|
4/4
|
89%
|
Baran (2002) |
"
It reminds us of what a film can be when it's drawn from the heart of an artist who believes in the medium as something more than a product or commodity."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 13, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 18, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
86%
|
Gosford Park (2001) |
"
One could go on and on, cataloging the pleasures that pour forth from the screen."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 4, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"
Not since the original Star Wars trilogy has film dipped into myth and emerged with the kind of weight and heft seen in Peter Jackson's first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 19, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
Waking Life (2001) |
"
Often surreal, Waking Life transcends boundaries of technology, imagination."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 28, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Boys Don't Cry (1999) |
"
Boys Don't Cry not only revisits the crime, but convinces us we're being taken inside it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/4
|
63%
|
Mrs. Dalloway (1998) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
71%
|
The Cider House Rules (1999) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 18, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) (1999) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 18, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 18, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
43%
|
Piñero (2002) |
"
It's impressionistic and risks incoherence, but it works as a successful montage of the unruly life of a sensitive, talented, but conflicted man whose self-destructiveness it never tries to sugarcoat or deny."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 22, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
78%
|
Last Orders (2002) |
"
There's been no richer cinematic tapestry of humanity so far this year."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Monsoon Wedding (2002) |
"
Cinematic home cooking at its most savory."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
79%
|
Iris (2001) |
"
Iris glows with rightness and convinces us we're sharing its characters' understanding that when the books and the memory go, love can remain."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 15, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Lantana (2002) |
"
The film is as dense as its namesake, and it reminds us how few contemporary thrillers are adult."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 25, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
78%
|
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"
One of Hollywood's very few really classy or ambitious offerings this year."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 21, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
Ocean's Eleven (2001) |
"
Top-of-the-line studio eye candy."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 7, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
77%
|
Tape (2001) |
"
Tape is smart, unpredictable, and alive with the energies of actors who clearly are enjoying being stretched by their material."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 16, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
38%
|
Novocaine (2001) |
"
[Atkins] brings to his direction of Martin a finesse shared by only a few of the directors who have worked with the comedian-actor."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 16, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
Innocence (2001) |
"
Films that achieve the dimension of seraphic embrace achieved by Innocence, as it explores a return to first love, are the rarest of the rare."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 28, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Ghost World (2001) |
"
In her need for affection, in her need to be taken seriously, Enid is poignant without ever being cloying."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 9, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Our Song (2001) |
"
Our Song has no illusions about easy fixes. But neither does it traffic in facile despair as its three Graces saunter along the cracked pavement and into our hearts."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 24, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
The Circle (Dayereh) (2001) |
"
Remarkable."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 17, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
40%
|
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) |
"
It's second to none in its ability to specify a world and immerse us in it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
80%
|
Primary Colors (1998) |
"
Those who wonder how good a Clinton impersonation Travolta does miss the point."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
The Spanish Prisoner (1997) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
58%
|
City of Angels (1998) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
The Apostle (1998) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
80%
|
He Got Game (1998) |
"
Milwaukee Bucks guard Ray Allen delivers nothing less than the best performance ever put on film by a pro athlete."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
79%
|
The Butcher Boy (1997) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Character (Karakter) (1997) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
Good Will Hunting (1997) |
"
Even rarer than a breath of fresh air is a breath of fresh Hollywood film. Brainy and heartfelt and right on target, Good Will Hunting is such a film."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
Love and Death on Long Island (1998) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Election (1999) |
"
You've got to laugh at Witherspoon's tightly wound Little Miss Perfect, rising at dawn to do her hair and encase herself in a preppy look before baking cupcakes to pass out at school as vote-getters in her campaign for student council president."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 25, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Spirit - Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 25, 2002
|
|
|
96%
|
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) |
"
While it preserves his baseball feats, it looks beyond them to clarify Greenberg's place in American culture."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 18, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Galaxy Quest (1999) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 18, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Phörpa (The Cup) (1999) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 18, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
36%
|
Miss Julie (1999) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 18, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
36%
|
Crush (2002) |
"
There are as many misses as hits, but ultimately, it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior, and it's a welcome return to the roots of a genre that should depend on surprises."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 17, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
The Cat's Meow (2001) |
"
It's pretty linear and only makeup-deep, but Bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 3, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
62%
|
Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý svet) (2001) |
"
A bittersweet world, and it's frankly one to which we've been before, but seldom do we see it rendered with such exquisite, if pained, craftsmanship."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 5, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
70%
|
Waydowntown (2002) |
"
The film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 5, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Pauline & Paulette (2002) |
"
Petersen and van der Groen play affectingly against each other in this geriatric heartwarmer."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 29, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
The Rookie (2002) |
"
A welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic, this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 29, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
77%
|
Ice Age (2002) |
"
It has taken 20th Century Fox a while to land on the animation scoreboard. Now it has. Ice Age is the coolest animation in town."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 15, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
63%
|
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"
As in Black Hawk Down, the combat sequences are filmed with great skill and pulse-pounding immediacy."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 1, 2002
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Monster's Ball (2001) |
"
The best thing Marc Forster's direction does is take these characters through their experiences at a convincingly naturalistic respiratory rate..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 8, 2002
|
|
|
88%
|
Italiensk for Begyndere (Italian for Beginners) (2001) |
"
Who'd have thought one could fall in love with a Dogme 95 film? But I have, and this is it. Skoal and bellissima!"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 1, 2002
|
|
|
72%
|
Le Pacte des loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf) (2001) |
"
Frequently gripping and visually striking."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 11, 2002
|
67%
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