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Big Fan - Robert D. Siegel

Siegel's layered and tortuous script is often transfixing, but his directorial amateurism is highlighted through an anxious cutting slideshow.

The Rules Of The Game - Jean Renoir

Overrated but entertaining classic from Jean Renoir.

Avatar - James Cameron

It may not silence James Cameron's fiercest critics, but 'Avatar' is an impressive and engrossing accomplishment.

The Trial - Orson Welles

While the film is aesthetically effective and faithful to Kafka's text, it is stricken by the notable flaw of a miscast Anthony Perkins as the confounded hero.

Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky

As the film demonstrates, the turbulence of a fifteenth century Russia aided the foundation of Rublev's artistic vision and perseverance.

Vera Drake - Mike Leigh

A near great film from an aging auteur.

Autumn Sonata - Ingmar Bergman

A multidimensional take on the trials of youth and parenthood, the film is infused with bold philosophical ideas and incredibly moving performances from Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman.

Fantastic Mr Fox - Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson takes on a giant task and well, wins...

A Serious Man - Joel and Ethan Coen

The genius of the Coen Brothers' modern allegorical craft is extracting the fantastical and stirring from the monotony of daily routine and habitual faith.

Lost Highway - David Lynch

A stimulating if wholly confounding jumble, the film finds Lynch simultaneously racing and plodding through the night.

Saw VI - Kevin Greutert

The feel-good movie of year in which a Democratic stranglehold can't push through its own progressive agenda.

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints - Dito Montiel

A rag-tag film that fails the 'truth' test, as well as the 'art' test.

The Vanishing - George Sluizer

Sluizer's original 1988 film is an engrossingly elusive psychological and philosophical thriller fused with an innately curious tale of obsession.

Treeless Mountain - So Yong Kim

A selectively sluggish feature with a one-note narrow focus punctuated by still life chapter divisions, the film's techniques manage to permeate target audiences but regrettably emphasize absences as routinely as the intimacies.

The Taste of Tea - Katsuhito Ishii

Brimming with all varieties of life's microcosms far beyond the savvy and appreciation of an initial viewing, the film is a pleasantly tender and rather down-to-earth surprise from surrealist Katsuhito Ishii.

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