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4/4
|
70%
|
The Price of Sugar (2007) |
"
Uplifting and enraging in equal measures, Bill Haney's The Price of Sugar is a powerful issue-driven documentary that also happens to have one of the most compelling heroes of any movie this year."
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Reel.com
Posted Sep 28, 2007
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|
4/4
|
91%
|
Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007) |
"
It's the best kind of documentary, in that if you're a thinking person it is nearly impossible to watch the movie without having your point of view challenged and questioned."
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Reel.com
Posted Jul 20, 2007
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|
4/4
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67%
|
Noriko no shokutaku (Noriko's Dinner Table) (2005) |
"
The film is riveting at every moment even when the audience is a little unclear on how those moments connect."
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Reel.com
Posted Jul 3, 2007
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|
4/4
|
44%
|
Hostel: Part II (2007) |
"
Hostel: Part II has something that most bigger-budgeted and more heavily promoted sequels don't: the ambition to not only repeat the experience of its predecessor, but to expand and improve upon it."
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Reel.com
Posted Jun 8, 2007
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|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2007) |
"
The uplift here is honestly earned, because it is so beautifully contrasted with harrowing venality and willful ignorance."
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Reel.com
Posted Jun 1, 2007
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4/4
|
63%
|
Day Watch (2007) |
"
Night Watch was a deliriously stylish and endlessly inventive rollercoaster ride; Day Watch adds emotional resonance to the mix to create an epic that's got more energy and depth than all three Lord of the Rings movies combined."
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Reel.com
Posted Jun 1, 2007
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|
4/4
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36%
|
Hollywood Dreams (2007) |
"
Like John Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese, Jaglom knows how to push a scene into realms of such emotional nakedness that the viewer starts to feel like a voyeur looking in on relationships that are none of his or her business."
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Reel.com
Posted May 18, 2007
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4/4
|
70%
|
Day Night Day Night (2006) |
"
Essential viewing."
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Reel.com
Posted Apr 14, 2007
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4/4
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83%
|
Grindhouse (2007) |
"
An instant cult classic."
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Reel.com
Posted Apr 6, 2007
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|
4/4
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76%
|
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007) |
"
An unadulterated modern-day classic."
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Reel.com
Posted Apr 4, 2007
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4/4
|
89%
|
Zodiac (2007) |
"
The director has taken a depressing topic and used it as the basis for the most exhilarating movie so far this year."
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Reel.com
Posted Mar 2, 2007
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4/4
|
76%
|
Rocky Balboa (2006) |
"
Rocky Balboa is not only the best sequel since Terminator 2 and the best movie of writer-director-star Sylvester Stallone's career, it's one of the best American films of 2006, and the year's most pleasant surprise."
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Reel.com
Posted Dec 20, 2006
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|
4/4
|
50%
|
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
"
This perfectly paced, thoughtfully written, and impeccably acted masterpiece is a gourmet meal from one of American cinema's master chefs."
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Reel.com
Posted Nov 17, 2006
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|
4/4
|
72%
|
Inland Empire (2006) |
"
The intimacy and immediacy of digital video has allowed Lynch to make his most personal film yet, and the result is one of the richest and most rewarding moviegoing experiences of 2006."
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Reel.com
Posted Nov 11, 2006
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|
3.5/4
|
72%
|
Lust, Caution (2007) |
"
The movie has more power than a conventional adventure film because it has more to say."
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Reel.com
Posted Sep 28, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
72%
|
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006) |
"
Idiosyncratic and personal, it's a comedy that could only have come from the distinctive mind of its very talented creator."
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Reel.com
Posted Sep 7, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
33%
|
Self Medicated (2006) |
"
Monty Lapica's Self-Medicated is a powerful, personal piece of independent filmmaking"
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Reel.com
Posted Aug 31, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
31%
|
The Hottest State (2007) |
"
Heartbreak has been portrayed on film many times, in many ways, but Hawke and his actors find a whole new language for it."
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Reel.com
Posted Aug 24, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007) |
"
Like its title character, The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a simple, effective movie with a lot on its mind."
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Reel.com
Posted Jul 6, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
78%
|
1408 (2007) |
"
Scary, smart, and moving, it's a terrific summer entertainment for grown-ups."
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Reel.com
Posted Jun 22, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Ten Canoes (2007) |
"
One of the most surprising things about the movie is how much fun it is. The story Minygululu tells has components as exciting as any American action movie, and the relationships are as compelling as the best melodrama."
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Reel.com
Posted May 25, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
11%
|
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) |
"
A sequel to a remake that's surprisingly intelligent and original, and it proves to be a worthy successor to both Alexandre Aja's 2006 Hills and Wes Craven's 1977 original."
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Reel.com
Posted Mar 23, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
74%
|
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) |
"
The wait is over. Endlessly imaginative, rigorously crafted, and extremely frightening, Behind the Mask is as good as horror gets."
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Reel.com
Posted Mar 16, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
The Host (Gwoemul) (2007) |
"
Bong Joon-ho's The Host is the best kind of genre film, a movie that delivers the conventions audiences expect from a horror flick while also offering surprising new variations on the formula."
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Reel.com
Posted Mar 9, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
68%
|
Close to Home (Karov La Bayit) (2007) |
"
It combines the emotional impact of great drama with the precision, detail, and context of great journalism, resulting in a vital and rewarding moviegoing experience."
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Reel.com
Posted Feb 16, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
54%
|
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"
Ultimately Alpha Dog is most successful as a teen gangster movie, a kind of cross between Goodfellas and The O.C. that is swiftly paced and extremely compelling."
