Justin at the Movies

Focus Features

// December 12th, 2009 // Random Movie Musings

In a day and age when it is nearly impossible to find a good movie, there is one thing you can almost always count on. That one thing is the production company Focus Features. These guys never let me down…ok, almost never let me down. For the last decade they have been who Dreamworks aspired to be, before they decided to start making crappy movies. So, if you are ever roaming the aisles of your local video store, or surfing through the digital stores and you don’t know what to get, just look for something that says Focus Features across the front. They make good, artistic cinema. I promise. Feel free to pick up any of these movies on this list as well. They all have my stamp of approval, and there is no better stamp.Here is a list of some of the movies that they have done since 2000.

8 Femmes (8 Women): My Rating–4 stars
Ash Wednesday: My Rating–4 stars
Lost In Translation: My Rating–5 stars (One of my 100 favorite movies)
21 Grams: My Rating–5 stars (One of my 100 favorite movies)
Mean Creek: My Rating–3.5 stars
Diarios de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries): My Rating–4 stars
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: My Rating–5 stars (One of my 100 favorite movies)
Shaun of the Dead: My Rating–4 stars
The Door in the Floor: My Rating–4 stars
Brodre (Brothers): My Rating–4.5 stars
Brick: My Rating–4.5 stars
Broken Flowers: My Rating–4 stars
The Constant Gardener: My Rating: 3.5 stars
Winter Passing: My Rating–3 stars
Hollywoodland: My Rating–4 stars
Catch a Fire: My Rating–3 stars
Atonement: My Rating–3.5 stars
Se, Jie (Lust, Caution): My Rating: 3.5 stars
Into the Wild: My Rating–4 stars
Eastern Promises: My Rating–5 stars
Reservation Road: My Rating–4 stars
Dan in Real Life: My Rating–4 stars
In Bruges: My Rating–4 stars
Burn After Reading: My Rating–3.5 stars
Milk: My Rating–3.5 stars
Sin Nombre: My Rating–4 stars
Coraline: My Rating–4 stars
Away We Go: My Rating–4 stars