Welcome to Wider Screenings' Contemporary American Film Section.
The movies covered in this section are all post 9-11 American films. The reviews are written in a different format than those in the DVD Review Archive, which are pre 9-11 films. Reviews here are concerned with the merits of the movie itself, its place in the contemporary American film scene and the contribution of key filmmakers more so than its DVD release. Trailers for reviewed films (courtesy of YouTube embedded video) have been added to select reviews. Biographies of key directors will be added to the linkage system as the site expands.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FILM REVIEWS
IN CURRENT CINEMA RELEASE
Body of Lies (2008: d. Ridley Scott)
Burn After Reading (2008: d. Joel & Ethan Coen)
Choke (2008: d. Clark Gregg)
Death Race (2008: d. Paul WS Anderson)
Traitor (2008: d. Jeffrey Nachmanoff)
NEWLY RELEASED ON DVD
Charlie Wilson's War (2007: d. Mike Nichols)
Civic Duty (2007: d. Jeff Renfroe)
Cloverfield (2008: d. Matt Reeves)
Death of a President (2007: d. Gabriel Range)
Deliver Us from Evil (2006: d. Amy Berg)
Die Hard 4.0 (2007: d. Len Wiseman)
Infinite Justice (2006: d. Jamil Dehlavi)
Kingdom, The (2007: d. Peter Berg)
Lions for Lambs (2007: d. Robert Redford)
Mighty Heart, A (2007: d. Michael Winterbottom)
Redacted (2007: d. Brian DePalma)
Rendition (2007: d. Gavin Hood)
Road to Guantanamo, The (2006: d. Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom)
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007: d. Alex Gibney)
Vantage Point (2008: d. Pete Travis)
AMERICAN FILM HIGHLIGHTS
Fahrenheit 9-11 (2004: d. Michael Moore)
Guerrilla: the Taking of Patty Hearst (2004: d. Robert Stone)
Hamburg Cell, The (2004: d. Antonia Bird)
Lord of War (2005: d. Andrew Niccol)
Manchurian Candidate, The (2004: d. Jonathan Demme)
Munich (2005: d. Steven Spielberg)
Persona Non Grata (2005: d. Oliver Stone)
Red Eye (2005: d. Wes Craven)
United 93 (2006: d. Paul Greengrass)
V for Vendetta (2005: d. James McTeigue)
World Trade Center (2006: d. Oliver Stone)