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5/5
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100%
|
A Night to Remember (1958) |
"
Baker cuts to the chase - the iceberg strikes 30 minutes in - and maintains tension with consummate skill: not an easy task when the outcome is already known."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 10, 2012
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5/5
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90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
It's ... remarkable to see a mainstream movie touch on so many fascinating, powerful ideas without losing sight of its prime directive: to scare the socks off its audience."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 10, 2012
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5/5
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76%
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Rampart (2012) |
"
Sure to provoke furious reactions in those unwilling to succumb to its mood of reckless abandon. But for those who can, this feverish slice of LA noir is set to be one of the purest cinematic pleasures of 2012."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 21, 2012
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5/5
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74%
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Kill List (2012) |
"
Allow the film to take hold and its power is inescapable: the effect is like placing your head in a vice and waiting as it inexorably closes."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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5/5
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99%
|
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
"
A film of pure sensation, dazzling audiences with light and noise, laying bare the stark horror - and unimaginable thrill - of combat."
—
Time Out
Posted May 25, 2011
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5/5
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89%
|
World's Greatest Dad (2009) |
"
The bravest, smartest comedy of the year."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 22, 2010
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5/5
|
95%
|
Mother (Madeo) (2010) |
"
Bold, unpredictable and quietly devastating, Mother is Bong's first masterpiece."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 19, 2010
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5/5
|
87%
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"
In fusing European experimentalism and Hollywood boldness, Herzog has created a genuine oddity, a furious and unforgettable hybrid which may well prove to be 2010's most purely enjoyable moviegoing experience."
—
Time Out
Posted May 20, 2010
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5/5
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100%
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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) |
"
Charles Crichton's direction is subtle but inventive - check out the snaking, near-single-take opening in a Rio cabana - and the performances, writing and plotting are faultless."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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5/5
|
100%
|
Cutter's Way (1981) |
"
The result is nothing less than a modern masterpiece, and a film ripe for rediscovery."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
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5/5
|
100%
|
Went the Day Well? (1942) |
"
Still truly unnerving, one can only imagine how terrifying it must have been for audiences facing the very real threat of Nazi enslavement."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 26, 2006
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5/6
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85%
|
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"
Those who surrender to Demme's disarming, almost participatory technique will find themselves overwhelmed, exhilarated and inspired by the eternal possibilities of cinema."
—
Time Out Sydney
Posted Feb 13, 2009
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4/5
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
This is as close as cinema gets to a fairground ride: it's shiny, noisy and exhilarating."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2012
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|
4/5
|
94%
|
Marley (2012) |
"
Such an honest depiction can only contribute to a deeper appreciation of this remarkable artist."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 17, 2012
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4/5
|
92%
|
Headhunters (2012) |
"
Always deliriously entertaining."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 3, 2012
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|
4/5
|
86%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
"
A brilliant mish-mash of styles and genres, crammed with ideas and intelligence and carried off with a sense of rebellious fun and breathtaking invention not seen since, well, 'The Wrong Trousers'. Glorious."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 27, 2012
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4/5
|
100%
|
Position Among the Stars (2011) |
"
A singularly intimate and honest experience, as powerful bonds are formed between 'us', the viewer, and 'them', the subjects."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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4/5
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
A film bursting at the seams with sheer, unadulterated joy: watch it, and the world seems just that little bit brighter..."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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|
4/5
|
76%
|
Bombay Beach (2011) |
"
Har'el's film is at times bizarrely uplifting, at others crushingly sad..."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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4/5
|
79%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
After the excesses of 'The A-Team', this is Carnahan stripping it back to basics - seven men, one wilderness, countless beasts."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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4/5
|
92%
|
Take Shelter (2011) |
"
When future film historians look back at the cultural fallout from America's financial collapse, 'Take Shelter' will be a key text. That is, if the storm doesn't sweep us all away."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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4/5
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
A film which, in both its rip-roaring, globe-trotting narrative and its visceral dedication to pure white-knuckle thrills, is the true successor to his original 'Indy' trilogy."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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|
4/5
|
92%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
Sure, it's shallow, but it's also slickly compelling, beautifully crafted and so damn shiny."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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4/5
|
96%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) |
"
While it's unfolding, this is just terrific fun: eye-scorching, ear-battering, heart-pounding cinema of pure spectacle."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2011
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4/5
|
90%
|
Bridesmaids (2011) |
"
An effortless blend of bad taste and good humour with a wholly believable, often very touching emotional core, all centred around one of the finest star-making comic performances in recent memory."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
The Messenger (2009) |
"
[An] unpredictable, episodic, deeply resonant character piece."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 15, 2011
|
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4/5
|
91%
|
Donor Unknown (2011) |
"
Surprising, amusing and oddly melancholic: a genuine human drama."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 1, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Win Win (2011) |
"
What's just delightful about this wittily observed and touchingly truthful affair is the fact it offers consistently sherbety entertainment in the moment but ultimately holds to its purpose of saying something useful and genuine about real lives."
