Tastemaking Today

"Small Films With Potent Themes Lead Oscar Nominations". The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2006

"I think this year is the year that small movies get attention because they deal with complexities, they go to the gray area," said Ang Lee, the director of "Brokeback Mountain.

Brokeback Mountain:

Both Mr. Ledger and Mr. Gyllenhaal make this anguished love story physically palpable. Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn. The pain and disappointment felt by Jack, who is softer, more self-aware and self-accepting, continually registers in Mr. Gyllenhaal's sad, expectant silver-dollar eyes.

Munich:

If Mr. Bana sometimes seems overly sensitive for an undercover agent it's largely because without his anxious eyes and jittery hands Avner would not be half as sympathetic or rhetorically effective.