Latest Staff Picks
The films listed below are Alice's Latest Staff Picks, finding their way into this category generally as a result of agreement between staff that they have real merit for one reason or another. Most titles represent a safe choice for those that find choosing a film difficult or are bewildered by Alice's depth and breadth...
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The Tree of Life (2011)
6.8/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Written and directed by Terrence Malick, this complex and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition stars Brad Pitt as the patriarch of a M... Read more
Le Quattro Volte ( Four Times ) (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Starring: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
An unclassifiably brilliant reverie on life, death, nature and the splendours of Calabria, "Le Quattro Volte" is a deceptively simple and playfully ph... Read more
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
7.1/10
Director: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Starring: Jim Gaffigan, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Lauren Graham, Keir Gilchrist, Vi...
Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think...that's certainly true for Craig (Keir Gilchrist), a stressed-out teenager who checks himse... Read more
The Last Circus (2010)
6.6/10
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Starring: Manuel Tallafe, Antonio de la Torre, Carlos Areces, Carolina Bang
Director Alex de la Iglesia presents this twisted tale of love and revenge set in a 1970s Spanish circus. Javier, a Sad Clown, finds work in a circus... Read more
Four Lions (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Chris Morris
Starring: Arsher Ali, Kayvan Novak, Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar
A black comedy directed by satirist Chris Morris, 'Four Lions' sends up a group of inept jihadists and would-be suicide bombers. Riz Ahmed plays Omar,... Read more
Four Lions ( Blu-ray ) (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Chris Morris
Starring: Arsher Ali, Kayvan Novak, Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar
A black comedy directed by satirist Chris Morris, 'Four Lions' sends up a group of inept jihadists and would-be suicide bombers. Riz Ahmed plays Omar,... Read more
Enter the Void (2009)
7.3/10
Director: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Olly Alexander
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict... Read more
Mother (2009)
7.8/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Weon Bin, Jin Gu
Widowed for a long time, a mother lives alone with her only son. He is 28 years old, a shy and quiet young man. In the aftermath of a terrible murder,... Read more
The Informant! (2009)
6.5/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale
Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) has worked for a food processing conglomerate for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing... Read more
A Serious Man ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7/10
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg
An original and darkly humorous story from Joel and Ethan Coen ("The Big Lebowski") about one ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics pr... Read more