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Zodiac (2007)
Zodiac is a film to lose yourself in. Directed by David Fincher with a perfectionist's eye for performance and an obsessive's attention to detail, it's also the director's first film that's primarily about people, instead of its own impressive...
The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
I remember seeing The Double Life of Véronique in the tiny upstairs auditorium (it had previously been the balcony) at the Esquire Theatre in Denver sometime in 1992. There were, I believe, seven people in the theater on a...
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)
Saddening but riveting, and possessed of a positively wicked wit, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is executed with the sensitivity of great literature and the panache of bravura filmmaking....
Miami Vice (2006)
There’s a scene somewhere in the middle of Miami Vice where Crockett, feeling some oats, sensibly decides to sow them in the direction of Gong Li. They get on a speedboat and whiz off into the ocean blue. You...
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
In 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. It’s a striking idea...
Se7en (1995)
David Fincher, whose brilliant career as a director of music videos encompassed such highs and lows as Madonna's "Express Yourself" and Rick Springfield's "Bop 'Til You Drop," has helmed an almost overly stylish thriller about the evil that men...
Don't Look Now (1973)
Seen from the uncompromising vantage of a quarter-century's passage of time, Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now is showing its age. The injudicious use of the zoom lens, impressionistic editing techniques, and an ill-advised sound mix featuring mainly Donald Sutherland's...
Battle Royale (2000)
A sensation in its native Japan and nigh unreleasable in the U.S., Battle Royale is one of the year's most amazing movies-a vicious take-off on reality TV that turns a high-school milieu dominated by cliques and childish relationships into...
Audition (2001)
The best way to see Takashi Miike's Audition might be to have it handed to you on an unmarked videotape by a friend who knows exactly what freaks you out. So you tabula-rasa types should check out of this...
Fight Club (1999)
Grubby, grimy, scary, bloody, cynical, violent, dangerously whacked-out and very, very funny, Fight Club is itself an act of provocation. It's a blast at staples of late 20th century life -- everything from the Ikea catalog and air travel...
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Stanley Kubrick makes a movie about ... monogamy. How good can that be?...
RoboCop (1987)
On the commentary track that accompanies the Criterion Collection's new DVD version of RoboCop, director Paul Verhoeven kicks things off by admitting that, on a first read of the film's script, he declined the project, mistaking it for just...
Wings of Desire (1987)
When I sat down again with Wings of Desire, showing it to a friend who had not yet encountered it, I approached it, as always, from the skeptic's viewpoint. Once again, I was ready to interrogate my own feelings...
