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5/5
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
A film which only reveals its true colours after intense contemplation."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
Ceylan has forged a new template for the police procedural."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Ordet (The Word) (1954) |
"
Guaranteed to make you levitate from your cinema seat in awe."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (1964) |
"
Definitely one for multiple viewings, and arguably up there with Pasolini's best."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
69%
|
Hadewijch (2010) |
"
Challenging, thought provoking and extraordinarily powerful."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) |
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) |
"
The production design and costumes are immaculate, while Ruiz's camera glides around soirées, ducks under tables and peers from behind curtains."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)) (2010) |
"
It harnesses the skewed workings of the subconscious, confirming Svankmajer as a master filmmaker and knocking films like 'Inception' and 'The Matrix' into a cocked hat."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2011
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|
5/5
|
87%
|
Miss Bala (2012) |
"
All the more disarming for the fact that it takes place in a society where politics appears redundant and money and power are gained through violent, minutely orchestrated coups."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Days of Heaven (1978) |
"
Visually and thematically, it's still one of the most beautiful films ever made."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 31, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
13 Assassins (2011) |
"
The film is built as a long crescendo, opening at a level of considered, Zen-like reflection and ending with a prolonged cacophony of elaborate, town-wide annihilation."
—
Time Out
Posted May 3, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
74%
|
Norwegian Wood (2012) |
"
The performances of the young cast attain an affecting blend of reticence and hope, but it's Tran's fastidious technique that nudges the film into the realms of greatness."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 9, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
The Illusionist (L'illusionniste) (2010) |
"
Tati thought anything could be funny, and while Chomet runs with that idea as a director, he challenges it as a storyteller."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
87%
|
La Danse -- Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris (2009) |
"
La Danse is an example of cinema at its most musical, an awe-inspiring celebration of body, mind and movement."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 22, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
99%
|
Psycho (1960) |
"
It blazed a bloody trail for the much-loved slasher cycle, but it also assured us that a B-movie could be A-grade in quality and innovation."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 1, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
72%
|
La Mujer sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) (2008) |
"
In what could be one of the greatest films ever made about the emotional realities of a damaged mind, this giddily disorientating latest from Lucrecia Martel is a work of frenzied genius."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
82%
|
Our Beloved Month of August (2010) |
"
As dazzling feats of narrative acrobatics go, this ingeniously self-reflexive second feature from maverick writer-director Miguel Gomes stands in a league of its own."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Aruitemo Aruitemo (Still Walking) (2008) |
"
Koreeda's almost sage-like understanding of what makes modern families tick places him and this wonderful film in the league of Japan's grand master, Ozu, and you can't ask for higher praise than that."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
79%
|
Johnny Mad Dog (2011) |
"
The film sees war as a deadener of moral and physical inhibition, a paradoxical state where there are no winners or losers, just the living and the dead. Stunning."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 23, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1968) |
"
A luminous musical about dreams, romance and destiny which lovingly reworks the classic Hollywood 'putting on a show' template into an essay on the emotional rollercoaster ride that is movie-going."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 14, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
Pierrot le Fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) (Crazy Pete) (1969) |
"
A wild-eyed, everything-in-the-pot cross-processing of artistic, cinematic, political and personal concerns, where the story stutters, splinters and infuriates its way to an explosive finale."
—
Time Out
Posted May 22, 2009
|
|
6/6
|
85%
|
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"
This brilliant, desperately sad Steinbeckian fable from American director Kelly Reichardt. It's Reichardt's third full-length feature ('Old Joy' was in cinemas last year), but only her first masterpiece."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 6, 2009
|
|
5/6
|
69%
|
sleep furiously. (2011) |
"
This is as fully formed and unique a debut movie as you could ever hope to see."
—
Time Out
Posted May 29, 2009
|
|
5/6
|
91%
|
Momma's Man (2008) |
"
Awkward pauses and gestures and moments of self-examination give it a rich texture. It's a lovely work, sad and funny. A melancomedy, if you will."
—
Time Out
Posted May 8, 2009
|
|
5/6
|
78%
|
Doubt (2008) |
"
Tense and teasingly ambiguous..."
—
Time Out Sydney
Posted Feb 5, 2009
|
|
5/6
|
97%
|
Ringu (Ring) (2003) |
"
The finale, too, still feels as twisted, bizarre and down-right nightmarish as it did all those years ago."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
79%
|
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) |
"
First-time director Esther Robinson proves that a dash of subjectivity in documentary isn't always a bad thing, showing a remarkable clarity of vision and thirst for knowledge in her superb 'A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory'."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 15, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
80%
|
Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (The Flight of the Red Balloon) (2007) |
"
An exceptional piece of filmmaking, intricate, elaborate and exuding warmth and wisdom from its every frame."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
65%
|
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"
The magnitude of Gondry's visual ingenuity is consistently jaw-dropping."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 22, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
89%
|
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) |
"
A pioneering film, in both senses of the word, and one of the key works in the American cinema of the 1970s."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
Faust () |
"
A journey you'll want - nay, need - to take more than once in order to soak up its many immaculate layers of detail."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
An acquired taste, but a taste you should really try to acquire."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Atmen (Breathing) (2011) |
"
As an actor-turned-director film, Markovics bracing debut is up there with Xavier Beauvois' of Gods and Men."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
The Bad and the Beautiful (1953) |
"
A gaudy soap opera that also manages to satirise gaudy soap operas. Hows about that?"
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
A Night to Remember (1958) |
"
Cold and brutal - exactly how this tale should be told."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
Le Havre (2011) |
"
A gorgeous hymn to the struggles of the working man."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
59%
|
Wanderlust (2012) |
"
Surprising, sweet and charming, David Wain proves himself a comic director par excellence."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Casablanca (1943) |
"
Even hardened cynics who might be impelled to dismiss it as a collection of button-pushing clichés will most likely get swept up in the all the unabashed romance."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Patience (After Sebald) (2012) |
"
If you haven't read the book, you'll want to. If you have read the book, you'll want to read it again."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
House of Pleasures (2011) |
"
Dazzling and deep. You'll want to go back for more."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
Only Steven Soderbergh could produce a slick, modern, cineliterate deconstruction of the Hollywood action caper that also manages to be a rollicking good ride."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
A Useful Life (2011) |
"
Cinema is dead! Long live the cinema!"
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht) (1978) |
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Policeman (Ha-shoter) () |
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 14, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Urbanized (2011) |
"
Concerned inhabitants of the global village would do well to track this one down."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Obscene (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Kenny Rogers: The Journey (2006) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
White Material (2010) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (2010) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
50%
|
Sket () |
"
A film of real substance that shows a timely interest in how and why gangs materialise."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
65%
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