|
5/5
|
96%
|
Cinderella (1950) |
"
Considering the army of craftsmen who work on a Disney cartoon film, it is hard to give individual credits, for the memorable qualities."
—
New York Times
Posted May 6, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Hamlet (1948) |
"
The matter is settled; the filmed Hamlet of Laurence Olivier gives absolute proof that these classics are magnificiently suited to the screen."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 12, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Limelight (1952) |
"
Neither comedy nor tragedy altogether, it is a brilliant weaving of comic and tragic strands, eloquent, tearful and beguiling with supreme virtuosity."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 25, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Aparajito (1956) |
"
It is done with such rare feeling and skill at pictorial imagery, and with such sympathetic understanding of Indian character on the part of Mr. Ray, that it develops a sort of hypnotism for the serene and tolerant viewer."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 25, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Forbidden Planet (1956) |
"
Offers some of the most amusing creatures conceived since the Keystone cops."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 25, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Christmas in July (1940) |
"
As a creator of rich and human comedy Mr. Sturges is closing fast on the heels of Frank Capra."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 28, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Foreign Correspondent (1940) |
"
Into it Director Alfred Hitchcock, whose unmistakable stamp the picture bears, has packed about as much romantic action, melodramatic hullabaloo, comical diversion and illusion of momentous consequence as the liveliest imagination could conceive."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 28, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 (A Married Woman) (1964) |
"
If Jean-Luc Godard isn't careful he is going to shoot his way right out of the avant-garde -- out of the idolatrous affection of all those cinema buffs who go for movies that are formless and obscure."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 24, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
Donzoko (The Lower Depths) (1957) |
"
This is the purpose of the picture, to make one suffer and sympathize with them. Kurosawa's darkly imagistic technique achieves this depressing aim."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 10, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961) |
"
Be prepared for an experience such as you've never had from watching a film when you sit down to look at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, a truly extraordinary French film."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Jalsaghar (The Music Room) (1958) |
"
For all its exotic stimulations, it is an exceedingly simple, moving film, expressing a human dilemma that should be comprehensible to all."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (1964) |
"
The consequence is a crescendo of excitement and involvement with the fervor and passion of Jesus and an accumulating sense of the irony and tragedy of Jesus' suffering, in historical as well as spiritual terms."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
99%
|
La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) (1967) |
"
It looks beyond any question to be an original documentary film, put together from newsreel footage, complemented by staged dramatic scenes."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 26, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Henry V (The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1946) |
"
A stunningly brilliant and intriguing screen spectacle, rich in theatrical invention, in heroic imagery and also gracefully regardful of the conventions of the Elizabethan stage."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 13, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Roma, città aperta (Open City) (1946) |
"
The total effect of the picture is a sense of real experience, achieved as much by the performance as by the writing and direction."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Citizen Kane (1941) |
"
Citizen Kane is far and away the most surprising and cinematically exciting motion picture to be seen here in many a moon. As a matter of fact, it comes close to being the most sensational film ever made in Hollywood."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Wages of Fear (1953) |
"
The excitement derives entirely from the awareness of nitroglycerine and the gingerly, breathless handling of it. You sit there waiting for the theatre to explode."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
"
Brilliant is the word, and no other, to describe the quality of skills that have gone into the making of this picture."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
In Which We Serve (1942) |
"
One of the most eloquent motion pictures of these or any other times had its American premiére at the Capitol Theatre last night."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
72%
|
On the Beach (1959) |
"
The great merit of this picture, aside from its entertaining qualities, is the fact that it carries a passionate conviction that man is worth saving, after all."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Search (1948) |
"
The Search, in our estimation, is a major revelation in our times."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955) |
"
This is one of the dandiest mystery dramas that has shown here in goodness knows when."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
