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5/5
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43%
|
Death Race (2008) |
"
No fancy talk here, just solid, monosyllabic obscenities; no flights of digital fancy, just souped-up monster cars flipping end over end in a napalm blaze and crashing in a crunch of flaming metal ouch."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2008
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|
5/5
|
83%
|
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2008) |
"
An eye-popper and brain-boggler, Razzle Dazzle is also, remarkably, a thing to stir the soul."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Blood Tea and Red String (2006) |
"
Thirteen years in the making, Christiane Cegavskes stop-motion fairy tale is at once wondrously obsolete and perfectly au courant."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 4, 2006
|
|
4.5/5
|
71%
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Loren Cass (2006) |
"
This sharp, gutsy indie is one of the year's great discoveries."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
100%
|
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008) |
"
A tender, fascinating documentary by Matt Wolf, will delight the cult and instantly convert new members."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
|
|
4.5/5
|
86%
|
Wonderful Town (2007) |
"
It's no small feat to pull off as sweet and sensitive a romance as that between Na and Ton, and something rarer yet to suffuse such affections into a poem of wounded landscape."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
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|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (2008) |
"
This uncommonly elegant and evocative portrait of Louise Bourgeois reveals much about the haunting and haunted master while leaving intact the thing you cannot explain."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 25, 2008
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|
4.5/5
|
52%
|
The Foot Fist Way (2006) |
"
This sleeper hit in the making is sweet and sour in all the right proportions, the best thing of its kind since Napoleon Dynamite."
—
New York Times
Posted May 30, 2008
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|
4.5/5
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83%
|
Heavy Metal in Baghdad (2008) |
"
An intrepid, unlikely and altogether splendid feat of D.I.Y. reportage."
—
New York Times
Posted May 23, 2008
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|
4.5/5
|
50%
|
Paraguayan Hammock (Hamaca paraguaya) (2006) |
"
That Paraguayan Hammock happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity."
—
New York Times
Posted May 14, 2008
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|
4/5
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69%
|
BLAST! (2009) |
"
Directed by Paul Devlin, this absorbing documentary flirts with metaphysics...but mostly it keeps an amused eye on the effort of these driven brainiacs to set aloft an extremely sophisticated and fragile recording device."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 12, 2009
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|
4/5
|
21%
|
Next Day Air (2009) |
"
With a script that snaps and characters that pop, Next Day Air nears neo-blaxploitation perfection."
—
New York Times
Posted May 8, 2009
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4/5
|
100%
|
I Can See You (2008) |
"
The filmmaker Graham Reznick arrives with a bang in his feature debut, the experimental horror film I Can See You."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 29, 2009
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|
4/5
|
79%
|
Chasing a Dream (Miles from Nowhere) (2009) |
"
Bursting with vivid home movies and loving appreciations of Isaiah's artwork -- frenzied drawings and monumental mosaics in tile and mirror, many of which now beautify his Philadelphia neighborhood -- In a Dream abounds in visual pleasure."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 10, 2009
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|
4/5
|
55%
|
Enlighten Up! (2009) |
"
Enlighten Up! explores its subject with a light touch and welcome sense of humor."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 1, 2009
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4/5
|
——
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Sleepwalking Land (2009) |
"
With Sleepwalking Land, the filmmaker Teresa Prata creates an affecting portrait of life during wartime."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 14, 2009
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4/5
|
40%
|
Otto; or Up with Dead People (2008) |
"
One of the more disciplined entries in the LaBruce oeuvre, Otto is sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 7, 2008
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4/5
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81%
|
Azur et Asmar (Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest) (2006) |
"
Despite a stiffness of movement that suggests an upscale take on the cutout animation of South Park, the movie has a terrific flair for arabesque patterning, a gemlike luminosity of surface and a handsome, classical cast of mind."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
60%
|
All of Us (2008) |
"
This powerful, conceptually sure film is relevant beyond the concerns of the moment as both a model of documentary method and compassionate social filmmaking."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2008
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|
4/5
|
——
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Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient (2008) |
"
Unavoidably, an insidery affair. But even those who have never talked mise-en-scene...will be intrigued by this affectionate look at a legendary cinephile and prime mover of the movies."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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|
4/5
|
29%
|
The Little Red Truck (2008) |
"
If it sounds like the cutest thing in the history of cuteness, that's because it is."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
57%
|
One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008) |
"
Directed by Thomas G. Miller, One Bad Cat brings fresh light to the artist Albert Wagner."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 19, 2008
|
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4/5
|
——
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The Forgotten Woman (2008) |
"
Mr. Mehta's picture is a documentary, and while it ought to be included on every future copy of the Water DVD, his free-form portrait of real widows has more than enough visual beauty, graceful compassion and understated anger to stand on its own."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2008
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|
4/5
|
78%
|
Bustin' Down the Door (2008) |
"
Happily, the filmmaker, Jeremy Gosch, puts his wide-eyed narrative together with an easy touch. With its amazing wall-to-wall footage of oceanic derring-do Bustin' Down the Door plays like visual air-conditioning."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
All in This Tea (2007) |
"
All in This Tea is a delicious documentary about a beverage."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Take Out (2004) |
"
The season's freshest, most sympathetic movie about making your way in modern-day Manhattan with a little help from your friends."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
49%
|
La Terza Madre (Mother of Tears: The Third Mother) (2007) |
"
...Silly, awkward, vulgar, outlandish, hysterical, inventive, revolting, flamboyant, titillating, ridiculous, mischievous, uproarious, cheap, priceless, tasteless and sublime."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Dreams With Sharp Teeth (2008) |
"
Directed by Erik Nelson, Dreams With Sharp Teeth recalls the career of Harlan Ellison, a runty young geek who evolved into a world-famous artist."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 4, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Quantum Hoops (2007) |
"
Wry, good-natured picture."
