|
5/5
|
98%
|
Taxi Driver (1976) |
"
Scorsese's masterpiece of urban alienation..."
—
Total Film
Posted May 18, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
71%
|
Monsters (2010) |
"
As a film it's a couple of notches shy of a masterpiece, but as an achievement it's completely without precedent."
—
Total Film
Posted Dec 2, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Back to the Future (1985) |
"
Zemeckis' popcorn classic combines watertight scripting with broad but brilliant performances, all held together by Fox's stumbling charm."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 30, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
"
Like Goodfellas without the visual fizz, or Scarface played straight, this is, quite simply, one of the greatest prison films ever made."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Sep 6, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Toy Story (1995) |
"
Turns out the real magic is nothing to do with technology: it's in the words, the voices, the story. But then, a child could have told you that."
—
Film4
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
94%
|
Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned) (1952) |
"
A heady mix of disgusted social realism and subtextual black magic, Los Olvidados confirms Buñuel as one the deftest directorial talents of the last century."
—
Film4
Posted May 18, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
This is Chandor's triumph, and marks him out as someone to keep an eye on in the future."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Headhunters (2012) |
"
A nice blend of Scandinavian sophistication and Hollywood slickness, Headhunters is an entertaining Nordic noir achievement..."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
This is a troubling portrait of how fear and abuse leave their tentacles in everything they touch - and a haunting one at that."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
It's an effective, if unfathomable, entry in the Fincher canon."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Jan 30, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
With its austere atmosphere, glacial pace and longwinded plot, it's not a film for everyone."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Jan 30, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
It's not an adventure, but a loving tribute to all the broken things, and those who would fix them."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Submarine (2011) |
"
Though the subject matter is nothing new, every aspect of the film thrums with quality."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Snowtown Murders (2012) |
"
Grimly credible, and with more than a few flashes of brilliance, this is a highly impressive, upsetting debut. Just be warned - its chief currency is cold, numbing horror."
—
Total Film
Posted Nov 14, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) |
"
The film is the best-shot - if the least scary - of the series."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
51%
|
Perfect Sense (2012) |
"
A moving look at what it means to be human in the most extreme circumstances, this is kitchen-sink sci-fi with an aching soul."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 4, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Red White & Blue (2010) |
"
Not a horror film, but an undeniably horrifying one, it depicts believable characters in credibly desperate situations, with none of the usual genre comforts on hand to halt the path to damnation."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 23, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
The Guard (2011) |
"
The film's more interested in spending quality time with this unlikely pair than solving crimes. Thanks to McDonagh's sparkling script and some charming central performances, you will be too."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
It's confounding, borderline pretentious, stuff, but there's no denying the emotional weight it lends - imagine flicking through a Bible and someone's baby book at once."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
TrollHunter (2011) |
"
A true one-off, with all the frustrated expectations that entails."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 30, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Incendies (2011) |
"
Every time the film begins to feel more like a history lesson than a drama, it explodes into action."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Horrible Bosses (2011) |
"
Adult without being crass, goofy without being stupid, Bosses is one of the funniest films of the year."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
The Guard (2011) |
"
Patrolling the dark/light divide so confidently even the IRA nab legitimate laughs, The Guard is a cracker of a film and Sergeant Gerry Boyle a comedy creation for the ages."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 10, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Super 8 (2011) |
"
Wears off like a warm childhood memory."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Aug 4, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2011) |
"
Part political thriller, part pummelling polemic."
—
Total Film
Posted Aug 4, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011) |
"
Twice as good as a fi lm based on a spoof trailer has any right to be, Hobo is a great career kickstarter for director Eisener and the credibility boost Hauer richly deserves."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 6, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Cell 211 (Celda 211) (2009) |
"
Tough as nails and cunning as a career criminal, Cell 211 is a thriller that gets both brain and nerves whirring."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Delhi Belly (2011) |
"
Crosses cultural - and taste - barriers with a joie de vivre that'll have even the Bollywood-averse belly laughing along too."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 1, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Point Blank (2011) |
"
Manages to be gallopingly preposterous and an absolute blast, frequently at the same time."
