Film Reviews — A Comprehensive Index
This index lists all of the JwJ film reviews alphabetically by title. We also provide a listing of all film reviews organized by country. All film reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.
Our four most recent film reviews
| 12 May 2013 | Side Effects |
| 5 May 2013 | Detropia |
| 28 April 2013 | Argo |
| 21 April 2013 | Jean-Michel Basquiat |
Films by title
- 127 Hours
- 13 Conversations About One Thing
- 21
- 21 Grams
- 24 City
- 24 Hours on Craigslist
- 3:10 to Yuma
- ABC Africa
- Afghan Star
- The Agronomist
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
- Aileen Wuornos
- Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer
- Ajami
- Alexandra's Project
- Amadeus
- Amazonia Vertical
- Amelie
- American Beauty
- American Splendor
- Amores Perros
- Amour
- Anchorman; The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides, Working With Time
- Angela
- Annie Leibovitz; Life Through a Lens
- Another Year
- Antares
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil
- The Apostle
- Argo
- Arranged
- Art School Confidential
- The Artist
- The Atom Smashers
- Atonement
- Avatar
- Ayn Rand and the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged
- Babel
- Babette's Feast
- Babies
- The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
- Ballast
- The Band's Visit
- Baraka
- The Barbarian Invasions
- Barrio Cuba
- BattleGround; 21 Days on the Empire's Edge
- Be With Me
- The Beaches of Agnès
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- A Beautiful Mind
- The Beauty Academy of Kabul
- Being Elmo
- Being There
- Ben X
- A Better Life
- Between the Folds
- Big Fish
- Bill Cunningham New York
- Billy Elliot
- Biutiful
- Blade Runner, The Director's Cut
- Blind Spot; Hitler's Secretary
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars
- Blue Like Jazz
- IMAX Blue Planet
- Bobby
- Borat
- Born Into Brothels
- Bowling For Columbine
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- The Boys of 2nd Street Park
- The Boys of Baraka
- Bread and Tulips
- Broken Embraces
- Broken Flowers
- Bubble
- The Buena Vista Social Club
- Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
- Burn After Reading
- Calendar Girls
- Campfire
- Capote
- Captain Abu Raed
- Carandiru
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Chasing Ice
- Chocolat
- Choking Man
- The Chorus (Les Choristes)
- City of God
- The Class
- Climate Refugees
- Cocalero
- Coffee and Cigarettes
- Cold Souls
- Combat Diary; The Marines of Lima Company
- Compliance
- Contagion
- Control Room
- Countdown to Zero
- The Counterfeiters
- The Country Teacher
- The Cove
- Crash
- Crazy Heart
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Crude
- Dandelion
- Darfur Diaries
- Darfur Now
- Dark Days
- The Dark Knight
- Das Boot
- Das Fraulein
- David Blaine: Fearless
- Day Break
- Days and Clouds
- Deep Water
- Departures
- The Descendants
- Detropia
- The Dialogue
- Dig!
- Dinner with Friends
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Distant
- Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Django Unchained
- Do the Right Thing
- Dogtooth
- Dogville
- Dolls
- Don't Come Knocking
- Doubt
- Down to the Bone
- Downfall
- The Dreams of Sparrows
- Dumbland
- The Dust Bowl by Ken Burns
- Eames: The Architect and the Painter
- Earth
- Eclipsing Empire: Paul, Rome, and the Kingdom of God
- Emmanuel's Gift
- Encounter Point
- Encounters at the End of the World
- The Endurance
- Enemies of the People
- Everest
- Every Little Step
- Exit Through the Gift Shop
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- Fahrenheit 911
- Fambul Tok
- The Family Man
- Fast Food Nation
- The Fast Runner
- Father and Son
- A Finished Life: The Goodbye and No Regrets Tour
- First Position
- The Five Obstructions
- Flags of our Fathers
- The Flat
- Flow
- The Fog of War
- Food, Inc.
- For the Bible Tells Me So
- For the Children
- Fogiving Dr. Mengele
- Freakonomics
- Frozen River
- Full Metal Jacket
- Fun with Dick and Jane
- The Galápagos: The Islands That Changed the World
- Gas Land
- Ghosts of Machu Picchu
- The Girlfriend Experience
- God Grew Tired of Us
- Good Night and Good Luck
- Gran Torino
- Greenberg
- Grizzly Man
- The Grocer's Son
- Gunnin' for that #1 Spot
- Hairspray
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
- Happy
- Hell and Back Again
- The Help
- Helvetica
- A History of Christianity; The First Three Thousand Years
- A Home at the End of the World
- Hotel Rwanda
- The Hours
- How to Draw a Bunny
- Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- Hugo
- The Hunger Games
- The Hurt Locker
- I Am Because We Are
- Idiocracy
- If a Tree Falls
- I'm Not There
- In America
- In the Bedroom
- In a Better World
- In Bruges
- In Darkness
- In the Garden of Sounds
- In the Loop
- In the Shadow of the Moon
- In the Valley of Elah
- Incendies
- Inception
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Indie Game: The Movie
- The Informant!
