Review Index

Here you will find links to every review that has been published on From the Front Row from 2006 to the present. This is a work in progress, and currently only contains reviews written in 2009, 2010, and 2011. This does not include reviews that have been printed in The Dispatch, which date back to 2004.

• 4:44 Last Day on Earth - ★★
• 24 City - ★★★ 
• 35 Shots of Rum -★★★½ 
• 101 Dalmatians - ★★★½
• (500) Days of Summer - ★★★
• 45365 - ★★★½ 
• Abraham Lincoln - ★½
• Act of God - ★½
• Afghan Star - ★★★
• Afterschool - ★★½
• Agora - ★★
• Alamar - ★★★½
• Albatross - ★
• All that Jazz - ★★★★
• The Ambassador - ★★½
• Amer - ★★★
• American Swing - ★★½
• Amour - ★★★★
• An Education - ★★½
• Antichrist - ★★★★ 
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil - ★★★½ 
• Armadillo - ★★★★
• Around a Small Mountain (DVD) - ★★★½
• Around a Small Mountain (Theatrical) - ★★½
• Audrey Rose - ★★★½
• Au Pair Girls - ★★½
• Aurora - ★★★½  
• Away We Go - ★★½
• The Baader Meinhof Complex - ★★★
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - ★★★
• Bal (Honey) - ★★★
• Battling Butler - ★★★
• The Beaches of Agnes - ★½
• Beauty and the Beast (1946) - ★★★½
• Bedtime Stories - ★★½
• Beeswax - ★★½
• Belle de Jour - ★★★½
• Beloved - ★★½
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - ★★½
• Best Worst Movie - ★★★
• Betty Blue - ★★★
• Beyond the Black Rainbow - ★★★½
• The Big Shot-Caller - ★★★
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - ★★★½
• Bill Cunningham New York - ★★★
• The Birth of a Nation - ★★★★
• The Blob - ★★★
• Blood Feast - ★ 
• Bluebeard - ★★★½ 
• Bride Flight - ★★½
• Bright Star - ★★★
• Broken Embraces - ★★½
• Brotherhood - ★★★
• Buck - ★★½
• The Burning Plain - ★★
• Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection - ★★★★  
• California Dreamin' (Endless) - ★★★½
• Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff - ★★★
• Captain Abu Raed - ★★★½ 
• Carol Channing: Larger Than Life - ★★★½
• Caterpillar - ★★½ 
• Celeste and Jesse Forever - ★★
• Certified Copy - ★★★½
• Cheri - ★★
• Chicken with Plums - ★★
• Chloe - ★★½
• City Lights - ★★★★
• City of Life and Death - ★★★½ 
• College - ★★★½
• Color Me Blood Red - ½
• Compliance - ★★★½
• The Congress - ★★★½
• Coriolanus - ★★★½
• Daguerreotypes - ★★★½ 
• Dancer in the Dark - ★★★★ 
• La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris - ★★★½
• A Day in the Country - ★★★½
• Departures - ★★★ 
• The Desert of Forbidden Art - ★★½
• The Devil's Needle & Other Tales of Vice and Redemption - ★★★
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - ★★★
• District 9 - ★★★½
• Il Divo - ★★★½
• Dogtooth - ★★★½ 
• The Double Hour - ★★★
• Dream Boy - ★★
• Drums Along the Mohawk - ★★★★
• The Duke of Burgundy - ★★★½
• Earthwork - ★★ 
• Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl - ★★★½
• Eichmann - ★★½
• Elektra Luxx - ½ 
• Elena - ★★★
• The End of Poverty? - ★★½
• Ernest & Celestine - ★★★
• Escape From Tomorrow - ★
• Even the Rain - ★★★
• Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone - ★★½
• The Exploding Girl - ★★½ 
• Eyes Wide Open - ★★★
• The Fairy - ★★★
• Fantastic Mr. Fox - ★★★½
• Fascination - ★★★
• Fate is the Hunter - ★★½
• Fifi Howls From Happiness - ★★★½
• Film Socialisme - zero stars 
• Fish Tank - ★★★ 
• The Flowers of War - ★★
• Food, Inc. - ★★★½ 
• Four Lions - ★★★
• The Garden - ★★★½
• General Orders No. 9 - ★★★
• Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis - ★★½ 
• The Girl (Flickan) - ★★½
• The Girlfriend Experience - ★★½
• The Girl on the Train - ★★★
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - ★★★½
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010) - ★★½
• God Help the Girl - ★★★
• The Gold Rush - ★★★½
