|
5/5
|
92%
|
Blade Runner (1982) |
"
Blade Runner, in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 23, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955) |
"
Fresh as a daisy after all these years, Satyajit Ray's 1955 spellbinder comes underpinned by a tumultuous Ravi Shankar sitar and paints a ground's-eye portrait of life in an impoverished Bengali village."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 24, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Ratatouille (2007) |
"
I loved Ratatouille. I was even tempted to drop the odd bit of popcorn, like tipping the waiter after a particularly good meal."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Le Chagrin et la Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity) (1970) |
"
The film is so boldly conceived, richly textured and beautifully paced that its marathon running time feels more like a sprint."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 6, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) |
"
If anything, Robert Altman's self-styled "anti-western" looks even richer, stranger and more daring than it did when it first appeared back in 1971."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 4, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Monsieur Lazhar (2012) |
"
Only the most obstreperous delinquent could fail to be charmed by Monsieur Lazhar, in which an Algerian refugee plays ramshackle Mary Poppins to the kids at a Montreal primary."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
If it's possible for a picture to be at once ideal and imperfect, then Damsels fits the bill."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
The Hunger Games is that rarest of beasts: a Hollywood action blockbuster that is smart, taut and knotty."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 16, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
In less experienced hands, this would surely have wound up as lurid, trashy pulp. Yet Fincher plays it straight and keeps it serious."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
A Game of Shadows assures us that escapism is good, that mischief must be celebrated. Holmes and Watson are happy and their escapades play out with such grace and brio that the fun is infectious."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Mademoiselle Chambon (2010) |
"
Slow your pace and pause for breath and there's a world of pleasure to be had from this unhurried small-town tragedy."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
This is fluid, rigorous, serious cinema; the best kind of adult movie."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Alps (2012) |
"
Follow the film-maker. Let him lead you by the nose. Lanthimos knows exactly where he's going."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
A marvellously chill and acrid cold war thriller from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
The acting comes at full throttle while the pacing cranks up the tension in agonising, incremental degrees."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 1, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
Buckle up; it's quite a ride."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 20, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
My Kidnapper () |
"
My Kidnapper - charged, complex and always compelling - revisits the ruins and speaks to the ghosts."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 10, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Enemies of the People (2010) |
"
Extraordinary..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 9, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Inception (2010) |
"
It is that rarest of beasts: a slippery, cerebral summer blockbuster that slaloms from illusion to reality and back again and leaves its viewer bewitched, bothered and bewildered."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
The Unloved (2009) |
"
The climactic scene, in which Morton's heroine confronts her mum, is one of the most quietly gut-wrenching things I've seen in years."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Séraphine (2009) |
"
A measured, soulful and tactile work; a film with gouache beneath its fingernails."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 27, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
57%
|
The Invention of Lying (2009) |
"
His comedy pretends to be unthreatening, a harmless little wheeze, and then pushes the envelope to its logical conclusion."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Sugar (2008) |
"
Sugar is a revelation, not least in the way it ducks an onrush of cliche to expose the whole rags-to-riches mantra as a bright and shining lie."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jun 5, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
63%
|
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) (2008) |
"
The acting is heartfelt, but the film carries a heaped cargo of conceits that has it wavering between the stark and the sentimental, the nuanced and the schematic."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 12, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
WALL-E (2008) |
"
Does Andrew Stanton's film amount to much more than a brilliant aesthetic exercise? I'm not convinced it does."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 18, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Killers (1946) |
"
A near-classic of 40s film noir."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 8, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Once (2007) |
"
A soulful valentine to music, friendship and the joys of honest hard graft, played out in the bedsits and recording studios of a deglamourised Dublin."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 19, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
The Sound of Music (1965) |
"
Check your cynicism at the door: Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 22, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Withnail and I (1987) |
"
It is at once a coming-of-age comedy and a fond farewell to an era."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 8, 2007
|
|
|
87%
|
Welcome (2010) |
"
Phillippe Lioret's drama turns heavy-handed at the end. What keeps it afloat are the sharp performances, together with a pungent, docu-style portrait of the dockyards."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
|
87%
|
Funny Ha Ha (2003) |
"
Smart, subtle and excruciatingly honest."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 16, 2007
|
|
|
94%
|
American Splendor (2003) |
"
Harvey Pekar is not your average superhero. He's at once author and character, hero and victim, his life and his art the result of a perpetual two-way osmosis."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Jan 6, 2004
|
|
|
63%
|
Wonderland (2000) |
"
A consistently bewitching experience."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Dec 2, 2002
|
|
|
82%
|
Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (2000) |
"
This is a picture by turns amusing and melancholic, sweet-centred and dark-edged."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Dec 2, 2002
|
|
|
48%
|
Bamboozled (2000) |
"
Yes, Bamboozled is a picture of genuine importance. Yes, it is also crude, unstable and hazardous."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted May 30, 2001
|
|
|
39%
|
Black and White (2002) |
"
A study in multiculturalism, Toback's film is something of a melting-pot itself: mixed-up, messy and teeming with vitality."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Apr 17, 2001
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Angèle et Tony () |
"
At its best, Delaporte's film gives the impression of being uncovered as opposed to constructed, like an eccentric bit of driftwood exposed at low tide."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
[A] busy, bustling ghost story that at times appears less indebted to the Susan Hill bestseller than the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Patience (After Sebald) (2012) |
"
In keeping with the spirit of Sebald's writing, Gee's film is teasing, elegant and perhaps inevitably unresolved: an invitation as opposed to a destination."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
An African Election (2011) |
"
Paints a portrait of an engaged, energised electorate, thronging the rallies and queuing for 12 hours straight at the polling stations. It's a good foundation; something to build on."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
53%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
A breezy, whistle-stop tour through the unstable nitroglycerin of Thatcher's life and times."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 15, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
The British Guide To Showing Off () |
"
Benstock's film is affectionate, indulgent and clearly in love with its subject..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
The Help (2011) |
"
In dramatic terms it works a treat."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Wuthering Heights () |
"
Arnold's approach does Brontë no disservice..."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 6, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Chicken with Plums (2012) |
"
Sit in the front - and don't peer too hard - and Chicken With Plums casts an undeniable spell."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Desir (2011) |
"
Crazy Horse is languid, impressionistic and perhaps a shade overlong at 134-minutes."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 31, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
What remains is your classic compromise candidate: a film that set out with a crusading zeal but had its rough edges planed down en route to the nomination."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 31, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2011) |
"
Padhila's cop thriller goes in with all guns blazing. This, the film suggests, is the only language these scum-bums understand."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Adèle Blanc-Sec () |
"
Coasts in on a waft of burlesque acting and droll good humour, with each episode metaphorically framed by quotation marks."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 21, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
Thor (2011) |
"
Branagh has knocked his film together with a terrific, freewheeling gusto. It has its tongue in its cheek and the fun is infectious. For all of its faults, Thor's never a bore."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 19, 2011
|
67%
——
98%
