|
A
|
94%
|
Sleepless Night (2012) |
"
A midnight screening of Sleepless Night woke me up more effectively than any cup of coffee I've ever had in my life."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 3, 2011
|
|
A
|
92%
|
Take Shelter (2011) |
"
This movie played me like a fiddle. A quivering, covering-my-eyes-because-the-movie's-too-scary baby-shaped fiddle."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 3, 2011
|
|
A
|
99%
|
The Interrupters (2011) |
"
A massive and compelling tapestry of life on the streets of Chicago."
—
IFC.com
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
A
|
79%
|
I Saw the Devil (2011) |
"
Jee-woon starts from a place we have seen before -- somewhere between Saw and Death Wish -- but the journey from there is uniquely his."
—
IFC.com
Posted Mar 3, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
Keep your brain working while you watch this movie."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 16, 2012
|
|
A-
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
Riveting"
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
A-
|
70%
|
Margaret (2011) |
"
It took six years to make this movie. Do yourself a favor: don't wait six years to see it."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
|
A-
|
92%
|
Senna (2011) |
"
As immersive as documentaries get."
—
IFC.com
Posted Aug 12, 2011
|
|
A-
|
90%
|
Attack the Block (2011) |
"
Cornish deconstructs our preconceived notions about the people we live with and around, and then he blows them all up, figuratively and literally."
—
IFC.com
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
A-
|
94%
|
Win Win (2011) |
"
Win Win isn't the most visually stimulating 90 minutes you could spend at arthouses this spring, but it might just be the most emotionally stimulating."
—
IFC.com
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
A-
|
100%
|
Poetry (2011) |
"
Lee's film lives up to its title."
—
IFC.com
Posted Feb 10, 2011
|
|
A-
|
87%
|
Black Swan (2010) |
"
Aronofsky lets us thrill in the in the act of creation without ever letting us forget the terrible sacrifices many artists make to entertain us."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
70%
|
Beyond The Black Rainbow (2012) |
"
A welcome attempt to bring back the days of El Topo and Eraserhead, when night owls embraced directors who wanted to screw with viewers' heads, not just the ones who screwed up their chances for auteristic posterity."
—
Time Out New York
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
75%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
A testament to the ingenuity of independent film."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Fake It So Real (2012) |
"
Outsider artists don't expect to be discovered; they just want to share their passion with the world. Greene's film communicates their devotion -- and their desire to hit people on the back with steel chairs."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Apr 23, 2012
|
|
B+
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
Spielberg, the analog stalwart, has brought out the best in this new filmmaking technology."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 26, 2011
|
|
B+
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
Hugo is an intensely personal statement from Scorsese, one not just about magic, but also the magic of cinema."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
B+
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
A serious character study and exploration of addiction."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
A unique blend of classical tropes and modern filmmaking. "
—
IFC.com
Posted Sep 18, 2011
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2011) |
"
A powerful indictment of politically manipulated media."
—
IFC.com
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
|
B+
|
75%
|
Everything Must Go (2011) |
"
Everything Must Go's minor flaws serve to accentuate just how precise and moving the rest of it is. "
—
IFC.com
Posted May 17, 2011
|
|
B+
|
100%
|
Louder Than A Bomb (2011) |
"
These kids are brilliant, charming wordsmiths."
—
IFC.com
Posted May 17, 2011
|
|
B+
|
72%
|
Bellflower (2011) |
"
Evan Glodell [is] a mad scientist of a filmmaker."
—
IFC.com
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
B+
|
73%
|
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) |
"
Spurlock is speaking to one of the fundamental and eternal questions of cinema: the war between art and commerce."
—
IFC.com
Posted Mar 14, 2011
|
|
B+
|
91%
|
Source Code (2011) |
"
While Source Code is chugging along it's a terrifically entertaining puzzle movie. Let's not squander that by thinking too much."
—
IFC.com
Posted Mar 14, 2011
|
|
B+
|
89%
|
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011) |
"
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Palme d'Or winner is freaky and fascinating."
