"H"   All Films Watched 2000-2010
All films are rated on a scale of **** (A+), *** 3/4 (A), *** 1/2 (A-), *** 1/4 (B+), *** (B), ** 3/4 (B-), ** 1/2 (C+), ** 1/4 ( C), ** (C-) , * 3/4 (D+), * 1/2 (D), * 1/4 (D-), * (F) 
Links are to longer reviews on site.  A film defined as 70 min.+  visual event.  
The year included with the film is the year I watched each film.
 (V) =  TV, Video or DVD    ( +) = repeat viewing      (W/O)= walked out
H  (2003, S. Korea  d. Lee Jeong-hyuk) Serial killer melodrama with the creepiest villains since Hannibal Lector.  Very much in the same vein as Cure.  ***
HABITANTE INCIERTO, EL (The Uninvited Guest)   (2007, d. Guillem Morales) V. ***
HACHIKO:  A DOG'S STORY (2009,  d. Lasse Hallstrom) ** 3/4
HAIKU TUNNEL   (2001, d. Jacob & Joshua Kornbluth)    ***    
HAIRSPRAY  (2007, d. Adam Shankman) *** 1/2
HALF LIFE OF TIMOFEY BEREZIN, THE   (2006, d. Scott Z. Burns) *** 1/4
HALF NELSON  (2006, d. Ron Fleck) *** 1/4
HALF-LIFE  (2008, d. Jennifer Phang) **
HAMILL  (2010, d. Oren Kaplan) *** 1/4
HAMLET  (2000, d. Michael Almereyda)    ** 1/2    
HANA & ALICE  (2005, d. Shunji Iwai) Intermittantly clever & interesting, quirky film about two teenage girls & their crush on a reserved boy.  ** 1/2
HANA  (2006, d. Hirokazu Kore-eda) ** 3/4
HANCOCK  (2008, d. Peter Berg) Ridiculous premise, reasonably good f/x. Superhero with a human face; but I strongly disliked script.  * 1/2
HANGING OFFENSE  (2004, d. Guillame Nicloux) Atmospheric, puzzling thriller about possible murders and the woman Colombo-like detective on the case. ***
HANGOVER, THE (2009,  d. Todd Phillips) One of those great bad comedies:  earned laughs, surprising plot development, fresh acting by 4 comic actors. *** 1/4
HANNIBAL RISING  (2007, d. Peter Webber) Now just an ordinary slasher/revenge genre pic, though Gaspard Ulliel is a very interesting actor.  **
HANNIBAL   (2001, d. Ridley Scott)    **  1/4 
HANSEL AND GRETEL (2009,  d. Yim Phil-sung) W/O
HAPPENING, THE  (2008, d. M. Night Shyamalan) Good acting (Betty Buckley's classic camp), ridiculous script (plot holes to spare).   **
HAPPILY EVER AFTER  (2005, d. Yvan Attal) Ironically titled, interesting enough film about 2 married guy & single friend and their failing relationships. ** 3/4
HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS, THE   (2002, d. Takashi Miike)    * 1/2
HAPPY ACCIDENTS   (2001, d. Brad Anderson)    ***    
HAPPY AS ONE  (2006, d. Vanessa Jopp) ***
HAPPY ENDINGS  (2005, d. Don Roos) Somewhat sprawling, well observed black comedy of 21st century families with a brilliant perf by Maggie Gyllenhaal *** 1/2
HAPPY FAMILY  (2010, d. Gabriele Salvatores) *** 1/4
HAPPY FEET  (2006, d. George Miller) Simply wonderful 3-D animation combined with a timeless, appealing story.  A triumph.  *** 3/4
HAPPY HOUR  (2003, d. Mike Bencivenga) Anthony LaPaglia doing a Leaving Las Vegas dramatic turn, well acted but ultimately derivative.  ** 1/2
HAPPY TIMES   (2002, d. Zhang Yimou)    ** 1/2    
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY  (2008, d. Mike Leigh) Formless, well acted character study centered around a happy-go-lucky young woman and her angst ridden driving teacher.  ** 3/4
HARD CANDY  (2006, d. David Slade) ***
HARD GOODBYES:  MY FATHER  (2003, Greece/Germany   d. Penny Panayotopoulou) Slight story about young boy in denial about his father's death.  ** 1/4
HARD PILL  (2005, d. John Baumgartner) ***
HARD WORD, THE   (2003, Australia/Great Britain  d. Scott Roberts)  Delightful caper film.  ***
HARDBALL   (2001, d. Brian Robbins)    ** 1/2    
HARI OM  (2005, d. Bharatbala Ganapathy) Another travelog, this one better, though also contrived:  French girl roving thru India with a rickshaw driver.  ** 1/2
HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE  (2004, d. Danny Leiner) Silly teen farce with too many stupid bathroom & fag bashing jokes...but fun anyway.  ** 1/4
HARRY AND MAX  (2004, d. Chris Munch) Brutally honest, well written story of 2 boy-band brothers with incest overtones. Bryce Johnson is a major find!  *** 1/4
HARRY AND MAX  (2004, d. Christopher Munch) + Still one of the most truthful & insightful films about boybands and gay life in general. Better the 2nd time. *** 1/2
HARRY POTTER #3  (2004, d. Alfonso Cuarón) Darker, better directed; but still relatively uninvolving. Maybe I should read the books.  ** 1/2
HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (2010, d. David Yates) Impeccably made, designed, acted. Fine f/x.  But for me a long, one-note, loud bore.  ** 3/4
HARRY POTTER 5  (2007, d. David Yates) *** 1/4
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBE OF SECRETS   (2002, d. Chris Columbus)    ***   
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE  (2005, d. Mike Newell) ***
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009,  d. David Yates) Series marking time; but excellent script and f/x make it worthwhile.  *** 1/4
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE   (2001, d. Chris Columbus)    ** 3/4   
HARSH TIMES  (2006, d. David Ayer) Tough action film with scintillating acting and superreal dialog. Bale is a phenom.  ***
HART'S WAR   (2002, d. Gregory Hoblit)    ** 1/2   
HARVARD MAN   (2002, d. James Toback)    ** 1/4 
HATE CRIME  (2005, d. Tommy Stovall) *
HAVEN  (2006, d. Frank E. Flowers) Good actors in a mess of a film about Cayman Island life and dire financial schemes. **
HAWAII, OSLO  (2004, d. Erik Poppe) Norway AFF: slick, complex multi-strand drama of a group of Oslo residents as they play out one character's portentious dream.  ***
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT  (2005, d. Tom Vaughan) Psychologically modern Trollope novel of 4 Victorian relationships given average Masterpiece Theater treatment. ** 1/2
HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT  (2003, d. Laetetia Columbani) Clever thriller about a woman literally crazy about a cardiologist.  ***
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS  (2004, d. John Duigan) Old fashioned big WWII romance, a tear jerker that didn't jerk but never bored. Theron fine; but Townsend too callow for role. ** 3/4
HEAD OVER HEELS   (2001, d. Mark Waters)    ** 
HEADLESS WOMAN, THE (2009,  d. Lucrecia Martel) ** 1/2
HEAD-ON  (2004, d. Fatih Akin) Off center love story about troubled German Turkish couple.  Good film, but not as good as rep.  *** 1/4
HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, THE  (2004, d. Asia Argento) Mind blowing adaptation from life of a young boy being raised by his disaster of a mother.  *** 1/2
HEART OF ME, THE   (2003, Great Britain/Germany   d. Thaddeus O'Sullivan) Unabashed weepy romance about 2 sisters in love with the same man.  ***
HEART OF THE BEAR, THE  (2001, d. Arvo Iho)  *** 1/4  
HEARTBEAT DETECTOR   (2008, d. Nicolas Klotz) ** 1/4
HEARTBEATS  (2010, d. Xavier Dolan) ***
HEARTBREAKER (L'Arnacoeur)  (2010, d. Pascal Chaumeil)  ** 1/2
HEARTS IN ATLANTIS   (2001, d. Scott Hicks)    **    
HEAVEN   (2002, d. Tom Tykwer)    *** 1/2   
HEAVENS BLUE (Tengri)  (2008, d. Marie Jaoul de Poncheville; Kyrgyzstan) *** 1/4
HEAVEN'S BURNING  (2005, d. Craig Lahiff)V. Russell Crowe & Japanese chick in a corkingly over-the-top (a la Robert Rodriguez) violent road pic from Oz. ***
HEDGEHOG (Le hérisson)  (2010, d. Mona Ashashe)  *** 3/4
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH   (2001, d. John Cameron Mitchell)    ***
