All the film commentary on this site, neatly organized for you, you picky person.
Rating is on a 5-point scale. Because that’s how Vishnu likes it.
A
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (John Cromwell, 1940) ~ 3.5
- Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009) ~ 3.5
- Aeon Flux (Karyn Kusama, 2005) ~ 1.5
- After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936) ~ 3.5
- Age of Consent (Michael Powell, 1969) ~ 1.5
- Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) ~ 4.0
- Auntie Mame (Morton DeCosta, 1958) ~ 3.0
B
- Babbitt (William Keighley, 1934) ~ 2.0
- Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956) ~ 2.5
- Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971) ~ 3.5
- The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 2008) ~ 2.5
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007) ~ 2.5
- Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008) ~ 2.0
- Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur, 1948) ~ 3.5
- Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth, 2001) ~ 2.0
- Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2007) ~ 2.5
- Black Sheep (Jonathan King, 2006) ~ 1.5
- Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938) ~ 2.5
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) ~ 3.5
- Bomb It (Jon Reiss, 2007) ~ 3.0
- The Boy with Green Hair (Joseph Losey, 1948) ~ 3.0
- Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919) ~ 3.5
- Bug (William Friedkin, 2006) ~ 2.0
- Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982) ~ 3.0
C
- The Car (Elliot Silverstein, 1977) ~ 2.5
- Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) ~ 5.0
- Chicken Run (Peter Lord, Nick Park, 2000) ~ 4.5
- Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani) ~ 4.5
- Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008) ~ 2.5
- Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007) ~ 3.5
D
- The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007) ~ 3.0
- Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975) ~ 2.0
- The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood, 1941) ~ 2.5
- Doomsday (Neil Marshall, 2008) ~ 2.0
- Dot the I (Matthew Parkhill, 2005) ~ 1.0
- Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971) ~ 3.5
- Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, 2009) ~ 3.5
E
- Eagle vs. Shark (Taika Cohen, 2007) ~ 2.5
- Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen, 1937) ~ 2.5
- Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958) ~ 4.0
F
- Film Geek (James Westby, 2005) ~ 2.0
- A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964) ~ 3.5
- Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982) ~ 4.5
- Fool’s Gold (Andy Tennant, 2008) ~ 1.0
- 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933) ~ 3.5
- The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) ~ 5.0
- 1408 (Mikael Håfström, 2007) ~ 2.0
- Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997) ~ 3.0
- Fury (Fritz Lang, 1936) ~ 4.0
G
- Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1980) ~ 2.5
- The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925) ~ 5.0
- The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1942 re-release) ~ 4.5
- Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005) ~ 4.0
- Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel, 2007) ~ 3.5
- Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) ~ 4.0
- Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950) ~ 3.5
H
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976) ~ 4.5
- Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2008) ~ 1.0
- Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950) ~ 4.0
- Hell Is for Heroes (Donald Siegel, 1962) ~ 3.0
- Helvetica (Gary Hustwit, 2007) ~ 3.0
I
- I Married a Witch (René Clair, 1942) ~ 2.5
- Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959) ~ 3.0
- In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008) ~ 4.0
- Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) ~ 1.5
- In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000) ~ 3.5
- The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933) ~ 4.0
- The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, 1969) ~ 2.5
J
K
- Kes (Ken Loach, 1969) ~ 3.5
- The King of Kong (Seth Gordon, 2007) ~ 3.0
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005) ~ 2.0
L
- La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) ~ 5.0
- L’enfant sauvage/The Wild Child (François Truffaut, 1970) ~ 4.0
- Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper, 1985) ~ 2.5
- Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) ~ 4.0
- Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006) ~ 3.5
M
- Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979) ~ 5.0
- Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) ~ 4.0
- The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007) ~ 1.5
- Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944) ~ 4.0
- My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, 1999) ~ 2.0
- My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai, 2007) ~ 2.0
- My Sister Eileen (Alexander Hall, 1942) ~ 2.5
N
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme, 2006) ~ 4.5
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979) ~ 3.5
O
- Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (Paul Crowder, John Dower, 2006) ~ 3.0
- Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) ~ 3.5
- 101 Dalmations (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman, 1961) ~ 3.0
- The Orphanage/El Orfanto (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007) ~ 3.5
- Our Hospitality (John Blystone, Buster Keaton, 1923) ~ 3.5
P
- Palindromes (Todd Solondz, 2004) ~ 3.0
- The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974) ~ 3.5
- Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ~ 4.5
- Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega, 2005) ~ 2.0
- The Public Enemy (William Wellman, 1931) ~ 4.0
Q
R
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) ~ 4.0
- Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007) ~ 3.0
- The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger, 1948) ~ 5.0
- Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz, 2007) ~ 2.5
S
- Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (Liam Lynch, 2005) ~ 2.5
- The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007) ~ 3.0
- Scandal (Michael Caton-Jones, 1989) ~ 3.0
- Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932) ~ 4.0
- Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006) ~ 1.0
- Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman, 2008) ~ 1.5
- She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933) ~ 1.5
- Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) ~ 4.0
- Shoot ‘Em Up (Michael Davis, 2007) ~ 0.5
- A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon, 1938) ~ 2.5
- Smart People (Noam Murro, 2008) ~ 1.5
- Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings, 2007) ~ 3.0
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927) ~ 5.0
- Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007) ~ 2.0
- Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006) ~ 2.5
T
- Tell No One (Guillaume Canet, 2006) ~ 3.5
- The Ten (David Wain, 2007) ~ 1.0
- 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, 1957) ~ 3.5
- 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007) ~ 3.0
- To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ~ 4.5
- The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald, 2007) ~ 1.5
- Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2006) ~ 4.5
U
V
W
- Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007) ~ 3.0
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan, 2007) ~ 1.5
- We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (Tim Irwin, 2005) ~ 3.5
- Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, 1979) ~ 2.5
