Alice Adams (George Stevens, 1935): 3/5

Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, 2008): 1/5

Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008): 3/5

Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007): 4/5

High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963): 4/5

The Loveless ( Katheryn Bigelow, 1982) -- 1/5

Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008) -- 5/5

Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker, 1968): 4/5
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993): 4/5
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (Arne Glimcher, 2008): 4/5

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009): 4/5

District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009): 2/5

Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006): 2/5 (locations and music video montages: 5; script/dialogue: 1)

Calendar (Atom Egoyan, 1993): 2/5

Violette (Claude Chabrol, 1978): 2/5

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946): 3/5

The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940) -- 4/5

Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, 1958) -- 1/5

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) -- 3/5

In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1968) -- 4/5

David Holzam's Diary (Jim McBride, 1967) -- 3/5

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009): 5/5

Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 1975): 4/5

Return of the middlebrow:

The Candidate (Michael Ritchie, 1972): 4/5

Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, 1989): 2/5

Q & A (Sidney Lumet, 1990): 2/5

Un Coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet, 1992): 3/5

Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994): 3/5

Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener, 2006): 3/5

Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008): 3/5.
[But 1:20 - 1:35, 5/5]

Just to bring you semi up to speed

Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003) - 3/5

Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957) - 3/5

Underworld (Josef Von Sternberg, 1927) - 4/5

Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957) - 2/5

Three...Extremes: Dumplings (Fruit Chan, 2005) - 3/5

Emmanuelle (Just Jaeckin, 1974) - 1/5

Cafe au lait (Matthew Kassovitz, 1994) - 3/5

Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas, 2007) - 2/5

My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1986) - 2/5

Dog Day Afternoon ( Sidney Lumet, 1975) - 3/5

To Have and Have Not - (Howard Hawks, 1944) - 2/5

New Theatrical Releases:

The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010) - 4/5

Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010) - 2/5

Enter The Void (Gaspar Noe, 2010) - 4/5

Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954): 5/5

Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961) 5/5

Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986) 4/5

Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson, 2010): 4/5
[But 0:00 - 1:20, 5/5]

Valentine's Day (Garry Marshall, 2010): 2/5

The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007): 3/5

The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010): 2/5

Some recent French:

Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe, 2010): 4/5

A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009): 3/5

Joyeux Noel (Christian Carion, 2005): 3/5


Some recent Germans:

Jargo (Maria Solrun, 2004): 2/5

I Am Guilty (Christoph Hochhausler, 2005): 2/5
(Note: Sicinski gave a score of 9 to this director's new film, The City Below)


Others:

The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2009): 3/5

The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001): 2/5

Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007): 2/5

Triage (Danis Tanovic, 2009): 3/5

Ararat (Atom Egoyan, 2001): 3/5
(Note: Charles Aznavour as painter Arshile Gorky)

ODDSAC (Danny Perez, 2010): 4/5
[But 0:00 - 0:40, 5/5]

Welcome

Welcome to Netflix Friends. This is where we'll post our ratings of movies using the patented five-star Netflix system.

For example:

Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe, 2010): 4/5
[But 0:00 - 0:40, 5/5]