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C+
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30%
|
Screamers (1996) |
"
Based on a short story by the great nutball sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, Screamers is more like a high-pitched rip-off of Alien."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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—
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43%
|
From the Earth to the Moon () |
—
NPR.org
Posted Oct 18, 2008
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|
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25%
|
Bewitched (2005) |
"
What the hell is Will Ferrell doing to his career?"
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
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|
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80%
|
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) |
"
Lucas is a brilliant technician but a poor philosopher, and his lurchingly thought-out rendering of futuristic politics prevents the entire series from achieving the greatness to which it aspires."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
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—
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41%
|
Where the Truth Lies (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
—
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35%
|
Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
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—
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83%
|
Rize (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
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—
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30%
|
Be Cool (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
—
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82%
|
Walk the Line (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
—
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97%
|
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
—
|
90%
|
Kung Fu Hustle (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
58%
|
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) |
"
Mr. & Mrs. Smith works on almost every level and against all odds."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
74%
|
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny-another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
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46%
|
Constantine (2005) |
"
Reeves, meanwhile, has confidently entered his self-parodic period."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
—
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88%
|
Cache (Hidden) (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
—
|
84%
|
Gunner Palace (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
—
|
42%
|
Palindromes (2004) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
—
|
80%
|
The President's Last Bang (2005) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
53%
|
Melinda and Melinda (2005) |
"
Neither version of Melinda, despite Mitchellâ(TM)s game try at making them distinctive beyond their different hairdos, is funny or tragic enough to fully engage us; thereâ(TM)s no opportunity for an audience to be moved."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
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57%
|
The Interpreter (2005) |
"
Penn is terrific in his low-key doggedness."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
85%
|
Batman Begins (2005) |
"
A nonstarter."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
78%
|
Sin City (2005) |
"
If Raymond Chandler and Daffy Duck could have produced a child, Sin City would be their baby."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
81%
|
Serenity (2005) |
"
Go out and see Joss Whedon's witty whizbang of an action movie, or we will kill a kitten."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
87%
|
A History of Violence (2005) |
"
A remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
82%
|
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"
As the star who's framed in the center of nearly every shot he's in, Depp is a constantly surprising Willy Wonka."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
|
74%
|
Chinjeolhan geumjassi (Lady Vengeance) (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) (2005) |
"
South Korean director Park Chan-wook's tremendous conclusion to his Vengeance trilogy is a modern classic."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 5, 2006
|
|
|
88%
|
Broken Flowers (2005) |
"
Murray manages, almost impossibly, to come up with still another rich variation on his Depleted Man persona, and his performance is at once enormously generous and fiercely, concisely witty."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
93%
|
Paths of Glory (1957) |
"
Paths of Glory is all about that greatest of all movie subjects: power."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
86%
|
Pride and Prejudice (2005) |
"
Keira's cat-smile suggests such supernal all-knowingness that, with Austen's adapted dialogue (via Deborah Moggach) tripping off her tongue, she comes off as an eighteenth-century Maureen Dowd."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
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72%
|
Syriana (2005) |
"
As he did in Traffic, Gaghan intertwines his disparate subplots with impeccable pacing -- his screenplay is a model of how to arrange scenes so that each one ends leaving you wanting to know more."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
77%
|
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) |
"
The film is filled with positive messages ..."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
75%
|
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"
I think one reason this movie is so appealing is that it's the anti-Sex and the City-its earnestness and relative lack of rank bawdiness or cynicism seem novel in the present pop-culture atmosphere."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
87%
|
Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
"
Ang Lee conveys maddening delirium rendered in the way one man's eyes gaze at another's, and then look away, and the looking-away amounts to the murder of two souls as surely as if they'd drawn guns and hit each other in the heart."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
94%
|
Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) |
"
... it telescopes -- with no loss of accuracy -- Murrow's last few fifties hurrahs as the hardest diamond in Bill Paley's 'Tiffany network.'"
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
71%
|
Thumbsucker (2005) |
"
Unlike so many movies in which a character changes in order to propel the plot forward, this one stops to follow up on the consequences of those changes."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
83%
|
The Constant Gardener (2005) |
"
... Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year's subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances ..."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
86%
|
Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle) (2005) |
"
There is giggling, belly-laughing, and gasping to be done watching Howl's Moving Castle."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
76%
|
Crash (2004) |
"
It's smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
61%
|
Jarhead (2005) |
"
Jarhead is utterly predictable (boys endure tough training; boys encounter another culture and are baffled), studded with first-rate performances."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
80%
|
The Aristocrats (2005) |
"
... The Aristocrats proves that sometimes you don't have to be a great filmmaker to make a great documentary."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
89%
|
Paradise Now (2005) |
"
... remarkable ..."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
|
61%
|
Shopgirl (2005) |
"
A slim, charming, romantic story, full of intentionally mild humor about strong themes -- passion, commitment, loneliness."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Nov 18, 2005
|
|
|
87%
|
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"
[A] tremendously moving documentary."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2005
|
|
|
83%
|
Inside Deep Throat (2005) |
"
[A] valuable document of a cultural shift."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2005
|
|
|
65%
|
Coach Carter (2005) |
"
Saved by bursts of energy and inventiveness."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2005
|
|
|
60%
|
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
"
Fishburne even manages to make crass violence witty."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2005
|
|
|
83%
|
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"
If it didn't have Johnny Depp as its star, Finding Neverland would barely pass muster as an average PBS Masterpiece Theatre entry."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2005
|
|
|
87%
|
The Aviator (2004) |
"
The result is an admirably bumpy ride of a biopic, a rare one that leaves you feeling not safe but bracingly unsettled."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2004
|
|
|
68%
|
Closer (2004) |
"
Nichols is back, his instincts for intimacy as cutting as ever..."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 11, 2004
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