‘The Hurt Locker’ movie review: Kathryn Bigelow’s masterful Iraq War story
The Hurt Locker was the best film of 2009, and one of the best of the decade
February 23, 2010
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The Hurt Locker was the best film of 2009, and one of the best of the decade
Avatar is a technical revolution in filmmaking, as director James Cameron has mastered motion-capture animation
Michael Jackson’s This is It is part concert documentary, part backstage behind-the-scenes production footage, all fascinating
Man on Wire tells Petit’s incredible tale, and lets Petit tell it himself a good portion of the time
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a real pleasure to watch, an audacious and inventive amalgamation of spaghetti westerns and WWII exploitation films,
Pixar’s Up doesn’t quite reach the heights of Ratatouille and Wall-E, the kind of wonderful, transcendent animated films that Hollywood rarely sees
Mickey Rourke is nothing short of phenomenal in The Wrestler, an intimate, personal drama from director Darren Aronofsky
Public Enemies, starring Christian Bale and Johnny Depp, is Michael Mann’s finest film: an out-and-out masterpiece and an immense technical achievement
Kinoautomat was the world’s first interactive movie, which premiered at the World Expo in Montreal back in 1967
Star Trek is the kind of Hollywood blockbuster that hasn’t been seen since Spielberg and Lucas were in their prime
Synecdoche, New York, is the best translation of a Charlie Kaufman screenplay to the screen yet
Toys in the Attic is a wonderful little children’s picture that’s plenty of fun for adults (especially animation buffs) to boot
Che; Part One is an incredible portrait of worldwide revolutionary icon Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
Changeling is a film that really delivers – compelling story, gorgeous production design, excellent performances
WALL·E, directed by Andrew Stanton, is a captivating animated film that manages to tell its story (mostly) without dialogue
The Dark Knight is the first film to truly transcend the genre trappings of a comic-book movie and give us a legitimate piece of visionary cinema
Speed Racer, an anime adaptation from the directors of The Matrix, is a dazzling, breathless, ultimately exhausting experience
In Bruges is one of those rare debut masterpieces that instantly identifies its creator as a major cinematic force
There Will Be Blood is an epic-scale near-masterpiece mitigated by a somewhat unsatisfying conclusion
The brilliant novel by Cormac McCarthy is brought to life page-by-page and – at times – word-by-word in the brilliant No Country for Old Men
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is the director’s best film in 25 years
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly tells the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who became paralyzed with “locked-in syndrome” after having a stroke in 1995
Citizen Havel is a fascinating, revealing documentary, that shows Czech president Václav Havel in rare form
Atonement seduces the audience with breathtaking visuals while providing a devastating emotional ride