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5/5
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95%
|
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) |
"
Staggering and heartbreaking. Still."
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Little White Lies
Posted May 17, 2012
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|
5/5
|
89%
|
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
"
This remains one of the most approachable and moving of all cinema's masterpieces."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008) |
"
Denis magically evokes a liberal meditation on family, harmony, loyalty and belonging and their corollaries - loss, transgression, loneliness and separation - and achieves a sweet unity."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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6/6
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94%
|
Notorious (1946) |
"
It's the accuracy, efficiency and control of Hitchcock's direction that most impress. They enable him to dovetail the film's thriller format and romantic story to dizzying, expressive and unique effect."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 16, 2009
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|
5/6
|
94%
|
Barry Lyndon (1975) |
"
One of cinema's most heartfelt and sustained (it runs over three hours), if cynical, visions of an individual's powerlessness."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 30, 2009
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5/6
|
62%
|
Changeling (2008) |
"
It's a tough movie but also rewarding and inspiring: something of a quiet triumph."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 28, 2008
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5/6
|
67%
|
Belle Toujours (2007) |
"
Beautifully, economically, directed, acted and photographed (by Sabine Lancelin), 'Belle Toujours' is essentially an affectionate, witty, often farcical jeu d'esprit, sweetly and knowingly bringing together the old-fashioned and the modern."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 21, 2008
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5/6
|
51%
|
Funny Games (2008) |
"
This new version adds nothing novel, but it lacks none of the original's bite."
—
Time Out Sydney
Posted Sep 12, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
98%
|
Badlands (1974) |
"
This first, magnificent, outpouring of the sporadic genius of cinema's equivalent to JD Salinger, Terrence Malick, still seems terrifically modern."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 29, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
94%
|
My Winnipeg (2007) |
"
An affecting, dreamy, Chris Marker-esque, ciné-essay."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
51%
|
Funny Games (2008) |
"
It's not a reassuring vision but that's not the name of Haneke's particular game."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 6, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
96%
|
Ratatouille (2007) |
"
A test for tiny tots, a mite nostalgic and as male-dominated as a modern kitchen it may be, but these are mere quibbles about this delightful addition to the Pixar pantheon."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 28, 2007
|
|
5/6
|
94%
|
The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet) (1957) |
"
Not only highly impressive but thought-provoking, relevant and intensely moving in our present, nervous, times."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
——
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Throw of the Dice (Prapancha Pash) (1930) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Post Mortem (2012) |
"
Larraín's clever use of almost humorously unconventional framings, expressively washed-out colour tones and mysterious low-key performances brings together human comedy and historical tragedy to unique, and surprisingly emotional, effect."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
The Salt of Life (2012) |
"
Wittily observed, humorously understood and keenly felt."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Rapt (2011) |
"
A tense hostage-thriller with a difference."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
This again-atypical film from Winterbottom is a much more sober affair than its early, controversial press might suggest. "
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 2, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
——
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The Killer Inside Me (1998) |
"
This again-atypical film from Winterbottom, the genre-swapping director of A Mighty Heart, Genova and The Road to Guantanamo, is a much more sober affair than its early, controversial press might suggest."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 2, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Hofshat Kaits (My Father My Lord) (2008) |
"
You could say this film is at once a secular fable on a religious dilemma and an almost religious parable about an all-too-human tragedy."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
BirdWatchers - La terra degli uomini rossi (2008) |
"
Writer-director-producer Marco Bechis's absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Bolt (2008) |
"
Disney's first 3D animation, made under new head John Lasseter, is a likeable, dynamic and seductively characterised family entertainment."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 5, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
40%
|
Guta-yubalja-deul (A Bloody Aria) (2006) |
"
Still, Won pulls off a rare trick: to be funny and frightening while continuing to ratch the tension up and up. Performances, too, are top notch."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
The Go Master (Wu Qingyuan) (2006) |
"
Impressively shot in 'Scope, it's a considerable achievement, possessed of a tranquil beauty and sagacity."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 17, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
Dans Paris (Inside Paris) (2007) |