—
Time Out
Posted May 18, 2011
|
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4/5
|
71%
|
Hanna (2011) |
"
While the film as a whole may be episodic and wayward, and not always in a good way, the action scenes are uniformly sharp, inventive and gripping."
—
Time Out
Posted May 3, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
Cold Weather (2011) |
"
Katz's characters are beautifully observed, the autumnal photography of downtown Portland is lovely, and the tension is expertly maintained..."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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|
4/5
|
92%
|
Benda Bilili! (2011) |
"
An uplifting, understated and wholly engaging insight into a world entirely unlike our own..."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
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4/5
|
62%
|
Howl (2010) |
"
This is a bold, inspiring piece of work, putting experimental techniques in the service of a heartfelt, insightful and surprisingly audience-friendly work of art."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 23, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
45%
|
Drive Angry (2011) |
"
'Drive Angry' is a mish-mash of familiar elements, but it's all lashed together with such relentless drive, blunt invention and pitch-black wit that it's hard not to get dragged along by it."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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|
4/5
|
80%
|
Confessions (Kokuhaku) (2010) |
"
'Confessions' may be too grimly cynical to convince fully, but its combination of visual excess, dark wit, random violence, psychological insight and raw emotional intensity is intoxicating."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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4/5
|
100%
|
Son of Babylon (Ibn Babil) () |
"
Al Daradji directs with a sure hand, avoiding icy realism and chest-beating melodrama. The result is warm, human and quietly devastating."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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4/5
|
40%
|
Henry's Crime (2011) |
"
Farmiga radiates warmth and Caan hasn't had a role this meaty since 'Misery'. A quiet triumph."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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|
4/5
|
90%
|
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) |
"
'Rare Exports' is an enormously entertaining and unpredictable Yuletide romp packed with sly wit, solid scares and naked geriatrics."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 1, 2010
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4/5
|
79%
|
Little Big Soldier (Da bing xiao jiang) (2010) |
"
Genre-benders who like their Leone-esque historical slapstick buddy-action epics with a side order of political tragedy will find much to enjoy here."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 29, 2010
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4/5
|
79%
|
The Other Guys (2010) |
"
There's a wealth of joyously berserk idiot humour, fusing slapstick and satire, surrealism and stream-of-consciousness improv into what could well prove the funniest movie of the year."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 15, 2010
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|
4/5
|
80%
|
Cyrus (2010) |
"
Simply by treating these characters as real, with all the uncertainty, emotional baggage and bad decisions that entails, the Duplasses expertly expose the hypocrisy of the airbrushed all-American ideal."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 8, 2010
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4/5
|
50%
|
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) |
"
My Son, My Son... may be a minor work in the Herzog canon but it's still one of the more fascinating, frustrating, disturbing and beautiful experiences available to cinemagoers this year."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 8, 2010
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4/5
|
73%
|
Get Him to the Greek (2010) |
"
This is Brand's movie all the way: he's the one snorting the drugs, throwing the tantrums and getting the lion's share of the laughs."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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4/5
|
100%
|
Fish Story (Fisshu sutori) (2011) |
"
The result is a wonderfully entertaining and affecting patchwork of ideas, incidents, contrivance and coincidence."
—
Time Out
Posted May 27, 2010
|
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4/5
|
61%
|
The Scouting Book for Boys (2009) |
"
Harper has done enough with this striking, ambitious debut to herald the arrival of a major new filmmaking talent."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 19, 2010
|
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4/5
|
86%
|
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"
his sense of unpredictability, coupled with some breathlessly paced and visually stunning action scenes, makes this the animated success of 2009... at least until Up opens next month."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 15, 2009
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4/5
|
98%
|
The Last Waltz (2002) |
"
It's arguably the most beautiful of rock movies, while the musical highlights - 'The Weight' with the Staples Singers, Van Morrison's firebolt 'Caravan', every Levon Helm vocal - still astound."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
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4/6
|
94%
|
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) |
"
The end product, while shallow and sometimes disconcertingly furtive, offers an enlightening, pleasurable peek into one of cinema's more enticing dark corners."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 13, 2009
|
|
4/6
|
84%
|
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
"
'Sarah Marshall' remains a film of glorious moments and memorable scenes, lovingly crafted characters and sparkling one-liners."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 25, 2008
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
"
For now, count 'The Raid' alongside the likes of Peter Jackson's 'Bad Taste' or Guillermo del Toro's 'Mimic': a talented young filmmaker flexing his muscles, stating his intent, and promising better things in the future."
—
Time Out
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Get the Gringo () |
"
Superbly constructed, pithily scripted and absurdly entertaining."
—
Time Out
Posted May 9, 2012
|
63%
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