HEIGHTS  (2005, d. Chris Terrio) + Second time to watch this one. Superbly well done. Another great Glenn Close role.   My kinda film!  *** 1/2
HEIGHTS  (2005, d. Chris Terrio) Multi-character 24 hours in the lives of N.Y. arty types. Superbly well done.  My kinda film!  *** 1/2
HEIR TO AN EXECUTION  (2003, d. Ivy Meeropol)V. Doc. Rosenberg's grandaughter searches for the truths of family's past. Moving, well made, informative. ***1/2
HEIST   (2001, d. David Mamet)    ** 3/4   
HELL HOUSE   (2002, d. George Ratliff)    ***   
HELL  (2006, d. Danis Tanovic) *** 1/2
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (2009,  d. Guillermo del Toro) Bombastic fantasy with del Toro's nightmarish imagery, but a soporific, predictable plot. **
HELLO GOODBYE (2009,  d. Graham Guit) ** 1/2
HENRY OF NAVARRE  (2010, d. Jo Baier)  ***
HENRY POOLE IS HERE  (2008, d. Mark Pellington) Luke Wilson in a film totally without irony doesn't compute.  * 1/4
HENRY VIII  (2004, d. Pete Travis) V. Abridged PBS version of British series with an interesting Ray Winstone perf. Pop history, but too short to be meaningful.  ** 1/4
HER MAJESTY   (2002, d. Mark J. Gordon)  * 1/2
HER MINOR THING  (2005, d. Charles Matthau) Silly romantic comedy with a trite, predictable story but nice production values. * 1/2
HERE ON EARTH  (2000, d. Mark Piznarski)    ** 1/2    
HEREAFTER (2010, d. Clint Eastwood) Superbly written & crafted film, subtle, mature, moving and emotionally fulfilling...especially the twin boys' story.  *** 3/4
HERENCIA   (2002, d. Paula Hernandez)  ***
HERO  (2003, d. Zhang Yimou) China AFF.  Huge marshall arts epic in Crouching Tiger vein.  Gorgeous & well made; but cold.  ***
HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (2009,  d. Ken Kwapis) Attractive cast, but clichés abound in this all too clever rom-com about coupling. ** 1/2
HEY, HAPPY!  (2001, d. Noam Gonick)    0* 
HI, TERESKA   (2002, d. Robert Glinski)  ***
HIDALGO  (2004, d. Joe Johnston) Entertaining western variant, true (if transparently enhanced) story of a mustang competing with thoroughbred Arabians. ** 3/4
HIDDEN (Caché)   (2005, d. Michael Haneke) *** 1/2
HIDDEN BLADE, THE  (2006, d. Yoji Yamada) *** 1/2
HIDDEN DIARY  (Mères et filles)  (2010, d. Julie Lopes-Curval) *** 1/4
HIDDEN FACE  (2008, d. Bernard Campan) * 1/4
HIDDEN LOVE (L'amour caché)  (2007, d. Alessandro Capone) * 3/4
HIDEAWAY (2010, d. François Ozon)  *** 1/2
HIDING AND SEEKING  (2004, d. Menachem Daum) V. Enormously moving docu about a family of Holocaust survivors and their reconciliation with the past.  *** 3/4
HIGH CRIMES    (2002, d. Carl Franklin)    **   
HIGH FIDELITY  (2000, d. Stephen Frears)    *** 1/2    
HIGH LANE (Vertige)  (2010, d. Abel Feray) ***
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3  (2008, d. Kenny Ortega) Surprisingly good, fun and frothy.  High energy, ok score, great choriography make for a diverting experience.  ***
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL  (2006, d. Kenny Ortega) V. By far the best musical of the last year is a Disney TV film. Zac Ephron can move & even lip sync. ***
HIGH TENSION  (2004, d. Alexandre Aja) Vividly graphic and gory mass-murder horror thriller, well made, but based on a cheat which compromises it.  ***
HIGHER FORCE, THE (2009,  d. Olaf de Fleur Johannesson) * 3/4
HIGHER FORCE, THE  (2008, d. Olaf de Fleur Johannesson) Silly Iceland comedy which went nowhere for 45 minutes so I walked.  W/O
HIGHWAY  (2005, d. James Cox) V. Messy, faintly homoerotic '02 road movie with stoned out Jake Gyllenhaal & Jared Leto looking fine.  * 3/4
HIMALAYA   (2001, d. Eric Valli)    ***   
HINDENBERG, THE  (2006, d. Robert Wise) V. Fairly good old fashioned disaster flick. F/x sort of lame. ** 1/4
HIPSTERS  (2010, d. Valery Todorovsky) *** 1/2