—
Total Film
Posted May 31, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Wake Wood (2011) |
"
The biggest surprise is not that it's hair-raising, but that it's heart-rending too."
—
Total Film
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Waste Land (2010) |
"
A reminder of humanity's ability to transcend its surroundings through art or just plain optimism."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010) |
"
Tense, terse and beautifully crafted, it plays out with all the dread of a deadbolt hammering, inevitably, home."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Nov 21, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Buried (2010) |
"
Reynolds is an irrepressibly (some might say irritatingly) verbal actor, so there?s something both genius and obscene about subjecting him to solitary confinement by cinema."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Oct 6, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
World's Greatest Dad (2009) |
"
What threatens to be the World's Greatest Dud proves anything but."
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
38%
|
The Horde (La Horde) (2010) |
"
Subtlety is admittedly the very first casualty, but when the claret's flying with such élan, who gives a merde?"
—
Total Film
Posted Sep 16, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) |
"
A strange oxymoron of a film, like a straight-faced Spinal Tap or a Man On Wire for liars."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Sep 5, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) |
"
Up close, it's a blur of meticulous details that don't quite make sense; but step back and its towering ambitions become indelibly apparent."
—
Flicks.co.nz
Posted Aug 26, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Skeletons () |
"
Though there's a little narrative drift in the middle, as a portrait of lives wrecked and remedied by memory's narcotic pull it's both strange and strangely moving."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 30, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
47%
|
MacGruber (2010) |
"
Throwaway but genuinely funny throughout, MacGruber plays like Hot Shots: Part Trois or a live-action Team America: World Police -- a summer six-pack movie that makes up for in laughs what it lacks in longevity."
—
Total Film
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
[Rec] 2 (2010) |
"
The greatest zombie sequel since Dawn of the Dead."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 28, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
The Crazies (2010) |
"
Switching from fright film to Holocaust metaphor without ever relinquishing its popcorn-flick credentials, this is a vivid portrait of small-town apocalypse that earns its place in the annals of horror remake excellence."
—
Total Film
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009) |
"
A baroque shocker of sensuous unease and cinematic excess marbled with veins of jet-black comedy, Thirst is far from a perfect film, but it might still prove to be a great one."
—
Total Film
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land (Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country) (2008) |
"
Transcending all questions of quality, this remarkable expose raises integral questions about human rights and investigative journalism. Can a film bring down the government? Not likely. Can it change the world? No doubt."
—
Film4
Posted Jul 17, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Kisses (2010) |
"
Curry and O'Neill are adorably unadorable, and though the film ultimately leaves them as we found them, buried alive in beautiful B&W on a dead-end estate, we know their worlds have changed forever."
—
Total Film
Posted Jul 17, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Drag Me to Hell (2009) |
"
Raimi's return to the splatter genre is absolutely, unrelentingly mental. Terrifying in places, screamingly stupid in others, it's a riot from OTT start to ADHD finish."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 29, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"
But while there's life, there's hope, and Jeremy Podeswa's delicate, deliberate adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel follows Jakob's heartrending progress from the darkness to the light."
—
Total Film
Posted May 29, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
End () |
"
They're eloquent, witty and quietly terrifying, the glitchy visuals and chilly score undercutting the laughs with a tremendous sense of foreboding."
—
Total Film
Posted May 1, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"
Overlong and structurally compromised, this powerful, precision-tooled film expertly illustrates just how (altogether now): fear can keep you prisoner but hope can set you free."
—
Film4
Posted Nov 23, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007) |
"
Frequently crass but never dull, Verhoeven's best film in two decades has the guts to acknowledge the voices that went unheard above the gunfire of WWII, but refuses to sacrifice entertainment value for verisimilitude."
—
Film4
Posted Jan 15, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Rumble Fish (1983) |
"
An iconic outsider of 1980s teen cinema, Rumble Fish remains an intriguing anomaly on Coppola's chequered CV."
—
Film4
Posted May 24, 2003
|
62%
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