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• 2010
  • Eric D. Snider's 2010 Sundance Film Festival Diary
  • Blue Valentine B
  • Buried B
  • Cyrus A-
  • Enter the Void B+
  • Four Lions A-
  • The Freebie B+
  • Frozen B-
  • Please Give B
  • A Prophet (France/Arabic/Corsican) B+
  • The Runaways C
  • Splice B+
• 2009
  • Eric D. Snider's 2009 Sundance Film Festival Diary
  • 500 Days of Summer A
  • Adam B
  • Adventureland B+
  • Amreeka (Arabic) B
  • Art & Copy (documentary) B-
  • Black Dynamite A-
  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men D
  • Brooklyn's Finest B
  • Dead Snow (Norwegian) C+
  • An Education B+
  • The Girlfriend Experience B-
  • Grace B+
  • The Greatest D+
  • Humpday A-
  • In the Loop A
  • The Informers D
  • The Killing Room D+
  • Mary and Max B
  • The Messenger B+
  • Moon B
  • Mystery Team B-
  • Paper Heart B-
  • Precious A-
  • Sin Nombre (Spanish) B+
  • World's Greatest Dad A-
• 2008
  • Eric D. Snider's 2008 Sundance Film Festival Diary
  • American Son B
  • American Teen (documentary) A
  • Baghead B
  • Bottle Shock C
  • Choke B-
  • Diary of the Dead B
  • Downloading Nancy F
  • Frozen River A-
  • Funny Games A-
  • Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (documentary) B
  • Hamlet 2 A-
  • Hell Ride C-
  • Henry Poole Is Here C-
  • In Bruges B+
  • Just Another Love Story (Danish) B-
  • Man on Wire (documentary) B+
  • Máncora (Spanish) C-
  • The Mysteries of Pittsburgh C
  • The Recruiter (documentary) B
  • Red B-
  • Savage Grace D
  • Secrecy (documentary) B+
  • Sleep Dealer (Spanish) C
  • Slingshot Hip Hop (documentary; Arabic) C+
  • Smart People B
  • Towelhead B+
  • Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (documentary) C
  • The Visitor B+
  • The Wackness C+
  • Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (documentary) B
  • Young @ Heart (documentary) A-
• 2007
  • Eric D. Snider's 2007 Sundance Film Festival Diary
  • An American Crime C
  • Angel-A (French) B-
  • Black Snake Moan B+
  • Broken English B-
  • Chapter 27 D-
  • Chicago 10 B+
  • Crazy Love (documentary) A-
  • The Devil Came on Horseback (documentary) B+
  • Eagle vs Shark C
  • Everything's Cool (documentary) B-
  • Expired C-
  • Fido B-
  • For the Bible Tells Me So (documentary) B+
  • How She Move B
  • Interview C
  • Introducing the Dwights C+
  • It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine D
  • Joshua B
  • King of California B-
  • No End in Sight (documentary) A-
  • On the Road with Judas D
  • Once B+
  • Padre Nuestro (Spanish) B-
  • Resurrecting the Champ B
  • Rocket Science B
  • The Savages B+
  • The Signal A-
  • Snow Angels A-
  • Son of Rambow A
  • Starting Out in the Evening B+
  • Teeth B
  • The Ten B
  • Trade D+
  • Waitress A
  • Weapons C
  • Year of the Dog B-
  • Zoo (documentary) C-
• 2006
  • Eric D. Snider's 2006 Sundance Film Festival Diary
  • All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (documentary) C-
  • Alpha Dog B
  • American Hardcore (documentary) C
  • Art School Confidential C
  • Awesome; I F***in' Shot That! B-
  • Cargo D
  • Come Early Morning C+
  • The Darwin Awards C
  • The Descent A-
  • Don't Come Knocking B
  • Eve & the Fire Horse B+
  • Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (documentary) D+
  • Factotum B-
  • Flannel Pajamas C+
  • The Foot Fist Way B
  • Friends with Money B-
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints B
  • Half Nelson A-
  • The Illusionist C+
  • An Inconvenient Truth (documentary) B+
  • Kinky Boots C+
  • Little Miss Sunshine B
  • Lucky Number Slevin B-
  • Moonshine D
  • Neil Young: Heart of Gold (documentary) A
  • The Night Listener B-
  • Old Joy B
  • The Proposition B
  • Quinceañera A-
  • Right at Your Door B
  • Salvage D
  • The Science of Sleep (French) A-
  • Sleeping Dogs Lie B-
  • Somebodies D+
  • Son of Man (Xhosa) B-
  • Steel City B+
  • Stephanie Daley C+
  • Subject Two B-
  • Thank You for Smoking B+
  • This Film Is Not Yet Rated (documentary) B+
  • Wide Awake (documentary) B
  • Wild Tigers I Have Known B
  • Wordplay (documentary) B+
  • The World According to Sesame Street (documentary) C
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story B+
• 2005
  • Eric D. Snider's 2005 Sundance Film Festival Diary
  • 5th World D+
  • 9 Songs D
  • After Innocence (documentary) B-
  • The Aristocrats (documentary) B+
  • The Ballad of Jack and Rose C+
  • Ballets Russes (documentary) B
  • Between D
  • Brick B
  • The Chumscrubber B+
  • Cronicas (Spanish) B+
  • Dirty Love D-
  • The Dying Gaul B+
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (documentary) B
  • Forty Shades of Blue C+
  • Frozen Angels (documentary) C+
  • Game 6 B
  • The Girl from Monday D+
  • Grizzly Man (documentary) B+
  • Happy Endings B
  • Hard Candy B-
  • Heights B+
  • Hustle & Flow C+
  • Inside Deep Throat (documentary) B-
  • The Jacket C
  • Junebug A-
  • Kung Fu Hustle (Chinese) A
  • Layer Cake B
  • Live-in Maid (Spanish) B+
  • Loggerheads B-
  • Lonesome Jim B
  • Love, Ludlow B-
  • March of the Penguins (documentary) B
  • Mardi Gras: Made in China (documentary) B+
  • Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School C
  • The Matador B+
  • Matando Cabos (Spanish) B-
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know B+
  • MirrorMask B-
  • Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (Chinese; Tibetan) B+
  • Murderball (documentary) A
  • Mysterious Skin A-
  • New York Doll (documentary) A-
  • Nine Lives C
  • Oldboy (Korean) B+
  • On a Clear Day B-
  • Pretty Persuasion C
  • Protocols of Zion (documentary) B
  • The Puffy Chair B+
  • Rize (documentary) B-
  • Saving Face B
  • Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire (documentary) A-
  • The Shape of the Moon (documentary; Indonesian/Javanese) B
  • The Squid and the Whale B-
  • Strangers with Candy B-
  • Three ... Extremes (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) B+
  • Thumbsucker B+
  • Tony Takitani (Japanese) B+
  • Twist of Faith (documentary) B+
  • Unknown White Male (documentary) B+
  • The Upside of Anger B+
  • What Is It? C
  • Who Killed Cock Robin? C-
  • Why We Fight (documentary) B
  • Wolf Creek B-
• 2004
  • Eric D. Snider's 2004 Sundance Film Festival Diary
  • Baadasssss! B+
  • The Best Thief in the World B
  • The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Japanese) B+
  • Born into Brothels (documentary) B-
  • Bright Young Things B-
  • The Butterfly Effect C+
  • The Clearing A-