The Great Dictator (1940) |
"
Now that the waiting is over and the shivers of suspense at an end, let the trumpets be sounded and the banners flung against the sky."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) |
"
This riotously funny motion picture, this superlative small-town comedy, is also one of the wisest ever to burst from a big-time studio."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
"
It is the best courtroom melodrama this old judge has ever seen."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Third Man (1949) |
"
Top credit must go to Mr. Reed for molding all possible elements into a thriller of superconsequence."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Casablanca (1943) |
"
Yes, indeed, the Warners here have a picture which makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
High Noon (1952) |
"
Meaningful in its implications, as well as loaded with interest and suspense, High Noon is a western to challenge Stagecoach for the all-time championship."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) |
"
[Let us] heartily proclaim that it is the freshest little picture in a long time, and maybe even the best comedy of this year."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
"
It is seldom that there comes a motion picture which can be wholly and enthusiastically endorsed not only as superlative entertainment but as food for quiet and humanizing thought."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
8 1/2 (1963) |
"
Here is a piece of entertainment that will really make you sit up straight and think, a movie endowed with the challenge of a fascinating intellectual game."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Bicycle Thieves) (1949) |
"
Again the Italians have sent us a brilliant and devastating film in Vittorio De Sica's rueful drama of modern city life, The Bicycle Thief."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Jigokumon (Gate of Hell) (1954) |
"
It is hard to convey in simple language the moving qualities of this lovely film, which, among other things, was the winner of the grand prize at the Cannes film festival last spring."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Fantasia (1940) |
"
Fantasia is simply terrific -- as terrific as anything that has ever happened on a screen."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) |
"
You've got to hand it to Alfred Hitchcock: when he sows the fearful seeds of mistrust in one of his motion pictures he can raise more goose pimples to the square inch of a customer's flesh than any other director of thrillers in Hollywood."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
"
Inner torments are seldom projected with such sensitivity and clarity on the screen."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
Tom Jones (1963) |
"
Prepare yourself for what is surely one of the wildest, bawdiest and funniest comedies that a refreshingly agile filmmaker has ever brought to the screen."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
The King and I (1956) |
"
If you don't...see [The King and I], believe us, you'll be missing a grand and moving thing."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Ben-Hur (1959) |
"
Mr. Wyler and his money-free producers have smartly and effectively laid stress on the powerful and meaningful personal conflicts that are strong in this old heroic tale."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Carnal Knowledge (1971) |
"
In addition to being the toughest comedy since Little Murders, and the most imaginative comedy since Catch 22, Carnal Knowledge represents a nearly ideal collaboration of directorial and writing talents."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
La Dolce Vita (1960) |
"
In sum, it is an awesome picture, licentious in content but moral and vastly sophisticated in its attitude and what it says."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
The Graduate (1967) |
"
Makes you feel a little tearful and choked-up while it is making you laugh yourself raw."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet) (1957) |
"
Essentially intellectual, yet emotionally stimulating, too, it is as tough -- and rewarding -- a screen challenge as the moviegoer has had to face this year."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods) (1951) |
"
Much of the power of the picture -- and it unquestionably has hypnotic power -- derives from the brilliance with which the camera of director Akira Kurosawa has been used."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Mrs. Miniver (1942) |
"
Certainly it is the finest film yet made about the present war, and a most exalting tribute to the British, who have taken it gallantly."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
"
Greed, a despicable passion out of which other base ferments may spawn, is seldom treated in the movies with the frank and ironic contempt that is vividly manifested toward it in Treasure of Sierra Madre."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
86%
|
Blow-Up (1966) |
"
This is a fascinating picture, which has something real to say about the matter of personal involvement and emotional commitment in a jazzed-up, media-hooked-in world so cluttered with synthetic stimulations that natural feelings are overwhelmed."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Dumbo (1941) |
"
A film you will never forget."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1960) |
"
An impressive capstone is put not only upon a touching human drama but also upon the development of a genuine artist's skill."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Stalag 17 (1953) |
"
A cracker jack movie entertainment."
—
New York Times
Posted May 20, 2003
|
67%
——
98%
