UP FOR GRABS (director/writer: Michael Wranovics; cinematographers: Josh Keppel/Zack Richard; editors: Dave Ciaccio/Michael Wranovics; cast: Alex Popov, Patrick Hayashi; Runtime: 88; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Michael Wranovics; Laemmle/Zeller Films; 2005)…

USED CARS (director/writer: Robert Zemeckis; screenwriter: Bob Gale; cinematographer: Donald M. Morgan; editor: Michael Kahn; music: Patrick Williams; cast: Jack Warden (Roy L. Fuchs/Luke Fuchs), Kurt Russell (Rudy Russo), Dick…

VALHALLA RISING (director/writer: Nicolas Winding Refn; screenwriter: Roy Jacobsen; cinematographer: Morten Soborg; editor: Mat Newman; music: Peter-Peter/Peter Kyed; cast: Mads Mikkelsen (One Eye), Maarten Stevenson (the Boy), Gordon Brown (Hagen),…

VANYA ON 42ND STREET (director: Louis Malle; screenwriters: Andre Gregory/David Mamet/based on the play "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov; cinematographer: Declan Quinn; editor: Nancy Baker; music: Joshua Redman; cast: Wallace…

VERA DRAKE (director/writer: Mike Leigh; cinematographer: Dick Pope; editor: Jim Clark; music: Andrew Dickson; cast: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Phil Davis (Stan Drake), Peter Wight (Det. Inspector Webster), Daniel Mays…

VICE (director/writer: Adam McKay; cinematographer: Greig Fraser; editor: Hank Corwin; music: Nicholas Britell; cast: Christian Bale (Dick Cheyney), Amy Adams (Lynne Cheyney), Steve Carell (Donald Rumsfeld), Sam Rockwell (George W.…

VILLAGE, THE (director/writer: M. Night Shyamalan; cinematographer: Roger Deakins; editor: Christopher Tellefsen; music: James Newton Howard; cast: Bryce Dallas Howard (Ivy Walker), Joaquin Phoenix (Lucius Hunt), Adrien Brody (Noah Percy),…

VIOLETTE (director/writer: Claude Chabrol; screenwriters: Odile Barski/Hervé Bromberger/Jean-Marie Fritere/Frédéric Grendel; cinematographer: Jean Tabier; editor: Yves Langlois; music: Pierre Jansen; cast: Isabelle Huppert (Violette Nozière), Stéphane Audran (Germaine Nozière), Jean Carmet…

THE VISITOR (STRIDULUM) (director: Michael J. Paradise; screenwriters: Lou Comici/Robert Mundy/story by Michael J. Paradise and Ovidio Assonitis; cinematographer: Ennio Guarnieri; editor: Robert Curi; music: Franco Micalizzi; cast: John Huston…

VOX LUX (director/writer: Brady Corbet; screenwriters: story by Mona Fastvold & Corbet; cinematographer: Lol Crawley; editor: Matthew Hannan; music: Sia/Scott Walker; cast: Natalie Portman (Celeste), Jude Law (The Manager), Raffey…