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A
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86%
|
Collateral (2004) |
"
A thing of lean, cool beauty, the movie's a killer showcase for Foxx and Cruise."
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 5, 2004
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|
A
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95%
|
The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003) |
"
It's original --- an elemental, unforgettable experience."
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 13, 2004
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|
A
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97%
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (2001) |
"
So good, it reminds you how the best films transport you to another world."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 11, 2001
|
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A-
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88%
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Red Road (2007) |
"
A must for movie lovers who want to see how so much drama, mystery and emotion can be created from so little."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jun 16, 2007
|
|
A-
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90%
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Capote (2005) |
"
Hoffman goes beyond impersonation to something close to possession."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 29, 2005
|
|
A-
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87%
|
A History of Violence (2005) |
"
A model of clean, lean storytelling."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 2, 2005
|
|
A-
|
84%
|
The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) (The Sea Within) (2004) |
"
Bardem's Ramón is such a vital life force, it's all the more bittersweet to watch him fight to leave a world that would be much emptier and sadder without him in it."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Feb 17, 2005
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A-
|
69%
|
Carandiru (2004) |
"
The movie has a tactile reality. You can almost smell it."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jul 15, 2004
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|
A-
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76%
|
Bon Voyage (2004) |
"
A sophisticated farce about an unlikely subject."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 7, 2004
|
|
A-
|
85%
|
Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) |
"
While Tarantino has toned down the action scenes, the way he films them can still surprise."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 15, 2004
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|
A-
|
80%
|
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) |
"
The next best thing to riding a sub to the bottom of the North Atlantic and prowling around the sunken ocean liner."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 10, 2003
|
|
A-
|
92%
|
Panic (2000) |
"
It's less the plot than the texture that makes the film such an engaging surprise."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 17, 2001
|
|
A-
|
62%
|
The Claim (2000) |
"
A moody, mesmerizing tale of attempted redemption, bursting with unexpected images."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 19, 2001
|
|
A-
|
56%
|
The Mexican (2001) |
"
A terrific ensemble comedy-adventure about guns, messy relationships and dusty El Caminos."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Mar 1, 2001
|
|
A-
|
77%
|
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
"
Mixing dark humor with high spirits, the brothers take some wild risks that pay off surprisingly well."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 11, 2001
|
|
A-
|
78%
|
Requiem for a Dream (2000) |
"
Film lovers with a high threshold for unpleasantness will get a contact high from Aronofsky's muscular manipulations of imagery and editing."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
A-
|
88%
|
Girlfight (2000) |
"
A crowdpleaser that never sacrifices its brain to the sucker-punch tricks of so many Hollywood films."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
A-
|
85%
|
Billy Elliot (2000) |
"
One of those rare movies that earns its feel-good ending without turning a blind eye to the compromises and little sorrows of everyday life."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
A-
|
53%
|
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) |
"
It's the rare holiday movie that manages to entertain the kid in all of us, without forgetting that grownups love the Grinch, too."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
A-
|
92%
|
High Fidelity (2000) |
"
As smart as it is enjoyable."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
A-
|
86%
|
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) |
"
Under Spike Lee's direction it's one of the liveliest concert films in years."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
B+
|
71%
|
28 Weeks Later... (2007) |
"
Bloodier and more action-filled than the original, Weeks nevertheless stays faithful to the grim, grimy tone director Danny Boyle established in his 2002 film with its haunting shots of a metropolis turned into a tomb."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 10, 2007
|
|
B+
|
76%
|
The Prestige (2006) |
"
The movie is a mind-tickler that makes the viewer actively engage with the story and try to penetrate its elegant sleight-of-hand."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 19, 2006
|
|
B+
|
97%
|
49 Up (2006) |
"
The films have taken on an autumnal shade as we revisit people who seem quietly aware that the years behind them are more than those ahead."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 5, 2006
