Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading is a dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. The madness begins when a ex-CIA analyst’s memoirs make their way into the hands of two gym employees. The ensemble cast could not be improved, George Clooney and Brad Pitt are A-list morons, John Malkovich is volcanically abusive, and Tilda Swinton, stiff with beady-eyed suspicion, is a perfect comic foil. After the portentous No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen return to their trademark brand of cruel, misanthropic farce with dark comedy and a bizarre narrative. In the end, Burn After Reading is a film that is essentially about nothing much at all but it goes about achieving that nothing in such audaciously funny ways that it turns out to be something extraordinary.

Tell No One

Tell No One is a French action thriller and murder mystery that doesn't cheat. This is a splendid ensemble doing its level best to keep the audience guessing all the way through an increasingly knotty narrative. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, a doctor by the name Alex Beck gets caught in new evidence and a new investigation. Mister Beck, throughout the film, to deal with suspicion, doubt, cover-ups, and conspiracies to prove his innocence. There will be times you think it's too perplexing, when you're sure you're witnessing loose ends. Whether devised that way or not, Tell No One is at times baffling, but never boring.

Encounters at the End of the World

Encounters at the End of the World is a visually stunning documentary that takes the audience to the southernmost continent, Antarctica. This documentary displays the trek in four parts. First, Werner Herzog goes through the history of exploration on this enigmatic landmass. Second, he dives into the research being done. Third, the audience takes a look at the people who inhabit this esoteric place. And finally, the austere future of the continent is discussed. The images captured by Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger are dazzling all on their own, finding the disorienting psychedelic feeling that is nature at its weirdest. Mister Herzog is cinema's poet of the empty spaces.