Full Reviews (Updated 4/12)

Full Reviews (Published Elsewhere)

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12 Angry Men (1957)
A Proper Violence (2011)
A Town Called Panic (2009)
“Actuality Dramas” of Allan King, The (1967-2005)
Ajami (2009)
Amarcord (1973)
Americatown (2011)
Angels Crest (2011)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Art of the Steal, The (2009)
Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Bambi (1942)
Basil Dearden’s London Underground (1958-1962)
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Battle of Algiers, The (1966)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Born to Be Wild 3D (2011)
Brotherhood (2011)
Buck (2011)
Chameleon, The (2011)
Come Undone (2010)
Cronos (1993)
Country Strong (2011)
Darjeeling Limited, The (2007)
David Holzman’s Diary (1967)
Daylight (2011)
Despicable Me (2010)
Devil’s Double, The (2011)
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The (2009)
Double Life of Veronique, The (1991)
Duel, The (1971)
Elephant in the Living Room, The (2011)
Every Day (2011)
Excaliber (1981)
Fish Tank (2009)
Gabi on the Roof in July (2011)
Garbo: The Spy (2011)
Glitch in the Grid (2011)
Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)
Green Hornet, The (2011)
Griff the Invisible (2010)
Helena From the Wedding (2010)
High and Low (1963)
Hop (2011)
Hot Summer Days (2010)
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Identification of a Woman (1982)
If… (1968)
I’m Gonna Explode (2008)
Inception (2010)
Interview: Evan Glodell
Interview: John Sayles
Interview: Nicolas Winding Refn
It Came From Kuchar (2009)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Jess + Moss (2012)
Jim (2010)
Jolene (2010)
Kalamity (2010)
Killing, The (1956)
King of Devil’s Island (2011)
King of Kings (1961)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Korkoro (2011)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Kuroneko (1968)
Last Rites of Joe May, The (2011)
Le Beau Serge (1958)
Lemon Drop Kid, The (1951)
Lincoln Lawyer, The (2011)
Long Good Friday, The (1980)
Los Labios (2011)
Maid, The (2009)
Moment of Truth, The (1965)
Monte Walsh (1970)
Most Dangerous Man In America, The (2009)
Mugabe and the White African (2010)
Music Room, The (1959)
My Life as a Dog (1985)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Oath, The (2010)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
Perfect Age of Rock ‘N’ Roll, The (2009)
Perfect Sense (2012)
Picture Me (2009)
R (2011)
Raffaello Matarazzo’s “Runaway Melodramas“ (1949-1955)
Rampart (2011)
Rango (2011)
Rebirth (2011)
Red Hill (2010)
Reversion (2011)
Safe House (2012)
Searchers 2.0 (2007)
Secret Sunshine (2007)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Shit Year (2010)
Sidewalls (2011)
Smash His Camera (2009)
Soft Skin, The (1964)
Soul Surfer (2011)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sweetgrass (2009)
Stolen (2010)
Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984)
To Be Heard (2011)
Toll Booth (2010)
Undefeated (2011)
Vengeance (2009)
Videocracy (2009)
Walking Dead: The Complete First Season, The (2010)
Wall Street (1987)
Whale, The (2011)
Winter’s Bone (2010)
Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (2000)
You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (2011)
Zazie Dans le Metro (1960)
Zenith (2011)

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“B-Role” Column 
#1: Dark Waters (1944)
#2: Wichita (1955)

AFI FEST 2011
#1: Introduction, J. Edgar
#2: This is Not a Film, Almayer’s Folly, Hanaan
#3: Faust, Snowtown
#4: A Separation, The Color Wheel, Green
#5: The Turin Horse

SDAFF 2011
#1: Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, Ninja Kid!!!, Aftershock, A City of Sadness

Cannes 2011
#1: Introduction
#2: Midnight in Paris, Bellflower, Sleeping Beauty
#3: We Need to Talk About Kevin, Trablahar Cansa, Polisse
#4: Miss Bala, Habemus Papam, Airirang
#5: The Kid With the Bike, Pina, Good Bye
#6: The Artist, Martha Marcy May Marlene, House of Tolerance
#7: The Tree of Life
#8: Le Havre, Hors Satan, Pater
#9: Melancholia
#10: The Skin I Live In, Hari-kiki: The Death of a Samurai, Skoonheid
#11: Drive, The Day He Arrives, This Must Be the Place
#12: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Oslo, 31. August, Awards Predictions
#13: Hanezu, Elena, The Source, et. al.

