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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Ghosted New York Times	07/31/09	Fair	"...an elegant but unsatisfying drama... Cutting between past and present, Hamburg and Taipei, romance and regret, the movie generates an aura of thoughtful storytelling without actually possessing any notable thoughts."
2.	Loren Cass New York Times	07/24/09	Outstanding	"Its techniques and sensibility feel fresh, organic, evoked from the scene at hand.... all the more impressive in that Mr. Fuller wrote the screenplay at 18 and shot it at 21."
3.	California Company Town New York Times	07/24/09	Very Good	"...this scrupulously designed essay film offers visual pleasure and a cozy sort of thematic melancholy. Ms. Schmitt is an undeniably skilled composer of images..."
4.	Died Young, Stayed Pretty New York Times	07/17/09	Weak	"...cutting among interviews and images at breakneck speed to no discernible narrative or thematic purpose, the documentary is mercurial to the point of incoherence."
5.	The End of the Line New York Times	06/19/09	Good (Not Great)	"...vital, if rhetorically clumsy... impressive in scope, gathering material from Alaska to Senegal, Malta to Tokyo, and righteous in its condemnation..."
6.	Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi) Village Voice	06/17/09	Good	"...unfolds a supremely bizarre love triangle... this unhinged epic contemplates sex and sin vis-à-vis Japanese Catholicism and a cult of upskirt photography."
7.	Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love New York Times	06/12/09	Moderate	"Ms. Vasarhelyi is in thrall to her subject, and dewy-eyed accounts of pop stars, even those with as compelling a biography as Mr. N'Dour, tend to wear out their welcome."
8.	Blast! New York Times	06/12/09	Good	"...absorbing... flirts with metaphysics... mostly it keeps an amused eye on the effort of these driven brainiacs to set aloft an extremely sophisticated and fragile recording device."
9.	Herb & Dorothy New York Times	06/05/09	Very Good	"...modest, touching... Motivated entirely by a love for art of a particularly severe and sophisticated type, the Vogels were never interested in the financial rewards..."
10.	Kassim the Dream New York Times	06/05/09	Fair	"...finds some narrative drive through Mr. Ouma's quest to return home.... When he finally does, the catharsis is palpable, but not nearly enough... a featherweight saga..."
11.	Cayman Went New York Times	06/05/09	Weak	"...a banal life-lessons drama.... There are any number of reasons a group of filmmakers would choose so idyllic a locale to mount a production. Making an interesting movie, however, does not appear to have been one of them."
12.	Owl and the Sparrow New York Times	05/29/09	Good	"...charming... Gauger brings a tonic freshness to his simple, even simple-minded tale of a plucky orphan, Thuy (Pham Thi Han), playing cupid in Ho Chi Minh City..."
13.	New World Order New York Times	05/22/09	Poor	"Few things are as tiresome as listening to people rant about their conspiracy theories.... There's a movie to be made about the psychology of such men, their personal lives and private obsessions. 'New World Order' merely gawks at them."
14.	Big Man Japan (Dai-Nipponjin) New York Times	05/15/09	Good	"...the most impressive special effect here is Mr. Matsumoto's hilariously restrained performance, a tour de force of comedic concision..."
15.	Audience of One New York Times	05/08/09	Good	"Part cautionary tale for would-be filmmakers, part case study in spiritual craziness... illustrates how smoothly delusions of show business grandeur can dovetail with religious zealotry."
16.	Next Day Air New York Times	05/08/09	Excellent	"...with a script that snaps, characters that pop... 'Next Day Air' nears neo-blaxploitation perfection. Good things come in strange packages."
17.	Ice People New York Times	05/01/09	Moderate	"Culled from a four-month trip to Antarctica by the filmmaker Anne Aghion.... The film's hesitation, lack of rhetorical inflation and commitment to humble observation generate a tough poetry. 'Ice People' sticks in the mind."
18.	A Wink and a Smile New York Times	05/01/09	Good (Not Great)	"...all good clean fun; the movie is well intentioned to a blandly feminist fault.... self-esteem trips are less compelling to hear about than to experience firsthand."
19.	I Can See You New York Times	04/29/09	Outstanding	"David Lynch is the key influence here, and Mr. Reznick proves himself a keen disciple of the master.... heralds a splendid new filmmaker with one eye on genre mechanics, one eye on avant-garde conceits and a third eye for transcendental weirdness."
20.	The Mutant Chronicles New York Times	04/25/09	Poor	"...shamelessly derivative... the 'Mutant Chronicles' experience can be simulated by jumbling together memories of 'Aliens,' 'Blade 2,' 'Resident Evil' and the Uwe Boll oeuvre, then turning your mental brightness setting to Indistinguishable Gloom."

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