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| Fresh 100%
| La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) | "
It’s a joyous experience to see an institution in full flower-- to see not dereliction and disorder but the many forms of striving and virtue." — New Yorker Posted Oct 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | You Cannot Start Without Me: Valery Gergiev - Maestro (2009) | "
The movie, though conventional in form, brings us close to an elemental ferocity just barely held in check." — New Yorker Posted Oct 26, 2009 |
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| Fresh 93%
| An Education (2009) | "
I have a feeling that Sarsgaard could have stretched the role a lot further if the script had allowed him to, but, still, what he does is surprising." — New Yorker Posted Oct 12, 2009 |
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| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
There’s a full complement of geese and mud and some women in bonnets, but Campion avoids finery and ceremony. She doesn’t show off the period; she triumphantly makes it a time in which people live as best they can." — New Yorker Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
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| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
The Informant! is a return to form for Soderbergh, who couldn’t seem to put anything resembling an emotional charge into his recent films...This time, Soderbergh is in full control, and his star is on fire." — New Yorker Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
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| Fresh 100%
| Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009) | "
The movie is an act of hero worship, but it inadvertently suggests that, without a necessary touch of grandiosity, Ellsberg might never have acted as bravely as he did." — New Yorker Posted Aug 31, 2009 |
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| Fresh 68%
| American Casino (2009) | "
The Cockburns have finally made a movie about a nuclear disaster that actually happened -- their subject is the social ecology of financial meltdown." — New Yorker Posted Aug 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Julie & Julia is one of the gentlest, most charming American movies of the past decade." — New Yorker Posted Aug 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Funny People is leisurely, with many extended sequences, but the performers’ natural command of rhythm holds it in tension." — New Yorker Posted Jul 27, 2009 |
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| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
An angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry." — New Yorker Posted Jun 22, 2009 |
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| Fresh 98%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
The Hurt Locker is a small classic of tension, bravery, and fear, which will be studied twenty years from now when people want to understand something of what happened to American soldiers in Iraq." — New Yorker Posted Jun 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
Some of the episodes are ripely satirical, others almost heartbreaking." — New Yorker Posted Jun 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
The movie is packed with lovely jokes, some of them funny in inexplicable ways." — New Yorker Posted Jun 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
In the end, Assayas, shooting the film with relaxed, flowing camera movements, gives his love not to beautiful objects but to the disorderly life out of which art is made." — New Yorker Posted May 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
Those who were furious at Tyson will be made even angrier by Toback’s film, for here is a fresh provocation—an attempt to restore to Tyson the human dimensions that have been taken from him (by himself, of course, as well as by others)." — New Yorker Posted May 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
The fights may not be very convincing, but the story’s underdog structure is satisfying in a happy-cliché sort of way. Fighting is Rocky without the bombast, Fight Club without the daft metaphysical pretensions." — New Yorker Posted May 4, 2009 |
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| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
I don’t know if Beethoven and a sympathetic newspaper reporter can redeem a messy American city, but this movie makes a plausible case for so fervent a dream." — New Yorker Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
Creating his fiction shrewdly, Ramin Bahrani ultimately suggests that finality, too, has its beauty, and must be valued as much as endless possibility." — New Yorker Posted Apr 6, 2009 |
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| Fresh 89%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
The story is semi-autobiographical, but has a gentler touch than his prior work on Superbad, and certainly relies less on slapstick episodes." — New Yorker Posted Apr 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
Duplicity is an enormously enjoyable hybrid, a romantic comedy set at the center of a caper movie." — New Yorker Posted Mar 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Coraline (2009) | "
A gift to imagination." — New Yorker Posted Feb 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Katyn (2007) | "
A stunning, epic film." — New Yorker Posted Feb 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Cherry Blossoms (2009) | "
The movie’s conceits are just barely endurable, but the sharpness of Dörrie’s eye -- for Tokyo’s electric night, for Fuji’s iconographic landscapes, for cherry blossoms -- sustains emotion even when story logic fails." — New Yorker Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
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| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
The movie, for all its morose impassivity, is beautiful and haunting." — New Yorker Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
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| Fresh 90%
| The Secret of the Grain (2008) | "
[Director] Kechiche digs a good story out of the flux, and, in the movie’s final forty minutes, the suspense is terrific." — New Yorker Posted Jan 5, 2009 |
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| Rotten 56%
| Defiance (2008) | "
The picture offers the most moving account we’ve ever had of how an ordinary, rather disagreeable man, challenged and then electrified by catastrophe, grows into a great leader." — New Yorker Posted Jan 5, 2009 |
