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

Overrated but entertaining classic from Jean Renoir.

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

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.

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

A near great film from an aging auteur.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.