REVIEWS BY NATHANIEL ROGERS
Some of these links will take you to other websites (as indicated). I currently do a weekly column and reviews for Towleroad. There are also reviews right here at TFE but for daily hijinx, the blog is the place to be. (Previous gigs included Pajiba and Zoom-In.)
2010
76 Films (Last Update: 07/20/2010)
Film (director) star # if seen more than onceOrdered by Grade, Then Alphabetically
Subject to change...especially if screened a second time
Links go to Reviews or to short notes if I haven't written a review
don't miss them
A/A-
PRODIGAL SONS [documentary by Kimberly Reid]A-
APPLAUS (Martin Zandvliet) starring Paprika Steen, Michael Falk
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Lisa Cholodenko) starring The Bening & Julianne Moore 2
(Read The Film Experience interview with Julianne)
LAST TRAIN HOME [documentary by Lixin Fan]
I AM LOVE (Luca Guadagnino) starring Tilda Swinton 2B+/A-
BLUE VALENTINE (Derek Cianfrance) starring Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON [animated]
TOY STORY 3 [animated]
B+
JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK [documentary]
PLEASE GIVE (Nicole Holofcener) starring Catherine Keener & Oliver Platt
SOUL KITCHEN (Fatih Akin) starring Adam Bousdoukos & Moritz Bleibtreu
WINTER'S BONE (Debra Granik) starring Jennifer Lawrence & John Hawkes
recommended with varying degrees of enthusiasm
B/B+
CATFISH [documentary by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman]
CLEANFLIX [documentary by Andrew James and Joshua Ligairi]
CYRUS (Duplass Bros) starring John C Reilly, Marisa Tomei & Jonah Hill
HIPSTERS (Valeriy Todorovskiy) starring Anton Shagin and Oksana Akinsha
ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS (Michael Mohan) starring Anthony Deptula & Stephen Hale
THE SQUARE (Nash Edgerton) starring Claire van der Boom, David Roberts, Joel Edgerton
WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY [documentary by Don Hahn]B
BOY (Taiki Cohen) starring James Rolleston & Taiki Cohen
BURIED (Rodrigo Cortés) starring Ryan Reynolds
CONTRACORRIENTE (Undertow) (Javier Fuentes-Léon) starring Cristian Mercado
DESPICABLE ME [animated]
INCEPTION (Chris Nolan) starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard
MAKING THE BOYS [documentary by Crayton Robey]
MICMACS (Jean Pierre-Jeunet) starring Dany Boon, Yolande Moreau & Julie Ferrier
NOWHERE BOY (Sam Taylor Wood) starring Aaron Johnson & Kristin Scott Thomas
THE RUNAWAYS (Flora Sigismondi) starring Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart
SECURE SPACE (Oren Gvili) starring Jonathan Roze and Keren Barri
recommended with reservations
B/B-
LEBANON (Samuel Maoz) starring Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov & Itay Tiran
TERRIBLY HAPPY (Henrik Ruben Genz) starring Jakob Cedergren
THE TROTSKY (Jacob Tierney) starring Jay Baruchel & Emily HampshireB -
BABIES [documentary by Thomas Balmes]
BRAN NUE DAE (Rachel Perkins) starring Rocky McKenzie & Geoffrey Rush
CITY OF BORDERS [documentary by Yun Suh]
THE ECLIPSE (Conor McPherson) starring Gabriel Byrne & Iben Hjejle
KNIGHT & DAY (James Mangold) starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz & Peter Sarsgaard
LA MISSION (Peter Bratt) starring Benjamin Bratt
VEGETARIAN (Lim Seong-Woong) starring Chae Min-Seo
sex & drugs & rock & roll (Mat Whitecross) starring Andy Serkis & Naomie Harris
TiMER (Jac Schaeffer) starring Emma Caulfield, Michelle Borth & John Patrick Amedori
ZONAD (John & Keiran Carney) starring Simon Delaney, Janice Byrne & David Pearse
toss up
B-/C+
BOMBER (Paul Cotter) starring Shane Taylor, Eileen Nicholas & Benjamin WhitroW
THE INFIDEL (Josh Appignanesi) starring Omad Djalili, Richard Schiff & Archie PanjabI
IRON MAN 2 (Jon Favreau) starring Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow & Mickey Rourke
MOTHER AND CHILD (Rodrigo Garcia) starring Annette Bening & Naomi Watts
NORTHLESS (Rigoberto Pérezcano) starring Harold Torres, Alicia Laguna & Sonia CouohC+
DAVID'S BIRTHDAY (Marco Filiberti) starring Maria de Medeiros & Massimo Poggio
HERPES BOY (Nathaniel Atcheson) starring Byron Lane, Ahna O'Reilly & Beth Grant
HOLY ROLLERS (Kevin Asch) Starring Jessie Eisenberg & Justin Bartha
MEET MONICA VELOUR (Keith Bearden) starring Kim Cattrall & Dustin Ingram
NEW LOW (Adam Bowers) starring Adam Bowers, Jaymer Ratzer & Valerie Jones
SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese) Starring Leonardo DiCaprio
SPLICE (Vincenzo Natali) starring Sarah Polley & Adrien BrodyC+/C
HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE (Josh Radnor) starring Josh Radnor
KICK-ASS (Matthew Vaughn) starring Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz & Nicolas Cage
KITES (Anurang Basu) starring Hrithik Roshan and Barbára Mori
NO WOMAN NO CRY [documentary by Christy Turlington Burns]
TODAY'S SPECIAL (David Kaplan) starring Aasif Mandvi & Naserruddin Shah
not recommended
C
FIGHTING FISH (Annette Apitz) starring Val Emmich & Anna Moore
GET LOW (Aaron Schneider) starring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek & Bill Murray
VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE [documentary by Craig Teper]
SEX & THE CITY 2 (Michael Patrick King) starring Sarah Jessica Parker
SNOW AND ASHES (Charles Olivier-Michaud) starring Rhys CoiroC-
THE BURIAL (Danielle Boucher & David William Mills) starring Boubouche
DATE NIGHT (Shawn Levy) starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey
LOVE RANCH (Taylor Hackford) starring Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci and Gina Gershon
PRINCE OF PERSIA (Mike Newell) starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN [documentary by Davis Guggenheim]D+
AFTER.LIFE (Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo) starring Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson
make it stop
D
ELVIS & MADONA (Marcello Laffitte) starring Igor Cotrim and Simone Spoladore
THE WOLFMAN (Joe Johnston) starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins
REPO MEN (Miguel Sapochnik) starring Jude Law, Alice Braga and Forest Whitaker
THE ROMANTICS (Galt Niederhoffer) starring Josh Duhamel and Katie HolmesD-
THE CHAMELEON (Jean-Paul Salomé) starring Ellen Barkin, Famke Jannsen & Nick StahlF
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Tim Burton) starring Mia Wasikowska & Johnny Depp
