Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 87%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
A masterpiece; maybe even their best since Fargo. It is certainly the most deeply felt." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 12, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 97%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
The kind of film that will make you feel better about cinema, humanity, and life itself." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
As fine and hilarious a political comedy as any we've had in a generation." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Rotten 39%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
Where I see thrilling structural and formal exploration, another viewer could see so much pretentious twaddle, and that's a perfectly reasonable response." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 12, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 89%
| Coraline (2009) | "
Head and shoulders above any other family fantasy in recent memory." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Feb 9, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) | "
A compelling and unique character study." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 90%
| 24 City (2009) | "
One of the year's best... a narrative film masquerading as a documentary, and more of an essay on the status of life in a modernising China than either" — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 27, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| You, the Living (2009) | "
It's always the movies that seem the least like movies that are the truest to life." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 13, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
Leigh finally discovers the entire other half of human experience that he's always ignored, and in the process directs his best film since Secrets & Lies." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 2, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 77%
| Burn After Reading (2008) | "
Easily the funniest film by Joel and Ethan Coen since The Big Lebowski...feels more like their old stuff than anything else they've done in a decade." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 14, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 92%
| Alexandra (2008) | "
Here is what filmmaking looks like at its absolute best: a movie of bold and aggressive originality that expresses itself with the utmost delicacy." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 94%
| The Dark Knight (2008) | "
A very exhausting film...something far more than just an entertainment." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 95%
| My Winnipeg (2008) | "
It's probably [Maddin's] best work yet...his easiest, funniest and most watchable film." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 96%
| WALL-E (2008) | "
Miraculous." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 60%
| The Fall (2008) | "
The narrative is nothing more than a framework for scenes of unforgettable visual art..it still comes across as the cinema's best exploration of how stories are made in many a year." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 2, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 91%
| There Will Be Blood (2007) | "
An overwhelming experience...simple even as it is devastating." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jan 4, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
The hype was right. No Country for Old Men is basically flawless." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 12, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 74%
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) | "
An astounding work of mythological storytelling." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 8, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 89%
| Zodiac (2007) | "
The 158 minute running time is not only earned but vital, stretching out the years and reminding us of the sheer man-hours invested in this colossal dead-end." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 82%
| Grindhouse (2007) | "
It is a movie about watching itself, and that is both solipsistic and pure genius." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 87%
| After The Wedding (2007) | "
One of the very best films to be released in America in the first third of 2007." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 97%
| The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) | "
An operatic tragicomedy of rivalry, jealousy, failure, and success." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 96%
| Ratatouille (2007) | "
Simultaneously 2007's best adventure movie and its most moving coming-of-age story." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 12, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 96%
| Yi Yi (2000) | "
Every beat and every image and every cut and every note feels like a part of a whole. It is a total movie." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 95%
| The Insider (1999) | "
Not a single shot could be improved in either lighting or framing; nor is there even a single cut that could be moved by so much as a frame without damaging the exactitude of its placement." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Toy Story (1995) | "
Time has been kind to it, and future years I imagine will still be kind; a classic is forever." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 89%
| The Piano (1993) | "
A stunning mood piece and a haunting adult fairy tale." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 91%
| Naked (1993) | "
May well be Mike Leigh's greatest work, though it's a tough film to love or even respect." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jan 27, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 93%
| Beauty and the Beast (1991) | "
This isn't merely the best of the princess features; it's very close to being the best Disney movie of them all." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 91%
| An Angel at My Table (1991) | "
Anyone who can make a more than 2.5-hour biopic about a New Zealand writer feel as quick and fleet as this is clearly doing something extremely right." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 83%
| A Short Film About Killing (1988) | "
One of the ugliest movies ever made, and that's just exactly the way it should be: it takes place in an irredeemably ugly world." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Aug 4, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 88%
| Down by Law (1986) | "
Every single incident in the film is meaningful." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Mar 2, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Shoah (1985) | "
The chief success of the film...is to remove the Holocaust from its comfortably horrifying place in history, and restore a human face to the atrocities." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 27, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| The Terminator (1984) | "
I remain perpetually amazed by how magnificently Cameron keeps the tension up... there is not a single moment that isn't operating at 100%." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 6, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Berlin Alexanderplatz (1983) | "
One of the greatest character studies imaginable." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 18, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 90%
| Sans Soleil (1982) | "
Sans soleil is more intuitive than rational, and that makes it a singular, overpowering experience." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 12, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Thief (1981) | "
Not just the best film of [Michael Mann's] career, but one of the best American films of the whole of the 1980s." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 93%
| Halloween (1978) | "
Virtually perfect. It is the one horror film that I would beg each and every lover of movies to watch, if I could pick only one." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 13, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 95%
| Opening Night (1977) | "
As densely layered and difficult as anything else Cassavetes ever directed, as dense as any American film from the 1970s." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 23, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| All the President's Men (1976) | "
It really couldn't be better made in any respect. The cinematography, sound, editing, acting - all of them are effectively flawless." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) | "
There are as many ways to understand Jeanne Dielman as there are ways to understand art and life itself... not an easy nor a straightforward movie, and one must meet it at least halfway if not further." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 11, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Deep Red: The Hatchet Murders (1975) | "
I'm not comfortable with any definition of "great cinema" that doesn't include Deep Red." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jan 19, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 92%
| The Parallax View (1974) | "
One of the great American films from arguably the finest decade in American filmmaking." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 95%
| Don't Look Now (1974) | "
The most adult horror picture I've ever encountered, or indeed can even imagine." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 9, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 90%
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) | "
It's a masterpiece, pure and simple..a smart young director summing up the basest instincts of his species." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 1, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 91%
| Thieves Like Us (1974) | "
A sleepy film about a motley collection of dim, but well-meaning failures. A perfect Altman film, in other words." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Spirit of the Beehive (1973) | "
A most exceptional vision of the inner life of a child just learning about the darker complexities of life." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 6, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| The Mother and the Whore (1973) | "
Comes close to capturing the pacing of life itself, where great changes happen at great length." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 1, 2008 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 90%
| Bay of Blood (1971) | "
If only one-hundredth of the films it influenced had one-hundredth of its perfection, the horror film would be a much less disreputable and more wonderful thing than has been the case." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 14, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| N/A | Phantom India (1969) | "
It is impossible to fathom three people making a film of such reach and ambition as Phantom India." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
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