While this The Manchurian Candidate doesn’t leave the same chilling residue as Frankenheimer’s opus, this version is still a surprisingly unnerving procedural.

It’s a beautiful screenplay overflowing with moments of such sudden, tight-fisted insanity that frequently knocked my socks off, all of its coupled with a poignant purity that’s beyond terrific. As early-year movies go, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind isn’t just a surprise, it’s a bona fide cinematic miracle I’m not ever going to forget.

American Splendor is an absolute delight.

Dirty Pretty Things is one of the year’s best films.

As a film guaranteed to impress and absolutely assured to make an audience think, Far from Heaven is nothing less than divine.

There are far too few films that make me giddy and excited about the art of cinema. Adaptation is one of them. See it at once.

Real Women Have Curves is a cinematic experience I’m going to fondly remember for the rest of my life.

Punch-Drunk Love is Sandler’s finest hour.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the most fun I’ve had at the cinema in ages.