You don't wanna get a visit by one of these guys. If you ever needed a little encouragement to keep up with your bills, Repo Men should be the final swift kick in the pants. Jude Law and Forest Whittaker play a pair of "repo men", who's job is to forcibly remove artificial organs from customers who fall behind on their payments. A sillier, bloodier film you won't find so far this year, but thankfully it doesn't take itself too seriously. The violence is over the top, and so is the gore, so send the squeamish to see Diary of Wimpy Kid instead.
2. A Prophet
It's rare that you find a bold, crime drama that isn't looking to take it's cues from The Godfather. A Prophet doesn't just reinvent the wheel, it takes the wheel and flattens it. A Muslim sent away to prison for a six year sentence finds himself swept into the grim world of the Corsican mafia, rising from terrified victim to murderous kingpin.
1. Green Zone
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass(The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) reunite for their most intense film yet. Damon stars as chief warrant office on the hunt for WMD in Iraq, but finding a wall of lies and secrecy that stretches all the way up to the Pentagon.
DVD Pick of the Week: Broken Embraces
The fourth film pairing director Pedro Almadovar with his muse, the gorgeous Penelope Cruz, takes a page from some of the finest film noir's Hollywood has to offer. A slick, passionate mystery involving a blind writer with a secret; and his lover, the beautiful mistress to a violently jealous mogul. Cruz, who always has her strongest performances alongside Almadovar, was shafted in this year's Academy Awards in favor of a more showey(and leggy) role in Nine.
