|
5/5
|
95%
|
Hero (2004) |
"
Zhang Yimou may have dipped his cinematic pen in mere genre, but in doing so, he has inscribed a masterpiece."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"
An excellent film and a ripping yarn of a movie."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2001
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (2001) |
"
High art meets high spirits in a rapturously romantic epic that really kicks butt."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2001
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
"
Let the kids toy with their Rugrats and hold their Sandler high. Shakespeare in Love is a movie to please the rest of us."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
Minority Report (2002) |
"
Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, most bustling entertainment since Raiders of the Lost Ark and the finest of the season's action epics."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001) |
"
Recommended to anyone who's ever felt the fear and lure of falling in love."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 5, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
87%
|
Suzhou River (2000) |
"
Lou Ye lays out a ravishing wasteland of femmes fatales and lovelorn tough guys -- all in 79 minutes."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
39%
|
Hannibal (2001) |
"
Corrosive and haunting."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 5, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
95%
|
The Truman Show (1998) |
"
A performance of profound charm, innocence, vulnerability and pain."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4.5/5
|
96%
|
The Insider (1999) |
"
When Crowe gets to command the screen, The Insider comes to roiled life."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"
Spielberg laid the burden of the film on Osment like a backpack, and the young trouper carries it."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Moulin Rouge! (2001) |
"
The film dances; the heart sings."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 4, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
"
Burton's richest, prettiest, weirdest since Batman Returns."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Ratcatcher (1999) |
"
Ratcatcher sears; it is hard to take, hard to shake."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Forrest Gump (1994) |
"
Like the best movie actors, Hanks is a superb reactor."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
62%
|
Salt (2010) |
"
Noyce's methods of crafting suspense are defiantly old-fashioned: low-angle shots for maximum viewer disorientation and a preference for daredevil stunt work over CGI cheating."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
|
|
86%
|
Inception (2010) |
"
The idea of moviegoing as communal dreaming is a century old. With Inception, viewers have a chance to see that notion get a state-of-the-art update. Take that chance: dream along with Christopher Nolan."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
|
69%
|
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) |
"
In Rapace, it has an actress who brings a memorable literary character to indelible movie life, as Vivien Leigh did for Scarlett O'Hara."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 14, 2010
|
|
|
81%
|
Despicable Me (2010) |
"
This is an agreeable confection with a few soft spots."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2010
|
|
|
99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
Some toys -- and Toy Storys -- are to be treasured forever."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
|
15%
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) |
"
The new Nightmare is a straight, shiny, honorable remake."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 30, 2010
|
|
|
96%
|
Mona Lisa (1986) |
"
No wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than a Chaplin tramp."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2010
|
|
|
76%
|
Kick-Ass (2010) |
"
It soars, jet-propelled, on its central idea of matching a superhero's exploits with the grinding reality of urban teen life and on the aerodynamic smoothness of the film's style."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 15, 2010
|
|
|
61%
|
The Joneses (2010) |
"
In its amiable, ambling way, The Joneses is a zeitgeist film: it says as much as a Michael Moore screed about the American way of debt."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 15, 2010
|
|
|
28%
|
Clash of the Titans (2010) |
"
I liked it. This is a full-throttle action-adventure, played unapologetically straight."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2010
|
|
|
79%
|
Darkman (1990) |
"
Raimi isn't effective with his actors, and the dialogue lacks smart menace, but his canny visual sense carries many a scene."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 28, 2010
|
|
|
79%
|
Office Space (1999) |
"
Some horrible Monday, why not cut work to see it?"
