|
4/4
|
84%
|
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
—
UK Critic
Posted Oct 31, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
60%
|
The Dreamers (2004) |
"
It's thrilling."
—
UK Critic
Posted Mar 18, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
"
Ultimately this journey has been about the endgame, and now that we're here, we get a shattering sense of all that is at stake."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 4, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
Gremlins (1984) |
"
A movie that lives inside our memories of movies, and tramples all over them with a crazed, subversive joy."
—
UK Critic
Posted Dec 14, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
48%
|
She's Having a Baby (1988) |
"
It should have been the movie where Hughes got Oscar nominations; the Academy weren't going to award his comedies, but here is where he showed he could branch out and grow up."
—
UK Critic
Posted Nov 16, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) |
"
The dialogue of Preston Sturges shoots and shoots, never seems to miss, and convinces you of its genius in around about a minute."
—
UK Critic
Posted Oct 22, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
85%
|
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) |
"
Has all the coolness and daring and wit through which Tarantino made his name. It delivers what we expected, and packs some shocking punches on top."
—
UK Critic
Posted Oct 17, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
83%
|
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) |
"
One of the great popular entertainments of our time, a film that still has a place on the top 40 list of American box-office champs, and continues to look slick and full of energy almost twenty years after opening."
—
UK Critic
Posted Sep 10, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
If.... (1968) |
"
To describe it in text makes it sound like an obliquely hardcore art movie. But it speaks for itself, as a sensory and emotional experience."
—
UK Critic
Posted Aug 17, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
"
At the end of both movies, I find myself overcome by an extraordinary swell of emotion."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jul 23, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Terminator (1984) |
"
At the end of both movies, I find myself overcome by an extraordinary swell of emotion."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jul 23, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
74%
|
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) |
"
There are levels on which it works, and levels on which it doesn't, but all of them hold our attention."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jul 6, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Rope (1948) |
"
A minor masterpiece; Hitchcock could turn out brilliance even when he considered himself to be simply playing around."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jul 6, 2003
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Taxi Driver (1976) |
"
A movie to educate us about life on darker sides of the soul, or steer us away from living that life. It draws us in with a conviction that makes us feel like we're living it."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jul 6, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
"
The simple truth is, no other movie has the same power to unite audiences in wonder and fulfilment."
—
UK Critic
Posted Apr 13, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Adaptation (2002) |
"
Gets thoughts and sentences rushing down the hallways of the mind, screaming at each other to get past."
—
UK Critic
Posted Mar 16, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
56%
|
Irreversible (2002) |
"
Few films are as uncomfortably involving as this one -- the techniques lack subtlety, and could have come off as amateurish, but they pound and build in the way that bad recollections circle in the mind to create queasiness and stress."
—
UK Critic
Posted Feb 23, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
81%
|
The Hours (2002) |
"
It captures the feeling of a long, forgiving gaze."
—
UK Critic
Posted Feb 23, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
64%
|
Basic Instinct (1992) |
"
Could we be ready to stop snickering about it and admit to its status as a modern classic?"
—
UK Critic
Posted Feb 16, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"
This movie got me grinning. There's a part of us that cannot help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something."
—
UK Critic
Posted Feb 9, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2003) |
"
Heartbreaking and savage without being affectedly artsy or lingering. It employs sound and visuals that have a knack for conveying senses of humour, rhythms of days and the auras and values of people."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 19, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) (1957) |
"
An intense concentration of power, and my all-time favourite film."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 10, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Bowling for Columbine (2002) |
"
It could change America, not only because it is full of necessary discussion points, but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment."
—
UK Critic
Posted Dec 10, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
83%
|
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"
I stopped thinking about how good it all was, and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations, thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled, feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness, gasping at its visual delights."
—
UK Critic
Posted Nov 26, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"
One of the best films I have ever seen, constantly pulling the rug from underneath us, seeing things from new sides, plunging deeper, getting more intense."
—
UK Critic
Posted Nov 5, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
74%
|
Signs (2002) |
"
The work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them. Strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency."
—
UK Critic
Posted Oct 6, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
74%
|
Frailty (2002) |
"
This film is a thinking outside of the box, an answer to viewers who think we can convince ourselves of what not to expect."
—
UK Critic
Posted Oct 6, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Lantana (2002) |
"
It makes thoughts and emotional webs run wild in our heads, and leaves us unsure of how to describe them, simply by focusing on the complexity of people."
—
UK Critic
Posted Sep 9, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
Tape (2001) |
"
The screenplay features nothing but talk, but this is one of the most tightly wound films of the year."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jul 24, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
89%
|
Spider-Man (2002) |
"
A review threatens to turn into a session of gushing because the film is that type of experience; watching it, I kept wanting to applaud."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jun 17, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
85%
|
Monster's Ball (2001) |
"
A great film. Considers genuine personalities and extreme feelings, and lingers in the mind, holding some kind of spell over us long after it has ended."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jun 10, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
Waking Life (2001) |
"
Groundbreaking filmmaking techniques and otherworldly rhythm... liberating, dreamy, joyous."
—
UK Critic
Posted May 14, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Y Tu Mamá También (2001) |
"
A wonderful, forgiving movie -- one that understands how desire sometimes sidetracks us, because that's the way nature works"
—
UK Critic
Posted Apr 22, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"
Tremendously powerful... emotions below the surface are made devastatingly clear"
—
UK Critic
Posted Mar 17, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
54%
|
Bully (2001) |
"
Joins the list of great American films about killing"
—
UK Critic
Posted Mar 10, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"
A wondrous achievement whose life, wit and vision made me grin"
—
UK Critic
Posted Feb 17, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Girlfight (2000) |
"
One of the best films of the year."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jul 16, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
You Can Count On Me (2000) |
—
UK Critic
Posted Jun 4, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
78%
|
Requiem for a Dream (2000) |
"
You can't walk out of this movie. If you want to leave, you'll run."
—
UK Critic
Posted Feb 12, 2001
|
|
10/10
|
97%
|
Casablanca (1943) |
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
81%
|
Wonder Boys (2000) |
"
Mess is excruciating to experience and hilarious to watch."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
63%
|
Strange Days (1995) |
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000) |
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
92%
|
Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988) |
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
85%
|
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
"
It's beautifully conceived, brilliantly constructed, and, like the villain herself, spellbinding."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
79%
|
The Butcher Boy (1997) |
"
This potentially disturbing film is handled as a crazy, unstoppable black comedy."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
77%
|
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
"
Every moment holds our attention, as the outwardly inviting turns dangerous and the outwardly sinister is revealed to be rather innocent."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
88%
|
Felicia's Journey (1999) |
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
81%
|
Fight Club (1999) |
"
The cool charisma of Norton and Pitt is ... vital in seducing us, and both actors carry themselves confidently while speaking their dialogue with tough, throaty assurance."
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
10/10
|
95%
|
The Filth and the Fury (2000) |
—
UK Critic
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|