  • Control Room (documentary) B+
  • The Corporation (documentary) B+
  • CSA: The Confederate States of America C+
  • D.E.B.S. D+
  • Dig! (documentary) B+
  • Dirty Work (documentary) B-
  • Dogville C
  • Down to the Bone B
  • The Dreamers B
  • Employee of the Month D
  • Eulogy C+
  • The Five Obstructions (Danish) B
  • Garden (documentary; Hebrew/Arabic) C
  • Garden State A-
  • Good Bye Lenin! (German) B+
  • Grand Theft Parsons C+
  • Harry and Max D+
  • High Tension (French) C-
  • Home of Phobia B-
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead C-
  • In the Realms of the Unreal (documentary) A-
  • The Machinist B+
  • Maria Full of Grace (Spanish) B
  • Mean Creek B
  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (documentary) B+
  • The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish) B+
  • Napoleon Dynamite A-
  • November B+
  • Open Water B-
  • Primer B-
  • The Return (Russian) B+
  • Riding Giants (documentary) A-
  • The Saddest Music in the World A-
  • Saved! C
  • Saw B+
  • Screaming Men (documentary; Finnish) B
  • Seducing Dr. Lewis (French) B
  • Sky Blue C
  • Super Size Me (documentary) A
  • Take My Eyes (Spanish) A
  • Tarnation (documentary) B+
  • A Thousand Clouds of Peace (Spanish) C-
  • Tiptoes C-
  • Touch of Pink C+
  • Trauma C
  • We Don't Live Here Anymore C
  • The Woodsman C
  • Word Wars (documentary) B+
• 2003
  • Eric D. Snider's 2003 Sundance Film Festival Diary
  • 28 Days Later A
  • AKA C+
  • All the Real Girls A-
  • American Splendor A-
  • Balseros (Spanish; documentary) B
  • The Baroness and the Pig C+
  • Bend It Like Beckham B+
  • Bookies C+
  • Buffalo Soldiers C+
  • Bus 174 (documentary; Portuguese) B+
  • Camp B-
  • Capturing the Friedmans (documentary) A
  • Confidence B-
  • The Cooler B+
  • Detective Fiction D
  • Die Mommie Die! C-
  • DysFunKtional Family B-
  • Fear X C
  • Girls Will be Girls D+
  • In America B+
  • Intimate Stories (Spanish) C-
  • Irreversible (French) B-
  • It's All About Love D+
  • Levity C
  • Masked and Anonymous D-
  • The Mudge Boy B-
  • Northfork C-
  • Off the Map B
  • Owning Mahowny B
  • Party Monster B-
  • People I Know C+
  • Pieces of April B+
  • Raising Victor Vargas A
  • Rhythm of the Saints D
  • Rolling Kansas B-
  • The Sea (Icelandic) B+
  • The Secret Lives of Dentists A-
  • The Shape of Things B+
  • The Singing Detective C-
  • Soldier's Girl B+
  • Song for a Raggy Boy C
  • Spun D+
  • The Station Agent A-
  • Thirteen C
  • The Thirteen Steps (Japanese) A-
  • The United States of Leland B+
  • Whale Rider A-
  • What Alice Found C+
• 2002
  • Bark C+
  • Better Luck Tomorrow A-
  • Birthday Girl C
  • Bloody Sunday B-
  • Blue Car B-
  • Cherish B
  • Crush D+
  • The Dancer Upstairs B-
  • The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys B
  • Daughter from Danang (documentary) B+
  • Derrida (documentary) B+
  • Devil's Playground (documentary) B+
  • Empire B-
  • The Execution of Wanda Jean (documentary) A
  • The Good Girl B-
  • Human Nature B+
  • The Kid Stays in the Picture (documentary) B+
  • Killing Time A-
  • Lan Yu (Chinese) C
  • The Laramie Project B+
  • The Last Kiss (Italian) A-
  • Lola C
  • Love in the Time of Money C
  • Lucky Break C-
  • The Man from Elysian Fields A-
