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5/5
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100%
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Amour (Love) () |
"
'Amour' is a devastating, highly intelligent and astonishingly performed work. It's a masterpiece."
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Time Out
Posted May 20, 2012
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5/5
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98%
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La Grande illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937) |
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Time Out
Posted Apr 5, 2012
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5/5
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93%
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
Ceylan's visual style is less heightened, more down-to-earth than the more stylised 'Three Monkeys', but still some of the night-time scenes look like careful paintings, such is the precision of their lighting and composition."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2012
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5/5
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87%
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Dreams Of A Life () |
"
Morley's film is a mirror. How much do we know ourselves? How much do others know us? It works on the ego as much as it works on our empathy."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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5/5
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96%
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WALL-E (2008) |
"
I wonder a little what kids will make of the long silence of the first half followed by the disorienting mania of the second, but there's nothing here that's not wonderfully imagined and lovingly presented."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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5/5
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91%
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There Will Be Blood (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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5/5
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85%
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In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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5/5
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89%
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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5/5
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76%
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
'We Need To Talk About Kevin' is thought-provoking, confident and fearless."
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Time Out
Posted May 16, 2011
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5/5
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98%
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Taxi Driver (1976) |
"
Bickle is complex, intriguing and never one-note."
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Time Out
Posted May 10, 2011
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5/5
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94%
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Pina (2011) |
"
The beauty of Wenders's film is that his imagery and gaze on Bausch's work has the same essential, uncluttered and wryly funny quality as the work itself."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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5/5
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96%
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True Grit (2010) |
"
It could be the Coens' most straightforward film, but it's also one of their best."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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5/5
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88%
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Stellet Licht (Silent Light) (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Jul 29, 2010
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5/5
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96%
|
Breathless (À bout de souffle) (By a Tether) (1961) |
"
If you've never seen Breathless, see it now -- but don't expect an easy ride. If you haven't seen it for ages, see it again and be surprised at the fresh reactions it provokes."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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5/5
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80%
|
I Am Love (2010) |
"
It's a bold experiment rooted in tradition. It plays like smart opera and looks like a marriage of poetic documentary with classical European drama."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 8, 2010
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5/5
|
91%
|
Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Mar 18, 2010
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5/5
|
85%
|
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) |
"
It's [Haneke's] least aggressive and most mature film - a masterpiece from a director who is increasingly making a habit of them."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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5/5
|
90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
A film that brilliantly and sensitively buzzes with life and offers its very own take on our world and our city. It delivers in spades attitude, humour, sadness, love, anger and hope."
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Time Out
Posted May 14, 2009
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5/5
|
95%
|
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) |
"
Themes of altruism and selfishness colour the harrowing realism; the camerawork is skilful, with many scenes unfolding in one, locked frame; and the performances are superb."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 13, 2007
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5/5
|
100%
|
Cría Cuervos (Cria!) (Raise Ravens) (1976) |
"
The allusions are as gentle as they are smart."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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—
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95%
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) |
"
Its brilliance lies in its insistence that even dinosaurs deserve empathy and maybe even love."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
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5/5
|
87%
|
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) |
"
Davies is unflinching in his hunt for truth and full of nothing but love and understanding for his characters."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
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5/5
|
100%
|
Ordet (The Word) (1954) |
"
A strange, wondrous and shocking work. Once seen, it's unlikely to leave you."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
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5/6
|
85%
|
Looking for Eric (2010) |
"
The film's triumph lies in the two relationships at its heart: the unlikely rapport between the two Erics, little and big, which is unusual, amusing and affecting."
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Time Out
Posted May 18, 2009
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5/6
|
69%
|
Synecdoche, New York (2008) |
"
Somehow, because it resists unlocking, it feels more serious, troubling, significant. It's as funny as it's depressing. It's as brilliant as it is baffling."