- Inglourious Basterds
- INLAND EMPIRE
- Innocent Voices
- Inside Job
- Inside North Korea
- Into the Abyss
- Into Great Silence
- Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
- Into the Wild
- Invictus
- Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
- It Might Get Loud
- It's Complicated
- I've Loved You So Long
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jesus Camp
- Jesus of Montreal
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- John Adams
- Journey from the Fall (Vuot Song)
- Julie and Julia
- Junebug
- Khadak
- Khandahar
- The Kids Are All Right
- The Killing Fields
- King Corn
- The King's Speech
- Kinky Boots
- Kinsey
- Kurosawa
- La Tragedia de Macario
- Last Life in the Universe
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Last Train Home
- Let the Church Say Amen
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Life is Beautiful
- Life of Pi
- Lightning in a Bottle
- Lincoln
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Lives of Others
- Look Both Ways
- Lord, Save Us From Your Followers
- Lords of Dogtown
- Lost in Translation
- Luther
- Lynch
- Mad Hot Ballroom
- Mademoiselle Chambon
- The Magdalene Sisters
- Malos Habitos
- Man of the Year
- Man on Wire
- The Man Who Knew Too Little
- Manda Bala
- March of the Penguins
- Maria Full of Grace
- Marley
- Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Maxed Out
- Maya Lin; A Strong Clear Vision
- Me and You and Everyone We Know
- Melancholia
- Michael Jackson's This Is It
- Microcosmos
- Middle of the World
- The Milk of Sorrow
- Millions
- Milwaukee, Minnesota
- Moneyball
- Mongolian Ping Pong
- Monsieur Ibrahim
- Monsoon Wedding
- Monster
- Moolaadé
- Moon
- Moonrise Kingdom
- The Most Dangerous Man in America; Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
- Mother
- Mother of Mine
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Mulholland Drive
- Munyurangabo
- My Dinner with Andre
- My Flesh and Blood
- Mysterious Mamberamo
- Nanking
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Nine Lives
- No Country for Old Men
- No End in Sight
- No Impact Man
- Nobody Knows
- Nói Albinó
- Nora's Will
- North Country
- Nostalgia for the Light
- The Notebook
- Nowhere in Africa
- Objectified
- Obselidia
- Of Gods and Men
- O'Horten
- On the Outs
- Once
- Osama
- The Other Side of the Mirror; Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963–1965
- Outside the Law
- Page One: Inside the New York Times
- Paper Clips
- Paradise Now
- The Party's Over
- Peace One Day
- Persepolis
- Phantom of the Opera
- The Pianist
- Pina
- Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before
- Please Give
- The Pope's Toilet
- Portlandia
- Prairie Home Companion
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell
- Precious: Based Upon the Novel Push by Sapphire
- The Prestige
- Prince of Broadway
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
- Promises
- A Prophet
- Pulp Fiction
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Pururambo
- Rachel Getting Married
- Ratatouille
- Ray
- The Reader
- Refuge of Last Resort
- Religulous
- Rescue Dawn
- Restrepo
- Revenge of the Electric Car
- Ride And Fly
- Riding Giants
- The Road
- Roy Orbison and Friends: Black & White Night
- Ruby Sparks
- Saint Ralph
- Saints and Soldiers
- Samsara
- The Savages
- Schultz Gets the Blues
- A Screaming Man
- The Sea Inside
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus
- The Secret in Their Eyes
- A Separation
- Seraphine
- A Serious Man
- Shanghai Ghetto
- Shawshank Redemption
- Side Effects
- Sideways
- Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
- Silver Linings Playbook
- The Simpsons Movie
- Sin Nombre
- A Single Man
- Sir! No Sir!
- Sketches of Frank Gehry
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Social Network
- The Son
- The Song Remains the Same: Led Zeppelin in Concert
- Spanglish
- Spellbound
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
- The Square
- The Squid and the Whale
- Standing in the Shadows of Motown
- Stop Loss
- The Story of the Weeping Camel
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Sugar
- Summer Hours
- Super Size Me
- Surfwise
- Sweet Land
- Sweetgrass
- Synecdoche, New York
- Take Me Home
- Talk to Her
- Tapestries of Hope
- Tarnation
- Taxi to the Dark Side
- Temple Grandin
- Test of Faith; Does Science Threaten Belief in God?
- There Will Be Blood
- They Call It Myanmar
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
- Times and Winds
- To Be and To Have
- Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
- Touch the Sound
- Touching the Void
- Toy Story 3
- La Tragedia de Macario
- Transamerica
- The Tree of Life
- The Triplets of Belleville
- True Grit
- Tsotsi
- The Tunnel
- Tupac; Resurrection
- Turtle: The Incredible Journey
- Turtles Can Fly
- U23D
- Unchained Memories; Readings from the Slave Narratives
- An Uncommon Kindness
- Under the Bombs
- The Universe of Keith Haring
- Unknown Pleasures
- Up
- Up in the Air
- Up the Yangtze
- Urbanized
- The U.S. vs. John Lennon
- Vertigo
- The Violin
- Vision
- The Visitor
- Volver
- Waiting for Superman
- Walk the Line
- A Walk to Beautiful
- Wall
- Wallace and Gromit; the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Waltz with Bashir
- The War; A Ken Burns Film, Disc 1
- War Dance
- War Photographer
- The War Tapes
- The War Within
- Waste Land
- Water
- The Way
- The Way We Get By
- We Were Here
- We Were Soldiers
- The Weather Underground
- Welcome to Nollywood
- Wendy and Lucy
- Whale Rider
- What the Bleep Do We Know!?
- What Would Jesus Buy?
- Wheel of Time
- When You're Strange
- Which Way Home
- The White Diamond
- The White Ribbon
- Who Killed the Electric Car?
- Who The #$&% is Jackson Pollock?
- Who's Camus Anyway?
- Why We Fight
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
- The Window
- Winter's Bone
- Without the King
- The Wooden Camera
- The Woodsman
- Word Wars
- Wordplay
- The World
- The Wrestler
- Yesterday
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Zoolander