HIS SECRET LIFE ("Ignorant Fairies")   (2001, d. Ferzan Ozpetek)  *** 1/2
HISTORY BOYS, THE  (2006, d. Nicholas Hytner) Yorkshire Dead Poets Society with a fine, literate script. Totally absorbing.  *** 3/4
HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, A  (2005, d. David Cronenberg) *** 1/2
HIT AND RUNWAY    (2001, d. Christopher Livingston)    *** 1/4
HIT, THE  (2003, d. Stephen Frears) V. 1984 noir with superb performances.  Wonderfully nihlistic & typical of later Frears. *** 1/4
HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY  (2005, d. Garth Jennings) Banal, arch as only the Brits can. I was incredibly bored, even with the great f/x. * 1/2
HOAX, THE  (2007, d. Lasse Hallstrom) Competent, but predictable and not involving.  ** 1/2
HOLD MY HEART (2003, d. Trygve Allister Diesen) Norway AFF.  Drama about father who kidnaps estranged young daughter.  *** 1/4
HOLDING TREVOR  (2007, d. Rosser Goodman) *** 1/2
HOLES  (2003, d. Andrew Davis) It's sort of churlish to complain about a bad script with such a feel-good movie.  Shia LaBeouf is great.  ** 3/4
HOLIDAY, THE  (2006, d. Nancy Meyers)  I loved every minute of this chick flick despite its flaws. *** 1/4
HOLLOW MAN   (2000, d. Paul Verhoeven)    *  3/4
HOLLYWOOD ENDING   (2002, d. Woody Allen)    ***    
HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE  (2003, d. Ron Shelton) Cop flick where quirky cops are more interesting than the case. Shelton better director here than writer.  ** 1/2
HOLLYWOODLAND  (2006, d. Allen Coulter) TV director's style more suited to noir. Fine cast (esp. Brody & Affleck) good script!  ***
HOLY GIRL, THE  (2005, d. Lucrecia Martel) Turgid and pointless drama about the effect on a teen girl of an almost molestation by a married older man.  * 1/2
HOLY LOLA  (2005, d. Bertrand Tavernier) Just about the same movie as John Sayles' Casa de los babys except in Cambodia. Too protracted and long.  ** 1/2
HOLY ROLLERS  (2010, d. Kevin Tyler Asch)  ***
HOME (2009,  d. Ursula Meier) ***
HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, A  (2004, d. Michael Mayer) Extraordinarily well made, literate gay film which nails its '60s-'80s eras. Great acting.  *** 3/4
HOME OF DARK BUTTERFLYS, THE  (2008, d. Dome Karukoski;  Finland) ** 3/4
HOME OF THE BRAVE  (2004, d. Paola di Florio) V. Well made docu, informative & emotionally powerful about civil rights martyr Viola Liuzzo & her surviving family.  *** 1/2
HOME OF THE BRAVE  (2006, d. Irwin Winkler) Powerful affects-of-war film about current Iraq soldiers.  Too on point, but well acted. ** 3/4
HOME SONG STORIES, THE  (2008, d. Tony Ayres; Australia) *** 1/4
HOMEGROWN  (2004, d. Stephen Gyllenhaal) V. Authentic '98 pot growing paranoia movie thriller/comedy with good cast (Ryan Phillippe is fine).  ** 3/4
HOMELESS TO HARVARD  (2003, d. Peter Levin) (V) Lifetime tv movie (Thora Birch) about girl who surmounts incredible odds to get an education.  ** 3/4
HOMESICK (Koti-ikävä)  (2006, d. Petri Kotwica) Superb, raw Finnish film about a teenage boy committed to a mental institution, similar plot to Manic. *** 1/4
HOMME DE SA VIE, L'   (2006, d. Zabou Breitman) *** 3/4
HONEY (Bal)  (2010, d. Semih Kaplanoglu;  Turkey)  ***
HONEY  (2003, d. Bille Woodruff) Is there a cookie-cutter factory for recycled plots like this? Ok music & dancing don't make up for terrible direction. * 1/4
HONEYDRIPPER  (2007, d. John Sayles) Good music, but very predictable.  ** 3/4
HOOKED (2009,  d. Adrian Sitaru) ** 1/2
HOOT  (2006, d. Wil Shriner) Ernest flick from teen book. Interesting young actors, but lacking directoral spark. * 3/4
HOPE ETERNAL  (2008, d. Karl Francis; United Kingdom) ** 1/2