—
Time Out
Posted May 15, 2009
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5/6
|
94%
|
In the Loop (2009) |
"
It's a film that is both insanely funny and a desperate cry for sanity."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 17, 2009
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5/6
|
97%
|
Entre les Murs (The Class) (2008) |
"
A sparkling, clever work whose ensemble cast impresses, surprises, wrongfoots and disappoints you in exactly the same fashion a class might its teacher."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 27, 2009
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5/6
|
94%
|
Milk (2008) |
"
Penn is a revelation as Milk. He's always been a no-holds-barred actor, but this is another departure: his energy drives the story."
—
Sydney Morning Herald
Posted Jan 29, 2009
|
|
5/6
|
94%
|
Milk (2008) |
"
The story is sad, but the mood is jubilant and the energy relentless."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 23, 2009
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5/6
|
86%
|
Le Silence de Lorna (The Silence of Lorna) (Lorna's Silence) (2008) |
"
By the time 'The Silence of Lorna' reaches its quiet, unusual, reflective finale, the film feels almost spiritual in its investigation of a lost soul."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 28, 2008
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5/6
|
93%
|
Of Time and the City (2009) |
"
And, by being so personal in a way that's so honest and so incisive, Davies indirectly offers national commentary that's relevant far, far beyond his old Merseyside doorstep"
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2008
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5/6
|
90%
|
Hunger (2009) |
"
Imagine how most filmmakers would tell this story and then see 'Hunger': the differences are bold and powerful and restore faith in cinema's ability to cover history free from the bounds of texts and personalities."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2008
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5/6
|
61%
|
The Duchess (2008) |
"
He's also helped enormously by a mature, restrained portrayal from Knightley, a masterclass in passive aggression from Fiennes and a performance of tender seduction from Atwell."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 5, 2008
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5/6
|
96%
|
Let's Get Lost (1989) |
"
Slowly, surely this composite portrait of Chet then and now (or in 1987, when Weber shot the film) reveals its own depths."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2008
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5/6
|
93%
|
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"
It's a funny film - a surprise perhaps after 'Vera Drake' - and, crucially, it aches with truth."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 18, 2008
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5/6
|
91%
|
Silent Night (2006) |
"
One of the most shocking, unexpected and daring finales in a long while."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 7, 2007
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5/6
|
77%
|
I'm Not There (2007) |
"
An extraordinary puzzle of a biography that's ripe to be decoded."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2007
|
|
5/6
|
94%
|
Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) (The Counterfeiter) (2007) |
"
Stefan Ruzowitzky's meshing of plot with debate is impressive. His film is compelling and clever."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 10, 2007
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|
5/6
|
93%
|
Withnail and I (1987) |
"
A biting script from writer-director Bruce Robinson and performances from Richard E Grant and Paul McGann as two 'resting' actors, Withnail and 'I', that neither has surpassed."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
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4/5
|
97%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Its childishness, sense of innocence and eye for fun all make it a very easy film to love."
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Time Out
Posted May 17, 2012
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4/5
|
88%
|
Even the Rain (Meme La Pluie) (2011) |
"
Bollaín and Laverty offer a cutting, self-critical analysis of their medium while finding an honest and effective perspective on history..."
—
Time Out
Posted May 15, 2012
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|
4/5
|
95%
|
Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows) (1939) |
—
Time Out
Posted May 3, 2012
|
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4/5
|
81%
|
Goodbye First Love (2012) |
"
'Goodbye First Love' offers a rewarding lesson that life isn't like a movie and that, when a movie is like life, it can come with life's banalities and frustrations as well as its surprises and pleasures."
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Time Out
Posted May 1, 2012
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4/5
|
92%
|
Il etait une fois le Havre, son port, ses navires () |
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
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4/5
|
79%
|
Michael (2012) |
"
There are no easy conclusions here - no explanations. Events unfold with a random, even black comic abandon."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 29, 2012
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4/5
|
100%
|
Laura (2005) |
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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|
4/5
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
Once we've got over the frustration of this promising film's abrupt ending, we're left with the feeling that you can escape a cult but you can't escape yourself."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
Brief, brutal and barmy."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
A pleasing, intelligent film happy to describe Hoover's behaviour as monstrous but too balanced and searching to damn him as a monster."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
It reconfirms McQueen as a filmmaker with an unflinching, microscopic gaze on the world."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 10, 2012
|
64%
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