Gardiner

One of the smartest films of the year. It spells out "Quagmire." It's also the only film in which endorphins and the hippocampus are linked to the British19thC occupation of Aphganistan.

This novelistic tour-de-force takes us to the Anglo-Indian genre of E.M. Foster's "Passage to India," but in modern, post colonial dress. It is literate, funny, and a reminder of what great acting and warm humanity can mean in a film - as opposed to robots and aliens romping in 3-D.