The Tillman Story (“Amir Bar-Lev’s exquisitely crafted documentary about former NFL player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman not only put his story into crucial context, but it offered a provocative meditation on myth, propaganda and our abiding need for narrative neatness.”)
I Am Love
Please Give
Inception
No One Knows About Persian Cats (“Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi gave viewers a vital, progressive view of modern-day Tehran in this fact-based picaresque through the city’s raucous, diverse underground music scene.”)
The Kids Are All Right
The Ghost Writer
Fair Game (“Doug Liman’s concentrated, well-calibrated revisiting of the story of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson avoided axe-grinding in favor of a taut drama that reminded viewers that even the most cynically stage-managed political theater possesses unseen human stakes.”)