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100%
|
Hukkle (2001) |
"
It's bracingly funny to see the glorious human species redefined as just another set of moving parts in a huge machine lacking any evident purpose."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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|
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91%
|
El bonaerense (2002) |
"
Credit El Bonaerense with journalistic single-mindedness and, given recent Argentine history, sheer guts."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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|
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94%
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003) |
"
It's all très charming."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 28, 2003
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82%
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The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) (2003) |
"
If secular humanism were an actual religion, The Barbarian Invasions would be recognized as a religious masterpiece."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 21, 2003
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|
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85%
|
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"
It's an adventure movie by an artist."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 14, 2003
|
|
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93%
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My Architect: A Son's Journey (2004) |
"
Locates the human dimension the architect never grasped."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 13, 2003
|
|
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73%
|
Runaway Jury (2003) |
"
Grossly inauthentic but authentically engrossing entertainment."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 17, 2003
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|
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65%
|
The Flower of Evil (2003) |
"
The 73-year-old Chabrol has dashed off a near-abstract but infinitely intriguing formulation on guilt, recurrence and the perpetual present."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 13, 2003
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|
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65%
|
Out of Time (2003) |
"
Out of Time is probably Hollywood's most seamless suspense trap since The Fugitive."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 3, 2003
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|
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92%
|
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyû) (2001) |
"
This is a screen trip that actually takes you someplace -- out of the world, around the world and straight to the heart of the world."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 20, 2003
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72%
|
Dummy (2003) |
"
Pritikin's shrewd comedy-drama catches a fine flock of family emotions on the wing, and not the over-exposed ones."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
|
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68%
|
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"
Rodriguez's movie aspires to trashy grandeur, and achieves it."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
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69%
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Dude Where's the Party (2003) |
"
An amiable city mouse/country mouse story."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 5, 2003
|
|
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51%
|
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) |
"
Should Blighty stake its screen future on action-adventure? Family fun? Sex satire? Modernized music hall? Post-modern movie-movie? Meadows' answer is 'All of the above.'"
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 3, 2003
|
|
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38%
|
Sin noticias de Dios (Don't Tempt Me) (2003) |
"
Consistently clever and inventive on a level a little below the inspired."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 22, 2003
|
|
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82%
|
Step Into Liquid (2003) |
"
With neo-rock replacing beach boyisms and new optical technology permitting crisp Steadicam close-ups of ballet-like aquabatics, Step into Liquid is state-of-the-art non-art."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
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|
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13%
|
Uptown Girls (2003) |
"
Yakin shuns caricature. His affection for all his feckless characters, even Fanning's narcissistic mom (Heather Locklear), is evident."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
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|
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41%
|
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) |
"
Will satisfy the hordes who've awaited this heavyweight matchup for a decade."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
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|
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48%
|
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"
Schlocky, slam-bang fun."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 8, 2003
|
|
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75%
|
Seaside (2002) |
"
Touching, amusing, sometimes compelling, Seaside is ultimately little more revealing than a weekend visit. It's a sheaf of captivating postcards."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 6, 2003
|
|
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80%
|
Mondays in the Sun (Los Lunes al sol) (2003) |
"
