Love in the Time of Record Shops

By Jennifer Makowsky

Technology may have changed the way we obtain music, but as Nick Hornby's High Fidelity reminds us, it can never alter our love affair with the medium. [21 April 2008]

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Chéri

By Cynthia Fuchs

Chéri's saga of bad parenting ostensibly has to do with designs and rituals of love. [26 June 2009]

The Hit

By Stephen Snart

This opens as a full-on gritty gangster film, but radically shifts gears to become a psychedelic head trip about questioning self-identity. [16 June 2009]

The Queen (2006)

By Jake Meaney

When acting the part of a living icon, the aim is to achieve "likeness" rather than the "like", to interpret rather than replicate. [30 April 2007]

The Queen (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The several shots of Elizabeth II driving her SUV over bumpy roadways are quite the highlight in The Queen. [4 October 2006]

Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)

By Jesse Hicks

Mrs. Henderson (Judi Dench) is 'old money', but age and wealth haven't dulled her tongue or tempered her personality. [23 February 2006]

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The title refers to many 'things,' most simultaneously dirty and pretty. [5 April 2004]

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Dirty Pretty Things is a film about beaten down, exhausted, tenaciously hopeful workers. [7 August 2003]

Liam (2000)

By Renie Scolaro Rathke

Sadly, and perhaps realistically, 'Liam' never fills in its silent spaces. [1 January 1995]

High Fidelity (2000)

By P. Nelson Reinsch

In keeping with the spirit of the film itself, I humbly offer the top 5 reasons the new film High Fidelity is worth seeing.

Short Ends and Leader: Chéri (2009)

Short Ends and Leader: The Deal (2003)