| "W" Films Watched 2000-2009 |
| In the decade of 2000-2009 I watched approximately 201 films starting with "W". |
| 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 |
| W. (2008, d. Oliver Stone) Well made, if creepy biopic. Drags in the 2nd act. Brolin is fine; but I'd rather forget that Bush ever existed if I could. ** 3/4 |
| WACKNESS, THE (2008, d. Jonathan Levine) *** 1/4 |
| WADD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF JOHN HOLMES (2001, d. Cass Paley) ** 1/2 |
| WAH-WAH (2006, d. Richard E. Grant) *** |
| WAITER (2007, d. Alex van Warmerdam) ** 1/2 |
| WAITING FOR HAPPINESS (2007, d. Abderrahmane Sissako) * 3/4 |
| WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS (2005, d. Yesim Ustaoglu) Slow film about an old lady's guilt at staying in Turkey during the great 1916 expulsion to Greece. ** 1/2 |
| WAITRESS (2007, d. Adrienne Shelly) Pleasant, well acted & directed romantic dramedy. Fillion & Russell have true chemistry. *** |
| WAKING LIFE (2001, d. Richard Linklater) *** 1/4 |
| WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY (2007, d. Jake Kasdan) Silly fun, but quite creative, funny pseudo biopic. *** |
| WALK INTO THE SEA, A: DANNY WILLIAMS AND THE WARHOL FACTORY (2007, d. Esther B. Robinson) *** |
| WALK ON WATER (2004, d. Eytan Fox) A truly exceptional film from Israel about a Mossad assassin. Great script and fine job all around. *** 3/4 |
| WALK THE LINE (2005, d. James Margold) ** 3/4 |
| WALK THE TALK (2007, d. Matthew Allen) ** 3/4 |
| WALK TO REMEMBER, A (2003, d. Adam Shankman) V. X-tian teenage version of Love Story. Shane West & Mandy Moore quite good; I ate melodrama up. *** |
| WALKER, THE (2007, d. Paul Schrader) Stylish, fine perfs by Harrelson and Bleibtreu & several aged actresses; but eliptical, senseless plot. ** |
| WALKING & TALKING (2003, d. Nicole Holofcener 1996) (V) Winning yupster girl comedy with Keener & Heche. Better than Lovely & Amazing *** 1/4 |
| WALKING ON WATER (2003, d. Tony Ayres)+ I forgot I'd already seen this film. Fine! It's a wonderfully observant, beautifully written & drama. *** 1/2 |
| WALKING ON WATER (2002, d. Tony Ayres) **** |
| WALL*E (2008, d. Andrew Stanton) Technically fine, complex 3-D animation. But for me lacked entertainment value. ** 3/4 |
| WALLACE & GROMMET: CURSE OF THE WERE RABBIT (2005, d. Nick Park) V. *** |
| WALT & EL GRUPO (2008, d. Theodore Thomas) ** 1/2 |
| WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2008, d. Ari Folman; Israel) *** 1/2 |
| WANDERING SHADOWS (2005, d. Ciro Guerra) Unconventional buddy flick amidst the squalor of Bagota, Columbia. B&W looked digitized. ** 3/4 |
| WANTED (2008, d. Timur Bekmambetov) Totally amazing kick ass film, MATRIX². McAvoy & Bekmambetov fulfill their destinies. *** 3/4 |
| WANTED (2009, d. Timur Bekmambetov) + A kinetic thriller even better 2nd time around. Ridiculous plot; but amazing acting & f/x plus a great cast. *** 1/2 |
| WAR DANCE (2007, d. Sean & Andrea Nix Fine) Moving, if somewhat contrived docu of Ugandan children in camp. *** |
| WAR GAMES (2008, d. Dariusz Jablonski) Polish docu about the tragic life of cold war Pole who spied for U.S. Quite creative filmmaking, fascinating but scattered. *** |
| WAR LIVE (2001, d. Darko Bajic) ** |
| WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005, d. Steven Spielberg) Until the mushy, unlikely ending, one of the great scary thriller SF films ever. Remarkable f/x. *** 1/4 |
