NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
Napoleon Dynamite is a film that is very easy to like, but at the same time, all too easy to hate.
GUNNER PALACE
Michael Tucker’s fundamentally dishonest documentary about American forces in Iraq tries desperately to appear anti-war, but instead comes across as state-sponsored propaganda…
GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST
Familiar as I was with the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, I could not have imagined how involved I would be in a documentary about that famous event.
THE GRUDGE (2004)
Come clean — aren’t you regretting a return to the Shithouse right about now?
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
Good Night, And Good Luck is by no means the last word on either Edward R. Murrow or Joseph McCarthy…
GONE
A fundamentalist fun park of fanaticism, holy devotion, and scare tactics so obscene and overwrought that I couldn’t help but rock back and forth with delight.
GOING UPRIVER: THE LONG WAR OF JOHN KERRY
Whatever you might think of 2004′s version of John Kerry, there is no denying that in 1971, his heroic stand against the Vietnam War deserves accolades well into the next century.
THE AVIATOR
While a large part of me mourns the loss of the more “personal” Scorsese from decades past, the transition has done nothing to diminish his storytelling ability…
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
- Hitchcock is one of cinema’s great misanthropes, perhaps the greatest.
SYLVIA
Even though Gwyneth Paltrow once fucked Ben Affleck, Matt Cale went and saw this movie.
