The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

By PopMatters Staff

For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product. [11 January 2007]

Tokyo!

By Bill Gibron

A people so lost in their own hermetic insularity that human connections seem alien and almost dangerous. [12 July 2009]

Tôkyô!

By Cynthia Fuchs

Taken together, the three movies in Tôkyô! create a frightful, smart, and lingering impression. [22 April 2009]

Be Kind Rewind

By Andrew Gilstrap

Uneven and a little muddled, Be Kind Rewind might be a prime candidate for the very fan remixing it portrays. [19 June 2008]

Be Kind Rewind

By Cynthia Fuchs

A set of relationships -- father and son, past and present, fiction and something like history -- forms the foundation of Be Kind Rewind, another gently antic film by Michel Gondry. [22 February 2008]

The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)

By Jesse Hassenger

This film revels in blurriness; not just in the line between director and fictional character, but between people, languages, and of course, between sleeping and waking, between living and dreaming. [20 March 2007]

The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Written and directed by the ever inventive Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep is a gorgeous, weird, mesmeric movie, with adorable animated reveries to represent Stéphane's subjective state. [29 September 2006]

Dave Chappelles Block Party (2006)

By Dante A. Ciampaglia

Block Party sustains a balance between good-natured light-heartedness social commentary. [3 March 2006]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

At once abstract and heartfelt, sincere and weirdly charming, the film unhinges conventions of linear narrative along with romantic comedy. [18 March 2004]

Human Nature (2002)

By Kevin Devine

Human Nature is largely a study of the fine line between being innovative and being asinine. [2 May 2002]

Short Ends and Leader: Tokyo! (2008): Blu-ray

French director Gondry would rather play with paint than pixels [21 June 2007]