/100
- Swamp Thing (Wes Craven, 2009) 60/100
- Sound City (Dave Grohl, 2013) 55/100
- Exotica * (Atom Egoyan, 1994) 98/100
Top Ten List (by IMDB date: first public screening)
- The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
- Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
- United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
- Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006)
- The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
- Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 2006)
- A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
- The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006)
- Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006)
- Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, 2006)
2006 U.S. Releases by Grade
- Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) B+
- The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) B+
- Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006) B+
- This Filthy World (Jeff Garlin, 2006) B
- Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 2006) B+
- Perfume (Tom Tykwer, 2006) B+
- Turistas (John Stockwell, 2006) C+
- The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006) A
- Tideland (Terry Gilliam, 2005) B+
- Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006) A-
- A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006) B+
- Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004) B-
- Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005) B-
2006 U.S. Releases by Title
- Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006) B+
- Perfume (Tom Tykwer, 2006) B+
- Tideland (Terry Gilliam, 2005) B+
- Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005) B-
- Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004) B-
- Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 2006) B+
- The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) B+
- Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) B+
- Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006) A-
- The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006) A
- A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006) B+
- This Filthy World (Jeff Garlin, 2006) B
- Turistas (John Stockwell, 2006) C+
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