Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Up The Yangtze (2007) | "
An astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China’s economic miracle." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Across the Universe (2007) | Across the Universe captured my heart, and I realized that falling in love with a movie is like falling in love with another person. Imperfections, however glaring, become endearing quirks once you’ve tumbled. Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 67%
| The Bridge (2006) | This eerie and indelible documentary about suicide juxtaposes transcendent beauty with personal tragedy. Posted Oct 26, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006) | The ailing title character in this thorny masterpiece by the Romanian director Cristi Puiu suffers a late-night descent through circles of medical hell. Posted Apr 25, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) | Annie Proulx's heartbreaking story of two cowboys who fall in love has been faithfully translated onto the screen in Ang Lees landmark film. Posted Dec 8, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Nine Lives (2005) | An extraordinarily rich and satisfying suite of fleeting but intense moments in the lives of nine women. Posted Oct 13, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Junebug (2005) | "
Phil Morrison's wise, bittersweet, beautifully acted comedy about a Southern homecoming envelops us in texture of a world the movies rarely visit." Posted Aug 3, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 70%
| The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2005) | "
The acrid fog of war is palpable in Pirjo Honkasalo's magnificent documentary, The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, one of the saddest films ever made." Posted Jul 27, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Aliens of the Deep (2005) | "
A grandiose hybrid of undersea documentary and outer-space fantasy." Posted Jan 27, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Bad Education (2004) | "
Almodóvar has toyed with film noir before, most memorably in his 1997 film Live Flesh. But his newest movie, Bad Education, is a delirious, headlong immersion and re-invention of a style." Posted Oct 14, 2004 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 90%
| My Flesh and Blood (2003) | "
An unforgettable experience." Posted Nov 28, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 81%
| The Hours (2002) | "
Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain." Posted Dec 26, 2002 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Road to Perdition (2002) | "
It inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows.'" Posted Jul 11, 2002 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Gosford Park (2001) | "
A virtuoso ensemble piece to rival the director's Nashville and Short Cuts in its masterly interweaving of multiple characters and subplots." Posted Dec 26, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| In the Bedroom (2001) | "
An astonishingly rich, detailed and grimly moving piece of work." Posted Nov 23, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Mulholland Dr. (2001) | "
Its investigation into the power of movies pierces a void from which you can hear the screams of a ravenous demon whose appetites can never be slaked." Posted Oct 10, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) | "
Clever, funny, wildly innovative." Posted Jul 20, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 66%
| American Psycho (2000) | "
At the heart of the film is a star-making performance by the handsome Welsh actor Christian Bale." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 57%
| I'm the One That I Want (2000) |
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Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 78%
| Beau Travail (1999) |
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Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Hilary and Jackie (1998) | "
One of the most insightful and wrenching portraits of the joys and tribulations of being a classical musician ever filmed." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 27%
| The End of Violence (1997) | "
With The End of Violence Mr. Wenders has made a film as resonant as his most memorable work." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Decalogue Box Set (1988) | "
A masterwork of modern cinema, essential viewing for anyone who cares about the movies as a serious art form." Posted Feb 21, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| I Am Cuba (1964) | "
It is a dream of life in which everything is reduced to black and white. Or as the rhetoric used to go, you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Nothing was ever quite that simple." Posted Jan 15, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) | "
There are hallucinatory sequences in Sergei Paradzhanov's 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors when this eruptively colorful movie feels more like a folkloric tapestry sprung to life than a film about flesh-and-blood people." Posted May 20, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| N/A | Body and Soul (1925) | "
Robeson radiates the roguish charm and dangerous looming ferocity of a master con man with a scary streak of violence. Like his singing, Robeson's acting has stature. It is larger than life." Posted Mar 25, 2006 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Rotten 59%
| The Headless Woman (2009) | "