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 12, 2010
|
|
|
51%
|
Alice in Wonderland (2010) |
"
So how's the movie? Mostly frabjous. The visual palette is more artfully riotous than that of other Alice films, the performances more zestful."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 4, 2010
|
|
|
72%
|
The Crazies (2010) |
"
You have to give Eisner points for knowing where all the bodies are buried, and how to unearth them suddenly for maximum effect."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
|
87%
|
Platoon (1986) |
"
Platoon is different. It matters."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 24, 2010
|
|
|
58%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
Gibson, who has always been an undervalued actor, does a sturdy job as a grieving dad who still engages in conversations with his dead child; it's almost a letdown when he puts aside his mourning sickness and spirals into melodrama."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2010
|
|
|
85%
|
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) |
"
Again you will savor the Indiana Jones schizophrenia: by day a bow-tied, bespectacled archaeologist; by night a resourceful swaggerer, whom Ford brings to life as a modern blend of Bogie and the Duke, with just a glint of misfit psychopathy in his eyes."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 13, 2010
|
|
|
84%
|
Working Girl (1988) |
"
How will the working class be educated to survive and thrive in the computer age? This intoxicating movie has an answer: let her strut her outer-borough wisdom from Wall Street to the Pacific Rim. Watch her fatten portfolios as she melts hearts."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 13, 2010
|
|
|
83%
|
Avatar (2009) |
"
It's an impossible but completely plausible and seductive world that invites your total immersion. Don't resist it; sink in and fly with it. All Cameron asks is that you open your eyes."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2009
|
|
|
85%
|
A Single Man (2009) |
"
For a gentle man who's lost his love, solitude has become a life sentence that simply must end. Firth makes that ache subtly, splendidly visible."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2009
|
|
|
84%
|
The Princess and the Frog (2009) |
"
A start-to-finish delight."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2009
|
|
|
75%
|
Invictus (2009) |
"
Who'd have thought that old Dirty Harry would, with Letters from Iwo Jima and Invictus, become America's prime director of international trauma and triumph?"
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2009
|
|
|
32%
|
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"
When else has the obscenity of child murder been the cause of such gravity and grace?"
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Nov 24, 2009
|
|
|
90%
|
The Grifters (1990) |
"
Best to savor The Grifters for its handsome design -- the picture looks as clean as a Hockney landscape -- and its juicy performances."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
|
81%
|
Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
"
It proves that, at the end, he was still a thriller. Fans and doubters alike can look at the gentle, driven singer-dancer at the center of this up-close document and say admiringly, This was him."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 28, 2009
|
|
|
50%
|
Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (2009) |
"
The animation style is supple and assured. And if the audience includes any precocious kids like Toby, they'll be diverted by references to Isaac Asimov and Immanuel Kant."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2009
|
|
|
82%
|
Paranormal Activity (2009) |
"
Beyond the viral ingenuity of the marketing, what's cool about PA is that it's not just a fun thrill ride; it's an instructive artistic experience."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
|
80%
|
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) |
"
This luscious film restores the creature's nobility and gives him peace."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 20, 2009
|
|
|
75%
|
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
"
Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2009
|
|
|
95%
|
Blood Simple (1984) |
"
Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2009
|
|
|
94%
|
An Education (2009) |
"
Mulligan is the film's headline, pulse and revelation. In its blithely subversive way, her starmaking performance is a co-conspirator with the movie. Both of them win you over with smart talk and pretty feelings, then kick you in the heart."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
|
87%
|
Swingers (1996) |
"
Four guys hang out, kid one another, get into scuffles and flash their gonadal searchlight for available women. Yikes, haven't there been enough variations on the multiple-buddy movie? Actually, no."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
|
90%
|
Zombieland (2009) |
"
This isn't just a good zombie comedy. It's a damn fine movie, period. And that's high praise, coming from a vampire guy."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2009
|
|
|
89%
|
A Serious Man (2009) |
"
To absorb God's body blows, this disquieting, haunting movie says, is to be fully alive. To do otherwise could kill you."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2009
|
|
|
78%
|
The Informant! (2009) |
"
The Informant! says that people who do good or ill have complex motives for their actions, and that not everyone is knowable, instantly or ever."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 15, 2009
|
64%
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