|
5/5
|
90%
|
Our Song (2001) |
"
It's an astonishing movie, with a real-life feel."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 6, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) |
"
It's not a lark or a kitschy goof or a parody; it just is what it is and you can't tear your eyes away from it."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 3, 2001
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Shrek (2001) |
"
Despite all its high-tech weirdness, is really that most perdurable of human constructions, a tale told well and true."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 18, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
91%
|
Murderous Maids (2002) |
"
As the dominant Christine, Sylvie Testud is icily brilliant."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 31, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
Nine Queens (Nueve reinas) (2002) |
"
When you think you've figured out Bielinsky's great game, that's when you're in the most trouble: He's the con, and you're just the mark."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 10, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
89%
|
Spider-Man (2002) |
"
An exuberance, a celebration, a hoot, a kick and a half."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 3, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
84%
|
Kissing Jessica Stein (2002) |
"
It's funny and human and really pretty damned wonderful, all at once."
—
Washington Post
Posted Mar 21, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
78%
|
Last Orders (2002) |
"
There's a wondrous sense of what all men should leave behind them: friendship, forgiveness and reconciliation."
—
Washington Post
Posted Mar 15, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
85%
|
Monster's Ball (2001) |
"
[Forster] tells his story with directness and simplicity and without the high hallmarks of the soaps' gooey emotional lubrication."
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 16, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
73%
|
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) |
"
Old-form moviemaking at its best."
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 3, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
76%
|
Black Hawk Down (2001) |
"
The next worst thing to being there. That's how real it feels."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 22, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
65%
|
Heist (2001) |
"
The movie is super fun, even if some of its tricks seem to strain credulity."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 24, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
70%
|
Liam (2001) |
"
A vivid, intense evocation of a ... time and place."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 9, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
77%
|
La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins) (2001) |
"
It's tough, interesting, scary, passionate, revealing."
—
Washington Post
Posted Sep 28, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
81%
|
Diamond Men (2001) |
"
Genuine, amusing and, best of all, humanly scaled and humanely oriented."
—
Washington Post
Posted Sep 7, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
Ghost World (2001) |
"
Zwigoff ... creates in Enid a character so real and poignant (yet hysterically funny), she'll linger for months or years."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 9, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
74%
|
Songcatcher (2001) |
"
It's powerful and powerfully musical."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 6, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
71%
|
Shadow Magic (2000) |
"
Sumptuous, warm, continually amazing, it's a completely enjoyable couple of hours at the flickers."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 20, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
77%
|
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
"
It's a new new thing, classic myth from both literature and the movies, commingled, set to great folk music, and untrammeled by any sense of predictability, urgency, realism or believability but hypnotic, graceful and seductive."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 29, 2000
|
|
4.5/5
|
75%
|
Quills (2000) |
"
It argues its case fairly, acknowledging the implicit dangers in its position, and dramatizing the price that inevitably will be paid for its cherished goal of untrammeled personal expression."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 15, 2000
|
|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
Boys Don't Cry (1999) |
"
Driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Sade (2000) |
"
There has always been something likable about the Marquis de Sade."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 7, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
El Hijo de la novia (Son of the Bride) (2002) |
"
Even the digressions are funny."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 26, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
48%
|
Big Trouble (2002) |
"
The way the roundelay of partners functions, and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of Gator-bashing are consistently delightful."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 5, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
59%
|
Blade II (2002) |
"
Ghastly yet wonderful at the same time."
—
Washington Post
Posted Mar 22, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
63%
|
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"
The story it tells is both forgotten and relevant, a neat trick."
—
Washington Post
Posted Mar 1, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
Le Battement d'Ailes du Papillon (Happenstance) (The Beating of the Butterfly's Wings) (2000) |
"
One look at Tautou's Irene and love has a face, if not a name."
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 15, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
62%
|
Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý svet) (2001) |
"
Sverak has a great feeling for the glories of airplanes, and the technical resources in the picture are astounding."
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 8, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del diablo) (2001) |
"
It builds, not so much logically as viscerally, until you feel you can't escape."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 11, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"
It makes you understand what it feels like to have a serious breakdown in powerful, empathetic ways that no movie has ever done before."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 6, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
45%
|
Jeepers Creepers (2001) |
"
If the reptile brain in you, that ugly little cluster of cerebral cells where all the destructive urges lie, needs a good jolt, Jeepers Creepers offers you just such a treat."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 6, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Kandahar (2001) |
"
It's a bleak testament to the pettiness of man -- or, in this case, men."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 4, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Gosford Park (2001) |
"
All in all, Gosford Park has nothing nice to say about anybody, and I like that in a movie."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 4, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
14%
|
Black Knight (2001) |
"
Slight but highly enjoyable."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 21, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) |
"
A glorious tribute to the splendors of what should rightfully be called the blackish and whitish movie."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 2, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Va Savoir (2001) |
"
It gets frenetic, in the French way, but it never stops getting amusing. This is what happens when you let grown-ups make movies."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 25, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Under the Sun (Under solen) (2000) |
"
This movie is stately, beautiful, straightforward and ultimately heartwarming."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 12, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Mulholland Drive (2001) |
"
The movie, it must be said, has a hypnotic rhythm that could only be Lynch's, and it really draws you in."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 12, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Aberdeen (2001) |
"
Clean and transparent, with no movie director tricks."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 8, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Joy Ride (2001) |
"
Expertly toys with the fear any carbon-based life-form feels when one of those Peterbilt express trains comes rolling by with a thundercrack of vibration at about 240 mph, gently urging us to move right or die crushed and bleeding."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 5, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
53%
|
A Love Divided (1999) |
"
A cautionary tale of the mischief that can happen when men no longer see their neighbors as human."
—
Washington Post
Posted Sep 21, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Bread and Tulips (2001) |
"
Sweet, delicately comic and a complete delight."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 24, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"
Blondes may or may not have more fun, but in this one case, they certainly provide more fun."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 13, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
The Circle (Dayereh) (2001) |
"
In its brisk way, it's a devastating piece of work, and very brave too."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 11, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Keep the River on Your Right - A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000) |
"
What's brilliant about the film is that it doesn't quite buy its hero's somewhat self-serving account."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 4, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
33%
|
One Night at McCool's (2001) |
"
Fun, if you're inclined toward cynicism, contempt, nihilism and cool stuff like that."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 27, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
37%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2001) |
"
For all of us bad little boys and girls."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 20, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
59%
|
The Low Down (2001) |
"
Yes, this is another English dramedy about the demands of friendship, but it's in a far more realist key than the posh, slick Hugh Grant films."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 20, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) |
"
All power to Firth the actor. He's the compleat Darcy, and he never wavers."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 13, 2001
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
When Brendan Met Trudy (Stolen Nights) (2001) |
"
Why is it so good? Well, mainly it's Brendan and Trudy."
—
Washington Post
Posted Mar 9, 2001
|
62%
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