Flicks w/ The Film Snob

Four characters deal with love and change in this gorgeous and gentle French masterpiece.

There's pleasure in watching Jeff Bridges inhabit the character of an aging, alcoholic country singer in Crazy Heart.

A subtle comedy of power demonstrates how servitude can be internalized, corroding one's hopes and abilities.

Precious is that rare case where substance trumps style.

Toni Servillo is compelling in this extravagant portrait of sinister Italian politician Giulio Andreotti.

A hit-and-run accident symbolizes the alienation of Argentine society.

Jia Zhangke's brilliant 2000 film recreates a repressive world in the most counter-intuitive way: from the outside in.

A moving drama about two soldiers assigned to possibly the worst job one could imagine: telling next of kin that a loved one has been killed in action.

One of the most outrageous examples of a special kind of film that flourished in the 1930s: the screwball comedy.

Wes Anderson has made an animated film, which almost seems inevitable, and of course it's different than anything else you'll find out there.

Adapted from a famous novel by Maxim Gorky, Mother was an international success, and remains one of the universally acknowledged masterpieces of Soviet cinema.

This movie about an English girl who falls for a sophisticated older man is that rarity--a mainstream film of sharp intelligence and wit.

The Baader-Meinhof Complex tells the true story of a controversial radical group called the Red Army Faction, who went on a rampage in Germany in the 1970s, robbing banks, setting off bombs,and assassinating judges

The Yes Men Fix the World, the second film by the notorious political pranksters, provokes both laughter and thought.

Peter Davis's Oscar-winning 1974 documentary explores the tragedy of America's war in Vietnam.