Flicks w/ The Film Snob

This beautiful animated film from Ireland carries a profound spiritual message.

Two journalists stayed with an American unit on a dangerous post in Afghanistan for its full tour, and the result is this brilliant war documentary.

A Vietnamese film of rare beauty tells of three sisters whose lives are rounded, as our all are, by sleep.

If you want to know exactly how our economy crashed, who crashed it and why, Inside Job is the one film to see.

Hal Hartley's 1990 film brought a new sense of irony into the American comedy film.

This 1987 movie about a Japanese peace activist who uses questionable tactics challenges our assumptions about documentary films.

The week-long film festival put on by Tucson's local art house featured a first-rate selection of current and older films.

A documentary about a single Chinese family portrays the plight of millions of migrant workers who must leave their children in order to make a decent living.

A movie about the lengths people will go to for pleasure in a repressive society showcases the genius of animator Jan Svankmajer.

Nicole Holofcener's latest offbeat film looks at the problem of owning stuff while still trying to be a good person.

The Social Network satirizes the alarming similarity between adolescent rivalry and the cutthroat world of business.

Using only archival films from the Cold War era, this amazing documentary demonstrates how the U.S. government fed its population fairy tales about the dangers of nuclear weapons.

Overshadowed by Fritz Lang's later work, this monumental adaptation of the German national epic is a film for the ages.

Ben Affleck's action film follows a Boston bank robber's search to find a way out of his life of crime.

Todd Solondz turns his darkly humorous vision to the problem of forgiveness in a world of abuse and abandonment.