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Continued from picks 20 to 16.... 20. Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler 19. Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling 18. Valentine Road – Marta Cunningham 17. Dirty...

10. Leviathan Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel's follow-up to their fascinating depiction of traveling sheep herders in Sweetgrass, is this year's quintessential art doc. With...

Jordan Vogt-Roberts' almost half-hour Successful Alcoholics (watch here) was among the crowd-pleasing short film hits of the 2010 edition of Sundance. Flash-forward to this...

I caught Neil Jordan's Ondine at the Toronto Int.Film Festival last September, and the first after-thought I had was, this'll be a tough sell. Not that the fabric of the film is off-putting -- you have your male lead in Colin Farrell, that I think people are generally interested in watching, but then you have a Sigur Ros singing mermaid, a divorced parent subplot with a spirited child years beyond her age stuck in a wheel chair (there is a resemblance to Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo) and you have antagonistic forces in the presence of a pair of thugs plotting their presence in a picturesque village that awkwardly don't measure up.

I can't quite wrap my head around Neil Jordan's latest offering - clearly a fairy tale for adults that could easily play well for children, Ondine sounds good (Sigur Ros) and looks good (Christopher Doyle), but I didn't much care for the end result.