—
New York Times
Posted May 16, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008) |
"
A welcome entry in the constituency-cinema canon, Hollywood Chinese surveys a centuryâ(TM)s worth of Chinese-American actors and filmmakers, visionaries and dragon ladies, kung fu excellence and Fu Manchu insult, Oscar winners and clichà (C) mongers."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros) (2006) |
"
The newcomer Nathan Lopez delights as the flamboyantly gay Maxi, the youngest son in a family of thieves who falls in love with handsome police officer."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 21, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
63%
|
Jackass: Number Two (2006) |
"
Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 21, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
Jet Li's Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia) (Legend of a Fighter) (2006) |
"
Jet Li says goodbye (supposedly) to the martial arts genre with this decent blend of old-school chopsocky and new school superproduction."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 21, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Pusher III: I Am The Angel of Death (2005) |
"
Life and death on the mean streets of Copenhagen they evidently exist are rendered with pungent detail and excellent discipline in this tough trio of underworld thrillers."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 17, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
22%
|
The Oh in Ohio (2006) |
"
A feel good movie about feeling good, this fresh and very funny sex comedy stars Parker Posey as a woman in search of an orgasm."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 13, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
District B13 (Banlieue 13) (2006) |
"
Gorgeously choreographed gymnastics of pain elevate District B13 over the impossible missions and last stands of the season."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 1, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
31%
|
Stick It (2006) |
"
A spry teenage comedy that gets everything right, Stick It takes the usual batch of underdogs, dirt bags, mean girls and bimbos and sends them somersaulting through happy clichés and unexpected invention."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 28, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
The Ister (2004) |
"
This uncompromisingly highbrow video essay voyages from the mouth of the Danube to the source, pausing en route for head-spinning detours into thickets of philosophy."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
That Man: Peter Berlin (2006) |
"
One of the enduring icons of gay male eroticism, the phenomenon known as Peter Berlin, is explored, explained, ogled and interviewed in this minor classic of demimonde hagiography."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 12, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Days of Santiago (Dias de Santiago) (2004) |
"
Dias de Santiago zeros in on the disconnect between one man's sense of entitlement and the unforgiving realities of life in contemporary Lima."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 7, 2005
|
|
|
60%
|
Cremaster Cycle (2010) |
"
Matthew Barney's humongous riff on struggle, reproduction, conceptual drag, and several dozen strands of narrative gobbledygook is undeniably something to be reckoned with--if only as a relic of the boom years in contemporary art."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 19, 2010
|
|
|
81%
|
Hellboy (2004) |
"
Anyone can send an immense, computer-generated vegetable monster rampaging at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it takes a special kind of imagination to do it in a way that's thrilling, emotionally complex, and rapturously beautiful all at once."
—
NPR.org
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
|
92%
|
The Cool School (2008) |
"
All told, and well told, this is essential history."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
|
|
|
67%
|
Snow Angels (2007) |
"
Green keeps mum until the end, charging his tale with an effective (if manipulative) aura of suspense."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2008
|
|
|
96%
|
Chop Shop (2008) |
"
As signaled by the transparent naming of his characters, Bahrani inflects his drama with documentary, grabbing sights and sounds directly from the street in a dexterous update of neorealist strategies."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Feb 27, 2008
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|
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——
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Apparition of the Eternal Church (2008) |
"
More than a mash note to this nonpareil maestro, Apparition circles around the mystery of music and subjectivity and touches down on a head-spinning array of topics."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2008
|
|
|
——
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State Legislature (2007) |
"
An impeccably constructed illustration in depth, ceaselessly alert and cumulatively profound."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 20, 2008
|
|
|
69%
|
The Duchess of Langeais (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)(Don't Touch the Axe) (2007) |
"
The Duchess of Langeais contemplates an especially crazy case of l'amour fou."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 20, 2008
|
|
|
83%
|
Inside (À l'intérieur) (2007) |
"
I leave you to discover, through covered eyes, the gut-splattering delirium to come."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2008
|
|
|
62%
|
Diary of the Dead (2007) |
"
The devil's in the details, and Diary is diabolically resourceful within its circumscribed framework."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2008
|
63%
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97%
