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4/4
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100%
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In the Family (2011) |
"
An acutely felt, altogether devastating family drama as intimate and affecting as it is sprawling and untamed. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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5/5
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81%
|
It Came from Outer Space (1953) |
"
If anything, a modern vantage point reaffirms how devastatingly the film hits the nail on the head."
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Suite101.com
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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5/5
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97%
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
"
Among the most thrilling cliffhangers in all of cinema."
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Suite101.com
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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5/5
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91%
|
The Fly (1986) |
"
One of the greatest, horror or otherwise."
—
Suite101.com
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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5/5
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94%
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
"
Yes kids, media was idiotic and hysterical long before the likes of Glenn Beck were around."
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Suite101.com
Posted Oct 16, 2011
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5/5
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The Atomic Submarine (1959) |
"
There's so much going on in the shoestring gem that is The Atomic Submarine that it seems only incidentally science fiction."
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Suite101.com
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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5/5
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98%
|
Forbidden Planet (2000) |
"
The tragicomic tone would have done the Bard proud, and at even only 98 minutes, Forbidden Planet is positively epic."
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Suite101.com
Posted Oct 12, 2011
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5/5
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69%
|
The Blob (1958) |
"
It's exuberant and extraordinary, and just nasty enough."
—
Suite101.com
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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4/4
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97%
|
Dumbo (1941) |
"
Perfection, thy name is Dumbo."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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A
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94%
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Phantom of the Paradise (1974) |
"
One of the greatest film musicals ever made. I might even go one further and strike the "musical" part from that designation."
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Projection Booth
Posted Aug 26, 2011
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A
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96%
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Do the Right Thing (1989) |
"
The many joys of the film are equaled only by the fiery injustice it bears witness to in the apocalyptic third act."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Aug 1, 2011
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A
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94%
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Suspiria (1977) |
"
Encountered as one might a childhood nightmare or a flesh and blood incarnation of a Grimm fairy tale."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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4/4
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93%
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Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) |
"
The episodic nature is less apparent in Redux, the pacing surprisingly smoother as a result."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 6, 2011
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A
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84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
It reminds one of the vividness life held in youth, and it may very well go down as one of the great works of human art."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jun 4, 2011
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A
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79%
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Day of the Dead (1985) |
"
The director's favorite of his zombie trilogy is an unrecognized masterpiece."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jun 4, 2011
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A
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100%
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
"
Nothing less than an life-affirming echo from the hall of mankind's eternal soul."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jun 4, 2011
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A
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48%
|
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres (2007) |
"
The most scathing deconstruction of Hollywood pap this side of Robert Altman's The Player."
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Projection Booth
Posted May 26, 2011
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4/4
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96%
|
Solyaris (Solaris) (1976) |
"
Proves the yin to Kubrick's yang, not out of contrarian longing, but because that was the form best suited for the content Tarkovsky wanted to explore."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 24, 2011
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4/4
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100%
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The Terminator (1984) |
"
Remains a surprisingly meditative work, its concentrated visceral bursts not unlike punctuation marks among something more brooding, even prayerful."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 23, 2011
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A
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88%
|
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) |
"
So absorbing a work of such obvious mastery on all levels that one comes away immediately certain that the medium has just clicked up another notch."
