|
5/5
|
89%
|
The Unforeseen (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
68%
|
Plus Tard (One Day You'll Understand) (Later) (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
The Host (Gwoemul) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
5/6
|
85%
|
Treeless Mountain (2009) |
"
[An] affecting, semiautobiographical story of two sisters from Seoul who are abandoned by their parents at a brutally tender age."
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Time Out New York
Posted Apr 22, 2009
|
|
5/6
|
68%
|
Plus Tard (One Day You'll Understand) (Later) (2008) |
"
[A] counterintuitive, diligently understated exploration of the legacy of anti-Semitism in a mixed-religion, middle-class French family."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Oct 29, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
89%
|
The Unforeseen (2008) |
"
Plainspoken yet urgent, it makes the wrist-slashingly depressing topic of real-estate development somehow transcendent."
—
Time Out New York
Posted May 2, 2008
|
|
5/6
|
89%
|
Beyond Hatred (Au-dela de la haine) (2007) |
"
Director Olivier Meyrou takes a potently oblique vérité approach, and his remarkable level of access reveals the limitations and equivocal mercies of human understanding with uncommon grace."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 16, 2007
|
|
5/6
|
92%
|
The Host (Gwoemul) (2007) |
"
[A] scary-funny romp."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 10, 2007
|
|
5/6
|
91%
|
Iraq in Fragments (2006) |
"
By turns tender and shocking, Iraq in Fragments strikes a rare balance between impromptu fluidity and feature-film narrative control, in the process resisting both partisanship and predigested points of view."
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Time Out New York
Posted Feb 17, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Refusenik (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Operation Filmmaker (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Primo Levi's Journey (La Strada di Levi) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
All in This Tea (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Manufactured Landscapes (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Kabluey (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
60%
|
Gracie (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
The Memory Thief (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Cidade dos Homens (City of Men) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
The Devil Came on Horseback (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Camden 28 (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
53%
|
City of Ember (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
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|
My Brother's Wedding (1984) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Une Vieille Maîtresse (The Last Mistress) (An Old Mistress) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
|
71%
|
The Method (El Metodo) (2007) |
"
The film loses some of its sting once the race narrows, but its outcome and the politically, emotionally astute fade-out are suitably devastating."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2007
|
|
|
57%
|
Rank (2006) |
"
Hyams unflinchingly probes his protags' motives, from blinkered machismo to monetary gain, with a mournful, dissonant reserve that never devolves into judgment or pat conclusions."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 27, 2006
|
|
|
33%
|
Trudell (2006) |
"
[The film is] a rebuke to F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous maxim: It's hard to imagine a more American second act than the one documented here."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 21, 2006
|
|
|
69%
|
Christmas in the Clouds (2005) |
"
Kate Montgomery's agreeably schmaltzy rom-com tempers its near terminal folksiness with stereotype-tweaking irony."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 14, 2006
|
|
|
61%
|
Something New (2006) |
"
Sanaa Hamri's brisk, refreshingly understated romantic comedy Something New is the rare movie that delivers on its title's promise."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2006
|
|
|
32%
|
The Tenants (2006) |
"
A bleakly funny, quietly harrowing exploration of the confluence of race, art, and privilege in pre-gentrification Brooklyn."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2006
|
|
|
82%
|
The World's Fastest Indian (2005) |
"
It's hard to resist the film's pleasantly rambling narrative and market-defying eccentricity."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 6, 2005
|
|
|
60%
|
little man (2005) |
"
What lingers are the images of Nicholas's manhandling by a host of dispassionate medicos and a sense that 'quality of life' is a much shakier concept than we could've imagined."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2005
|
|
|
70%
|
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005) |
"
This earnest, well-observed weepy has more depth than its genteel trappings might imply."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 21, 2005
|
|
|
38%
|
Flightplan (2005) |
"
We're starkly reminded that there's nothing quite so fickle as paranoia, and that some people are never more persuasive than when they're out of their minds."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 27, 2005
|
|
|
68%
|
Reception (2005) |
"
A fresh and uncompromising account of emotional self- immolation and romantic flux. And it has a happy ending to boot."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 12, 2005
|
|
|
98%
|
Murderball (2005) |
"
What keeps Murderball from devolving into redemptive drivel is its insistence on treating the players it profiles as jocks first and disabled men second."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 6, 2005
|
|
|
41%
|
High Tension (Switchblade Romance) (2005) |
"
Deficits are easy to overlook thanks to High Tension's knowing performances and unnerving combination of ambient sound, fluidly jittery cutting, and sly widescreen setups."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 7, 2005
|
|
|
56%
|
Milk & Honey (2005) |
"
A disarmingly effective reckoning with loss and regret."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 15, 2005
|
|
|
69%
|
Hitch (2005) |
"
A rare studio product that earns the goodwill it smugly demands."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 11, 2005
|
|
|
63%
|
Magnifico (2003) |
"
De los Reyes's fluid compositions, dead-on pacing, and knack for eliciting naturalistic performances make the story uncommonly cathartic."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 29, 2004
|
|
|
70%
|
Criminal (2004) |
"
If you missed the original, Criminal is a reasonable facsimile."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 7, 2004
|
|
|
54%
|
Danny Deckchair (2003) |
"
What Balsmeyer's movie lacks in third-act unpredictability it makes up for in storybook charm, uncommon graciousness to its characters, and pitch-perfect performances."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 10, 2004
|
|
|
97%
|
Maria Full of Grace (2004) |
"
It's a remarkably assured and humane feature debut."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 13, 2004
|
|
|
83%
|
Bukowski: Born into This (2003) |
"
Charles Bukowski, the bard of post-war L.A.'s working-class underbelly, was no ordinary cult writer, and John Dullaghan's thorough, compelling doc Bukowski: Born Into This does a credible job of showing why."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 1, 2004
|
|
|
26%
|
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"
There's something refreshing about a pulp drama that turns on the notion that redemption is a sucker's fantasy."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 23, 2004
|
|
|
92%
|
Crying Ladies (2004) |
"
Succeeds as first-rate melodrama."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 19, 2004
|
|
|
53%
|
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004) |
"
May be 100 percent cult-in-a-can, but aficionados should feel sated."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 19, 2004
|
|
|
72%
|
Robot Stories (2004) |
"
A quietly impassioned, genuinely stirring indie rarity."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 10, 2004
|
|
|
75%
|
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"
This isn't your father's Disney cartoon."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 20, 2004
|
67%
——
98%