HORAS DEL DIA, LAS  (2004, d. Jaime Rosales) Boring (cf. Bruno Dumont) film about the boring quotidien life of a boring shopowner with one little quirk.  **
HORIZON OF EVENTS, THE  (2006, d. Daniele Vicari) ** 3/4
HORNBLOWER: DUTY  (2003, d. Andrew Grieve)V. #8, not quite up to #7. Still, this series is best thing ever to happen on high seas, despite Russell Crowe.  ***
HORNBLOWER: LOYALTY ( 2003, d. Andrew Grieve) V.  #7 in the series, and one of the best. Ioan Gruffudd was born to play this role.  *** 1/4
HOST AND GUEST  (2006, d. Shin Dong-il) ** 3/4
HOST, THE (Gue-Mool)  (2006, d. Bong Joon-ho) **
HOSTAGE  (2005, d. Constantine Giannaris) Gripping based on true story variation of Bus 174.  Stathis Papadopoulis wonderful as the bus hostage taker. *** 1/4
HOSTAGE  (2005, d. Florent Siri) Visually dazzling thriller with multiple layers of jeopardy. Plot has several holes; but effective filmmaking nevertheless.  ** 3/4\
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (2010, d. Steve Pink) I have no nostalgia for the '80s and this The Hangover wannabe was raucus, homophobic & ugly.  * 3/4
HOTEL RWANDA  (2004, d. Terry George) Epic, shocking and sad.  Don Cheadle towers as a strong man in a crumbling society. Maybe too much on target.  *** 1/4
HOTTEST STATE, THE  (2006, d. Ethan Hawke) ** 3/4
HOUNDS  (2007, d. Ann-Kristin Reyels) *** 1/4
HOURS, THE    (2002, d. Stephen Daldry)    *** 3/4   
HOUSE OF ADAM, THE  (2008, d. Jorge Ameer) Gay ghost story.  A film of towering badness in every aspect: acting, direction, script, all the technicals, yet somehow watchable. *
HOUSE OF D  (2005, d. David Duchovny) Sappy but watchable period piece ('70s N.Y) coming of age story. Anton Yelchin is quite good; but script has holes.  * 3/4
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS  (2004, d. Zhang Yimou) Visually stunning, emotionally resonant, remarkable f/x; but too much of a good thing is too much.  *** 1/4
HOUSE OF FOOLS  (2002, d. Andrei Konchalovsky)  ** 1/2
HOUSE OF FOOLS  (2003, d. Andrei Konchalovsky) Russia AFF.  Off-center drama.  Chechan war comes to insane asylum.  ** 1/2
HOUSE OF MIRTH, THE   (2000, d. Terence Davies)    ** 1/2    
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG  (2003, d. Vadim Perelman) Classic tragedy: good but flawed people who make fateful mistakes. Incredibly well acted & directed.  *** 1/2
HOUSE OF SAND  (2006, d. Andrucha Waddington) *** 1/4
HOUSE ON THE CLOUDS, THE (La casa sulle nuvole) (2009,  d. Claudio Giovannesi) ***
HOUSE WITH A VIEW OF THE SEA, A   (2001, d. Alberto Arvelo Mendoza)  ** 1/2 
HOUSE!  (2000, d. Julian Kemp) * 1/2
HOUSEBOY, THE  (2008, d. Spencer Schilly) Totally realistic & sexy portrayal of 20-ish gay boy's life & times. Watch for actor Nick May.  *** 1/4
HOUSEKEEPER, THE   (2003, France d. Claude Berri)  Wry, romantic comedy about a May-November romance.  ***
HOUSEWARMING (Travaux, on sait quand ça commence...)  (2006, d. Brigitte Roüen) Silly Paris apt. money pit/illegal alien worker comedy.  ** 1/2
HOW DO YOU KNOW  (2010, d. James L. Brooks) V. Cookie-cutter romcom with wildly divergent acting styles. Silly set-up, sappy ending. Disappointing. **
HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER (2010, d. Alexei Popogrebsky)  Tense, well acted Russian film about conflict between 2 men serving in Arctic weather station.   *** 1/2
HOW I KILLED MY FATHER    (2002, d. Anne Fontaine)    ***    
HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY (Jin tian de yu zen me yang?)   (2007, d. Xiaolu Guo) ** 3/4
HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE ME (Combien tu m'aimes?)  (2006, d. Bertrand Blier) Monica Bellucci as sexy prostitute; fun, not my cuppa.  ** 3/4
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS  (2000, d. Ron Howard)    ** 1/2    
