No Country For Old Men
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen

By Vish Khanna

Exclaim Critics Pick - 2008! The heart-stopping intensity of Javier Bardem, as principled but unrelenting killer Anton Chigurh, is a chillingly memorable villain. He’s trying to reclaim money snatched by Josh Brolin’s steely Llewelyn Moss, but it’s Chigurh’s twisted moral fibre — not to mention the affable resolve of Tommy Lee Jones’s world-weary Sheriff Ed Tom Bell — that elevates this. These characters reflect one another in startling ways, as signifiers of human nature and its noble and barbaric capabilities. The Coen brothers have composed fascinating character studies before but they’ve never left audiences grappling with such intriguing, elusive hopelessness. (Alliance Atlantis)

Eastern Promises - Dir. by David Cronenberg
Exclaim Critics Pick - 2008! A baby and a diary left by a dead teenage prostitute spark the dark drama behind Eastern Promises. A crime-thriller about the Russian “mafiya” in London, Eastern Promises is a moving drama about deceit, evil and family. Screenwriter Steven Wright and director Davi ...Read More
Juno - Dir. by Jason Reitman
Exclaim Critics Pick - 2008! Helmed by Hollywood wunderkind Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking), this sophomore feature effort about a teenager’s unplanned pregnancy is a dizzyingly witty yarn that owes double-debt to the smokin’ quill of first-time feature writer Diablo Cody and the wicked ...Read More
There Will Be Blood - Dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson
Exclaim Critics Pick - 2008! Breathe the dust, feel the weight of hard labour and admire the dedication to craft from Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview, dedicated capitalist oilman in the early 20th century West of Anderson’s masterpiece. His deconstruction of American greed in the form of ...Read More
Zodiac - Dir. by David Fincher
Exclaim Critics Pick - 2008! Zodiac is a subtle masterpiece and a remarkable transformation for David Fincher. A trailblazer of visual style with Fight Club and Seven, Fincher takes his style out of the equation, creating an immersive experience. He refuses to pander to short attention spans, ...Read More
27 Dresses - Dir. by Anne Fletcher
Atonement - Dir. by Joe Wright
Beowulf - Dir. by Robert Zemeckis
Charlie Wilson’s War - Dir. by Mike Nichols
Cloverfield - Dir. by Matt Reeves
Enchanted - Dir. by Kevin Lima
First Sunday - Dir. by David E. Talbert
How She Move - Dir. by Ian Iqbal Rashid
I Am Legend - Dir. by Frank Lawrence
I’m Not There - Dir. by Todd Haynes
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale - Dir. by Uwe Boll
Juno - Dir. by Jason Reitman
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters - Dir. by Seth Gordon
Persepolis - Dir. by Vincent Parronaud and Marjane Satrapi
Starting Out in the Evening - Dir. by Andrew Wagner
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Dir. by Tim Burton
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Dir. by Julian Schnabel
The Golden Compass - Dir. by Chris Weitz
The Great Debaters - Dir. by Denzel Washington
The Kite Runner - Dir. by Marc Forster
The Orphanage - Dir. by Juan Antonio Bayona
The Savages - Dir. by Tamara Jenkins
There Will Be Blood - Dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson
They Wait - Dir. by Ernie Barbarash
Waiter - Dir. by Alex van Warmerdam
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - Dir. by Jake Kasdan
Youth Without Youth - Dir. by Francis Ford Coppola
Aside from deliberately misspelling their entire lyric book, there's nothing I dislike about Capade's Dno't Say It Mihgt Maen Somehitng. This record is everything a sophomore album should be; it's a much more developed effort stylistically and construction-wise than their debut, Wake Me Up... Full Review
Though recently implying that he's tapped out musically, Sufjan Stevens has never created something as pointedly ambitious as The BQE. Originally commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a 2007 performance, as a take-home release The BQE consists of an uncompromising essay ostensibly all about the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, a visually stunning film, a stirring orchestral soundtrack, a stereoscopic View-Master reel, and, in limited edition, a 40-page comic book about characters known as the Hooper Heroes.... Read More
Montreal’s no-wave, Moog-rock four-piece Duchess Says are brilliant at working with language. That is so to say, they are francophone, and yet front-woman AC sings more in rhythmic sounds than in anything linguistically discernible. Her male band-mates keep their distance, because her trance-like th... Full Review
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