—
Projection Booth
Posted May 6, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
"
Look deeply enough, and the universe emerges in full."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
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5/5
|
31%
|
Robot Monster (1953) |
"
All hail the Robot Monster."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
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4/4
|
100%
|
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
"
Transcends the medium to become a mandatory viewing experience for anyone that identifies themselves as a human being, period."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2011
|
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4/4
|
97%
|
Yojimbo (1961) |
"
A textbook example of the perfect crowd-pleaser."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
78%
|
The Thin Red Line (1998) |
"
The Thin Red Line's hallucinatory blend of images defines the very essence of cinema."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
Taxi Driver (1976) |
"
Hitchcockian unease permeates the film, but so too does a Godardian use of space and a Bressonian focus on obsession heighten the mounting sense of dread. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
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5/5
|
100%
|
Repulsion (1997) |
"
You may feel the urge to laugh out of sheer need to break the tension, and Polanski knows it."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Mar 5, 2011
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5/5
|
100%
|
The Killer (Dip huet seung hung) (1989) |
"
One of the few films to hold a legitimate claim to the title of Greatest Action Movie of All Time."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
83%
|
Santa sangre (Holy Blood) (1990) |
"
An essential work of phantasmagorical cinema."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 31, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Jurassic Park (1993) |
"
As an action film, as an auteurist vision, as a blockbuster, as a humanist statement...it's a masterpiece."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jan 1, 2011
|
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4/4
|
99%
|
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
"
This manifestation of creative determination and hell-on-Earth experience just might reinvigorate your belief that a greater power guides us at our most pivotal times."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 12, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
78%
|
25th Hour (2003) |
"
Finds beauty in the silver linings and embodies the notion that we're stronger than we usually realize we can be."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Sep 7, 2010
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
Bad Santa (2003) |
"
George Bailey never kicked Mr. Potter in the nuts."
—
Stranger Song
Posted Feb 16, 2010
|
|
4/4
|
89%
|
A Serious Man (2009) |
"
Lebowski, meet Gopnik."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Feb 10, 2010
|
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A
|
88%
|
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"
Inglourious Basterds is worthy of Dr. Strangelove."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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4/4
|
100%
|
Toy Story (1995) |
"
Like the transcendent long shot of Buzz and Woody soaring as one, Toy Story does the impossible in casting us up."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2009
|
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4/4
|
62%
|
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992) |
"
Every image, sound, and color ultimately clicks into place, like a puzzle one is only subconsciously aware of."
—
Suite101.com
Posted Aug 18, 2009
|
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4/4
|
85%
|
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"
Wendy and Lucy gets under your nails, which is to say, it's the stuff of life."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Apr 30, 2009
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|
4/4
|
78%
|
Munich (2005) |
"
A longing for home is the central core to Spielberg's powerful dissertation."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Apr 27, 2008
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4/4
|
47%
|
Miami Vice (2006) |
"
[The punchy] theatrical opening... doesn't so much lead viewers into the film as it injects them."
—
Stranger Song
Posted Apr 26, 2008
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4/4
|
97%
|
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) |
"
Assault on Precint 13's powerful exercise in democracy...is nothing short of one for the ages."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Apr 5, 2008
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4/4
|
98%
|
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (Nosferatu the Vampire) (1922) |
"
Watching Nosferatu is like standing in the same room as death itself."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
"
Central to the profundity of the film is the notion that few things are more meaningful than a child's first steps, the emotive impact of this scenario manifest in every one of the film's dizzying set pieces, albeit multiplied to epic proportions."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2007
|
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4/4
|
95%
|
Mala Noche (Bad Night) (2007) |
"
Gritty, dirty, lyrical, altogether sensual."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 5, 2007
|
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4/4
|
100%
|
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) (1920) |
"
The influence of Robert Wiene's Caligari is so great that it threatens to obscure the work itself."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Oct 24, 2007
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4/4
|
100%
|
Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932) |
"
Penetrates deep into the psyche to carry out its menacing, ethereal lurk."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jul 4, 2007
|
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4/4
|
100%
|
The Birth of a Nation (1915) |
"
Links the divide between American past and American present."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jul 3, 2007
|
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4/4
|
68%
|
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) |
"
Herzog's use of cinema defies the very fabric of our known world."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jul 3, 2007
|
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A-
|
93%
|
Midnight in Paris (2011) |
"
Go in blind, and let it gobsmack you into euphoria."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jun 26, 2011
|
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A-
|
84%
|
Beginners (2011) |
"
Engages the ambiguous and contradictory building blocks of human existence with wisdom, wit and thoughtful humility."
—
Projection Booth
Posted Jun 4, 2011
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