The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing

★★★★★ Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Year: 2012 Everyone knows how much I love documentaries and well, not only is this the best documentary of the year but it's one ...

Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club

★★★★ Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Year: 2013 An incredible story that's unfamiliar to most people, including myself. It was amazing to see the AIDS epidemic shown in macho Texas ...

Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Pruitt-Igoe Myth

★★★★ Director: Chad Freidrichs Year: 2011 Having gone to school, let alone architecture school, in St. Louis, I've always known about Pruitt-Igoe, the housing project that won a ...

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

★★★★ Director: Steve McQueen Year: 2013 This is one of the most original stories I had read/scene and it's even more surprising (although not so much) that it's ...

The Impossible

The Impossible

★★★ Director: Juan Antonio Bayona Year: 2012 Everyone knows the story of the devastating tsunami. So when it actually hits, the way it's shot and more importantly the ...

The Game of Their Lives

The Game of Their Li

★★ Director: David Anspaugh Year: 2005 I actually thought this was a different film about the North Korean football team beating England. But it's actually the story of ...

The Corporation

The Corporation

★★★★★ Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott Year: 2003 I'm not sure why I waited so long to watch this documentary. I remember working on a pitch years ago ...

Lincoln

Lincoln

★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2012 I absolutely did NOT like this film. It felt like a missed opportunity. The storyline was boring (think more West Wing than ...

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty

★★★ Director: Kathryn Bigelow Year: 2012 (coming soon)... > More Info

Argo

Argo

★★★★ Director: Ben Affleck Year: 2012 (coming soon...) > More Info

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember

★★★★ Director: Roy Ward Baker Year: 1958 James Cameron got a ton of source material for his version of Titanic from this film. It's absolutely stunning to see ...

War Horse

War Horse

★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2011 I'm going to call this film for what it is: the Forrest Gump of horses! I'm not sure what the discussion ...

Battle of Algiers

Battle of Algiers

★★★★★ Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Year: 1966 This is one of the greatest films of all time! Absolutely amazing. Granted, I think you need to be in ...

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Woody Allen: A Docum

★★★★★ Director: Robert B. Weide Year: 2011 This is an unprecedented documentary. It's incredible, but only if you like Woody Allen. Robert Weide got full access to ...

Valkyrie

Valkyrie

★★ Director: Bryan Singer Year: 2008 I can't believe this is a Bryan Singer film. He could have done so much with it. For one, it's a ...

Elizabeth The Golden Age

Elizabeth The Golden

★★★ Director: Shekhar Kapur Year: 2007 So it's been awhile, since I had seen the first Elizabeth film. And this sequel was pretty good. It definitely made me ...

Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters)

Die Fälscher (The C

★★★★ Creator: Stefan Ruzowitzky Year: 2007 An incredible, true-story about a counterfeiting ring of Jews in a Nazi concentration camp. The fact that they pulled aside con-men, bank ...

Zodiac

Zodiac

★★★ Director: David Fincher Year: 2007 This being a David Fincher film, I knew it would rock. But it's definitely more so in the true-story which is pretty ...