  • Manito B
  • May B+
  • Narc B
  • One Hour Photo A
  • On_Line C
  • Paradox Lake F
  • Personal Velocity C+
  • Pumpkin B+
  • Quitting (Chinese) C
  • Rain C+
  • Rain B+
  • Real Women Have Curves B+
  • Run Ronnie Run B+
  • Secretary B
  • Sister Helen (documentary) A-
  • The Slaughter Rule B-
  • Soft for Digging C-
  • Soft Shell Man (French) B
  • Stolen Summer A-
  • Storytelling B
  • Taboo D
  • Tadpole A
  • Teknolust D
  • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing A-
  • Time Out (French) B+
  • World Traveler C+
  • XX/XY C
• 2001
  • 101 Reykjavik (Icelandic) B
  • 30 Years to Life D
  • Acts of Worship C-
  • After Image D-
  • The American Astronaut F
  • Angels of the Universe (Icelandic) C+
  • Beautiful Creatures A-
  • The Believer A-
  • The Bleep Brothers (Japanese) B-
  • The Business of Strangers B-
  • The Caveman's Valentine B
  • Chain Camera (documentary) A
  • Chopper C
  • The Deep End B-
  • Diary of a City Priest B-
  • The Dish B
  • Divided We Fall (Czech) A-
  • Dogtown and Z-Boys (documentary) B
  • Donnie Darko C-
  • Double Whammy C-
  • The Endurance (documentary) A
  • Enigma C
  • Go Tigers! (documentary) B+
  • Green Dragon B
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch A-
  • In the Bedroom A-
  • Invisible Revolution (documentary) A-
  • Julie Johnson B-
  • Jump Tomorrow B
  • L.I.E. A
  • Lift A-
  • Lost and Delirious B+
  • MacArthur Park B-
  • Maelstrom (French) B
  • Manic A
  • Me You Them (Portuguese) B-
  • Memento A
  • My First Mister A-
  • National 7 (French) B-
  • The Natural History of the Chicken (documentary) B
  • Our Lady of the Assassins (Spanish) B+
  • Perfume C
  • Raw Deal: A Question of Consent (documentary) A-
  • The Road Home (Chinese) B+
  • Roof to Roof (Armenian) D
  • Scotland, Pa. C+
  • Scratch (documentary) B
  • Series 7 A
  • Sexy Beast A-
  • Sleepy Time Gal B+
  • Some Body D
  • Southern Comfort (documentary) C+
  • Startup.com (documentary) B+
  • Super Troopers B+
  • Trembling Before G-d (documentary) B-
  • Waking Life B+
  • Wet Hot American Summer B+
• 2000
  • American Psycho B+
  • The Big Kahuna A-
  • Blessed Art Thou B
  • Boiler Room B
  • The Broken Hearts Club B-
  • But I'm a Cheerleader C-
  • Butterfly (Spanish) B
  • Chuck & Buck B
  • The Convent B-
  • The Cup (Tibetan/Hindi) C
  • Dropping Out B+
  • The Eyes of Tammy Faye (documentary) A-
  • The Filth and the Fury (documentary) B
  • Gigantic (German) A
  • Girlfight A
  • Groove C+
  • Hamlet B
  • Joe Gould's Secret B+
  • Just, Melvin (documentary) B
  • Love and Basketball B-
  • Not One Less (Chinese) B+
  • The Opportunists C+
  • Panic B-
  • The Prompter (Norwegian) B+
  • A Room for Romeo Brass B+
  • Saving Grace B
  • Shadow Magic (Chinese) C
  • Shower (Mandarin) A-
  • The Tao of Steve B
  • Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her A-
  • Two Family House B+
  • Urbania B-
  • The Virgin Suicides B+
  • Waking the Dead B-
  • What's Cooking? B
  • Wonderland (2000) B-
  • You Can Count on Me B+
• 1999
  • American Movie (documentary) A-
  • Happy, Texas A-
  • Hideous Kinky C
  • Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (documentary) A
  • The Source (documentary) B
  • Twin Falls Idaho A-
• 1994
  • Clerks A-