Kiss Me Deadly
★★★★ Director: Robert Aldrich Year: 1955 I love a good film noir. This one is well shot and lit. But the plot goes a bit too quickly and I had ...
Pickup on South Stre
★★★ Director: Samuel Fuller Year: 1953 I was in the mood for a noir film. But this one played out differently. I'm surprised this got a Criterion treatment ...
Rififi
★★★★★ Director: Jules Dassin Year: 1955 This has been a recommended film to me for almost three years but I never got around to view it. Not ...
Black Swan
★★★ Creator: Darren Aronofsky Year: 2010 I had expected the ballet version of The Wrestler. But it wasn't meant to be. This is quite psycho in it's approach, ...
Ghost Writer, The
★★★★ Creator: Roman Polanski Year: 2010 This was a sleeper film for 2010. I had never heard of it until I read some articles on the best films ...
Town, The
★★★★ Creator: Ben Affleck Year: 2010 I have a completely different perception of Ben Affleck now. The guy knows how to direct and act in a film. This ...
Girl With the Dragon
★★★★ Director: Niels Arden Oplev Year: 2009 So the book everyone has read has been translated in film form beautifully. Noomi Rapace does an amazing job, the pacing ...
Sweet Smell of Succe
★★★ Director: Alexander Mackendrick Year: 1957 It's ironic that I saw this two days before Tony Curtis's death. But what started as curiosity of this film's J.J. Hunsecker ...
