Five years is an eternity in the life of a film. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these movies play NOW!” Not five years ago, but how have they aged in our memories. While some acclaimed films of ’06 remain strong on our list, some critically-lauded ones didn’t …

[xrr rating=4.25/5] It’s good to have Steven Spielberg back. It’s been a while since we had a proper picture from the man – while 2005’s surprisingly gritty Munich showed off a surprisingly grown-up Spielberg devoid of the boy-with-the-movie camera mix of dark humor and whiz-bang finales, 2008’s frail and balding Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull showed …

[xrr rating=4.75/5]We live in the Information Age, and David Fincher has become its prophet. Increasingly, his protagonists engage foremost in pursuing and processing information, but even before that, his stylistic signature displayed a hyperawareness of information, reveling in virtuoso techniques and trick shots that lay out data with extreme precision. Even a deceptively minor film like Panic Room is notable …