2000s

  • The Man From London (2007)

    The Man From London (2007)

    Sensationalist thrills are entirely drained from The Man from London’s crime plot of drowned bodies and stolen cash, as Béla Tarr instead establishes an aesthetic distance from its bleak chain of events, and turns his probing, glacial camera towards the moral vacancy of its lifeless seaport.

  • Memories of Murder (2003)

    Memories of Murder (2003)

    Bong Joon-ho’s faceless serial killer may represent some abstract embodiment of moral corruption, but this violent perversion is clearly rampant in Memories of Murder, stranding us with a pair of under-resourced detectives navigating landscapes of mud, rain, and bureaucratic failure.

  • Elephant (2003)

    Elephant (2003)

    Gus Van Sant does not strive to make sense of the senseless school shooting in Elephant, but rather attaches his tracking camera to the various perspectives of victims and perpetrators as it unfolds, delivering a chilling vision of violence that arrives without warning, logic, or resolution.

  • Mystic River (2003)

    Mystic River (2003)

    As Mystic River asserts cycles of shattered innocence through the abductions, abuses, and murders of one Boston neighbourhood, Clint Eastwood draws three childhood friends together over old traumas, and ensnares them in the simmering tension of fresh suspicions.

  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

    Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

    For all the flaws that plague the Star Wars prequels, very few can detract from the operatic descent into darkness that Revenge of the Sith ushers in, seeing George Lucas embrace the melodrama, myth, and political allegory of his epic saga to craft its most tragic chapter.

  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

    Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

    As a grown-up Anakin Skywalker begins to break beneath the weight of duty and desire in Attack of the Clones, George Lucas thoughtfully recaptures the mythic tension of the original Star War trilogy, exposing the corrosive, insidious decay that eats away at the heart of democracy’s heroes, institutions, and ideals.

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