《电影批评》是“教育部人才培养模式和开放教育试点教材”之一种。作者从具体电影的批评方法入手来进行《电影批评》写作，具有文学案例研究的方式。在进入具体的文本分析之前，《电影批评》作者先简洁而概要的介绍这一种批评理论的大致情况，比如批评对象、理论来源、主要内容等等，然后再进入到对具体电影文本的解读和分析，这样学生可以非常细致的了解怎样进行电影批评。

1954 British animated film

1989 film by Johnnie To

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.

Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

《弗朗索瓦•特吕弗》长期以来一直被认为是研究这位天才导演的权威之作，安内特•因斯多夫捕捉到了特吕弗作品的精粹与全貌，观点新颖，充满洞见。作者讨论了特吕弗对法国新浪潮的贡献、与其精神导师希区柯克和雷诺阿的关系，及其影片的重大主题——女人、爱情、孩子与语言，她还从特吕弗与其影片的关系中，探讨了他的生活。《弗朗索瓦•特吕弗》写得热情洋溢，充满人性，一如其主题，它已使电影史上最受人欢迎、最多产、最深刻的艺术家之一归于不朽。

纳塔将满7岁，却一直不能识字。他对姑妈遗留给他的藏书失望不已。直到夜晚降临，书中的人物纷纷现身，告知纳塔他们面临永远消失的危险。于是纳塔投身于一场冒险，来拯救他的朋友和他们的故事。他来得及读出拯救他们的咒语吗？

Living in the guilt of sacrificing his informant in a previous operation, Criminal Intelligence Inspector Don Lee is wary when his superior orders him to send another informant to spy on the criminal operations of Barbarian, a vicious gangster plotting a jewelry heist. He seeks ex-convict Ghost, who agrees to work for Don despite vowing to go straight since he's desperately in need of money to repay a debt and save his sister. Ghost's driving skills help him infiltrate Barbarian's gang and earn his trust, but by feeding information to Don and hooking up with Barbarian's girlfriend Dee, Ghost is pushing himself into a tight and deadly corner...

On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.

In the year 1999, a young woman leaves her quaint seaside house and returns to the city, leaving in the mailbox a card for the next owner, with instructions to forward any mail of hers to the new address. In the year 1997, a jaded young architect moves into the same house and finds the letter. His reply, which he slips into the mailbox, finds its way to her, beginning a parallel-time love story separated by a span of two years.

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.

A drug cartel boss is arrested in a raid and coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.

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2005 film by Wang Xiaoshuai