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89%
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George Harrison: Living In The Material World () |
"
It's a problematic, at times off-putting, but ultimately fascinating work, moving through George's life with its own mysterious internal logic."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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—
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62%
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Salt (2010) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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|
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72%
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POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) |
"
"POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" is the movie Morgan Spurlock was put on earth to make."
—
Salon.com
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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|
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61%
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The New World (2005) |
"
Just beautiful."
—
House Next Door
Posted Mar 17, 2011
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|
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33%
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For Colored Girls (2010) |
"
Perry never solves the stage-to-screen translation problem. But the path he has chosen is as intriguing as it is irksome, and it works better than you might expect."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 4, 2010
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4/5
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90%
|
Ne change rien (2010) |
"
Ne Change Rien is about the work, the mix of inspiration and hard labor that performers draw on from moment to moment, an alchemical event that cinema rarely shows. "
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 3, 2010
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|
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54%
|
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) |
"
In a perverse but amusing way, Money Never Sleeps sometimes seems like film noir for CNBC junkies."
—
New Republic
Posted Sep 24, 2010
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|
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81%
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Solitary Man (2010) |
"
Koppleman and his co-director, David Levien, hit the right tone early -- empathetic yet brutally honest -- and Douglas' absorbing, minutely detailed performance sustains it."
—
Salon.com
Posted May 21, 2010
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3/5
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89%
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Teza () |
"
He doesn't just reject political, philosophical, sexual, racial and spiritual dogma of every sort. He seems to view dogma itself as the one true evil: the ideological armor of bullies throughout history; the enemy of freedom, of art, of happiness itself."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 2, 2010
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—
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67%
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Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2008) |
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 14, 2008
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2/5
|
48%
|
The Ruins (2008) |
"
More disgusting than scary, The Ruins is the latest in a long line of horror films about upper-middle-class travelers being terrorized in unfamiliar environments."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 7, 2008
|
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1.5/5
|
18%
|
Chapter 27 (2007) |
"
Any film that dares attempt a nonjudgmental portrait of John Lennon's assassin would most likely be accused of tastelessness, but in the case of Chapter 27 the charges are justified."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2008
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4/5
|
48%
|
Run Fatboy Run (2007) |
"
The kind of movie that's apt to be dismissed a goofy lark. It is that. But it's also a rare comedy that believes in its own message, and that could inspire the depressed and the demoralized to grit their teeth and keep running."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2008
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|
3.5/5
|
91%
|
Shotgun Stories (2007) |
"
Shotgun Stories defines the classic western phrase 'doing what a man's got to do' as both a moral imperative and a biological compulsion."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 26, 2008
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3/5
|
85%
|
Planet B-Boy (2007) |
"
Still, from moment to moment, Planet B-Boy is fun, sometimes thrilling and packed with illuminating details and striking personalities"
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 24, 2008
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3.5/5
|
75%
|
The Hammer (2007) |
"
Carolla has a tendency to riff when he should be acting, and the whole project is rambling and disorganized. At the same time, though, The Hammer also has dry wit and unforced working-class swagger, and hits some surprising emotional notes."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2008
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1.5/5
|
50%
|
Doomsday (2008) |
"
Doomsday is frenetic, loud, wildly imprecise and so derivative that it doesn't so much seem to reference its antecedents as try on their famous images like a child playing dress-up. Homage without innovation isn't homage, it's karaoke."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 16, 2008
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4/5
|
91%
|
Sputnik Mania (Sputnik) (The Fever of 57) (2007) |
"
David Hoffman's documentary Sputnik Mania is an account of that Soviet satellite's effect on the American consciousness."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
75%
|
Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (2008) |
"
In Search of Paradise portrays Meat Loaf as an obsessive, self-punishing performer, striving in vain to put on a live show that matches the visions in his head."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 12, 2008
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4/5
|
89%
|
Fighting for Life (2008) |
"
Shot in battlefield hospitals in Iraq and rehab centers in the United States, Fighting for Life takes an unflinching look at the physical sacrifices of soldiers and marines."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
21%
|
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"
Like many of Will Ferrell's recent films, "Semi-Pro" finds the sweet spot between sports melodrama and parody, and hammers it for 90 diverting minutes."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
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3/5
|
38%
|
Bonneville (2006) |
"
Except for Jessica Lange's silent, expressive close-ups, the women's journey in Bonneville is aesthetically and dramatically unremarkable."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
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|
4/5
|
88%
|
