Flicks w/ The Film Snob

Food, Inc. presents the most comprehensive indictment of the food factory system ever made on film.

Carol Reed's classic, about the hunt for a wounded gunman in Northern Ireland, brings a profoundly spiritual point of view to a political theme.

Director James Toback is a personal friend of Mike Tyson, and gets the notorious heavyweight to tell his story directly to the camera in his own words.

Sabotage is perhaps the finest achievement of Alfred Hitchcock's early British period.

The Garden documents a community's struggle to save the community garden in South Central L.A. from a developer who plans to tear the garden down and put up a warehouse.

One of the best-kept secrets in American politics is that in the right wing's attack on gay rights, many of the politicians who are supporting and sometimes even leading the attack are themselves closeted gays.

Ashes & Diamonds expresses a deeply ironic humanism, and touches a wealth of insights and feelings experienced when we are poised on the edge of the unknown.

Hunger, a film about the 1981 hunger strike led by IRA leader Bobby Sands in Belfast's Maze Prison, is a thoroughly devastating work of cinematic art.

Sugar makes something special out of a normally rather predictable genre, the sports film.

State of Play is a smarter-than-average suspense thriller centered around the capable star performance of Russell Crowe.

Tokyo! is a compelling portrait of loneliness and wonder.

The Awful Truth is a film about the fun of sparring love partners. The idea is that marriage is inherently funny, yet still worthwhile. No wonder the movie was a hit.

Adventureland is a mainstream romantic comedy, but rather than go by the book, the director chooses to portray the real anxieties and often foolish choices of characters who have no idea what to do with their lives.

La Belle et la Bete is an exquisite little gem that recreates the magic feeling of a fairy tale without sacrificing the darkness and mystery within the form.

The Black Balloon depicts, without a trace of sentimentality, a family struggling with autism.