Marrit Ingman

This multiaward-winning documentary was two years in the making and tells stories about modern Iraq in the words of civilians of various ethnicities.

The gang from the Comedy Central show attend a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break.

This excellent screen version of the Newbery-winning novel is not about fairies and enchanted forests but about kids who feel as though they don’t fit in.

This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.

This spook story is a surprisingly mediocre Hollywood debut for Hong Kong’s Pang brothers.

This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three “lost boys” of the Sudan, chronicling three years of their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.

A person could have a reasonably good time with this confusing, Tarantinoid actioner starring Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven, and Alicia Keys, but there’s not actually much tension in the movie.

A sure winner for arthouse audiences with crossover appeal, Fabián Bielinsky’s The Aura spins a purely enjoyable web of intrigue within a meditative, dreamlike setting.

Live-action/animation hybrid from Luc Besson features a host of hip vocal talent but little more.

It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.