• The Good Heart - ★★½
• Go West - ★★½
• The Great Flood - ★★★
• Guest of Cindy Sherman - ★★★
• Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench - ★★★½
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - ★★★
• Harry Brown - ★★ 
• The Headless Woman - ★★★ 
• Headshot - ★★★
• Heartbeats - ★★½ 
• The Hitch-Hiker - ★★★
• Holy Motors - ★★★★
• The Horse Boy -  ★★½
• Hors Satan - ★★★½
• House of Pleasures - ★★★½
• How to Survive a Plague - ★★
• The Human Centipede (First Sequence) - ★★
• The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) - zero stars
• Hunger - ★★★½
• The Hurt Locker - ★★★½ 
• Hyde Park on Hudson - ★★
• I Am Love - ★★½
• I Don't Know How She Does It -  ★★½
• I Killed My Mother - ★★★
• The Impossible - ★★★
• In a Better World - ★★★ 
• In Another Country - ★★★½
• The Interrupters - ★★★½
• The Interview - ★★★
• In the City of Sylvia - ★★★½
• In the Family - ★★★½
• In the Mood for Love - ★★★★
• Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grand Master - ★★★
• The Iron Rose - ★★★★
• The Island President - ★★★
• I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You - ★★★½
• Ivan's Childhood - ★★★★
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child - ★★★½
• Jauja - ★★★½
• J. Edgar - ★★★½
• Jerichow - ★★★
• La Jetée - ★★★★
• The Jungle Book - ★★½
• Just Say Love - ★½
• Katyn - ★★½
• Keyhole - ★★★
• The Kid with a Bike - ★★★½
• Killer's Moon - ★★★
• Kill List - ★★½
• Kings of the Evening -★★
• Koch - ★★★
• Lebanon - ★★★½ 
• The Lady Vanishes - ★★★★
• The Last Airbender - ★½
• The Last Mountain - ★★★ 
• Last Train Home - ★★★½
• L'Atalante - ★★★★
• A Late Quartet - ★★½
• Leap Year (Año Bisiesto) - ★★★
• Le Quattro Volte - ★★★★ 
• Let My People Go! - ★★½
• Letters to Father Jacob - ★★★½
• Leviathan - ★★★★
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - ★★★★
• Life During Wartime - ★★★
• Like Father, Like Son - ★★★½
• Lincoln - ★★★½
• Lips of Blood - ★★★½
• Little Lord Fauntleroy - ★★★½
• The Living Dead Girl - ★★★ 
• Lonesome - ★★★★
• Lorna's Silence - ★★★
• Lourdes - ★★★★
• Lula, Son of Brazil - ★★
• Mademoiselle Chambon - ★★★
• Make-Out with Violence - ★★★
• Manuela y Manuel - ★★½
• The Man Who Knew Too Much - ★★★½ 
• Margin Call - ★★ 
• Marwencol - ★★★
• Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God - ★★★½
• Medicine for Melancholy - ★★★
• The Messenger - ★★★½
• Me, Too - ★★½
• Micmacs - ★★
• Mid-August Lunch -★★★ 
• The Milk of Sorrow - ★★½
• The Mill & The Cross - ★★★
• The Miners' Hymns - ★★★½
• Misconceptions - ★★½
• Monsieur Lazhar - ★★★
• Moon - ★★½ 
• Moscow, Belgium - ★★★
• Mother - ★★★½
• Munyrangabo - ★★★★
• Murder in Fashion - no stars 
• My Dog Tulip - ★★★ 
• My Perestroika - ★★★
• My Week with Marilyn - ★★★
• The Navigator - ★★★½
• The Names of Love - ★★
• Ne Change Rien - ★★★
• Neil Young Journeys - ★★★
• New World Order - ★★½ 
• Night Across the Street - ★★★½
• Night of the Demons 2 - ★★★
• No One Knows About Persian Cats - ★★★½
• North Face - ★★★
• Norwegian Wood - ★★★
• The Notebook (2014) - ★★
• Nothing Personal - ★★½
• Nowhere Boy - ★★
• The Nude Vampire - ★★½
• Nymphomaniac - ★★★½
• The Oath - ★★★½
• Octubre - ★★★   
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green - ★★★
• Off Jackson Avenue - ★★
• Of Gods and Men - ★★★½
• Of Time and the City - ★★
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - ★★★½
• One Lucky Elephant - ★★★
• On the Road - ★★
• Orpheus - ★★★★
• OSS 117: Lost in Rio - ★★
• Outrage - ★★★
• Page One: Inside the New York Times - ★★★ 
• Pariah - ★★★½
• Patience (After Sebald) - ★★★
• Pelican Dreams - ★★
• Perfect Sense - ★★★
• The Phantom Carriage - ★★★★ 
• Poetry - ★★★★
• Police, Adjective - ★★★½ 
• Ponyo - ★★★½ 
• Potiche - ★★★
• Prince of Broadway - ★★★½