| WAR PHOTOGRAPHER (2002, d. Christian Frei) ** 3/4 |
| WAR TAPES, THE (2006, d. Deborah Scranton) V. Iraq war from pov of 3 New Hampshire Nat. Guardsmen with cameras. Most real yet. *** 3/4 |
| WAR THAT MADE AMERICA, THE (2006, d. Loeterman & Strange) V. PBS docudrama of the French & Indian War with fine recreations. *** |
| WAR ZONE, THE (2004, d. Tim Roth) V. Miserabilist film about a troubled family in Devon. Superb acting, though tough to take. *** |
| WAR (2003, Russia d. Aleksei Balabanov) Drama of rescue and revenge in Russo-Chechan war. A testosterone drenched delight. *** |
| WARD NO. 6 (2009, d. Karen Shakhazarov; Russia). ** |
| WARDEN OF THE DEAD (Pazachyt na myrtvite) (2007, d. Ilian Simeonov; Bulgaria) ** |
| WARLORDS (2009, d. Peter Chen, Wai Man Yip) *** 1/4 |
| WARM SPRINGS (2005, d. Joseph Sergeant) Emotionally satisfying well acted HBO tv movie about Roosevelt's early years of polio recouperation. *** |
| WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE (2002, d. Shohei Imamura) ** |
| WARMING UP YESTERDAY'S LUNCH (2003, d. Kostadin Bonev) Bulgaria AFF. Old lady's memoire of 60 yrs. of Balkan politics. ** |
| WARRIOR (2005, d. Asif Kapadia) Slow, meditative, almost silent period piece about a warrior in Kashmir who wants to quit killing. ** 3/4 |
| WARRIORS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH (2004, d. He Ping) + I had forgotten I'd seen it before...not worth another view, though visually it's a treat. ** 3/4 |
| WARRIORS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH (2004, d. He Ping) Gorgeous and gripping, if somewhat confusing, wide screen Chinese epic historical battle film. *** |
| WARSAW (2005, d. Dariusz Gajewski) Slightly amusing story of several assorted characters wandering around Warsaw & sort of connecting one snowy day. ** 1/2 |
| WASSUP ROCKERS (2006, d. Larry Clark) Unlikely story; but Clark's latest "it boy", Jonathan Valasquez, is worth it. Good bad film. ** 1/2 |
| WATCHIER, THE (2000, d. Joe Charbanic) ** |
| WATCHMEN (2009, d. Zack Snyder) Fabulous f/x and a script to match. Brilliantly evocative '80s depiction and superhero deconstruction just thrilled. *** 3/4 |
| WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brulantes) (2000, d. François Ozon) *** 1/4 |
| WATER LILIES (2008, d. Céline Sciamma) ** |
| WATER (2006, d. Deepa Mehta) Gorgeous wide screen intimate epic of plight of a 7 yr. old widow & 34 mil other Indian widows. *** 1/2 |
| WATERCOLORS (2008, d. David Oliveras) Touching, beautiful, evocative drama of gay teenage love. One of the best ever. *** 1/2 |
| WATERLOO (2005, d. Sergei Bondarchuk) 1970 epic with some incredibly great battle footage & Steiger's wonderful portrayal of Napoleon. *** 1/4 |
| WATERMARKS (2004, d. Yaron Zilberman) V. Interesting docu about a Vienna Jewish swimming club in the '30s & the far-flung survivors' reunion in today's Vienna. *** |
| WATER'S EDGE (2003, d. Harvey Kahn) Thriller melodrama about corrupt rural town. Laughably bad straight to video. 1/2* |
| WATTSTAX: 2003 SPECIAL EDITION (2003, d. Mel Stuart) Newly remixed print of '71 rockumentary...too little music, boring in parts. Rufus rocked. ** |
| WAVE, THE (Die Welle) (2008, d. Dennis Gansel) *** 1/2 |
| WAY I SEE THINGS, THE (2008, d. Brian Pera) New Agey, pretentious, arty gay film of about recovering from depression. ** 1/4 |
