Relentlessly Personal

Movies (DVD)
Spring Fever dir. Lou Ye
Paa dir. R. Balki
Versus (Director's Cut) dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
The Japanese Wife dir. Aparna Sen
Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink

Movies (theater)
Piranha 3D dir. Alexandre Aja

Complex Interpretation

Movies (DVD)
Kurbaan dir. Renzil D'Silva
This Sporting Life dir. Lindsay Anderson
Big Fan dir. Robert D. Siegel

Movies (theater)
Nanny McPhee Returns dir. Susanna White

Books
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

Deliberate Tackiness

Movies (theater)
Dinner for Schmucks dir. Jay Roach
The Other Guys dir. Adam McKay

Movies (DVD)
Gentlemen Broncos dir. Jared Hess
A Prophet dir. Jacques Audiard
Raspberry Reich dir. Bruce LaBruce
Ballets Russes dir. Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Taking Woodstock dir. Ang Lee

Books
Bodyworld by Dash Shaw
The Scott Pilgrim Series by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Semimetaphorical

Movies (DVD)
The Book of Eli dir. The Hughes Brothers
The Wayward Cloud dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Fuel dir. Josh Tickell
Ip Man dir. Wilson Yip
The Secret of the Grain dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani dir. Rajkumar Santoshi

Cruel & Bloody

Movies (DVD)
Mystery Team dir. Dan Eckman
Taxidermia dir. György Pálfi
The Boys in the Band dir. William Friedkin
Aladin dir. Sujoy Ghosh

Movies (theater)
Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre dir. Júlíus Kemp
Agora dir. Alejandro Amenábar

Books
Ruined by Lynn Nottage