HOW THE WEST WAS WON  (2003, d. Henry Hathaway et al)+ Pristine print in 3-screen Cinerama of gorgeous overblown star-driven turkey. Great experience. ** 1/4
HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE  (2007, d. Dorris Dörrie) *** 1/2
HOW TO DEAL (2003, d. Clare Kilner) Rather innocuous teen romantic comedy. Mandy Moore is OK, Trent Ford one to watch; but Nina Foch steals the film.  ** 1/2
HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS  (2003, d. Donald Petrie) Fairly clever high concept romantic farce: 2 people trying not to fall in love.  Empty calories.  **
HOW TO ROB A BANK  (2007, d. Andrews Jenkins) Talky, pretentious caper thriller that doesn't work at all. Even Nick Stahl can't save. * 1/2
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2010, d. Sanders & DeBlois) At times thrilling 3D amusement park ride & Baruchel is fine. But story is sketchy & silly.  ** 1/2
HOWARD ZINN:  YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN  (2005, d. Ellis & Mueller) V. Didactic docu about a lifetime activist against war & prejudice. ** 3/4
HOWL  (2010, d. Rob Epstein &  Jeffrey Friedman)  *** 3/4
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE  (2005, d. Hayao Miyazaki) Good story, well dubbed (especially Christian Bale as Howl), nice animation. I was surprised. *** 1/4
HUACHO  (2010, d. Alejandro Fernandez & Almendras) ***
HUDDERSFIELD (Hadersfild)  (2008, d. Ivan Zivkovic) ** 1/2
HUDSON RIVER BLUES  (2004, d. Nell Cox)V. '95 film chick flick about a large family. Some good actors, and a script with possibilities; but mostly mediocre filmmaking.  **
HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, ACTIVIST AND REBEL  (2010, d. Brigitte Berman)  *** 1/2
HUKKLE  (2002, d. György Pálfi)  ** 3/4
HULA GIRLS  (2006, d. Lee Sang-il; Japan) **
HULK  (2003, d. Ang Lee) Turgid, overlong King Kong vs. Crouching Tiger takeoff. Good effects, but constant barrage of novel transition device wearing. * 1/2
HUMAN NATURE   (2002, d. Michel Gondry)    *   
HUMAN RESOURCES (2010, d. Laurent Cantet)V. Beautifully underplayed labor vs. management, father vs. son drama. Ambiguities abound to the novice director's credit. *** 1/4
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER, THE  (2010, d. Eran Riklis; Israel)  *** 1/4
HUMAN STAIN, THE  (2003, d. Robert Benton) Surprisingly effective melodrama with a star-making debut by Wentworth Miller and another Kiddman triumph.  ***
HUMANITÉ   (2000, d. Bruno Dumont)    *** 1/2    
HUMPDAY (2009,  d. Lynn Shelton) *** 1/4
HUNTED, THE  (2003, d. William Friedkin) Well made, exciting chase film: army trained killer on a rampage hunted by his teacher.  *** 1/4
HUNTER, THE  (2005, d. Serik Aprymov) A youthful juvenile deliquent in rural Khazagstan is tought by a lone wolf hunger. Fabu scenery, not much of a plot. ** 3/4
HUNTING AND GATHERING (Ensemble, c'est tout)  (2007, d. Claude Berri) *** 1/2
HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT, THE  (2004, d. Perry & Thomason) V. Docu which nails slimy Ken Starr and his corrupt attack dogs as they tried to get Clinton.  *** 1/4
HUNTING PARTY, THE  (2007, d. Richard Shepard) ** 1/2
HURT LOCKER, THE (2010, d. Kathryn Bigelow) + Still amazing, definitive war film 1 1/2 years later; but now I notice episodic structure & middle drags a little. *** 3/4
HURT LOCKER, THE  (2008, d. Kathryn Bigelow) ****
HUSH!   (2002, d. Ryosuke Hashiguchi)  ** 1/2
HUSH!   (2002, d. Ryosuke Hashiguchi)    ** 1/2    
HUSTLE & FLOW  (2005, d. Craig Brewer) Effective filmmaking about Tenn. underclass dealer & pimp (amazing Terrence Howard) & his need to be a rap star. ** 3/4
HYPNOTIZED & HYSTERICAL (HAIRSTYLIST WANTED)   (2002, d. Claude Duty) ** 1/2