The Red Shoes meets Repulsion in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a riveting piece of psychological ballet horror
A classic romantic comedy of the lightly screwball variety, Kristián is one of the best-remembered and most beloved Czech films of its period
Mike Leigh lends a steady hand and a careful eye and ear to Another Year, a tone-perfect, life-affirming film that ranks among his best work
TRON: Legacy is mesmerizing as as a two-hour music Daft Punk music video, a triumph of art design that’s fully captivating on style alone
The Social Network is a surprisingly profound story that lives in the “now” and demands to be seen by contemporary audiences
Brooding and atmospheric, the Aussie crime saga Animal Kingdom is an incredibly well-composed feature debut from director David Michôd
Exit Through the Gift Shop is, upon first glance, a disarmingly straightforward documentary about street art and street artists.
A Serious Man might be a little too subtle for mainstream tastes, pretentious and initially unsatisfying
Inception is a masterpiece, brilliant and complex, endlessly fascinating and thought-provoking and profound
A Single Man immediately identifies director Tom Ford as an auteur with impeccable control over his craft
Wildly imaginative, surprisingly dark and complex, Toy Story 3 ranks right up there with Pixar’s best films
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer is one of the director’s best films in his post-1970s career
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans is hugely entertaining, unexpectedly funny, with a fully wigged-out Nicolas Cage performance that mesmerizes
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