Flicks w/ The Film Snob

The Cove succeeds in confronting us with the arrogance of man towards another intelligent species, while highlighting the courage of a few people who are committed to making the killing stop.

With a free-floating style that approximates a child's real journey from a child's point of view, Where the Wild Things Are is a fantasy film with a direct link to emotional truth.

Michael Moore argues that capitalism is our problem, and that it has to be replaced with true democracy if we are to survive as a nation and a planet.

A film of intense, dreamlike imagery, The Seventh Seal surprised audiences with its conviction that religious and philosophical questions can be handled powerfully in a motion picture.

A portrait of Gertrude Berg, the creator, writer and star of The Goldbergs, a hugely popular family comedy on radio, and then a hit on early TV.

The Informant! is an uncomfortable comedy, and that's exactly what it wants to be.

Milos Forman's bittersweet comedy of aimless Czech youth was his best film before he fled to the U.S.

A ray of light falls on the mystery of the true artist in a marvelous, award-winning film from France called Seraphine.

In the Loop is a very sharp and biting British satire depicting the lead-up to war in the Middle East as a petty catfight between rival politicians.

This film is a stupendous, endlessly thought-provoking experience, and it helped begin a process of reckoning for a new generation of Germans whose parents had hidden the past from them out of shame and denial.

Loulou feels neither joyous nor depressing, but simply and satisfyingly real.

Summer Hours combines the depth of a novel with the lyric tone of a poem.

This wise, starkly beautiful, unsentimental and drily humorous film about sheepherders in Kazakhstan is a completely realized work of art.

Kathryn Bigelow's terrific new film The Hurt Locker is about an Army unit of explosive ordinance disposal technicians in 2004 Iraq—or to put it bluntly, guys who defuse roadside bombs.

Public Enemies, the new crime film by Michael Mann, has an almost constant propulsive movement to it. Johnny Depp plays John Dillinger as a smart man of few words who gets off on being daring and reckless.