Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 89%
| Aimee & Jaguar (2000) | "
Rewarding viewing, evocatively re-creating a narrative milieu and war-time Berlin rarely seen on screen." — BBC Posted Jul 3, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 70%
| Code Unknown (2001) | "
European cinema at its very best." — BBC Posted Jul 3, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 98%
| Psycho (1960) | "
Gripping and irrevocably gruesome fare played to perfection by a top notch cast." — BBC Posted Jun 13, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | "
Wonderfully performed and imbued with a genuine sense of trepidation and unease." — BBC Posted Jun 13, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Band of Outsiders (1964) | "
Emphatically entertaining, provocatively self-assured." — BBC Posted Jun 13, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 74%
| Blackboards (2002) | "
An intelligent, multi-layered and profoundly humanist (not to mention gently political) meditation on the values of knowledge, education, and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement." — BBC Posted May 30, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 70%
| La Captive (2001) | "
A gently captivating, deceptively austere work." — BBC Posted May 7, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Don't Look Now (1974) | "
With Sutherland and Christie in fine form it all adds up to one of Roeg's finest films and an undeniably key work in British cinema." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Diva (1981) | "
A witty, playful intelligent film as enjoyable as it is influential." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Diner (1982) | "
Barry Levinson's directorial debut from his own Oscar-nominated script remains his most perfectly realised and charming movie and is a fitting eulogy to his home town of Baltimore." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Citizen Kane (1941) | "
A potent metaphor for the betrayal of principles, the souring of the American Dream, and an intelligent mediation on the corrupting nature of power." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| Touch of Evil (1958) | "
one of [Welles'] richest and most rewarding pictures" — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Philadelphia Story (1940) | "
Grant, Stewart, and Hepburn deliver impeccable performances." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| National Velvet (1944) | "
Both Taylor and Rooney give without doubt the best performances of their pre-adult years but there's also much pleasure to be had from a stellar supporting cast." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| Last House on the Left (1972) | "
The film, to its credit, details both the initial acts of violation and the revenge that ensues as similarly de-humanising and reprehensible." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Klute (1971) | "
Informed in part by the conventions of film noir...Klute manages to distil them all into something highly original and distinctly unsettling." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 95%
| High Noon (1952) | "
A film about what it means to be a man that manages to avoid the musk of machismo, High Noon is truly a film that improves with each and every viewing." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Sweet Hereafter (1997) | "
...Egoyan looks at the essence of guilt and the complexity of human relationships in all their rich variety." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Yi Yi (2000) | "
Intricately nuanced, lovingly crafted ... and decidedly wry in tone." — BBC Posted Apr 16, 2001 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| Bread & Roses (2001) | "
An impassioned work of integrity and a human drama of observation, insight, and great import." — BBC Posted Apr 16, 2001 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Osterman Weekend (1983) | "
It rattles along well enough as a thriler of the political paranoia variety." — BBC Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 92%
| The Parallax View (1974) | "
A political conspiracy thriller par excellence and a candidate perhaps for Beatty's finest screen moment." — BBC Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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