A full appreciation of Lucrecia Martel’s elegant, rain-soaked film, The Headless Woman, requires the concentration and eye for detail of a forensic detective." Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Lion's Den (2009) | "
Although it is not a comedy, Lion’s Den is suffused with sense of life lived in the present. Even the grimmest moments are not exploited to instill fear and loathing." Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Sex Positive (2009) | "
The movie jolts you with the realization that the AIDS epidemic and the public debate about such issues have retreated so far under the news radar as to be half-forgotten." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Il Divo (2009) | "
As operatic cinema, it ranks alongside the best of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| Is Anybody There? (2009) | "
What balances the movie is Mr. Caine's exceptional portrayal of old age as the accumulation of a lifetime's experience. In his performance the child, the youthful rogue and the forgetful codger all live at once." Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Stranded (2008) | "
Gonzalo Arijón’s documentary Stranded offers an incontrovertible argument for the necessity of team spirit in the face of catastrophe." Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Baghead (2008) | The semi-improvised performances, which seem so natural that it is tempting to confuse the actors with their characters, bring Baghead into the realm of group therapy observed through one-way glass. Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Tell No One (2008) | Guillaume Canet’s delicious contemporary thriller Tell No One is Vertigo meets The Fugitive by way of The Big Sleep. That is meant as high praise. Posted Jul 2, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008) | Bigger, Stronger, Faster* left me convinced that the steroid scandals will abate as the drugs are reluctantly accepted as inevitable products of a continuing revolution in biotechnology. Posted May 30, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| My Father My Lord (2008) | "
My Father My Lord has the glowing simplicity and force of a biblical parable." Posted May 16, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 78%
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) | "
How light is this movie? So buoyant that even an air raid warning, signaling that this whole world is about to crumble under the blitz, can’t dampen its giddy spirits." Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Times and Winds (2008) | [A] transporting vision of life in a mountain village in northwest Turkey. Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Bliss (2007) | "
However streamlined, this consistently gripping, visually intoxicating film stands as a landmark of contemporary Turkish cinema." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 76%
| Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007) | As this sad, shambling antihero swings from one pole to the other on the issue of capital punishment, you are inclined to follow every step of the way toward his tragic enlightenment. Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Diggers (2007) | Meticulously assembled, Diggers shuttles among several major characters with an ease and grace that don’t waste a moment of screen time. But it doesn’t feel rushed. Posted Apr 27, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Stephanie Daley (2007) | Without standing on a soapbox Stephanie Daley suggests a tragic gender gap between men who judge and women who feel. Posted Apr 20, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| The Valet (2007) | If you love to hate the superrich, The Valet is a sinfully delicious bonbon. Posted Apr 20, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Whole New Thing (2007) | If its portrait of hippie parents raising a misfit child has much in common with Rebecca Miller's Ballad of Jack and Rose, Whole New Thing refrains from going to the same extremes. Posted Apr 6, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| Unconscious (2007) | "
The Freudian farce Unconscious is paced so breathlessly that it keeps you panting to keep up with each new plot twist." Posted Feb 9, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience (2007) | "
Operation Homecoming is a spinoff from an anthology of essays, e-mail messages, poems and letters from soldiers in Iraq." Posted Feb 9, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Blame it on Fidel (2006) | "
Julie Gavras’s wonderful film, Blame It on Fidel, is a deeply political movie that sidesteps strident polemics by viewing the ideological conflicts within a French-Spanish family through the eyes of a smart, willful child." Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 80%
| Rock Bottom (2006) | "
A graphic study of sex and drug addiction, Rock Bottom goes beyond the pieties of the recovery movements to confront deeper questions about the pursuit of sensation." Posted Mar 2, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 63%
| Changing Times (2006) | Every character in André Téchiné's rich, warmhearted exploration of cultural collision oscillates between two worlds and two ideas about the meaning of experience. Posted Jul 13, 2006 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| Heading South (2006) | Laurent Cantet's devastating new film contemplates the darker social undercurrents beneath a seemingly benign example of sexual tourism. examination of middle-age desire. Posted Jul 6, 2006 |
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