An excellent introduction to the subject, and a movie buff's delight.

Bertuccelli's heartfelt film affords a unique peek into the hearts and minds of a generation who, after having been awakened from the lie they'd been living all their lives, must now face the aftermath of an entire nation's failure.

Though it clearly explicates the problem, the film is by no means a straightforward documentary.

This film, with an all-black cast, is a cut above most black -exploitation films of the period, despite the regulation blood and gore.

A behind-the-scenes documentary that manages to be unabashedly sympathetic without being a puff piece.

A moody, subtle drama that has more in common with the tragedy of "Endless Love" than "Where The Boys Are."

The storytelling is livelier and more engaging than previous adaptations of Clancy's turgid techno-thrillers.

Under the candy coating and girl group soundtrack, the film acknowledges some hard truths about women and education that haven't changed much since the '60s. But it never loses sight of having a good time, and the girls are great.

Powerful and startlingly unsentimental.

Like so many true stories, Comes' lacks the clarity and comforting resolution of fiction

A fascinating fictional documentary.

Beautifully edited by Soderbergh, the film is evenly paced, its subtleties accreting slowly, and by the end it gathers powerful emotional momentum.

A surprisingly charming fable.

We only experience the horror of the genocide through several layers of artifice -- first Saroyan's, then Egoyan's own -- a sad acknowledgement that with each story told, we're drawn that much further from the truth.

"We're not that different, but we're different from what you think we are," says 16-year-old Ebony, and no playwright could have said it better.

Though occasionally repetitive, Gramaglia and Fields' admirably evenhanded documentary gives the Ramones the respect they deserve: Fans will be grateful and the uninitiated should listen and learn.

Surprise! An intelligent, well-written high school story.

Swank's nuanced performance is remarkable and it's a powerful film.

Edward Klosinski's staid cinematography lends the film a feeling of late summer languor, a deceptive calm before a terrible storm. The spare, evocative piano soundtrack is by John Cale.

A truly trangressive film as unsettling as it is psychologically acute.

A loving, gently funny and slightly claustrophobic tribute to theatrical life.

Think of it as a dark, suspenseful scenario penned by Joseph Conrad and designed by Toulouse-Lautrec and Auguste Renoir, and jump right in.

Makhmalbaf shot this film under extremely difficult circumstances, and it sometimes shows; but it's still an important achievement.

A moving, gorgeously filmed look at one of the Civil War's more obscure chapters, the quasi-official combat that divided friends along the Missouri-Kansas border.

Harvey Keitel gives an astonishing performance here... Though hardly a film for all sensibilities, Bad Lieutenant has the courage of its own convictions, and follows them to the bitter end.

A sweet and surprisingly unconventional look at the changing definition of family in contemporary Japan.

The tragedy of modern Tibet haunts this otherwise lighthearted tale of life inside a Buddhist monastery-in-exile.

In the film's most audacious break with the ultra-realism of the Dogme program, Bier inserts grainy visualizations of what Cecilie wishes for at a given moment -- a caress from the paralyzed Joachim, or a wave goodbye -- directly into the action.