|
9/10
|
97%
|
A Film Unfinished (2010) |
"
The imperatives of history are manifold, and this film is among the most urgent of them."
—
Movieline
Posted Aug 26, 2010
|
|
9/10
|
83%
|
Avatar (2009) |
"
It's all too easy to tangle with the political and situational gauntlets he lays down, but as a showman Cameron will not be denied."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
8.5/10
|
93%
|
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
Silence and sound are deployed as artfully as Ceylan's sweeping master shots are."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
92%
|
Arthur Christmas (2011) |
"
I'd be satisfied if Arthur Christmas primed kids for nothing more than expecting nothing less from holiday entertainment than this fleet, sweet-natured film."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
73%
|
Mei loi ging chaat (Future X-Cops) (2010) |
—
Movieline
Posted Aug 1, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
72%
|
The Future (2011) |
"
A provocative example of a filmmaker in complete control of her interests and her talents."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
91%
|
Winnie the Pooh (2011) |
"
Recalls the beguiling lightness of the good old Disney, where clever visual and thematic feats are deftly interwoven and yet tossed off with an insouciance that favors playfulness above all."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 14, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
83%
|
Trust () |
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 12, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
98%
|
Project Nim (2011) |
"
Very quickly it becomes clear that the life of Nim Chimpsky is foremost a story about the human animal, and human behavior."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
83%
|
The Double Hour (2011) |
"
To say too much about what actually happens would be to rob you of the film's risks and narrative ripostes."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 14, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
82%
|
Trust (1991) |
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 4, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
77%
|
Trust (2011) |
"
The psychology of trauma and the trauma of familial psychology are densely interlaced and vividly portrayed in Trust. It's a feat of unexpected difficulty from David Schwimmer, and it earns the elusive commodity invoked by the title."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 1, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
92%
|
Another Year (2010) |
"
Leigh engages with those questions, and even bigger bogglers -- What is love? What is happiness? When did they both escape me? -- by arranging long, lingering scenes of closely observed behavior of the most ordinary sort."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 29, 2010
|
|
8.5/10
|
98%
|
Inside Job (2010) |
"
Even more than it wants to inform Inside Job seeks to enrage."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 8, 2010
|
|
8.5/10
|
74%
|
Splice (2010) |
"
A mixture of the intimately known and the wildly unpredictable, this one just is what it is: a total trip. "
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 10, 2010
|
|
8/10
|
91%
|
Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011) |
"
The most poignant idea to emerge from Corman's World is that in fact neither man nor mogul can control quite everything, perhaps nothing less than his legacy."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
81%
|
Higher Ground (2011) |
"
Farmiga closes in on moments that express mood and character so lightly and perceptively that you don't notice them gently - sometimes too gently - moving the story forward."
—
Movieline
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
60%
|
Final Destination 5 (2011) |
"
A hugely satisfying tension comes from tapping the dread we push down to get through a life of constant negotiation with danger, whether it's crossing a suspension bridge or crossing the street. Who needs Freddy when routine plane travel is so fraught?"
—
Movieline
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
79%
|
The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2011) |
"
It looks more like your teenage world than such films generally allow, and it's not pretty. It's beautiful."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 21, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
88%
|
Buck (2011) |
"
Ultimately a plea for compassion and kindness for both horses and humans..."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
70%
|
Beautiful Boy (2011) |
"
Bello is, as usual, a compellingly feminine force in the part of a woman in free fall, grasping at branches on her way down."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
75%
|
Everything Must Go (2011) |
"
First-time writer and director Dan Rush seems aware of the generic obstacles he has set for himself, and takes a headlong run at both before clearing them in the critical moment."
—
Movieline
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
94%
|
Win Win (2011) |
"
Warmly observed and solicitous of its audience to the point of caress, Win Win is as comfortable an experience at the movies as you might have this year."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
86%
|
Carancho (2011) |
"
This Buenos Aires is a city of collisions, something we are told early on but absorb with indelible force as Carancho races toward its final impact."
—
Movieline
Posted Feb 11, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
88%
|
White Material (2010) |
"
With Huppert as her paradoxical lightning rod, Denis courts class and colonial tensions until they fly apart in the last moments of the film. There is much to look at and admire in the meantime."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 18, 2010
|
|
8/10
|
100%
|
Waste Land (2010) |
"
Sentimentality and self-congratulation might have easily tipped the balance against a small but startlingly affecting story."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 29, 2010
|
|
8/10
|
94%
|
The Town (2010) |
"
If [Affleck would] just play those cards right, I could see him sliding those big shoulders into the ranks of the Hollywood greats."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 17, 2010
|
|
8/10
|
80%
|
The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) (2010) |
"
It is to Llosa's great credit that she has infused Fausta's awakening with dignity, and made her of a time, place, and conception not to be confused with any other."
—
Movieline
Posted Aug 26, 2010
|
|
8/10
|
80%
|
I Am Love (2010) |
"
Bold, weird, and a little stalkerish in its intensity, Luca Guadagnino's third feature is an open cinematic buffet, as ready to satisfy as it is to displease, depending on your taste and appetite."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 20, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Cyrus (2010) |
"
It's fascinating to watch the directors navigate the tricky course they've set for themselves, particularly when the narrative road splits definitively between black and light -- if exceptionally emotionally attuned -- comedy."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
8/10
|
91%
|
The Father of My Children (Le pere de mes enfants) (2010) |
"
A bisected portrait of two families -- one small and thriving, one sprawling and dysfunctional -- both headed by the same, charming man, The Father of My Children examines the shipwreck of suicide and the grief of those left stranded in its wake."
—
Movieline
Posted May 28, 2010
|
|
8/10
|
84%
|
The Ghost Writer (2010) |
"
Polanski's eminently suave town-car thriller relaxes willing viewers right into the director's velvet grip."
—
Movieline
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
94%
|
The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
Wispy but sweet as spun sugar, The Secret World of Arrietty feels like a modest but exquisitely trimmed Japanese gift to fans of The Borrowers, British author Mary Norton's classic children's books."
—
Movieline
Posted Feb 15, 2012
|
|
7.5/10
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
This uneven but earnest, often exhilarating film derives its greatest interest from the way it turns the found-footage format inside out..."
—
Movieline
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
7.5/10
|
27%
|
Colombiana (2011) |
"
Along with a spectacularly physical performance by Zaldana, Colombiana features some of the best frame-for-frame shots you will see this year."
—
Movieline
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
7.5/10
|
82%
|
TrollHunter (2011) |
"
It's a genre hybrid that makes something new from discarded cultural parts and a truly goofy premise."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 9, 2011
|
|
7.5/10
|
81%
|
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) |
"
A quest movie that's too long on destination to make for much of a journey, Kung Fu Panda 2 is nevertheless scenic, inventively playful, and successfully serious when it wants to be."
—
Movieline
Posted May 26, 2011
|
|
7.5/10
|
40%
|
Skateland (2011) |
"
Burns handles the more dramatic moments - divorce, accidental death, betrayal - with invention, using abrupt cuts and impressionistic editing to keep the film from settling into a rut."
—
Movieline
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
7.5/10
|
22%
|
Country Strong (2011) |
"
[A] deeply, dangerously earnest take on truth and beauty in trouble."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 5, 2011
|
|
7.5/10
|
21%
|
Gulliver's Travels (2010) |
"
Lilliputian light and unconcerned about it, Gulliver's Travels clears enough antic elbow room for its liberal adaptation of Jonathan Swift's classic novel to do its thing without too much offense and then pretty much disappears."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 23, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
32%
|
How Do You Know (2010) |
"
There are a couple of scenes of pure, sentimental genius, as well as appealingly boggled turns by Rudd and Wilson."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 15, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
31%
|
The Warrior's Way (2010) |
"
Lee revels in the poetry of carnage -- movie carnage -- and despite 360 splatter shots and bouquets of severed heads somehow makes it all seem more kiss-kiss, bang-bang than damaged, or damaging."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 3, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
80%
|
Fair Game (2010) |
"
If casting is half the battle, then Fair Game director Doug Liman was already three-quarters of the way home when he signed Naomi Watts to play former CIA agent Valerie Plame and Sean Penn her blustering diplomat husband."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 8, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
91%
|
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) |
"
Gibney's crack procedural instincts kick in as he reconstructs the gallery of enemies Spitzer made in the financial sector and in politics."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 3, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
71%
|
Red (2010) |
"
The kicker is in the casting: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox and Helen Mirren all come out to play."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 15, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
79%
|
Nowhere Boy (2010) |
"
Although this is a film about the influential women in Lennon's life, it succeeds equally in its evocation of the family Lennon built among his boyhood mates."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 6, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
89%
|
Waiting for Superman (2010) |
"
Waiting For Superman may rub a little raw here and there, but if it stirs that memory in enough voting and tax-paying Americans, it has at least begun to do its job."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
7.5/10
|
44%
|
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) |
"
Minor but still quite enjoyable."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 22, 2010
|
|
|
46%
|
Spoken Word (2010) |
"
A recurring vista of a highway pass carved through the rock and trees is lovely but pointedly unspectacular, a showcase for the kind of beauty that builds when you let your eye linger."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 23, 2010
|
|
|
64%
|
Predators (2010) |
"
Fans of the original have likely grown resigned to disappointment with its descendents; Predators will not change that entirely, but it may summon enough fond memories to sneak by."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
65%
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