Best Films of 2011
Electric Sheep writers review the best films of 2011.
Electric Sheep writers review the best films of 2011.
The second feature from Gerardo Naranjo, Miss Bala is a searing, brutal film set in the midst of Mexico’s vicious drug war.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Kuroki’s ground-breaking 1967 film, an elliptical, experimental, abstract and poetic vision, mixes genres, from documentary to road movie and spy thriller, with stylistic elements of the nouvelle vague.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Whoever the murderer is, it becomes ever clearer that there is more than just one villain in the story.
Review by Sarah Cronin
The film is lovingly faithful to the spirit of Murakami’s novel, capturing the sensual and emotional longing that pervades the original - but also replicating its frustrating story and weak protagonists.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Winter in the Ozark Mountains. Timber-framed houses litter a rust-coloured landscape, the yards full of abandoned cars, washing machines, years of accumulated junk.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Based on the 1955 novel by Jim Thompson and directed by James Foley, the film captures the sinister, yet morally ambiguous tone of the author’s pulp fiction.
Review by Sarah Cronin
The documentary offers an interesting insight into American backwater culture, and it is humorous, although a little irritating.
Review by Sarah Cronin
It is at once a simply told tragedy and a stinging critique of ideology, oppression and the loss of free will, ostensibly during the Crusades.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Trapero captures all the gritty realism of life in prison, but the film also has the feel of a slow-burning thriller.
Review by Sarah Cronin