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LATEST LOOKS: Flight of the Red Balloon, Paprika, The Savages, There Will Be Blood, The Golden Compass, I'm Not There

BROWSE JEFFREY'S FILM REVIEW ARCHIVE ; Hundreds of Jeffrey's reviews, and guest reviews too!

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Check out Jeffrey's list of 25 favorite films released in 2007, along with a feature deserving Special Recognition.

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Flight of the Red Balloon
Juliette Binoche is fantastic in this new masterpiece by Hou Hsiao-hsien.


Paprika
Satoshi Kon's animated extravaganza plunges us into awe-inspiring dreamscapes, with a meaningful and challenging narrative.


The Savages
Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman are at their very best in this wise, witty comedy by writer-director Tamara Jenkins


There Will Be Blood
Paul Thomas Anderson's masterful drama features Daniel Day-Lewis's greatest performance, and it's one of the best American movies of the decade. Jeffrey's review is at Christianity Today Movies.


The Golden Compass
An unsatisfying, rushed, anticlimactic fantasy film based on literature designed to "undermine Christian faith." Exciting, eh?


I'm Not There
Todd Haynes' brilliant, surreal film about the many mysteries of Bob Dylan is, well, about twenty brilliant minutes too long.


Margot at the Wedding
Noah Baumbach's latest is acidic, acerbic, condescending, and mean.


The Devil Came on Horseback
If the world watches one movie in 2007... the world should take a good long look at this one.


No Country for Old Men
Jeffrey's review of the new Coen Brothers film based on Cormac McCarthy's novel is posted at ChristianityTodayMovies.com.


This is England
Shane Meadows paints a vivid picture of how young, troubled children
can be trained up into violent gang members.


Into Great Silence
An extraordinary spiritual retreat through a poetic, profound work of filmmaking.


The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Full of Roger Deakins' glorious cinematography and strong performances from all involved, Andrew Dominick's latest is a memorably meditative Western.


No Country for Old Men
Ken Morefield, visiting the Toronto International Film Festival, guest-reviews this upcoming release.


My Kid Could Paint That
Ken Morefield, visiting the Toronto International Film Festival, guest-reviews this upcoming release.


Honeydripper
Ken Morefield, visiting the Toronto International Film Festival, guest-reviews this upcoming release.


Persepolis
Ken Morefield, visiting the Toronto International Film Festival, guest-reviews this upcoming release.


news:

Jeffrey Overstreet's review of Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
won an Evangelical Press Award!
Read the review at Christianity Today Movies.

 


"Overstreet's writing is precise
and beautiful, and the story
is masterfully told."
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other recent reviews

Eastern Promises

La Vie en Rose

Stardust
- Christianity Today Movies
- revised version

Once
Plus, two guest reviews
- Brett McCracken,
- Carissa Turner Smith

DISCOVER
 Jeffrey's "travel journal" of memories and meditations on 30 years of moviegoing:

Through a Screen Darkly
 Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies

R E C E N T   I N T E R V I E W S


 'It's the Sanctity of Life'
Jeffrey interviews Darren Aronofsky, director of The Fountain


Family Stories
Jeffrey talks with Alejandro González Iñárritu about his new movie Babel and his passion for telling family stories... even his own.

elsewhere
 Jeffrey also reviews films for ChristianityTodayMovies,
 Response Magazine,
 and Risen.

Email Jeffrey and request a free subscription to Response magazine.

location:
Jeffrey's desk is located at Seattle Pacific University.

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Favorite Films of 2006
Favorite Movies of 2005
Favorite Movies of 2004
 Favorite Movies of 2003
 Favorite Movies of 2002
Favorite Movies of 2001
Favorite Movies of 2000

special feature:





Looking Closer's
Twenty-Five Favorite
Films of 2006
Jeffrey Overstreet celebrates the movies he loved most in 2006 by having a whole lot of conversations with others who loved them too. Special guests include writer/director Scott Derrickson, author Sara Zarr, author and film reviewer Greg Wright, and film critics Brett McCracken, Christian Hamaker, Josh Hurst, Peter Suderman, Adam Walter, Russ Breimeier, Ken Morefield, and Todd Hertz. (More conversations coming, too!)