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  • Monster Cover Art 2004
    Director:
    Patty Jenkins

    Charlize Theron stars in Monster, a shockingly moving film that burrows deep beneath the tabloid-sized headline stories on Aileen Wuornos, the man-hating --- and murdering --- serial killer executed last year in Florida. Director Patty Jenkins unearths a love story in the midst of the horrors and pathologies of two misfits: Wuornos, a drifter prostitute who kills many of her ...

    Our Take: Critics called Charlize Theron's performance among the best in the history of movie acting. They were right.

  • Director:
    David Lynch

    A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles from the wreck with a head wound, and in time makes her way into an apartment with no ...

    Our Take: “No hay Banda” says a stage performer as she sings to the music of a non-existent band. This is just a taste of David Lynch’s surreal world in Mulholland Drive. A mind-blowingly complex performance by Naomi Watts and a picture of a world where no one and nothing is as it seems, make this arguably the director’s best film but irrefutably the most discussed.

  • Director:
    Allan Moyle

    A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small Nova Scotia town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.

  • Nola Cover Art 2003
    Director:
    Alan Hruska

    Nola (Emmy Rossum) is a Kansas teen who runs away to New York City to escape an abusive stepfather. Once she gets to the big town, she sets about looking for a job and for her father, whom she's never met. She attacks both tasks with fierce determination, but has little success, until she stumbles upon a greasy spoon near ...

  • Director:
    Caroline Link

    Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) is a successful Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Aware of the increasing dangers of remaining in Germany, Walter seeks exile on a farm in Kenya, while his socially prominent wife, Jettel (Juliane Koehler), and his young daughter, Regina (Lea Kurka), stay behind, as does his father, Max (Gerd Heinz), ...

    Our Take: The Holocaust continues to provide the backdrop to some of the most memorable films. This film by German filmmaker Caroline Link went on to win the Oscar® for best foreign language film as it explores the world of a family with a daughter, roughly the age of Anne Frank, who survive the War as an exile in Africa.

  • Director:
    John Sayles

    May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana, which she had eagerly left years before. She drinks heavily and vents her bitterness on the succession of nurses hired to take care of her, who immediately quit because ...

    Our Take: This beautifully directed and acted story is one of the few movies that gets it right about the wonderful and deep friendships that can develop between even the most different women.

  • Director:
    Peter Sollett

    Victor is growing up on the Lower East Side and is at the age where he is driven by desire and unchained by maturity. His image as a ladies man is shattered when he is found in Fat Donna's bedroom. Soon, as a result of his sister's big mouth, the whole Dominican community knows. Full of confidence, Victor sets out ...

    Our Take: A refreshingly intimate, tender, and comic portrayal of three Hispanic teens trying to grow up facing familiar problems with unique approaches.

  • Director:
    Darren Aronofsky

    Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest ...

    Our Take: Yes it is a harrowing depiction of drug use- but we chose it because it is one of the artistically impressive movies of our time. Director Aronofsky takes you on a journey of the senses you will never forget.

  • Director:
    Dylan Kidd

    Set against the bright lights of Manhattan, a tale which takes a comic, urbane look at the modern male ego at war in the singles scene trenches. Roger Swanson is a hopelessly cynical advertising copywriter with a razor-sharp wit who believes he has mastered the art of manipulating women. But Roger's seemingly foolproof world of smooth talk and casual sex ...

  • Director:
    James Ivory

    Nominated for eight Oscars in 1986, including Best Picture, and winner of three (Costumes, Art Direction and Adapted Screenplay), A Room with a View is the film that defined Merchant-Ivory as the masters of the romantic period piece. A brilliant adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, A Room with a View tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy ...

    Our Take: One of the most sensual and romantic movies ever made, period.

  • Secretary Cover Art 2002
    Director:
    Steven Shainberg

    Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing ...

    Our Take: A funny and romantic movie about loneliness, sex, power, pain and subordination, featuring Maggie Gyllenhall's star-making performance.

  • Director:
    Steven Soderbergh

    Ann is married to John, who is having an affair with her sister Cynthia. Ann's a quiet type and unwilling to let herself go. When John's old friend, Graham, shows up, all their lives change. Graham likes to videotape interviews with women.

    Our Take: This has been called the movie that put the Sundance Film Festival on the map- it is talked about in every book, movie, and article on modern American film.

  • Sexy Beast Cover Art 2000
    Director:
    Jonathan Glazer

    Gal, a retired gangster, lives a happy life with his wife Deedee in a beatiful house in spain. Don Logan, a respected name with the mob and an old "friend" to Gal, suddenly shows up. He wants Gal to join him on this big strike in London together with a well picked out gang of respected gangsters. When Gal keeps ...

    Our Take: Ben Kingsley plays a wicked but sympathetic gangster. He's totally believable!

  • Director:
    Billy Ray

    This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or completely made up. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass ...

    Our Take: Pay close attention to every detail and nuance in the film, by then end you will want to rethink all of your assumptions. Another great Peter Sarsgaard performance.

  • Sideways Cover Art 2004
    Director:
    Alexander Payne

    Miles is a failed writer living a meager existence in San Diego as an English teacher. With his career seemingly fading and the fate of a book hinging on a publisher's decision, Miles is depressed with himself and what he hasn't achieved. Jack is a television actor whom some recognize but not many do, as if he were a minor ...

    Our Take: We rarely see the friendship between two guys as the central plot point of a film, and even more rarely explored with such humor, keen observation and deft acting.

  • Director:
    David Mamet

    Having left New Hampshire over excessive demands by the locals, the cast and crew of "The Old Mill" moves their movie shoot to a small town in Vermont. However, they soon discover that The Old Mill burned down in 1960, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take her top off, and the locals aren't quite as ...

    Our Take: A fun look at what happens when the circus, or in this case, Hollywood comes to town. David Mamet's direction of this ensemble piece is wonderful

  • Tadpole Cover Art 2002
    Director:
    Gary Winick

    Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win ...

    Our Take: One of the early examples of digital filmmaking that hit the big screen- a May/September romantic comedy on New York's upper east side. Sigourney Weaver is very convincing as a step mother being romantically pursued by her step son.

  • Director:
    Miguel Arteta

    Director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White, who had previously collaborated on Chuck and Buck, turn an eye toward suburban boredom with the quirky comedy The Good Girl. Jennifer Aniston stars as Justine, a woman who is feeling constrained by her life. Her husband, Phil (John C. Reilly), is a house painter who spends the majority of his time smoking ...

    Our Take: Good girls never have it easy. Neither does Jennifer Aniston in her unconventional performance as a super-market clerk in small-town Texas who embarks on a love affair to find meaning and stimulation in her otherwise dead-end life.

  • Director:
    Danny Leiner

    Avinash alias Avi and his partner Satish are Manhattan-based Security guards, hired in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York. They have now been assigned to ensure the protection of a visiting Indian General, Ganjee. While Avi is a flirt, and of a cheerful disposition, Satish is quite grouchy, wrestling with personal and family problems. ...

    Our Take: Watch Maggie Gyllenhaal do her special magic on the screen. This film takes you inside the characters in a super competetive world of high end cake making and drills deeply into really bad psychotherapy. The high stakes drive people crazy - suicidal.

  • The Limey Cover Art 1999
    Director:
    Steven Soderbergh

    Two actors best known for their work in the late 1960s, Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, star in The Limey, a drama in which a recently released felon contemplates the gulf between aging criminals like himself and their modern counterparts. Wilson (Stamp) is a British career criminal who has been released after nine years in prison. He has learned that ...