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| Fresh 97%
| The Class (2008) | "
The Class is a prime document of French post-colonial blues, though its relevance to American urban education could not be any greater if it had been made in the Bronx or Trenton or South Los Angeles." — New Yorker Posted Dec 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Gran Torino (2008) | "
The movie, which Eastwood directed with his usual vigor, has plenty of violent scenes, but it’s mostly a rueful comedy of enlightenment." — New Yorker Posted Dec 15, 2008 |
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| Fresh 68%
| Revolutionary Road (2008) | "
It is honorably and brutally unnerving." — New Yorker Posted Dec 15, 2008 |
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| Fresh 91%
| Frost/Nixon (2008) | "
One of the virtues of Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard’s adaptation of Peter Morgan’s hit play, is that it brings the intelligence back to the forefront without dispelling the elements of menace and fraudulence that were also part of Nixon’s temperament." — New Yorker Posted Dec 1, 2008 |
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| Rotten 49%
| Twilight (2008) | "
Twilight, the first movie adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s series of best-selling teen novels, is going to be a big hit with young girls, and deservedly so -- the picture delivers." — New Yorker Posted Nov 24, 2008 |
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| Fresh 93%
| Milk (2008) | "
Giving himself utterly to the role, Penn takes an actor’s craft and dedication to soulful heights, making a demand for dignity that becomes universal." — New Yorker Posted Nov 24, 2008 |
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| Fresh 90%
| I've Loved You So Long (2008) | "
You may need to see I’ve Loved You So Long twice in order to see it once." — New Yorker Posted Nov 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Men in War (1957) | "
War on the ground has rarely been done much better than this." — New Yorker Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
Happy-Go-Lucky is triumphant proof that a creative middle way is always possible." — New Yorker Posted Oct 6, 2008 |
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| Rotten 51%
| Body of Lies (2008) | "
Smart and tightly drawn; it has a throat-gripping urgency and some serious insights, and Scott has a greater command of space and a more explicit way with violence than most thriller directors." — New Yorker Posted Oct 6, 2008 |
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| Fresh 76%
| Appaloosa (2008) | "
In all, Appaloosa is good as far as it goes -- everything in it feels true -- but I wish that Harris had pushed his ideas further." — New Yorker Posted Sep 22, 2008 |
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| Fresh 97%
| Trouble the Water (2008) | "
Trouble the Water, along with Spike Lee’s extraordinary four-hour epic, When the Levees Broke, remains one of the most eloquent records we have of a tragedy that brought out some of the most impressively alive men and women in New O" — New Yorker Posted Sep 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| I Served the King of England (2008) | "
Jiří Menzel’s I Served the King of England is a Czech national epic served up with champagne and truffles." — New Yorker Posted Aug 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Elegy (2008) | "
Of all the good actors who have adorned the middle-aged-professor films, Ben Kingsley, in Elegy, is the most formidable and convincing." — New Yorker Posted Aug 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) | "
Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona has a natural, flowing vitality to it, a sun-drenched splendor that never falters." — New Yorker Posted Aug 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| WALL-E (2008) | "
WALL-E is a classic, but it will never appeal to people who are happy with art only when it has as little bite as possible." — New Yorker Posted Jul 14, 2008 |
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| Fresh 93%
| Tell No One (2008) | "
We know the material is artificially -- even deviously -- constructed, and we enjoy being manipulated by people who know what they’re doing. But it’s Cluzet’s intense performance that makes this genre piece a heart-wrenching experience." — New Yorker Posted Jun 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Hancock (2008) | "
Hancock suggests new visual directions and emotional tonalities for pop. It’s by far the most enjoyable big movie of the summer." — New Yorker Posted Jun 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 54%
| Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) | "
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay, a loosely strung-together collection of sex, race, and stoner jokes, is, by any rational standard, a terrible movie, yet I kept laughing at it, and I came out of the theatre in a good mood." — New Yorker Posted May 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Noise (2008) | "
A splendidly eccentric independent film written and directed by Henry Bean." — New Yorker Posted May 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 51%
| Then She Found Me (2008) | "
With the screenwriters Alice Arlen and Victor Levin, Hunt adapted the story from a 1990 novel by Elinor Lipman, and has turned the material into a fine, tense, unpredictable comedy of mixed-up emotions and sudden illuminations." — New Yorker Posted Apr 28, 2008 |
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| Rotten 49%
| Smart People (2008) | "
In his first film as director, Noam Murro creates moments of comic disconnection, relieved by minuscule surges of warmth. He’s very precise; he has a nice touch." — New Yorker Posted Apr 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Stop-Loss (2008) | "
Stop-Loss is not a great movie, but it’s forceful, effective, and alive, with the raw, mixed-up emotions produced by an endless war -- a time when the patriotism of military families is in danger of being exploited beyond endurance." — New Yorker Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
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| Fresh 100%
| Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) | "
Along with No End in Sight, this movie is one of the essential documentaries of the ongoing war." — New Yorker Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
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