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Reel.com
Posted Jan 12, 2007
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|
3.5/4
|
73%
|
Family Law (Derecho de Familia) (2006) |
"
Family Law [is] one of the best examinations of [fathers and sons] ever committed to celluloid."
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Reel.com
Posted Dec 30, 2006
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|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
The Dead Girl (2006) |
"
The outstanding performances and writing would make a great film even if all [Karen] Moncrieff did was turn on her camera and aim it at the actors, but she adds yet another layer of meaning to the piece via her thoughtfully considered visual style."
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Reel.com
Posted Dec 29, 2006
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|
3.5/4
|
14%
|
Black Christmas (2006) |
"
Morgan's gleeful desire to shock the audience both with the gore and the perverse backstory is delightfully infectious."
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Reel.com
Posted Dec 26, 2006
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|
3.5/4
|
66%
|
Off the Black (2006) |
"
...Off the Black is a low-key, but powerful drama that allows some great actors to do what they do best."
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Reel.com
Posted Dec 8, 2006
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|
3.5/4
|
47%
|
The Holiday (2006) |
"
The sheer volume of intense emotional content has a cumulative effect that will easily win over anyone whose heart and mind are open to it."
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Reel.com
Posted Dec 8, 2006
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|
3/4
|
75%
|
The Last Winter (2007) |
"
In the end, the scariest thing about The Last Winter is how few of its ideas seem truly fantastic or implausible."
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Reel.com
Posted Sep 21, 2007
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|
3/4
|
27%
|
Dragon Wars (D-War) (2007) |
"
It's admittedly pretty dumb, but in the end its fierce commitment to its own goofy ideas is oddly admirable."
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Reel.com
Posted Sep 15, 2007
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|
3/4
|
49%
|
Hatchet (2006) |
"
Like its villain, its brute strength makes up for its relative lack of brains."
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Reel.com
Posted Aug 25, 2007
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|
3/4
|
67%
|
Right at Your Door (2007) |
"
Crosses our real-life national nightmares with a cleverly constructed thriller to create a movie that is smart, impeccably acted, and extremely unsettling."
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Reel.com
Posted Aug 24, 2007
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|
3/4
|
14%
|
Skinwalkers (2007) |
"
One of the year's more pleasant surprises."
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Reel.com
Posted Aug 17, 2007
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|
3/4
|
90%
|
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"
Made up of moments that represent cinema at its best -- moments of pure sensation of the type that can't be expressed with the same degree of immediacy in any other art form."
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Reel.com
Posted Jul 3, 2007
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|
3/4
|
79%
|
Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2006) |
"
Consistently riveting thanks to the sense of sheer terror that infuses its best moments."
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Reel.com
Posted Jun 29, 2007
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|
3/4
|
69%
|
Black Sheep (2006) |
"
Delivers exactly what it promises: it's a stylish, thoroughly entertaining summer monster movie."
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Reel.com
Posted Jun 22, 2007
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3/4
|
——
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Prison Of The Psychotic Damned (2007) |
"
Williams's dialogue writing is often rather witty -- he's fully aware of some of the more ridiculous conventions of the genre, and he gives the characters exchanges in which they justify the plot contrivances in inventive, plausible ways."
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Reel.com
Posted Jun 8, 2007
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|
3/4
|
40%
|
The Wendell Baker Story (2005) |
"
That they've assembled a first-rate cast made up of veteran character actors and contemporary comedy stars to pursue this agenda makes The Wendell Baker Story all the more effective."
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Reel.com
Posted May 19, 2007
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|
3/4
|
35%
|
The Last Time (2007) |
"
It alternates between bleak cynicism and a genuinely romantic sensibility, and this unusual combination makes the movie a great vehicle for Keaton and Valletta, and a compelling drama for the audience."
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Reel.com
Posted May 18, 2007
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|
3/4
|
56%
|
Civic Duty (2006) |
"
A provocative, unsettling tale about a powerful nation on the defensive."
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Reel.com
Posted May 4, 2007
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|
3/4
|
68%
|
The Treatment (2006) |
"
An accessible piece of entertainment that you don't need to shut your brain off to enjoy."
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Reel.com
Posted May 4, 2007
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3/4
|
——
|
Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary () |
"
Educational, but it's also an enjoyably goofy comedy that will appeal to fans of Mad TV and Saturday Night Live."
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Reel.com
Posted Apr 20, 2007
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|
3/4
|
48%
|
Lonely Hearts (2006) |
"
Their amorality isn't presented in a conventional manner; it's depicted in an unremarkable, matter-of-fact style that makes it all the more realistic -- and all the more unsettling."
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Reel.com
Posted Apr 13, 2007
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|
3/4
|
58%
|
First Snow (2007) |
"
With its quiet, unassuming style and brooding intelligence, First Snow isn't the kind of movie that announces itself, but it's well worth seeking out, especially for moviegoers who complain that 'they' don't make movies for grown-ups anymore."
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Reel.com
Posted Mar 23, 2007
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|
3/4
|
53%
|
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"
While the end result of all this experimentation isn't entirely convincing or coherent, it's fairly entertaining and will probably appeal to the young audience at which it's aimed."
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Reel.com
Posted Mar 23, 2007
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|
3/4
|
64%
|
American Cannibal: The Road to Reality (2006) |
"
Less a piece of incisive cultural commentary than a riveting portrait of two nice guys whose lives and careers go into a tailspin, one moral compromise at a time."
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Reel.com
Posted Mar 16, 2007
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|
3/4
|
9%
|
Norbit (2007) |
"
Norbit is a return to form for Murphy; while it's not on a par with his best work, it's very funny and just risky enough to eradicate the memory of Daddy Day Care."
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Reel.com
Posted Feb 9, 2007
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64%
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