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - ★★½
• Prodigal Sons - ★★★ 
• Project Nim - ★★★½
• A Prophet (Un Prophète) - ★★★
• A propos de Nice - ★★★½
• Putty Hill - ★½
• Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? - ★★½
• Queen to Play - ★★★ 
• R - ★★★
• Rage (Rabia) - ★★★
• Red Army - ★★ 
• Red Riding: 1974 - ★★★½
• Red Riding: 1980 - ★★½
• Red Riding: 1983 - ★★★
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Undead - ½
• Rosetta - ★★★½
• The Rules of the Game - ★★★★
• The Running Man - ★★★
• The Sacrifice - ★★★★
• Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom - ★★★★
• Sans Soleil - ★★★½
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - zero stars
• The Saphead - ★★½
• Scarlet Street - ★★★½
• The Scent of Green Papaya -  ★★★½
• A Screaming Man - ★★★½
• The Sex Thief - ★½
• Shark Night - ★★ 
• The Secret in Their Eyes - ★★ 
• The Secret of Kells - ★★½ 
• Secret Sunshine - ★★★½  
• The Selfish Giant - ★★★
• A Separation - ★★★★
• Serbis - ★★★½ 
• The Sessions - ★★
• Seven Chances - ★★★½
• Shakespeare High - ★★★
• Shall We Kiss? - ★★★
• Shame - ★★★½ 
• The Shiver of the Vampires - ★★½
• The Sicilian Girl - ★½
• Silent Souls - ★★½
• Simon and the Oaks - ★★★
• A Simple Life - ★★★
• Sleeping Beauty - ★★★½
• Smashed - ★★★
• The Song of Sparrows - ★★★
• Song of the Sea - ★★★
• Soul Kitchen - ★★★
• South of the Border - ★★★½ 
• The Spiders - ★★★½
• Spirited Away - ★★★★ 
• Spring Fever - ★★★
• A Star is Born - ★★★★
• Still Walking - ★★★★
• Starlet - ★★★½
• Stonewall Uprising - ★★★
• The Stoning of Soraya M. - ★★★
• The Strange Case of Angelica - ★★★½ 
• The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears - ★
• Strippers vs. Werewolves - ★½
• Struck by Lightning - ★★★
• Summer Hours - ★★★½
• Summer Interlude - ★★★
• Summer with Monika - ★★★★
• The Sun Behind the Clouds - ★★½
• Sweetgrass - ★★★ 
• Taken 2 - ★½
• The Taqwacores - ★★
• Taris - ★★½
• The Temptation of St. Tony - ★★★ 
• Terribly Happy - ★★★½ 
• This is 40 - ★★★½
• This is Cinerama - ★★★
• Three Monkeys - ★★★½
• Throw Down Your Heart - ★★½ 
• The Time That Remains - ★★★ 
• Tim's Vermeer - ★★
• Tiny Furniture - ★★★
• Titanic (1953) - ★★½
• To Die Like a Man - ★★★½
• Tokyo Sonata - ★★★½
• A Touch of Sin - ★★★½
• A Town Called Panic - ★★★
• Treeless Mountain - ★★★½ 
• The Trip - ★★½  
• Tuesday, After Christmas - ★★★½
• Tulpan - ★★★
• Turn Me On, Dammit! - ★★★
• Turtle: The Incredible Journey - ★★½
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 - ★½
• Two Gates of Sleep - ★★★½ 
• Two Lovers - ★★★
• Two Orphan Vampires - ★★
• Two Thousand Maniacs! - ★ 
• Tyson - ★★★½
• Umberto D. - ★★★★
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - ★★★★ 
• Under Our Skin - ★★★
• Unmistaken Child - ★★★★ 
• Valhalla Rising - ★★★
• Venus in Fur - ★★★
• Verdun: Looking at History - ★★★
• Virgin Witch - ★★
• Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen - ★★★
• Wadjda - ★★★
• Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - ★★
• Watercolors - ★★½
• Weekend (1967) - ★★★★
• Weekend (2011) - ★★★ 
• We Have a Pope - ★★½
• We Need to Talk About Kevin - ★★ 
• West of Memphis - ★★★
• Wetlands - ★★★
• White Material - ★★★½
• Wild Grass - ★★★½
• Wild Horse, Wild Ride - ★★
• Whatever Works - ★★★½
• Where Soldiers Come From - ★★★ 
• Wild Horse, Wild Ride - ★★
• The White Ribbon - ★★★½ 
• White Zombie - ★★★
• Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? - ★★
• Whores' Glory - ★★★
• Wizards - ★★½
• A Woman in Berlin - ★★★
• The Woman with the Five Elephants - ★★★
• Women Without Men - ★★★ 
• Won't Back Down - ★½ 
• World on a Wire - ★★★½
• World's Greatest Dad - ★★
• Yes Man - ★½  
• The Yes Men Fix the World - ★★
• Zero de conduite - ★★★★
• Zombie Lake - ½ star