Flicks w/ The Film Snob

Whether you laugh contentedly or scratch your head may depend on how accustomed you are to making up your own mind about things.

Yi Yi is a true cinematic treasure.

Shotgun Stories is about the curse of hatred and revenge, and the ultimate futility of violence.

Caramel is an enjoyable and revealing entertainment.

The Counterfeiters, a film by Stefan Ruzowitzky, dramatizes one of the more bizarre episodes of World War III.

Once again, Van Sant has created a one-of-a-kind experience, with Paranoid Park evoking distant realms of the mind that are yet closer than we've ever imagined.

I'm sorry to say I've never seen The Rolling Stones live. Now with this film I feel like I've come pretty close.

Powerfully and artistically constructed, sometimes difficult to watch, Taxi to the Dark Side won the Academy Award for best documentary, and the honor was well deserved.

Jenkins has chosen the name of her fictional family well—The Savages reveals, with hard-won compassion, the primitive inner worlds of adult children.

This is a film that establishes a world of its own, with its own charms, subtle feelings and disorientations

The truth can hurt a lot, but there's a special power in that.

Starting Out is a film of careful and compassionate observation, a story that respects the complexity of the creative life, and the painful recognitions that take place near its end.

I look forward to sharing another great year of film with you. Happy movie-going!

Schnabel simulates the most agonizing separation one could imagine—locked-in syndrome resembles our human condition in more ways than one—yet at the same time this is a film of remarkable simplicity and freedom, a piece of quiet beauty.

The Orphanage gives us not just a haunted house, but the fear in a parent's haunted heart.