|
|
B+
|
78%
|
House of Sand (Casa de Areia) (2006) |
"
Rigorously structured, but with the power to shake you to the heart."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 7, 2006
|
|
B+
|
55%
|
The Protector (Tom yum goong) (Warrior King) (2005) |
"
This guilty-pleasure adrenaline rush has one goal in mind: to be an airtight action machine that leaves you dizzy from the crunchety-crunch-crunch of Tony Jaa as he proves himself a contender with Jackie Chan and Jet Li."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 7, 2006
|
|
B+
|
84%
|
The Descent (2006) |
"
Marshall understands that sometimes there's nothing quite as oddly exhilarating as the bleakest, no-way-out kind of horror."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 3, 2006
|
|
B+
|
79%
|
Brick (2006) |
"
What sounds like a stunt, or a genre-mashup oddity like Bugsy Malone, proves to be a sharp, tongue-in-cheek exercise, balancing deadpan menace with well-timed comedy."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 6, 2006
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"
Block Party is an easygoing, loose-limbed, big-lunged celebration of, well, celebration."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Mar 2, 2006
|
|
B+
|
89%
|
Paradise Now (2005) |
"
The movie is driven by the characters' passionate, despairing arguments about the fine line between victimization and violence. But Paradise Now also has, at times, an almost surreal visual flair."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 10, 2005
|
|
B+
|
93%
|
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) (Lift to the Scaffold) (Frantic) (1958) |
"
The movie's most compelling element of all is Moreau, wandering the nighttime streets trying to find her lover. It's as if she's blown from one cafe to the next on a blended wind of passion, dread and the lonely trumpet wail."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 22, 2005
|
|
B+
|
84%
|
2046 (2005) |
"
Think of it as a visual tone poem about longing and loss, a journey through a vale of luminously beautiful tears."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 1, 2005
|
|
B+
|
84%
|
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004) |
"
It's about the gradual wakening into awareness, the graduation from carefree youth to responsible adulthood."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 7, 2004
|
|
B+
|
65%
|
Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence (2004) |
"
Solemnly questioning issues of science and metaphysics, it creates a spell that's a unique blend of the ominous and the sensual."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 23, 2004
|
|
B+
|
93%
|
Spider-Man 2 (2004) |
"
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a sequel can. And then some."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jun 29, 2004
|
|
B+
|
94%
|
The Triplets of Belleville (2003) |
"
Zee French, zay are different, non? Well, in this case, wonderfully so."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 13, 2004
|
|
B+
|
91%
|
Shaolin Soccer (2004) |
"
It's genial goofiness can keep you smiling for 87 minutes."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 29, 2004
|
|
B+
|
85%
|
Faithless (2001) |
"
It's a movie that shows us that the silence between two people can be more dramatic than 100 pages of dialogue."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Feb 21, 2004
|
|
B+
|
85%
|
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003) |
"
A muted but engrossing look at marriage at a crossroads."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 17, 2003
|
|
B+
|
96%
|
Elsker dig for evigt (Open Hearts) (2002) |
"
A small-scale domestic drama with large-scale feeling."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 27, 2003
|
|
B+
|
65%
|
Bread and Roses (2001) |
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 30, 2001
|
|
B+
|
64%
|
O (2001) |
"
One of the most emotionally effective versions of Othello yet."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 30, 2001
|
|
B+
|
84%
|
The Others (2001) |
"
An old-fashioned, goose-pimply movie."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 9, 2001
|
|
B+
|
73%
|
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"
A film to see with friends. You'll want to talk about it afterward."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jun 28, 2001
|
|
B+
|
55%
|
Hamlet (2000) |
"
A moody and compelling update of Shakespeare's classic."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Mar 9, 2001
|
|
B+
|
75%
|
Before Night Falls (2001) |
"
A visually arresting, well-acted biopic that would be better in Spanish."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Feb 17, 2001
|
|
B+
|
82%
|
Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (2000) |
"
compellingly strange twist on the mafia genre"
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
B+
|
47%
|
The Perfect Storm (2000) |
"
When so many movies promise a roller-coaster ride, Storm is one of the few that delivers more than noise."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
B+
|
76%
|
The Virgin Suicides (2000) |
"
This shimmery, darkly comic adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel marks the assured, often inspired feature film debut of writer-director Sofia Coppola."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
61%
|
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) |
"
Stiles nails her feminazi, bound-for-Sarah Lawrence shtick, but just as easily melts into giggles or pulls off a slapstick drunk scene."
—
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Mar 6, 2005
|
62%
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