How much Eurobabble are you willing to endure in exchange for a look at one of the cinema’s most ravishing and compassionate screen visions? Hopefully a lot, because Wings of Desire – the art-house landmark from Wim Wenders that has been rereleased on DVD by Criterion – has endless poetic yammering that belies its deep,

“…features tweens in grownups’ clothing.

“The fact that The Blind Side is a terrible movie must be approached gingerly…

“Ryan Bingham, Michael Clayton, Mr. Fox – these are guys who have what could be called the Clooney Conscience.

Your nerves are shot after the first sequence of The Hurt Locker, which means you watch the rest of the movie while suffering from post-traumatic stress. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but the movie – which follows a U.S. bomb-defusing unit in the Iraq war – does provide a sense of what it must have

Jeff Bridges gives a stumbling, puking, greasy performance in Crazy Heart – it’s one of those “ugly” roles meant to reject Hollywood glamour in hopes of making it to Hollywood’s glammest night of all. Bridges plays Bad Blake, a grizzled country-music legend in the twilight of his career – if by twilight you mean playing

“Despair drips from the screen…”