Burning the Future: Coal in America (2009) |
"
David Novack's documentary Burning the Future: Coal in America is as upsetting as it is informative."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
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3/5
|
91%
|
Beyond Belief (2008) |
"
This documentary feature follows 9/11 widows from suburban Boston, as they try to raise money to help war widows in Afghanistan."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
3%
|
Witless Protection (2008) |
"
In Witless Protection, Larry the Cable Guy plays a small-town deputy, fantasizing about becoming an F.B.I. agent. Sitcom wackiness ensues."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 25, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
56%
|
The Signal (2008) |
"
This three-part horror movie directed by a trio of Atlanta filmmakers is set during the collapse of Terminus, a fictional city whose citizens are being driven to rage."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 22, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
28%
|
Step Up 2 the Streets (2008) |
"
Step Up 2 the Streets posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichés aren't clichés."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
A Walk to Beautiful (2008) |
"
A complex and quietly devastating indictment of chauvinist societies that see women as lovers, mothers and servants, and treat anyone who canâ(TM)t fulfill those roles as a nonperson."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 8, 2008
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|
4/5
|
56%
|
Bab'Aziz - The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"
Bab'Aziz was shot mostly in parched Iranian landscapes; the film's brilliant cinematographer, Mahmoud Kalari, frames the dunes, rock formations and sandblasted village and cities with a poet's eye, turning real spaces into dreamscapes."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 8, 2008
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4/5
|
22%
|
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"
It's a cut above other films of its type because every scene is packed with...touches that suggest that the filmâ(TM)s writer and director, Malcolm D. Lee, is working overtime to smuggle life into formula."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 8, 2008
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|
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0%
|
Strange Wilderness (2008) |
"
Underachieving even by the standards of stoner comedies, Strange Wilderness is so inert that it doesn't so much unreel on screen as loiter there, giggling at its own outrageousness."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 2, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
67%
|
How She Move (2008) |
"
The strong acting, spectacular dance routines and culturally specific details in How She Move turn clichés into catharsis."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 25, 2008
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
U2 3D (2007) |
"
The first Imax movie that deserves to be called a work of art."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 23, 2008
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4/5
|
100%
|
Chuck Close (1997) |
"
Chuck Close, about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 2, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
66%
|
Smiley Face (2007) |
"
Despite its laid-back script, Smiley Face is as prankishly political as Mr. Araki's Doom Generation..."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 28, 2007
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|
2/5
|
33%
|
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"
The hyperactive sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets sends its archaeologist hero on a globetrotting quest that might have been devised after a long night of Wikipedia surfing."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 21, 2007
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|
4/5
|
89%
|
The District (Nyocker!) (2004) |
"
The Hungarian cartoon feature The District! is a last-minute shoo-in for the title of 2007's most original animated film."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 20, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
60%
|
Look (2007) |
"
Look, an unsettling, rudely funny but not entirely credible feature by the writer and director Adam Rifkin, is an ensemble narrative for the age of public surveillance."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 14, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
84%
|
The Singing Revolution (2007) |
"
Can singing change history? The Singing Revolution, a documentary by James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty about Estonia's struggle to end Soviet occupation, shows that it already has."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 14, 2007
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|
3/5
|
16%
|
Revolver (2005) |
"
The movie's hit-to-miss ratio is hardly Olympic caliber, but Mr. Ritchie deserves credit for chutzpah."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Dirty Laundry (2006) |
"
Mr. Jamal's direction ranges from clumsy to competent. Fortunately, even as Mr. Jamal's characters hit notes reminiscent of a half-baked television pilot, they disclose eccentricities that his cast spins into comic gold."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
31%
|
Undoing (2006) |
"
Undoing, by the writer and director Chris Chan Lee, buries a potentially haunting pulp thriller beneath flashy tics."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 5, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
17%
|
Badland (2007) |
"
The mawkish yet weirdly mesmerizing film Badland is independent in scale but aggressively Hollywood in storytelling."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 30, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
31%
|
Midnight Eagle (Middonaito Îguru) (2007) |
"
A personal and political melodrama with perfunctory gunplay and explosions."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 23, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
The Life of Reilly (2007) |
"
Save It for the Stage, a one-man stage show by Charles Nelson Reilly, a showbiz gadfly and Tony Award-winning theater director."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 16, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Steal a Pencil for Me (2007) |
"
What makes Ms. Ohayon's movie special is its recognition that epic horrors don't erase private dramas."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
Choking Man (2007) |
"
Choking Man is harsh and intermittently affecting but oppressively contrived and mostly pointless."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
3.5/5
|
94%
|
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2008) |
"
The Ohio-born tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler probably would have gotten a kick out of Kasper Collin's documentary about his life."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 8, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Confessions of a Superhero (2007) |
"
The empathetic tone draws you in and some of the details are devastating."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 4, 2007
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