Top 20 Most enjoyed films
We Are Together
In a theatrical landscape increasingly sympathetic to the documentary, We Are Together is still something truly special.
No Country For Old Men
“It’s a mess, ain’t it sheriff?” says Deputy Wendell (Garret Dillahunt), staring at the five bullet-ridden corpses, four trashed pick-up trucks and one dead dog that are strewn across the patch of desert scrub.
Into The Wild
You hear the words ‘directed by Sean Penn’ and you don’t necessarily think hippie spiritualism, the poetry of Lord Byron, and the palliating power of nature.
Garage
Completed in the same spare style as Adam & Paul, the second collaboration between director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran is a remarkably assured work.
Diary of the Dead
It’s not lunchbox-peddling production designer George Lucas. Nor kiddie-torturing, Oscar-botherer Steven Spielberg. Nor is it Francis Ford Coppola, Hollywood’s finest vintner.
Mister Lonely
Maybe it’s because he was barely 18 when he wrote Larry Clark’s Kids, or the fact that he hangs out with David Blaine.
The Flight of the Red Balloon
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s films have often been works to admire rather than enjoy.
Margot at the Wedding
Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding has all the twee details guaranteed to make teeth itch and skin crawl.
Half Moon
Those of you after swashbuckling adventure and razor sharp dialogue may be disappointed by this one, but that would be missing the point.
In The Valley of Elah
You can tell how important a film is by the amount of make-up its lead actress is wearing.
I’m Not There
It was Hegel who suggested that history is governed by the diktats of ‘world-historical’ individuals.
The Savages
There is a sad moment in every adult’s life when their parents are unable to care for themselves and the role of the carer is reversed.
El Violin
Selected for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, El Violin marks the astonishingly assured debut feature of Francisco Vargas.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
This is the opening to Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is either embarrassing, arousing, or something between the two.
Charlie Wilson’s War
Amongst the plethora of films about that strangest of beasts, American politics, this is the best.
There Will Be Blood
From Jesse James to the Coens’ No Country to this visceral tragedy, the relationship between man and the salt of US soil is utterly crucial and current.
