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The case of the missing father

review by Douglas Messerli

The makers of The Kid with a Bike have transformed a simple story into a kind of situational fairytale

Cemetery of garbage

review by Douglas Messerli

An impressive, if rambling, look at the Neapolitan crime group Camorra in Gomorrah.

Crash and the self-indulgence of white America

review by Robert Jensen and Robert Wosnitzer

Crash is a white-supremacist movie.

The curious case of Benjamin Button

review by Douglas Messerli

A strange (and strangely redemptive) film...

The do-gooders

review by Douglas Messerli

Cristian Mungiu’s film, Beyond the Hills is a straightforward and honest film about the friendship between two young women

The Duchess of Langeais

review by Douglas Messerli

Don't touch that axe...

Euclid’s first axiom

review by Douglas Messerli

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is so much more ambitious than any other American movie of the year that one would have to a cynic to deny its worth

Excelsior

review by Douglas Messerli

Or: bah, humbug...

Feeling dizzy

review by Douglas Messerli

The characters of Diary of a Shinjuku Thief have given up any sense of their ability to influence or dominate events

Flags and letters

review by Douglas Messerli

"It appears, [Clint] Eastwood suggests, that a culture that prefers flags to letters, a culture which offers up symbols as opposed to simple human expression, is doomed to estrangement."