Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

By Bill Gibron

Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season. [3 May 2007]

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

By Cynthia Fuchs

This bad lieutenant's pain is less punishment than righteous realignment, a reflection of the nutty, debased, and utterly chaotic world around him. He's not deviant. He's the new normal. [23 November 2009]

Encounters at the End of the World

By Cynthia Fuchs

The most noble pursuits, Encounters at the End of the World suggests, are reverent communions and painstaking observations of wild life. [11 June 2008]

Rescue Dawn

By Jack Patrick Rodgers

Werner Herzog has made a career out of profiling men with impossible dreams who end up fighting against nature and society to make them a reality. [18 December 2007]

Rescue Dawn (2007)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Dieter's dedication grants him passion and strength, but the film never lets you forget the paradox he lives, his illicit status and the fact that "America" cannot rescue him. [6 July 2007]

Grizzly Man (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

In the bears, the film proposes, Treadwell found companionship and refuge, a way to escape or maybe remake himself. [12 August 2005]

Mixed Media: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? dir. Werner Herzog (trailer)

Short Ends and Leader: Herzog’s ‘Encounters’ Are More than Memorable

Warner Herzog describes his new nature documentary as ‘a comedy’ [26 June 2008]