| WAY I SPENT THE END OF THE WORLD, THE (2007, d. Catalin Mitulescu; Romania) ** 3/4 |
| WAY OF THE GUN, THE (2000, d. Christopher McQuarrie) ** 1/2 |
| WAY WE LAUGHED, THE (2001, d. Gianni Amelio) [1998] ** 1/2 |
| WAY WE LAUGHED, THE (2002, d. Gianni Amelio) ** 1/2 |
| WAYDOWNTOWN (2002, d. Gary Burns) *** |
| WAYWARD CLOUD, THE (2006, d. Tsai Ming-liang) *** 1/2 |
| WE ARE MARSHALL (2006, d. McG) Story of real-life football team resurrected. Well directed and emotionally true. *** |
| WE ARE TOGETHER (THINA SIMUNYE) (2007, d. Paul Taylor) Moving docu: So. African orphanage saved by singing. *** 1/4 |
| WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (2004, d. John Curran) Well acted but relentlessly downbeat story of 2 couples and their mutual adulteries. *** |
| WE GO WAY BACK (2006, d. Lynn Shelton) * 1/2 |
| WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (2009, d. Ondi Timoner) *** 1/2 |
| WE SHALL OVERCOME (2006, d. Niels Arden Oplev) *** 1/2 |
| WE WERE SOLDIERS (2002, d. Randall Wallace) ** 1/2 |
| WEATHER MAN, THE (2005, d. Gore Verbinski) ** 3/4 |
| WEATHER UNDERGROUND, THE (2003, d. Sam Green) Documentary about '70s American terrorist group. Good footage & well written. *** 1/4 |
| WEBCAM BOYS (2001, d. RADD) *** 1/2 |
| WEDDING CHEST, THE (2006, d. Nurbek Egen; Kyrgyzstan) *** |
| WEDDING CRASHERS, THE (2005, d. David Dobkin) ** 3/4 |
| WEDDING SONG, THE (Le Chant des Mariées) (2009, d. Karen Albou) ** 1/4 |
| WEDDING WARS (2007, d. Jim Fall) V. Very well done issue tv flick (gay marriage) with a game perf. by John Stamos. *** |
| WEDDING, THE (2001, d. Pavel Lungin) **** |
| WEEKEND, THE (2000, d. Brian Skeet) *** |
| WEIGHT OF WATER (2001, d. Kathryn Bigelow) ** |
| WEIRDSVILLE (2007, d. Allan Moyle) * |
| WELCOME HOME (Bienvenido A Casa) (2007, d. David Trueba) *** 1/4 |
| WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD (2002, d. Anthony & Joe Russo) ** |
| WELCOME TO DONGMAKGOL (2006, d. Park Kwang-hyun; Republic of Korea) ** 3/4 |
| WELCOME TO MOOSEWOOD (2004, d. Dan Petrie) Silly, utterly predictable Hollywood fare. Hackman good, as always; but Ray Romano should stict to TV. * 3/4 |
| WELCOME TO THE LAND OF CH'TIS (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) (2008, d. Dany Boone) ** 1/2 |
| WELCOME (2009, d. Philippe Lioret) *** 3/4 |
| WELL, THE (2005, d. Kristian Petri) Extremely well written documentary tone poem about Orson Welles' relationship to Spain. *** 3/4 |
| WELLNESS (2008, d. Jake Mahaffy) ** 1/2 |
| WELTS, THE (2004, d. Magdalena Piekorz) Polish AFF. Dour, involving story of a boy whose path to manhood was fixed by his physically abusing, but well-meaning, father. *** 1/4 |
| WENDY AND LUCY (2008, d. Kelly Reichardt) Quietly effective character study which mirrors bad economic times. Michelle Williams very fine here. *** 1/4 |
| WENT TO CONEY ISLAND ON A MISSION FROM GOD... (2000, d. Richard Schenkman) ** 1/2 |
| WERE THE WORLD MINE (2008, d. Tom Gustafson) Good try at a gay Midsummernight's Dream prep school fantasy. But no cigar. ** |
| WESTENDER (2003, U.S. d. Bruce Morse) Overblown, tacky, unironic mideval quest film. * 3/4 |
| WHALE RIDER (2003, New Zealand/Germany d. Niki Caro) Wide screen crowd pleaser about dying Maori traditions & the little girl who changed things. *** |
| WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE (2005, d. Eyal Halfon) ** |
| WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU (2008, d. Brian Goodman) *** |
| WHAT I KNOW ABOUT LOLA (Lo que se de Lola) (2007, d. Javier Rebollo) W/O |
| WHAT IF...? (Notre univers impitoyable) (2008, d. Léa Fazer) ** 1/4 |
| WHAT JUST HAPPENED (2008, d. Barry Levinson) Funny, truthful look at Hollywood from pov of a fading power-broker producer (DeNiro's best role in years.) *** 1/4 |
| WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000, d. Robert Zemeckis) * 1/2 |
| WHAT THE SUN HAS SEEN (2007, d. Michal Rosa) 3 interwoven stories of impoverishment in modern day Poland. Long & just ok. ** 3/4 |
| WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (2001, d. Tsai Ming-liang) *** |
| WHAT WOMEN WANT (2000, d. Nancy Meyers) ** 1/2 |
| WHATEVER IT TAKES (2004, d. David Ranyr)V. Horny teenage comedy variant on Cyrano. Trivial stuff; but Shane West and James Franco raise its level a tad. * 3/4 |
| WHATEVER WORKS (2009, d. Woody Allen) Pure comedy, sunny & funny throwback to earlier Allen works. Evan Rachel Wood & Larry David perfect. *** |
| WHAT'S COOKING? (2000, d. Gurinda Chadha) *** 1/2 |
| WHEN A MAN COMES HOME (2009, d. Thomas Vinterberg) ** 3/4 |
| WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER (2008, d. Anand Tucker) *** 1/4 |
| WHEN MARYAM SPOKE OUT (2003, d. Assad Fouladkar) Lebanon AFF. Travails of barren wife. *** |
| WHEN WILL I BE LOVED (2005, d. James Tobak) V. ** 3/4 |
| WHERE THE HEART IS (2000, d. Matt Williams) ** 1/2 |
| WHERE THE TRUTH LIES (2005, d. Atom Egoyan) *** |
| WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (2009, d. Spike Jonze) Laudable attempt at personalized art film; but not my cuppa...more annoyed by wanton child than edified. ** 1/2 |
| WHICH WAY HOME (2009, d. Rebecca Cammisa) V. Heartbreakingly effective docu about Cent. Amer. children trying to reach the U.S. Real life version of Sin Nombre. **** |
| WHIP IT (2009, d. Drew Barrymore) Good: Ellen Page is not annoying, roller derby is fun. Bad: totally predictable plot, melodramatic & fake. ** 1/4 |
| WHIRLWIND (2008, d. Richard LeMay) Multi-character NY gay friends story, mostly poorly acted and only intermittently involving. ** |
| WHISKY (2004, d. Rebella & Stoll) Observent, touching slice-of-life film about two competitive brothers & their pretenses. *** |
| WHISKY ROMEO ZULU (2005, d. Enrique Piñeyro) Fascinating aircrash drama based on fact. The whistleblower pilot (also acted & directed) is amazing. *** 1/4 |
| WHITE COUNTESS, THE (2005, d. James Ivory) *** 1/4 |
| WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN (2007, d. Steven Okazaki) Comprehensive, clinical docu about Hiroshima & Nakasaki. *** |
| WHITE NIGHT WEDDING (Brúdguminn) (2008, d. Baltasar Kormákur) ** 3/4 |
| WHITE OLEANDER (2002, d. Peter Kosminsky) *** |
| WHITE PALM (2006, d. Szabolcs Hajdu; Hungary) + *** 1/4 |
| WHITE PALMS (2006, d. Szabolcs Hajdu) *** |
| WHITE RIBBON, THE (2009, d. Michael Haneke; Germany) Nobody does enigma better than Haneke, even when taken to a maddening extreme. Gorgeous film. *** 1/2 |
| WHITE SILK DRESS, THE (2008, d. Huynh Luu; Vietnam) ** |
| WHITE WEDDING (2009, d. Jann Turner; South Africa) ** 1/4 |
| WHO IS HARRY NILSSON (2006, d. John Scheinfeld) *** 1/4 |
| WHO KILLED BAMBI (2004, d. Gilles Marchand) Creepy, atmospheric French thriller about a craftily crazy surgeon and an intern nurse. *** |
| WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR (2006, d. Chris Paine) *** 3/4 |
| WHO LOVES THE SUN (2006, d. Matt Bissonnette) *** 1/2 |
| WHO THE HELL IS BOBBY ROOS (2002, d. John Feldman) *** 1/2 |
| WHOLE NEW THING (2006, d. Amnon Buchbinder) *** 1/4 |
| WHOLE NINE YARDS, THE (2000, d. Jonathan Lynn) ** |
| WHOLE TRUTH, THE (2009, d. Coleen Patrick) 0* |
| WHORE & THE WHALE, THE (2008, d. Luis Puenzo) V. Gorgeous Patagonian photography, naked women & sexy Leo Sbaraglia. *** 1/4 |
| WICKER MAN, THE (2008, d. Neil La Bute) V. Hokey, cult-as-bee-colony metaphor film. Great northwest island homes! ** |
| WICKER PARK (2004, d. Paul McGuigan) And Now My Love for Gen-Y. Loopy structure and overall good acting and direction. Absurd; but it kept getting better as it went along. *** |
| WIDOW OF SAINT-PIERRE, THE (La veuve de Saint-Pierre) (2001, d. Patrice Leconte) *** |
| WILBY WONDERFUL (2005, d. Daniel MacIvor) Slice of life film on the Canadian island of Wilby. Pleasant trifle with nifty perfs from Paul Gross & Sandra Oh. ** 3/4 |
| WILD BEES (2002, d. Bohdan Slama) ** 3/4 |
| WILD DOGS, THE (2003, Canade d. Thom Fitzgerald) Drama about a pornographer in Rumania to find women & instead finds wild dogs & Gypsy slaves. *** |
| WILD FIELD (2009, d. Mikhail Kalatozishvili) *** 3/4 |
| WILD FLOWERS (2002, d. F. A. Brabec) ** 1/2 |
| WILD SIDE (2004, d. Sébastien Lifshitz) Affecting drama about an unconventional three-way relationship between 2 guys and a pre-op transexual *** |
| WILD THORNBERRYS MOVIE, THE (2003, d. McGrath and Malkasian) Nickelodian cartoon. * 1/2 |
| WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN (2006, d. Cam Archer) ** 1/4 |
| WILLFULL (2001, d. Rebel Penfold-Russell) * 1/2 |
| WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE (2009, d. Sarah Kunstler & Emily Kunstler) *** |
| WIMBLEDON (2004, d. Richard Loncraine) Genuine chemistry between Bettany and Dunst makes for a good romance; but the tennis isn't very realistic. *** |
| WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON (2005, d. Robert Lukatik) Fun, if predictable, romantic comedy which brings stardom to Topher Grace. ** 3/4 |
| WIND JOURNIES, THE (Los Viajes el Viento) (2009, d. Ciro Guerra; Colombia) *** |
| WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, THE (2006, d. Ken Loach) *** 1/2 |
| WINDOW, THE (2006, d. Ted Tetzlaff) *** 1/4 |
| WINDS OF SEPTEMBER (Jiu Jiang Feng) (2008, d. Tom Shu-Yu Lin) ** |
| WINDTALKERS (2002, d. John Woo) ** 3/4 |
| WINE AND KISSES (Come le Formiche) (2008, d. Ilaria Borrelli) * 1/2 |
| WINGED MIGRATION (2003, d. Jacques Cluzaud) (V) Docu feature on birds. Visual tour de force; but poorly constructed. ** 3/4 |
| WINGLESS (2009, d. Ivo Trajkov; Macedonia) ** |
| WINNING SEASON, THE (2004, d. John Kent Harrison) V. Sappy nostalgia baseball flick about a 1985 boy thrown back to 1909 to relate to Honus Wagner. * 3/4 |
| WINTER SLEEPERS (2000, d. Tom Tykwer) [1997] *** 1/4 |
| WINTER SOLSTICE (2005, d. Josh Sternfeld) Quintessential Sundance indie film, quiet, revelatory, fine acting (Mark Webber & Aaron Stanford rule!) *** 1/4 |
| WINTER SOLSTICE (2007, d. Josh Sternfeld) V.+ Quintessential Sundance indie film, quiet, revelatory, fine acting (Webber & Stanford rule!) *** 1/4 |
| WINTERLAND (2008, d. Hisham Zaman) ** 3/4 |
| WIRE, THE - season 4 (2006, d. various) V. The best season of the best series on TV. How the world really works. **** |
| WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY (2001, d. Dominik Moll) *** 1/4 |
| WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MYSELF (Aide-toi, et le Ciel t'aidera) (François Dupeyron) *** 1/4 |
| WITH YOUR PERMISSION (Til Doden Os Skiller) (2007, d. Paprika Steen) ** 1/2 |
| WITNESSES (2003, d. Vinko Bresan) Croatia's Academy sub: Intimate, complex, big-screen enigma/horrors of war drama. Slow accretion of detail adds up. *** |
| WITNESSES, THE (2008, d. André Téchiné) *** 1/2 |
| WOLFSBURG (2003, d. Christian Petzold) Heavy drama - a weak man who makes a fatal mistake & seeks redemption. Good acting and script; but a downer. *** |
| WOMAN IS A HELLUVA THING, A (2001, d. Karen Leigh Hopkins) * |
| WOMAN ON TOP (2000, d. Fina Torres) ** 1/2 |
| WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO (2009, d. Javier Rebollo) ** 3/4 |
| WOMAN'S WAY, A (Strella) (2009, d. Panos H. Koutras) *** 1/2 |
| WOMEN, THE (2005, d. George Cukor) V. *** |
| WONDER BOYS (2000, d. Curtis Hanson) *** |
| WONDERFUL NIGHT IN SPLIT, A (2005, d. Arsen Anton Ostojic) Gorgeous, noir B&W film about a two hour period from 3 different points of view. *** 1/4 |
| WONDERFUL WORLD (2009, d. Joshua Goldin) ** 1/4 |
| WONDERLAND (2003, d. James Cox) Bravura filmmaking in aid of tawdry true story. Kilmer & especially Josh Logan are fine. Effectively stomach-turning. *** |
| WONDERLAND (2000, d. Michael Winterbottom) **** |
| WONDROUS OBLIVION (2004, d. Paul Morrison) Heartwarming English film about a post-War Jewish immigrant family whose son loves cricket. *** |
| WOODSMAN, THE (2004, d. Nicole Kassell) Excellent, if dour drama about a man fighting his pederast proclivity with a great perf by Kevin Bacon. *** 1/4 |
| WORD OF HONOR (2003, d. Robert Markowitz) A favorite novel makes pretty fair transition to tv thanks to fine acting, albeit too compressed a script. ** 3/4 |
| WORDPLAY (2006, d. Patrick Creadon) *** 3/4 |
| WORK HARD PLAY HARD (Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré) (2006, d. Jean-Marc Moutou) V. Jérémie Renier fine! *** |
| WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER, THE (2009, d. Stefan Komandarev; Bulgaria) *** 1/2 |
| WORLD TRADE CENTER (2006, d. Oliver Stone) Seamless f/x, affecting, surprisingly powerful. *** 1/4 |
| WORLD TRAVELER (2002, d. Bart Freundlich) ** |
| WORLD WITHOUT THIEVES, A (2005, d. Xiaogang Feng) Clever variant on martial arts film about thieves on a train going after an innocent patsy. *** |
| WORLDS APART (To verdener) (2008, d. Niels Arden Oplev; Denmark) *** |
| WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN, THE (2006, d. Roger Donaldson) V. Hopkins is fine, as usual. The film is pretty predictable. ** 3/4 |
| WORLD'S GREATEST DAD (2009, d. Bobcat Goldthwait) ** 1/4 |
| WRECKING CREW, THE (2008, d. Denny Tedesco) *** 1/4 |
| WRESTLING WITH ANGELS: PLAYWRITE TONY KUSHNER (2006, d. Freida Lee Mock) *** 1/2 |
| WRIST CUTTERS: A LOVE STORY (2006, d. Goran Dukic) * 3/4 |
| WRITTEN ON THE BODY OF THE NIGHT (2002, d. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo) ** 3/4 |
| WRONG SIDE UP (Pribehy Obycejneho Silenstvi) (2005, d. Petr Zelenka) ** |
| WTC VIEW (2005, d. Brian Sloan) Emotionally shattering, brilliantly written & acted (watch for Michael Urie) story of 9/11's effects on some gay NYers. *** 1/2 |