"
Touching, amusing and enviably economic."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
|
100%
|
The Killers (1946) |
"
It's one of the great films of disenchantment."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 7, 2008
|
|
|
100%
|
I For India (2007) |
"
A lovely and thoughtful film."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 1, 2007
|
|
|
77%
|
The War on Democracy (2007) |
"
A dynamic and emotionally effective diatribe against global capitalism's role in undermining popular second or third-world democracies"
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
|
93%
|
Ne le Dis à Personne (Tell No One) (2006) |
"
Christophe Offenstein's fluid camera tracks the action well enough, but any pretence to subtlety or sophistication seems lost in translation."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 14, 2007
|
|
|
83%
|
Taking Liberties (2007) |
"
'Taking Liberties' seems designed as a campaign aid and intended - in its careful exclusion of over-heated or passionate voices - as a putative appeal to slumbering Middle England."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 8, 2007
|
|
|
100%
|
Not Here to Be Loved (Je Ne Suis Pas La Pour Etre Aime) (2008) |
"
A very impressive debut and one of the best French films of the year."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 8, 2007
|
|
|
82%
|
Days of Glory (Indigenes) (2007) |
"
Bouchareb shows a real talent for action sequences."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 29, 2007
|
|
|
70%
|
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"
Grufudd is fine, passionate and single-minded, though overly Romantic, and quietly upstaged by the extraordinary Benedict Cumberbatch."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2007
|
|
|
70%
|
Eden (2006) |
"
An over-filled smorgasbord of sweet intentions. The saving grace is a modicum of spiteful, deadpan humour at dumbkopf Xaver's expense."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2007
|
|
|
87%
|
Efter brylluppet (After the Wedding) (2006) |
"
At heart, Bier is an actor's director, and it's the uniformly fine performances she engenders from her cast that make 'After the Wedding' as satisfying as it is."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 8, 2007
|
|
|
91%
|
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) |
"
An even more sombre affair, as beautifully restrained as the earlier film but also, despite its scenes of battle, death, suicide and suffering, shockingly intimate."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 22, 2007
|
|
|
——
|
Play (2005) |
"
Finally, a winning and sensitive take on modern metropolitan life across the class divide."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 16, 2007
|
|
|
81%
|
L'Ivresse du pouvoir (Comedy of Power) (2006) |
"
There's a touch of Buñuel's acid in the proceedings; how fine manners mask corrupt character, and how courage and determination come at the price of isolation and callousness. Fine cinematography by Eduardo Serra."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 4, 2007
|
|
|
94%
|
Casino Royale (2006) |
"
[Casino Royale] not only simultaneously acknowledges and confounds audience expectations, but also neatly confirms that Daniel Craig's intriguing and charismatic tyro agent is cut from quite different cloth to his Savile Row-tailored predecessors."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2006
|
|
|
40%
|
Slumming (2006) |
"
Ably shot and well-performed and observed, Slumming, initially manifests an interesting and unsentimental impassivity and moral neutrality before succumbing to a more-or-less orthodox story of redemption through love. Impressive all the same."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
|
86%
|
Election (Hak se wui) (2005) |
"
Even the violence is unexpectedly unexpected, eschewing the usual cathartic frenzy of bloody chopsocky and arcade-game gunplay in favour of calmly viewed and human-scaled acts of brutality."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
|
86%
|
Primo Levi's Journey (La Strada di Levi) (2007) |
"
It's a bit of a mess, falling between two stools: reenactmernt and reappraisal. But it has its moving and interesting moments all the same."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
|
77%
|
Longing (Sehnsucht) (2007) |
"
It would be wrong to overpraise Longing; it's a modest film, but richly rewarding and full of promise for the future."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
|
62%
|
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! (1988) |
"
The greatest pleasure comes from seeing '70s veterans send themselves up."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2006
|
|
|
70%
|
Heading South (2006) |
"
It's a delight; an entertaining, moving, audacious and stimulating conversation about happiness, love, jealousy, fear, race, sex, class, and social and colonial oppression -- in short, the relationship between the personal and the political."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 6, 2006
|
|
|
72%
|
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004) |
"
This is Al Pacino's show, and thankfully his Shylock is absorbing enough to carry the day."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
85%
|
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) |
"
This Disney comedy makes a self-conscious and largely successful attempt to modernise the studio's format with a jive-ass sensibility."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
26%
|
Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie (2006) |
"
This spin-off from the TV series featuring the large purple felt dinosaur of awesome good nature is emetically wholesome."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
81%
|
Marvin's Room (1996) |
"
Streep gives her most credible blue-collar performance to date; Keaton sidesteps saintliness to mix vulnerability and small heroics."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
64%
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