From Russia With Love
The bold narrative choices and the sacrifice of some James Bond action heroics are worth it, leaving us with the strongest James Bond outing yet, and serving as the source material for one of the best Bond films.
Structural Experiment
Vantage Point
Vantage Point is a perfect case of a film that tries to convince you that it is super smart, but it’s not.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The story cycle’s richly envisioned, multi-layered scenario, and Wolfe’s ability to unsettle with playful and obscure language, make it terrifically memorable.
Cigarettes & Coffee
The chronological order of events is much less compelling than the way Anderson presents them.
Slacker
Linklater simply wants us to listen and observe, rather than to actively show us or tell us anything.
Bridge of Clay
The ultimate thrust of the book is the act of leaving one’s own unique thumbprint on the history of mankind—through music, writing, building, raising children, teaching, loving, helping.
The Sound and The Fury
piecing together these fractured thoughts imparts more than the family melodrama that provoked them.
As I Lay Dying
By presenting the journey from varying perspectives, the circuitous story weaves a robust, if messy, emotional tapestry.
Millennium Actress
As we age, our memories form the individual people that we become. But as they fade, we can lose little bits of ourselves that were once crucial.
Memento
It isn’t merely cerebral pseudo-noir. It prompts us to contemplate what it means to be human.