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Tadpole
This immature frog of a movie is just that: an immature frog. Only 78 minutes long, the truncated length frustrates us because so many potentially lovely limbs of development were possible but left out.
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Taking Woodstock
With Taking Woodstock, he takes advantage of the audience and takes them on a small acid trip, without danger and after effects.
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Tarnation
Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation marks another bold step, pushing the limits of the documentary to create an emotionally rough piece bathed in raw visuals.
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Tattoo
For his directional debut, German TV author Robert Schwentke transposes the sub-genres of serial-killer and femme fatale in a gloomy underground world where tattoos are considered as pieces of art and coveted by unscrupulous collectors.
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Taxidermia
There are films which from the start announce themselves like UFOS making no secret of their ambition to divide the audience.
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Tears of the Sun
Originally conceived as a new entry in the Die Hard franchise, Tears of the Sun marks the return of Bruce Willis as an action hero as the head of a group of marines charged with repatriating a doctor (Monica Bellucci) in a African country plunged into chaos.
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Tehilim
Haunted by loss and the impossibility of mourning, Tehilim continues director Raphaël Nadjari's tradition of films that are about suffering communities.
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Tell No One
Despite a good ensemble cast and a few intriguing moments, director Guillaume Canet's Tell No One fails, and the title gives a warning spectators should follow scrupulously.
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Ten
A woman in a car and ten sequences, ten conversations with the passengers who take a seat in the vehicle. As many figures who testify to the condition of the women in Iran today and the desire for emancipation which is hampered by men who are still exerting their domination on this society.
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Ten on Ten
Ten masterly lessons of cinema by Abbas Kiarostami, whose metaphysical work is characterized by his unique poetry and his sense of purity.
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Ten minutes older: The Trumpet
Film sketches, a genre that had fallen into abeyance, is not dead! As proof, these short films from some of cinema's greatest names. Each director delivers his own interpretation of time, as many free figures on an imposed subject.
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Terminator 3
If Terminator 3 preaches a return to B cinema, close to the original, Jonathan Mostow's film is pulled between two schools, that of a modest but resourceful cinema and that of a large production.
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Tetro
Served by an outdated but beautiful black and white, with color flashbacks, and rocked by the torpor of Argentinian tango, Tetro does not rate among the essential works of Coppola's career, but affects with the sincerity and faith of the message it conveys.
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The Thin Red Line
Adaptation of a James Jones's novel, The Thin Red Line is a deep film with a soul, a visual poem using war as a background to enlighten the introspection of Man facing lost paradises and death.
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The 13th Warrior
The 13th Warrior is the transposition of Akiro Kurosawa's Seven Samourai during the Viking era. While the original was going for wisdom and allegories, this new adaptation just goes for high testosterone action.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
With the never-ending conga line of vulgar teen movies that plow through the big screen, here comes a sexy adult film that you don't have to be a 14 year old boy to enjoy. In this remake, Pierce Brosnan plays a bored millionaire, while Rene Russo is the headhunter investigator for an insurance company sent to find the thief of the Impressionist masterpiece.
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Three Kings
Under the guise of a B movie and a sneaky preview destined to amateurs of testosterone flicks, Three Kings is a fairly surprising film since it employs action and humor as a vehicle for a political message about the hypocrisy of a "humanitarian" America during the Gulf War.
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This Is Not A Love Song
Rarely has a title been so appropriate. The British film This Is Not A Love Song proves to be such an excruciating experience.
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Through the Night
If pushed by curiosity you decided to venture into these Japanese slums hoping to document the life of Korean immigrants as victims of their political and social environment, you might not make it through the night as it is hardly impossible to survive Kim Su Jin's excruciating directing effort.
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Time And Tide
After two flops in Hollywood starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Knock Off and Double Team, Tsui Hark is back in a Hong Kong production with Time and Tide, featuring young singer Nicholas Tse and rock star Wu Bai in one of his first movie roles.
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The Time Machine
If you get on the Time Machine, you might find yourself a year earlier on the Planet of the Apes, as both remakes are similar in their treatment and in the bland entertainment they offer. However, what might save this retelling of H.G Wells novel is that the film never tries to be anything other than an old fashioned B-movie.
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Till The Last Drop ... My Love!
Highly talented director Beto Gomez has crafted a visual and musical valentine featuring five diverse female Mexican singers.
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Time of the Wolf
Following his provocative Piano Teacher, Michael Haneke has chosen to study the evolution of social codes following a disaster.
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Time to Leave
The second chapter in his trilogy about death, François Ozon's Time To Leave follows the last days of a young man who has just discovered that his days are numbered and embarks on an odyssey to find peace with himself and his family.
