|
5/5
|
100%
|
All the President's Men (1976) |
"
As smart and cautionary now as it was in the '70s."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
There is simply nothing like it out there: profound, idiosyncratic, complex, sincere and magical; a confirmation that cinema can aspire to art."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 4, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
"
If you don't love Shawshank, chances are you're beyond redemption."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jun 15, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
The King's Speech (2010) |
"
Think the blazing joys of Chariots Of Fire where the race is to the end of a sentence. Can it be that the British are coming?"
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 3, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) |
"
By turns fascinating and mysterious."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
In Reitman's care, still channelling the breezy, matter-of-fact perkiness of Juno, it is an emphatic statement that Hollywood can still make great movies; a celebration that stardom can be as thrilling a concept as 3-D or CG or mooncalf vampires."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
The Hurt Locker (2009) |
"
The most literally exciting film you will see this year. Forget the off-putting banner of another Iraq movie - go, watch, marvel, endure and book in the palliative of a stiff drink afterwards."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Aug 29, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
68%
|
Public Enemies (2009) |
"
Here is a film alive in a way we've not perceived before: a breathtakingly new visual experience, a precision-choreographed action thriller, and a classically minded piece of American art."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Groundhog Day (1993) |
"
Comic perfection."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"
Danny Boyle's finest since Trainspotting. In fact, it's the best British/Indian gameshow-based romance of the millennium."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 9, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Goldfinger (1964) |
"
Perfection."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 6, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
After Hours (1985) |
"
Martin Scorsese's take on NYC puts a hip spin on Joe Minion's cleverly constructed nightmare."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 31, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
86%
|
The Jungle Book (1967) |
"
It's a slight tale, of course, and incredibly short, but the characters and songs are pretty much perfect viewing time and again."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Mar 10, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
"
A towering work."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
Violent, poetic, gripping, thrilling and blackly funny: that'll be the Coens doing what they do best then. Now with added humanity."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Blood Simple (1984) |
"
As black, sinful and nasty as a weekful of Hitchcocks, this is as fresh and intoxicating now as it was back then. In a word: deadly."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 6, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
75%
|
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"
An extraordinary and visionary study of a legendary murderer's famous fate, within touching distance of Oscars."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Days of Heaven (1978) |
"
This is the towering, unconventional power of a true artist."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) |
"
Despite a little dating around the edges this is a truly superb example of its genre and a cinema classic."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Ratatouille (2007) |
"
That feeling you have as you leave the cinema - that buzzing in the fingers and lightness in the heart - is called joy."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Aliens (1986) |
"
Truly great cinema."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
The Shining (1980) |
"
Ostensibly a haunted house story, it manages to traverse a complex world of incipient madness, spectral murder and supernatural visions... and also makes you jump."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
"
A 50s horror classic that remains a gem of allegorical paranoia."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 30, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India (2001) |
"
With an equally stunning soundtrack, this rollicking yarn is a must for all film lovers."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Come and See (Idi i smotri) (1985) |
"
A relentless masterpiece, and a brilliant study of the cause and effect nature of brutality."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 6, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
Friday Night Lights (2004) |
"
The best sports movie for years, as it's not about sport at all. Forget fears of jingoistic grandstanding, this is an un-American all-American tale that deserves attention."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
78%
|
Munich (2005) |
"
Steven Spielberg's most difficult film."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
The Killing Fields (1984) |
"
A mighty accomplishment, and possibly the bravest Britflick yet made."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Manhunter (1986) |
"
A slick and glossy thriller that still stands out."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 2, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Blade Runner (1982) |
"
There is so much to discuss about this film and you get nothing."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 30, 2001
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (2001) |
"
It's The Matrix spliced with David Lean"
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2001
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
American Beauty (1999) |
"
An incisive, deliriously funny and profound vision of the American Dream hitting meltdown."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
The Great Escape (1963) |
"
It's all based on the true escape plan from Stalag Luft North, and cinema, bank holidays and life in general would be vastly inferior without it."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Hamlet (1996) |
"
A true accomplishment."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
The Big Lebowski (1998) |
"
In a perfect world all movies would be made by the Coen brothers."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Raging Bull (1980) |
"
It is certainly the greatest boxing film ever put to celluloid."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Tarzan (1999) |
"
A film for Uncle Walt to be proud of -- with a strong story- line and superior animation."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
5/5
|
70%
|
You Only Live Twice (1967) |
"
Sean Connery may have been eying retirement, but he and Bond were by now moulded together, his sleek machismo indelibly imprinted on 007 forever."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Jaws (1975) |
"
An astonishingly effective thriller built on a very primal level: fear."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
Blackthorn (2011) |
"
Sam Shepard illuminated the old West - or at least the South American parts - with creaky charisma. He unleashes a growly old timer to rival Rooster Cogburn or Will Munny."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Captain Blood (1935) |
"
Lavish pirate adventure that launched Errol Flynn onto 1930's screens and ensured that buckles would be swashed for a good few years to follow."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
A sequel confident in what it's about - bigger, better, funnier, without stretching the joke."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Dec 11, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Sound It Out (2011) |
"
Proof that, in the right hands, documentaries boast as much heart as any feature. This one got soul too. Wonderful."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 31, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Carry on Spying (Agent Oooh!) (1964) |
"
More sprightly and less encumbered with the need to titillate that would ring-fence the Carry Ons in later life, there is a youthfulness about Spying that still remains fresher than the colour films."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Island of Lost Souls (The Island of Dr. Moreau) (1933) |
"
This may have been made (and banned) in the 1930s, but it remains a neatly disturbing horror with a definitive ending."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
Action-packed, gorgeous, and faithfully whimsical: Hergé thought Spielberg the only director capable of filming Tintin. He was onto something."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Midnight in Paris (2011) |
"
Light, assured, and utterly charming: Woody Allen's sublime gifts are still intact."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Hanna (2011) |
"
An absurd-sounding concept rendered wholly believable and thrilling by a fearless young actress and a director at the top of his game."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted May 3, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
53%
|
Brighton Rock (2011) |
"
It really needed a stronger director than John Boulting, but Brighton Rock perfectly embalms the seediness of its era."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Unstoppable (2010) |
"
Some days a runaway train movie just hits the spot."
—
Empire Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2010
|
67%
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