—
IFC.com
Posted Mar 2, 2011
|
|
B+
|
82%
|
Tyrannosaur (2011) |
"
A powerful film you can't shake and won't want to revisit anytime soon."
—
IFC.com
Posted Jan 24, 2011
|
|
B+
|
79%
|
The Other Guys (2010) |
"
Juxtaposes the excesses of our unregulated financial sector with the excesses of the buddy cop movie."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
B+
|
53%
|
I'm Still Here (2010) |
"
This movie has to be seen to be simultaneously believed and disbelieved."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
B+
|
85%
|
Two Escobars (2010) |
"
A chilling cautionary tale about what can happen when success becomes a drug ... once you're hooked, the only thing that matters is maintaining the high at any cost."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
B+
|
63%
|
Jackass 3-D (2010) |
"
There is a reason these men have thrived for so long in a world where any moron with a Flip Video can get on YouTube. They are simply the best at what they do."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
B+
|
95%
|
The King's Speech (2010) |
"
It's hard to imagine a much better film being made from this material."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
|
88%
|
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007) |
"
Movie buffs who don't know their way around the Great White Way will be struck by the endless parallels to Hollywood in the Broadway documentary ShowBusiness."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 8, 2007
|
|
|
43%
|
One Third (2006) |
"
The sexual horror makes it difficult to watch at times, but a voyeuristic slant on The Divine Comedy sort of needs to be."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 3, 2006
|
|
|
100%
|
A Cantor's Tale (2005) |
"
With its outlandish stories, obsession with masculine ego, and focus on an absurd, forgotten subculture, A Cantor's Tale is the stuff Ben Stiller movies are made of ..."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 8, 2006
|
|
|
85%
|
Slither (2006) |
"
Gunn doesn't reinvent the wheel but he does tighten its spokes a bit with some terrifying sequences and a witty, deadpan screenplay."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 28, 2006
|
|
|
92%
|
Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005) |
"
Rogerson's structure is ingenious: He dilutes our initial skepticism by showcasing the prisoners' thoughtfulness and intelligence, and as soon as we've come to care for the men he shocks us with the details of their crimes."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 7, 2006
|
|
|
100%
|
Love (2005) |
"
A multi-perspectival film vastly superior to Crash, Vladan Nikolic's dynamic thriller Love reinvigorates a stale cinematic format and imparts a compelling message all without a single head-on collision."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 14, 2006
|
|
|
55%
|
Last Holiday (2006) |
"
The most surprisingly satisfying Hollywood comedy in ages."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 17, 2006
|
|
|
40%
|
Seamless (2005) |
"
Though the film is a sober account, the subject alone ensures numerous moments of inspired hilarity."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 21, 2005
|
|
|
82%
|
Serenity (2005) |
"
Whedon, who always delights in blending genres and tones, has assembled his most frantically disparate collection of pop culture quotations, boldly and cleverly going where plenty have gone before."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 27, 2005
|
|
|
73%
|
Sky High (2005) |
"
My 12-year-old self would have liked this movie a lot. The 25-year-old me likes it a bit more than he cares to admit."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 3, 2005
|
|
|
——
|
Paternal Instinct (2004) |
"
It's difficult not to be won over by Instinct's humanity."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 7, 2005
|
|
7/10
|
82%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
Doug becomes a character you really root for."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
American Reunion has the same thing going for it that American Pie did: it understands the hilariously perverted inner-workings of the male mind."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
B
|
98%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
Reminds us that silent films aren't inferior to sound ones, just a little different."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
B
|
74%
|
The Lie (2011) |
"
Leonard does a nice job of ramping up the comedy without sacrificing the believability of the world he's established; the movie is very funny at times but it's never outlandish."
—
IFC.com
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
B
|
77%
|
The Other F Word (2011) |
"
Not just a fluffy portrait of dudes with tattoos and their cute kids"
—
IFC.com
Posted Nov 11, 2011
|
|
B
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
Here is a director talking about a subject he's covered many times before in a totally new way."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 17, 2011
|
|
B
|
73%
|
Blackthorn (2011) |
"
If ever a man deserved the nickname "Butch," it's Sam Shepard."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
63%
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96%
