Series: Top 100 (2009 List)

Garden State’s reputation has fallen out of favor in the 18 years since its release, and understandably so.

A layer under the surface, stoner comedies and hard-boiled detective stories actually have a lot in common

The Darjeeling Limited has a reputation as a minor Wes Anderson work

There’s a lot that’s good in this film, but let’s start with the bad

Everything about Lost in Translation is designed to make Tokyo feel like an alien world

Surely you are familiar with the Howard Hawks’s authoritative definition: ““A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.”

Knocked Up feels, in some ways, like the grown up version of Freaks and Geeks: Two mismatched worlds colliding and, after much hilarious dust-up, bringing out the best in each other.

Funny People is the ne plus ultra of Judd Apatow’s style

It finally occurred to me why The Sandlot’s wobbly story structure — a bunch of 5-ish minute episodes in its first half; an extended, notably goofier, episode for the entirety of its second half — has never really bothered me. It’s because every dramatic point of the film’s second half is built up by those […]

Thank You For Smoking is a clever movie, which is not automatically the same as a good movie.