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Jay Weissberg, Variety

1. Day of the Falcon 2011 full review
2. Tales from the Golden Age 2011 [The directors'] youth and talent should allay fears that the country's film explosion is incapable of hitting a broad range of notes, and offer hope that more mainstream, home-grown offerings can spur cinema building within Romania. full review
3. This Must Be The Place 2011 Quirky, hilarious and moving, Sorrentino's first English-lingo production is a road trip of stunning scope yet deep intimacy. full review
4. Wrecked 2011 Adrien Brody once again proves he's got enough onscreen appeal to carry a decent thriller. full review
5. The Parking Lot Movie 2010 full review
6. Red White & Blue 2010 Influences of helmers like Larry Clark and Wes Craven are pronounced: The first half is pure montage, foregoing slick visuals so the characters' personalities, coupled with a disturbing stillness, take root. full review
7. South of the Border 2010 A predictable compendium of Fox News clips on one side and peasants glad-handing their leaders on the other, the docu offers little genuine information and no investigative research, adopting a style even more polemical than Stone's earlier docs full review
8. Jaffa 2009 "Jaffa" is modeled on semi-glossy Egyptian mellers, but Yedaya lets the air out, leaving empty characters with no connections to each other or the audience. Best seen as a temporary blip in a promising career. full review
9. White Material 2009 A powerful recognition of the continent's tragic present that focuses on a white plantation owner desperate to hold on to her land, despite roving militias and child soldiers. full review
10. Were the World Mine 2008 The clunky script keeps pulling everything to an earthbound level well below the desired airy realm. full review
11. Heading South 2006 Albert's bitterness deserved further development, but the real puzzle is why Cantet doesn't let Legba have a say. full review
12. Klimt 2006 Klimt falls into the philosophical conundrum it attempts to resurrect -- whether portrait and allegory can coexist. full review
13. Into Great Silence 2005 Such a poetic essay on the slowed-down rhythms of life, that its quiet pleasures carry the viewer along at a pace commensurate with the monks' own unhurried sense of time. full review
14. Hoodlum 1997 full review