NoFace for Film

Title: El Crimen Ferpecto (The Perfect Crime)
Year: 2004 (released in the US in 2007)
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera, Luis Varela
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 5 out of 7
There’s an old saying that states, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” Unfortunately, all the lemonade in the world wouldn’t have helped the […]

Title: Rent
Year: 2005
Director:Chris Columbus
Starring Cast: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, Taye Diggs
Rated: PG-13
NoFace for Film rating: 4.5 out of 7
I had heard such good things about Rent the musical but never got the chance to see it in theaters, so when I heard that […]

Title: Bums
Year: 2005
Director: Brett Butler, Jason Butler
Starring Cast: Jason Butler, Tessa Sproule, Brett Butler, Tammy Gerus, Jeremiah McCann, Karen Suzuki
Rated: Unrated
NoFace for Film rating: 3 out of 7
A few weeks ago, I received an email from Brett Butler, one of the directors of this movie. He and his brother Jason are Canadian independent film makers […]

Title: Garden State
Year: 2004
Director: Zach Braff
Starring Cast: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 2.5 out of 7
I don’t quite understand what the thing is with comedians doing super serious roles. You have Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love, and Zach Braff, in the […]

Title: 十面埋伏 (House of Flying Daggers)
Year: 2004
Director: Yimou Zhang
Starring Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang
Rated: PG-13
NoFace for Film rating: 5.5 out of 7
If anything can sum up House of Flying Daggers, it’s the notion that things are not always what they seem. Just when you think you’ve got the movie and the characters all […]

Title: Blue Moon
Year: 2000
Director: John A. Gallagher
Starring Cast: Ben Gazzara, Rita Moreno, Alanna Ubach, Brian Vincent
Rated: PG-13
NoFace Rating: 3 out of 7
I was up late this weekend channel surfing when I came upon this film. I had never heard of it until this past weekend, but that’s probably because I was living in Japan when […]

Speaking of Drew Barrymore…
Title: 50 First Dates
Year: 2004
Director: Peter Segal
Starring Cast: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Sean Astin, Rob Schneider
Rated: PG-13
NoFace Rating: 5 out of 7
You know what’s funny? I actually refused to see this film. My boyfriend recommended it to me several times but I kept turning it down. Why? Because I had known the […]

Title: The 40-Year Old Virgin
Year: 2005
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring Cast: Steve Farrell, Katherine Keener, Paul Rudd
Rated: R
NoFace Rating: 5 out of 7
Steve Carell is in the title role as Andy Stitzer, a good natured, shy, reserved guy who works at an electronics store (which looks suspiciously like Circuit Shitty City). Andy is, for lack of a […]

Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Year: 2004
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Starring Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet
Rated: R
NoFace rating: 3.5 out of 7
What if you could erase painful memories from your mind? Is it possible to completely erase someone from your mind? What are the moral implications involved? These are some of the questions posed by this […]

Title: Closer
Year: 2004
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring Cast: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen
Rated: A filthy, dirty R
NoFace for Film rating: 4.5 out of 7
Closer is based on a play, which makes sense given the very small cast. There are only four characters in the whole film, and the plot focuses entirely on them. For […]