Gus Van Sant's take on the shooting at Columbine High School is a masterpiece. Using a cast of unprofessional actors, he has created a unique and highly affecting film, rich in atmosphere and style. The non-linear narrative follows the experiences of the key characters, giving a different perspective of events in the short time frame (most of the events shown in the film take place in about an hour). While the tension in the film obviously comes from the impending violence, the film's strongest find out more...

A quirky, clever and charming movie from rookie director Anderson, who flies in the face of convention by making the hero of this high school-based comedy a slightly geeky academic who's anything but the all-American kid. Max Fischer is a brilliant but mixed-up scholarship kid at the Rushmore Academy, with a frenzied timetable and an uncanny knack of baffling both students and teachers alike. He attracts the attention of Blume (the superb Bill Murray), a rich, bored, middle-aged parent, apparen find out more...

Jeri Blank is a 47-year-old crack whore fresh from the joint and ready to return to her childhood home. Sound like a silly premise? It certainly is in the hands of comic geniuses Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello. In order to resurrect her comatose father, Jeri is instructed to go back to high school... and excel. So the ridiculous Jeri and her underutilized libido hit the halls, looking for fresh meat and navigating the hell that is Flatpoint High School, a place not short of racial and sexual innue find out more...