DEADFALL [2012]

From The Counterfeiters director, Stefan Ruzowitzky comes the quiet and finely crafted crime drama, Deadfall.

It's a complex character study that's filled with depth, strong emotional conflict and plot threads that threatens to spiral out of control but all meets up in the end.  The plot is nothing too special but everything is strengthened by superb acting, beautifully cold photography and wonderful pacing.  The writing is so good and deeply layered, you actually find yourself caring about the murderers & criminals in the film but in a different way than Quentin Tarantino's glamorization of the crime life.  

3½ barbed wire fences out of 5

All The Queen's Men (2001)

All The Queen's Men has the world record for the worst cost to profit ratio in film history, costing $634 for every $1 it made.
On paper, it's easy to see why. Matt LeBlanc leads a team of losers parachuted into Nazi Germany to steal an Engima machine while dressed as women. It should suck giant greasy monkey balls. It doesn't. It's actually quite good, with a clever script, strong characters, an unflinching look at war, a good eye for history, and, by the way, funny.

4 cypher rotors out of 5.
Wait? Was that Udo Keir? Oh shit, it totally was.