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Tokyo!
While all three parts of Tokyo! are forgotten fairly quickly, the film emerges from the coherent vision of a city often portrayed as sprawling, swarming, supersaturated with technology and finally over-sanitized.
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Tomb Raider
The lovely Angelina Jolie is video game temptress Lara Croft, out to save the world from the ominous plans of the "Illuminati" (fairly pathetic secret society) and avenge her father's death. She does a good enough job given the shoddy material.
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Traffic
With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh draws up a cruel report of the inefficiency of the war on drugs. The director (The Limey, Erin Brockovich, Out Of Sight) builds his film around four stories located in three quite distinct but not so distant worlds.
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Training Day
With its quasi-documentary approach to the tough laws of the streets of Los Angeles, Training Day could have been a good realistic cop movie. Regrettably, a scenario too extravagant to be credible thwarts the merits of the project.
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Transamerica
With Transamerica, director Duncan Tucker has mined the territory in between our pre-conceived notions of failure and success and fashioned a gem of self-realization on the back roads that the marginalized know better than anyone.
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The Transporter
The Transporter takes us to an all too familiar dead end, in a used car palmed off by some unscrupulous dealer. Neither the effective direction of Corey Yuen, nor the cynicism of Jason Statham can save a film stuck in a disgraceful script potpourri where Luc Besson shamelessly practices the art of recycling.
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Transylvania
With a title like Transylvania and the presence of dark princess Asia Argento, you could have expected gothic vampires and a lot of blood getting sucked, but Gypsy Director Tony Gatlif prefers to take us on a harsh road trip.
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The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is a film that will somewhat be remembered as not fully accomplished.
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The Triplettes of Belleville
The Triplettes of Belleville, Sylvain Chomet's first full-length film, is undoubtedly a good surprise: Action, humour, poetry and incredible technical control.
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Tropical Malady
Noticed with the intriguing Blissfully Yours, the Thai director confronts the human soul with its dark side and delivers a troubling tale haunted by ghosts.
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Try To Remember
Loss of memory is a very popular theme in today's cinema and its consequences have varied, from pure escapism to twisted machinations and sexual (re)discovery. Rather than capitalizing on the results of amnesia, Try To Remember examines the degenerative process of loss.
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Tsotsi
Set in a shantytown in the suburbs of Johannesburg, Tsotsi follows a young gangster on a short journey to humanization.
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Twentynine Palms
Don't go to see Twentynine Palms expecting a story because, properly speaking, there is none. The most striking aspect about this film is its visual impact and stunning photography.
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Twice Upon a Time
Twice Upon a Time shows that romantic comedies can work without a youthful and glamorous cast, as long as the actors have enough charisma to transcend their age.
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Two Friends
The adaptation of a play, Two Friends evolves around the unlikely friendship between two roommates, Nunzio, a simpleton affected by a chronic cough and Pino, a hitman working for the Sicilian mob.
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Two Lovers
James Gray is back on the big screen with Two Lovers, his opportunity to abandon the thrillers emblematic of his work and explore the inexhaustible theme of love.
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The Two Towers
A heroic and grandiose fresco, The Two Towers undoubtedly emerges as the pillar of heroic fantasy, breaking through the barriers of a secluded—and often grotesque—genre to offer contagious entertainment.
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases
With The Tulse Luper suitcases, the "epic" of a man whose adventures embrace almost an entire century, Peter Greenaway sins by excess of ambition.
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Unbreakable
It would have been easy to find another talented, cute kid but Shymalan stays with the adults in his latest absorbing thriller: the darker, moodier Unbreakable. While no one could have forseen how The Sixth Sense would take the country by storm, this film is not for everyone, nor is there a signature "I see dead people". While the storytelling pattern is similar and elements of the supernatural remain, this film is much more contemplative than his debut.
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Uncle Boonmee
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's most accessible film and his most successfully completed to this day.
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Unfaithful
Deaths in Adrian Lyne movies are acceptable. Murder is not. We know there will definitely be lots of sex, perhaps erotic but at least passionate, along with the usual betrayal that someone unwisely commits and holds grave consequences (no more nookie!). Someone may die. But a cold-blooded murder is new.
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Unknown Pleasures
Jia Zhianghe, whose films Xiao Wu and Platform garnered considerable attention, returns with a contemplative work about the idleness of Chinese youth in a country in transition.
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Unmade Beds
Alexis Dos Santos ventures into French new wave territory, offering us a glimpse at a microcosm, a younger generation fueled by rock, art and love in the heart of London.
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Film reviews
Plume Noire's New Movie Reviews 2012 - present
