Monday, August 7 2006
Dont Come Knocking (2006)
A vivid, genuine exploration of a hell-raiser entering his twilight years apologetically and with an open heart.
Friday, April 14 2006
Dont Come Knocking (2006)
The reunion of Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard, coming some 20 years after Paris, Texas, demonstrates both the change and sameness in their art.
Monday, January 10 2005
High Art (1998)
Where other lesbian-themed films might ride the sweat-stained cliché for all it's worth, Cholodenko instead shows restraint.
Thursday, July 22 2004
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Embodying the ruthlessness of the eat-its-own CIA (as well as the entertainment industry), Bourne isn't seeking revenge in the usual sense.
Thursday, August 14 2003
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
The soldiers rebel in trivial but telling ways, more often than not imitating the very systems they think they're bucking.
Thursday, February 20 2003
The Life of David Gale (2003)
Only Clint Eastwood could have cooked up a more dramatic climax to an innocent-man-on-death-row plot, which he did, in True Crime.
