|
5/5
|
75%
|
Faust () |
"
It comes roaring into view, shaking its glorious mane, and by the end has proved that the best way to honour a great original may be to eat it alive."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
When Tolstoy said all unhappy families are unhappy in their own ways, perhaps he was thinking of Texas. But even he reckoned without the rich, extraordinary complexities of unhappiness chronicled in Herzog's film."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
It is 75 minutes of powerful and touching insight into the helplessness of being a citizen in a country that respects none of the citizenly rights and virtues: those that relate to art, human dignity and freedom of speech, movement and ideas."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
If you're in a hurry, don't go near this film. If you're not in a hurry, don't go anywhere else. It could change your life."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
The play needs a gritty embrace and gets it. That and a flawlessly chosen cast."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
No one will fail to find, in this strange, disturbing jewel, some reflecting facet of himself or herself."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
70%
|
Margaret (2011) |
"
No group of actors in a film ever had so little time to establish so much complexity or succeeded with such consummate skill."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
It is glorious to be thrown and blown about in this make-believe metropolis. The digitally enhanced shapes and colours suggest Jeunet and Caro reworked by a polychromatic Piranesi."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
The Snowtown Murders (2012) |
"
Snowtown presents a world of moral nightmare and sits us right inside it, to feel the pulse and processes of evil as if they were our own."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
The film's first images, premonitions of doom made lyrical, incise themselves on your brain."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Project Nim (2011) |
"
A documentary, stunningly watchable, about the 1970s American research team that explored the "educability" of a chimpanzee."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Honey (2011) |
"
The movie's magic is all in the colour, the landscapes and the sounds - yes, Simon and Garfunkel were right - of silence."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jul 14, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2011) |
"
It is overpoweringly lovable."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 25, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
13 Assassins (2011) |
"
Nearly every image is memorable: it is hard to pick out the most mind-blowing."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 4, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
My Dog Tulip (2010) |
"
Is My Dog Tulip the best film ever about a dog? Is it Citizen Canine? My answer, yes."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 4, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) |
"
"It is as if the modern human soul awakened here," Herzog narrates in his hushed, insistent, sibylline tones. It is."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
The Portuguese Nun (A Religiosa Portuguesa) (2009) |
"
Wide-eyed, trance-like close-ups; tableau-style framings; vocal delivery toneless yet declarative. The film is not afraid to seem ridiculous, but why should it be?"
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 20, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
The King's Speech (2010) |
"
By the film's end I was in tears: a pathetic critic-thing whimpering in the half-dark, knocked into resistlessness by the power of storytelling."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 6, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
71%
|
Monsters (2010) |
"
This film is so edgy it hardly needs its monsters. (But don't worry, it gets them.)"
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 2, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Of Gods and Men (2011) |
"
It is not often we are swept up, even exalted, by earnest simplicity."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 2, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011) |
"
It is a total wonderwork: enchanting, bizarre, complex, original."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 17, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Another Year (2010) |
"
Leigh's films are all the same and all different; all funny and all tragic; all simple and all complicated."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 4, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
55%
|
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) |
"
This harrowing film spares no physical or emotional detail."
—
Financial Times
Posted Oct 13, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
79%
|
Politist, adj. (Police, Adjective) (2009) |
"
A "police procedural" with a difference: the policeman hero refuses to proceed."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 29, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
World's Greatest Dad (2009) |
"
I loved the film's what-the-hell attitude to production values. The cinematography is no better than it should be, the sets are any place that will plug in a production cable. I loved the sourly but smartly inventive script."
—
Financial Times
Posted Sep 22, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
If there were a Nobel Prize for Digital Animation it would have been won almost every year by Pixar."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Ajami (2010) |
"
By showing how people fail to live together - in a film you could call Israel's City of God, with its sectarian-feuding story lent power and immediacy by improvisation and non-professional casting - Ajami shows how they might or should live together."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jun 16, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away () |
"
This is sobering, determined, marvellous filmmaking."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jun 9, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
Here is a film whose subject is violence's human and inhuman toll -- and violence's sickly ubiquity even in places and times that seem to promise freedom from it."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jun 3, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
Lebanon (Levanon) (2010) |
"
It challenges and combats the cinematic tradition that presents war as entertainment, or even as redemptive drama."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 13, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
71%
|
Valhalla Rising (2010) |
"
Conjured necromantically from the medieval dawn, spook-raised from the Scandinavian subconscious, Valhalla Rising is a film you must see to barely believe."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 6, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Lourdes (2010) |
"
This film is both good and powerful. It saves the God debate, still intact, for another round. It is as magically, richly ambivalent as life itself."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
"
This is a moral movie set in an immoral world, one of those circle-squaring feats at which French drama and cinema so darkly excel."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Aruitemo Aruitemo (Still Walking) (2008) |
"
Limpidly shot, translucently acted, Still Walking steals up on you quietly and stays with you forever."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Mugabe and the White African (2010) |
"
Harrowing, unsparing, incensing and often, as an example of courage beyond the call, inspiring."
—
Financial Times
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
43%
|
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"
You have to take sides. Go see the film, go judge. Either this is plotless rubbish designed to inflame tabloid newspapers. Or it is the future of cinema, and Jarmusch has got there before the rest of us."
—
Financial Times
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) |
"
A film of subtle savagery and mordantly encompassing vision."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
82%
|
Bright Star (2009) |
"
Steadfastness, truth and a simple, blazing, incandescent humanity. This is a literary life story in which life, for once, is the meaningful word."
—
Financial Times
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Les Plages d'Agnès (The Beaches of Agnes) (2008) |
"
A loose-leaf diary in which the pages are shuffled by instinct, wit and surreal art."
—
Financial Times
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
76%
|
Afterschool (2008) |
"
This is a major debut. A dystopic vision, yes; but in comparison with the usual school high-jinks from US cinema - fiercely fresh and corrosively memorable."
—
Financial Times
Posted Aug 21, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
69%
|
sleep furiously. (2011) |
"
Koppel's film transcends the pedagogic to touch the celebratory, the holistic, the mystical."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 29, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"
The brilliantly eerie Let the Right One In is the European Angst Zone's answer to Hollywood's Twilight."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 9, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Get the Gringo () |
"
The plot thickens to the density of Semtex, then explodes."
—
Financial Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
Le Havre (2011) |
"
I was on cloud nine throughout the film: that place of Technicolored rapture where Kaurismäki fans dwell, and where past, present and oneiric future are rolled celestially into one."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
This Must Be The Place () |
"
What matters is the story that sets out to correct the perceived truth, to rattle the bars of predestination and acquiescence."
—
Financial Times
Posted Apr 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Tiny Furniture (2010) |
"
Dunham's on-screen mixture - essentially all the S's (sadness, structurelessness, serendipity) - is stirred so skilfully it makes recent indie cinema of extemporisation, from mumblecore to Miranda Otto, seem like am-dram."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
The Island President (2012) |
"
Absorbing. Alerting."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Trishna (2012) |
"
Brilliantly, Winterbottom takes the novel's two main male characters, Alec d'Urberville and Angel Clare, and makes them one."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
38%
|
Bel Ami (2012) |
"
The directors give the story a barbed conviction and the female players, especially, act to the hilt."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Carancho (2011) |
"
The film's bitterness of vision may owe as much to style as to content: this is not King Lear, it does not go deep. But a vision of sorts it is, harsh and haunting."
—
Financial Times
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
62%
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