Benjamin Ray

The Raid

Audiences will be scrambling to find enough compound adjectives to describe Gareth Huw Evans hard- driving, butt-kicking, pulse-pounding, bone-crunching, skull-smashing, blood-curdling martial arts siege movie, The Raid. “Squeezing a trigger? That’s like ordering takeout,” scoffs one particularly psychotic killing machine when faced with the choice of using a gun or his lethal fists and feet. The director is similarly disdainful of swift execution, instead favoring the adrenaline rush of sustained pummeling.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions grabbed U.S. rights prior to Toronto and it was announced during the festival that Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park will compose an entirely new score for the film. While the addition of some nu-metal grit certainly won’t hurt, the movie is already plenty propulsive. Ultra-violent action movies don’t get much more exciting or inventive than this kick-ass feature from Indonesia.

David Rooney, TIFF

Snow White and the Huntsman 

http://www.snowwhiteandthehuntsmanmovie.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY67V0wOlz8

Mirror mirror on the wall... is this the best fairy tale adaptation of all? The stunning new trailer for Snow White  and the Huntsman promises a visual masterpiece.

My Bitter Sweet Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URLtMbZLeVk

Drive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3XTerF7nM

Possibly represents the debut of a one-of-a-kind filmmaker, a natural driven by wild energy, like Tarantino.

Roger Ebert

Melancholia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_1X37SJcn4&feature=player_embedded

It is one of the most beautiful, visually stunning, emotionally affecting films I have ever seen and is truly a masterpiece.

Mark Rabinowitz, CNN

 
The Proposition
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7V-CW_SUos

A near-masterpiece of mood and menace, and one that deserves to be seen on the largest screen possible.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Extremely Laud & Extremely Close 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL3n8ouGDfk&NR=1

Act of Valor

 http://www.actofvalor.com/

An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.

Norwegian Wood from Japan

The official trailer for director Anh Hung Tran's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's bestselling novel Norwegian Wood, which opens in the UK on March 11, 2011. The soundtrack for the film, out March 8 on Nonesuch , features an instrumental score by Jonny Greenwood performed by the BBC Concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYBgsyBwYso