|
5/5
|
100%
|
Kes (1969) |
—
Independent
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
—
Independent
Posted Aug 19, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
20%
|
Honey (2003) |
—
Independent
Posted Jul 15, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
99%
|
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
"
The best of it is grand, mysterious and oddly possessed."
—
Independent
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Last Picture Show (1971) |
"
Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 movie is a coming-of-age story, a portrait of small-town Texas, and one of the all-time great American elegies."
—
Independent
Posted Apr 15, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
Piercingly funny, subtle and moving."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 29, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Winter's Bone (2010) |
"
The film, adapted by director Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from the novel by Daniel Woodrell, establishes a formidable tension between mystery and matter-of-factness."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 17, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Leopard (1963) |
—
Independent
Posted Aug 27, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) |
"
A weepie like they don't make them like anymore."
—
Independent
Posted Feb 16, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
"
Ozu only has to train his camera on a face to uncover a sense of resignation, or longing, or loneliness, and the mood, if you allow it, becomes quite overwhelming."
—
Independent
Posted Jan 5, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
The Red Shoes (1948) |
"
It has a quicksilver grace and variation of mood unlike anything else you've seen."
—
Independent
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
Up is buoyant with thrills and spills, yet it's anchored, quite movingly, in the acceptance of mortality. This rollercoaster ride will leave everyone on an up."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Adventureland (2009) |
"
It is a coming-of-age picture which seems not so different from any other but hits delightfully odd notes thanks to Mottola's terrifically smart script and a cast of mostly eager young actors."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 11, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
The Hurt Locker (2009) |
"
There will be other challengers in time, but so far The Hurt Locker is easily the best film to come out of the Iraq war."
—
Independent
Posted Aug 29, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968) |
"
Sergio Leone's frontier parable is a landmark in Westerns, and features not only one of the greatest opening sequences ever made, but also the best use of a harmonica in cinema."
—
Independent
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
North by Northwest (1959) |
"
Cary Grant's suave adman Roger O Thornhill finds himself in mortal peril as the innocent man-on-the-run, yet the tone throughout is buoyantly, almost insolently, comic."
—
Independent
Posted Jun 19, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Katyn (2009) |
"
Though it would be hard to call it life-affirming. It is too riven with grief and horror for that, too aware of what Poland has suffered for it to be anything but a deeply sombre memorial."
—
Independent
Posted Jun 19, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) (1959) |
"
It's a cornerstone of the French New Wave, and one of the greatest movies about childhood, from anywhere, ever."
—
Independent
Posted Apr 17, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Barry Lyndon (1975) |
"
You can't tear your eyes from it. Loosely held together by Michael Hordern's drolly ironic narration, it might not catch very much of Thackeray's tone but it creates a world that is sumptuously, even shockingly, vivid."
—
Independent
Posted Jan 30, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Il conformista (The Conformist) (1970) |
"
A beautifully imagined portrait of moral and political cowardice."
—
Independent
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
All About Eve (1950) |
"
Put simply, one of the greatest movies ever made."
—
Independent
Posted Nov 30, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
87%
|
Control (2007) |
"
Control is a tremendous memorial."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 5, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
87%
|
Brief Encounter (1945) |
"
The loveliest period piece imaginable."
—
Independent
Posted Aug 3, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"
This might be Plasticine's finest hour."
—
Independent
Posted Dec 6, 2005
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
It's worth pointing out that Ramsay's film is a bold one in terms of current sensibilities."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
The Lion King (2011) |
"
Huge fun for the kids; some acceptable laughs for the adults."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
Unglamorous, yes, and, as we shall see, unreconstructed. But certainly not unexciting."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Jane Eyre (2011) |
"
Some works of art are inexhaustible, and this is proving one of them."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Kill List (2012) |
"
Strong meat, this. Even those who cackled and cringed through Ben Wheatley's Brighton-based crime satire Down Terrace (also the best British picture of 2010), may find themselves recoiling at certain moments in his second film, Kill List."
—
Independent
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
"
As a summer blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes won't regenerate any brain-cells, but it doesn't forget a sense of humanity while delivering its package of thrills."
—
Independent
Posted Aug 12, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Project Nim (2011) |
"
The release of this documentary by James Marsh in the same week as Rise of the Planet of the Apes is wittily timed. It too speaks of caged primates, though its judgement on their captors is far more disturbing."
—
Independent
Posted Aug 12, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Super 8 (2011) |
"
What keeps us enthralled is its nostalgic sensibility, partly for the time but mostly for its old-school film-making values."
—
Independent
Posted Aug 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Cell 211 (Celda 211) (2009) |
"
There's a riot going on in a Spanish maximum security prison, whose Darwinian savagery is right up there with A Prophet."
—
Independent
Posted Jul 15, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
Nobody else [but Malick] could have made it. Few would even dare to try."
—
Independent
Posted Jul 8, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Incendies (2011) |
"
Denis Villeneuve's tormented family drama strips off one layer of meaning after another on its way to a thoroughly jolting terminus."
—
Independent
Posted Jun 24, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) |
—
Independent
Posted Jun 10, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
Heartbeats (2011) |
"
A subtle and painfully amusing battle of wills."
—
Independent
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2011) |
"
Just watch, and wonder."
—
Independent
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Win Win (2011) |
"
Trying to please a crowd needn't be a shameful business. Tom McCarthy makes light comedies that notice the goodness and hospitality in unlikely people, yet stop short of sentimentalising them."
—
Independent
Posted May 20, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Source Code (2011) |
"
Source Code, written by Ben Ripley, is directed by Duncan Jones, who ran similar rings around consciousness in his acclaimed debut, Moon. The great gimmick of this new film is its license to thrill."
—
Independent
Posted Apr 1, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) |
"
The spectacle is, in a very real sense, awesome. Of course, this being a Herzog documentary, narrated by the man himself in that otherwordly Teutonic voice, it has much to say on the nature of creation and the eternal struggle of mankind to understand."
—
Independent
Posted Mar 25, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Ballast (2008) |
—
Independent
Posted Mar 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Cache (Hidden) (2005) |
—
Independent
Posted Mar 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Inside Job (2010) |
—
Independent
Posted Feb 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Leaving (Partir) (2010) |
"
Leaving tells the kind of painful story -- of passion, betrayal, revenge -- we might read about every day in the papers, but it is the cool manner of its telling and an outstanding central performance by Kristin Scott Thomas that sharpen our interest."
—
Independent
Posted Feb 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
18%
|
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) |
—
Independent
Posted Feb 4, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
The King's Speech (2010) |
"
It's the sort of thing we do awf'ly well."
—
Independent
Posted Jan 21, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2010) |
—
Independent
Posted Jan 21, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Black Swan (2010) |
"
A ballet melodrama in which it isn't just the body that is threatened with disintegration, but the mind too."
—
Independent
Posted Jan 21, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
The Social Network (2010) |
"
David Fincher's fast-paced business drama adopts the set-up of his 1999 film Fight Club and inverts it."
—
Independent
Posted Oct 15, 2010
|
64%
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