Toy Story 3
A solid children’s film isn’t really a children’s film at all. We all know that. But it takes a group of people working together toward that aim like Pixar...
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Inception
Sigmund Freud, that veritable master of the mind and erstwhile liaison betwixt the dream world and our own (is there really such a hard distinction between the two?), said,...
Food, Inc.
This is the kind of film that elicits a dropped jaw, the kind that never hinges closed until the credits roll. Food, Inc. is a much-needed biography. It does...
Brüno
Like Borat before it, Bruno can be offensive, funny, and absurd. What the former had that the latter doesn’t, however, is a kind of social commentary effect. Cohen has...
(500) Days of Summer
Life is lived continuously, but relived anecdotally. We tell our own stories to others, and they tell us theirs. War stories, embarrassments, stories about grief, loss, college, “that time...
The Hurt Locker
“As of Thursday, July 16, 2009, at least 4,324 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
One of the best original stories in recent years, the saga of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling is a story about a boy, his friends, his school, and his...
Adventureland
Coming of age, coming of age. It’s tough. We all have to do it. But not all of us did it in the 80′s, which is what Adventureland aims...
Dead Snow
Three words you should keep in mind: Norwegian, zombies, Nazis. What else do you need to know? This is a horror film brought to you by the fine folks...
Away We Go
Take all the good stuff from Garden State and Juno and a handful of other modern coming-of-age stories, and you will come close to Away We Go. The writing/directing...