Shot in lustrous, muted color with a sure sensitivity to emotional states and mood swings, it's an elegy on wasted time and waning energies."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
|
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36%
|
Hotel (2003) |
"
It's a love-it-or- hate-it proposition."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
|
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77%
|
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"
Seabiscuit is resoundingly well made and emotionally satisfying."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 25, 2003
|
|
|
87%
|
Kukushka (The Cuckoo) (2003) |
"
This movie is tagged, gift-wrapped and handed to its Finnish Sami actress."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 11, 2003
|
|
|
84%
|
Swimming Pool (2003) |
"
Swimming Pool has the edgy chill of early Polanski."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 3, 2003
|
|
|
100%
|
Human Weapon (2003) |
"
Powerfully analytical."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jun 26, 2003
|
|
|
100%
|
My Terrorist (2003) |
"
Powerfully, and ... challengingly, personal."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jun 26, 2003
|
|
|
94%
|
Manito (2003) |
"
Ragged but intense, this compassionate little movie is stocked with enough skillful touches and sensitive moments to stir interest in Eason's future work."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jun 20, 2003
|
|
|
98%
|
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"
Constantly delights and refreshes the eye -- it's a summer vacation in itself."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 30, 2003
|
|
|
35%
|
The In-Laws (2003) |
"
Fresh and funny all over again."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 23, 2003
|
|
|
92%
|
L' Homme du Train (The Man on the Train) (2003) |
"
Two magnetic male presences command the screen in Man On the Train, but Patrice Leconte finds a friendship between weathered Frenchmen more difficult to forge than the far more asymmetrical relationships of previous films."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 9, 2003
|
|
|
93%
|
Marooned In Iraq (2003) |
"
Though Marooned in Iraq falls short of greatness, its timing couldn't be more brilliant."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 2, 2003
|
|
|
88%
|
X2: X-Men United (2003) |
"
The whole project has been developed with enough know-how, unstinting ingenuity and organized energy to lift it far above its flaws."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 2, 2003
|
|
|
96%
|
Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur) (2003) |
"
Perrin's film assembles discontinuous but overlapping visual wonders into a vaguely mystical ode to the endless variety and timeless rhythms of life."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 24, 2003
|
|
|
50%
|
Onmyoji (2001) |
"
The tone is loose and jokey enough to stave off heaviness."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 24, 2003
|
|
|
97%
|
Love & Diane (2002) |
"
Dworkin's potent documentary is a definitive distillation of life in America's black underclass."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 18, 2003
|
|
|
87%
|
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever) (2003) |
"
This sober, unsparing drama, strong if unambitious, is probably as perfectly characteristic a specimen of serious European filmmaking as any movie ever made."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 18, 2003
|
|
|
43%
|
Big Fat Liar (2002) |
"
Pulls off the difficult trick of synching up a clever preteen comedy to a clever grown-up comedy."
—
Oregonian
Posted Feb 8, 2002
|
|
|
30%
|
Jakob the Liar (1999) |
"
Possesses a rewarding life of its own!"
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
83%
|
Magnolia (1999) |
"
Magnolia is real, full-tilt filmmaking, seducing our souls and nervous systems with a sensory, kinesthetic rush."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
67%
|
Small Time Crooks (2000) |
"
Funny and nostalgic in a complex way."
—
MSNBC
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
94%
|
Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) (1999) |
"
Princess Moonlike is graced with images of charm and phenomenal beauty."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
37%
|
Bicentennial Man (1999) |
"
Bicentennial Man's heart may be synthetic, but it beats strongly, nonetheless."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
82%
|
Love and Basketball (2000) |
"
Gina Prince-Bythewood's debut movie makes up in heart and spirit for its shortfalls in originality."
—
Newhouse News Service
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2.5/4
|
61%
|
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
"
Alternately helped, hindered and (best) left alone by first-time director Wells, Lane fills the screen with her perceptive presence and lifts the undramatic story as high as gravity allows."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 26, 2003
|
|
2.5/4
|
18%
|
The Medallion (2003) |
"
A B-movie worthy of the term."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 22, 2003
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
Blue Car (2003) |
"
A cozy, well-made vehicle without the capacity to carry everything that writer-director Karen Moncrieff piles into it."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 2, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
40%
|
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) |
"
A daydream from a discount store."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 2, 2003
|
|
|
20%
|
Honey (2003) |
"
Honey is a whole festival of bad movies, from Flashdance through Glitter."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Dec 5, 2003
|
|
|
29%
|
Mail Order Bride (2003) |
"
This harmless nickels-and-kopecks comedy goes by the theory that if one Mafia is funny, two must be hilarious."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Nov 26, 2003
|
67%
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