SDLFF 2011
#1: We Are What We Are, The Fish Child, Elite
#2: El Atentado, Besouro

AFIFEST 2010
#1: Introduction, Certified Copy
#2: Aardvark, Rubber, The Human Resources Manager
#3: Hahaha, Okie’s Movie
#4: Blue Valentine
#5: Outrage, The Housemaid (2010), Littlerock
#6: Amigo
#7: Heartbeats
#8: 13 Assassins

SDAFF 2010
#1: Introduction, Legend of the Fist: The Legend of Chen Zhen
#2: Macho Like Me, Bodyguards and Assassins, Alien vs. Ninja
#3: City of Life and Death, 71: Into the Fire
#4: House of Suh, Tibet In Song
#5: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Reviews:
Grey Matter (2011)
Red White & Blue (2010)
Summer of ’86: Howard the Duck (1986)
Summer of ’86: Manhunter (1986)
Summer of ’86: Transformers: The Movie (1986)
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30 Minutes of Less (2011)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
A Separation (2011)
Act of Valor (2012)
Adventures of Tintin, The (2011)
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Artist, The (2011)
Attack the Block (2011)
Beginners (2011)
Bellflower (2011)
Blank City (2011)
Brighton Rock (2011)
Chronicle (2012)
Comic Con 2011: Part I
Comic Con 2011: Part II
Contagion (2011)
Deep Blue Sea, The (2012)
Descendants, The (2011)
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
Drive (2011)
Fall Movie Preview: 2011
Fright Night (2011)
Grey, The (2012)
Guard, The (2011)
Happy Feet 2 (2011)
Haywire (2012)
Hell and Back Again (2011)
Help, The (2011)
Higher Ground (2011)
Hugo (2011)
Hunger Games, The (2012)
Ides of March, The (2011)
If A Tree Falls (2011)
In Time (2011)
Interview: Brit Marling and Mike Cahill
Interview: John Cho
Into the Abyss (2011)
J. Edgar (2011)
John Carter (2012)
LAFF 2011: Preview
LAFF 2011: Wrap-Up
Lists: The Best Holiday Movies
Lists: 10 Best (Recent) Horror Films
Lists: 5 Best Thanksgiving Films
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Melancholia (2011)
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Moneyball (2011)
My Week With Marilyn (2011)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Point Blank (2011)
Raid: Redemption, The (2012)
Real Steel (2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Robber, The (2011)
Rum Diary, The (2011)
Senna (2011)
Shame (2011)
Skin I Live In, The (2011)
Take Shelter (2011)
Terri (2011)
Thing, The (2011)
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Viva Riva! (2011)
War Horse (2011)
Warrior (2011)
Weekend (2011)
Whistleblower, The (2011)
Young Adult (2011)

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Meshes #1: Maya Deren and Miranda July
Meshes #2: L’Avventura and Everyone Else
Meshes #3: Les Vampires and Irma Vep
Meshes #4: Sideways and Old Joy
Meshes #5: Let the Right One In and Dogtooth

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Cedar Rapids (2011)
2011 TCM Classic Film Festival

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28 Weeks Later (2007)
Atlantic City (1980)
Chinatown (Intro) (1974)
Dark Age (1987)
Essential Killing (2011)
Event Horizon (1997)
Evil That Men Do, The (1984)
Foreign Affair, A (1948)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Kaboom (2011)
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Le Départ (1967)
Lightship, The (1985)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Night Moves (1975)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Red Line 7000 (1965)
Town That Dreaded Sundown, The (1976)

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A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop (2010)
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest , The (2009)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Topsy Turvy (1999)

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36 Fillette (1989) (Breillat Retrospective)
The American (2010)
Bluebeard (2010)
Brief Crossing (2001)
Carlos (5.5 Hour cut) (2010)
Centurion (2010)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2010)
Enter the Void (2010)
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010)
Fat Girl (2001)
Father of My Children, The (2010)
Fighter, The (2010)
How I Ended This Summer (2011)
I Am Love (2010)
Inception (2010)
Last Train Home (2010)
Let Me In (2010)
Looking For Eric (2010)
Micmacs (2010)
Restrepo (2010)
Social Network, The (2010)
Town, The (2010)
True Grit (2010)
Valhalla Rising (2010)
Wild Grass (2010)