Flicks w/ The Film Snob

The Last Picture Show is stark in atmosphere yet casual in its style--there's nothing quite like it, even in that great period of the early 1970s.

Gomorrah removes all traces of glamour and attractiveness from organized crime, affirming the soul of humanity in the midst of the worst degradation.

The Class is quite simply the liveliest and most convincing teacher movie I've ever seen.

Wendy and Lucy makes the human cost of economics simply and tangibly vivid.

Che is a formally rigorous, impeccably directed masterwork.

Three convicts go on a bank robbing spree in Robert Altman's 1974 revisionist take on the Depression crime movie.

Moscow, Belgium is a comedy that makes up for its modest ambition with a good deal of attitude.

Combining brutal honesty with a deep sense of empathy, Waltz With Bashir brings us inside the traumatized mind of the soldier who must live memories of the unthinkable.

The Film Snob presents his four favorite movies from the previous year.

For anyone who's ever thought of himself, in a sudden moment of fear, as "over the hill," The Wrestler is a poignant tribute.

The Fire Within has the bracing vigor and intelligence of tragic poetry.

Trouble the Water is a report from reality, a report that must be heeded.

Rather than emphasize Nixon's absurd, cartoonish qualities, Langella captures the man's dark, brooding self-centeredness and cunning.

In the end, I've Loved You So Long is not about guilt but the more difficult reality of shame.

Sean Penn's performance creates the magic that holds Milk together.