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Water
directed by Deepa Mehta
Widowhood in India The most powerful of Deepha Mehta's trilogy about Mother India, this is a beautifully photographed and well conceived melodrama. |
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Lonesome Jim
directed by Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi's Lonesome Jim A change would do you good. |
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Don't Come Knocking
directed by Wim Wenders
Knocking on Heaven's Door Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard visit familiar territory for themselves, this time twenty-two years wiser and angrier. |
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United 93
directed by Paul Greengrass
Why We Fight Never too soon. |
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Clean
directed by Oliver Assayas
Sober as a Judge For a film that hopscotches countries and languages to tell the story of a drug-addicted rock-star widow trying to get clean and get possession of her estranged child, Oliver Assayas' Clean is an impressively un-showy film. |
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United 93
directed by Paul Greengrass
Regurgitating 9/11 Why was United 93 made? A docu-drama about the horrors of 9/11 without a central focus, the final black screen is a huge relief. |
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Slither
directed by James Gunn
Paying Tribute to His Troma Roots Troma veteran James Gunn keeps B-grade horror alive with his hilarious and gooey directorial debut, Slither. |
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Silent Hill
directed by Christophe Gans
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Silent Hill is worth a look because it gives the audience images we have not seen before in a horror picture. Forget the dialogue and the performances and go for the horrific action. |
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Scary Movie 4
directed by David Zucker
A Franchise That Needs to Die Scary Movie 4 has some decent laughs, but more than anything, it is proof this genre is dead and gome. |
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Somersault
directed by Cate Shortland
On the Loose Legally, in Australia you can drink at 18 years of age. In Cate Shortland's debut film Somersault, however, the actual drinking age appears somewhat closer to the prepubescent – which helps when confused young runaways are looking for a good sociable time. |
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