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89%
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007) |
"
Temple succeeds beautifully in evoking Strummer as a cross between a punk journeyman and one of the battered, upright gunmen who populate Sam Peckinpah's films."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 21, 2007
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93%
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Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004) |
"
Akira reminds you of the children who have populated the films of Vittorio De Sica or Satyajit Ray, and, more unexpectedly, of the elderly Carlo Battisti in the title role of De Sica's Umberto D."
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Salon.com
Posted Feb 5, 2005
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84%
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The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) (The Sea Within) (2004) |
"
There's a combination of fatalism and hard-edged humor at work in The Sea Inside that you can imagine Irish writers would feel right at home with."
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Salon.com
Posted Dec 18, 2004
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78%
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A Very Long Engagement (2004) |
"
The mixture of a trickster director and classic movie conventions works better than you'd expect it to."
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Salon.com
Posted Nov 27, 2004
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81%
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Ray (2004) |
"
Any viewers who look at Ray and see only clichés are declaring themselves hopelessly lost to the real achievement of this picture, which is nothing less than a statement of faith in the inclusiveness of American culture."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 29, 2004
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91%
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The Big Red One (1980) |
"
As the longest and biggest of Fuller's movies, it magnifies the essence -- good and bad -- of his work."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 6, 2004
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44%
|
The Brown Bunny (2004) |
"
Must be one of the truest songs of roadside America that the movies have produced."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 18, 2004
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61%
|
Wimbledon (2004) |
"
Slick, satisfying entertainment."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 18, 2004
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95%
|
Hero (2004) |
"
It's not too much to say that Hero is one of the most ravishing spectacles the movies have given us."
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Salon.com
Posted Aug 28, 2004
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90%
|
Last Life in the Universe (2004) |
"
The closest thing to entering a dream state at the movies right now is watching Last Life in the Universe."
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Salon.com
Posted Aug 7, 2004
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81%
|
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) |
"
An entertaining, well-constructed spy story (though not as satisfying as the first film -- perhaps because it's not as simple)."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 24, 2004
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66%
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The Door in the Floor (2004) |
"
The movie appears to be made for an audience whose highest aspiration is to be WASPs -- and it feels long enough to produce enough generations of them to fill an Andover reunion."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 20, 2004
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76%
|
Bon Voyage (2004) |
"
The movie is great fun. It offers the plush sense of relaxation that only smooth professionalism can deliver."
—
Salon.com
Posted Apr 3, 2004
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80%
|
Millennium Mambo (Qianxi Manbo) (2001) |
"
The combination of the thick sensuality of Mark Lee Ping-bing's cinematography and the gradual fascination that Hou's measured rhythms exert keep you watching."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 17, 2004
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70%
|
The Company (2003) |
"
Robert Altman's surpassingly beautiful ballet movie feels lighter than air -- but in fact it's the great director's most tender and memorable film in years."
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Salon.com
Posted Dec 27, 2003
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98%
|
The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) |
"
Errol Morris tries to pin down Vietnam War chess-master Robert McNamara, and the results are fascinating -- also troubling, deeply confusing and way too artistically precious."
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Salon.com
Posted Dec 20, 2003
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89%
|
In America (2003) |
"
The three miracles that occur over the course of Jim Sheridan's In America pale next to the miracle of the movie itself."
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Salon.com
Posted Nov 29, 2003
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95%
|
The Station Agent (2003) |
"
The Station Agent never leaves its sleepy patch of New Jersey. But when it's over, you know you've been somewhere."
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Salon.com
Posted Nov 15, 2003
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91%
|
Trouble in Paradise (1932) |
"
It's a movie that feels both of its time and ahead of all the times that have followed."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 5, 2003
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43%
|
The Human Stain (2003) |
"
The Human Stain takes a complex work of literary art and reduces it to tasteful melodrama."
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Salon.com
Posted Nov 1, 2003
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100%
|
A Morning Sun (2003) |
"
It's as good a sign as any of how absorbing Morning Sun is that the film's sudden ending makes you greedy for more."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 22, 2003
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75%
|
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
"
George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones square off deliciously, but this '30s-style battle of the sexes from the Coen brothers never catches fire."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 11, 2003
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65%
|
Out of Time (2003) |
"
A consistent pleasure."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 4, 2003
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97%
|
To Be and to Have (Etre et Avoir) (2003) |
"
This heart-wrenching documentary about a French village schoolteacher at work offers the comedy and pathos of great drama and the visual magnificence of painting."
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Salon.com
Posted Sep 28, 2003
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48%
|
Demonlover (2003) |
"
The movie feels like a shambles, and yet it's a stunning example of a director in complete control of his material."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 20, 2003
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81%
|
So Close (2003) |
"
Luscious superstar Shu Qi and action expert Corey Yuen prove that Hong Kong movies can still deliver the goods Hollywood can't."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 13, 2003
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58%
|
Passionada (2003) |
"
Passionada has the relaxing beauty of a great summer vacation, the kind where you don't do anything particularly special but leave feeling recharged."
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Salon.com
Posted Aug 17, 2003
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97%
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Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"
Andrew Jarecki could have done more to lay out the marriage of sexual and religious and social hysteria that made cases like this possible. But he deserves credit for having the guts to say, in this case and in so many like it, who suffered the most."
—
Salon.com
Posted May 30, 2003
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92%
|
L' Homme du Train (The Man on the Train) (2003) |
"
There's a special pleasure in watching Rochefort and Hallyday."
—
Salon.com
Posted May 9, 2003
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87%
|
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever) (2003) |
"
Lilya seeps into your bones, and it's not easy to shake off."
—
Salon.com
Posted Apr 18, 2003
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22%
|
Bulletproof Monk (2003) |
"
[A] lightweight but delightful martial-arts romp."
—
Salon.com
Posted Apr 16, 2003
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98%
|
The Man Without a Past (2002) |
"
An extraordinarily good-natured movie."
—
Salon.com
Posted Apr 4, 2003
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57%
|
The Guru (2002) |
"
Delightful screwball comedy."
—
Salon.com
Posted Feb 7, 2003
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66%
|
Shanghai Knights (2003) |
"
There isn't a minute of Shanghai Knights that didn't have me grinning."
—
Salon.com
Posted Feb 6, 2003
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85%
|
Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary (2002) |
"
A convincing portrait of one woman's restless determination finally to see."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 30, 2003
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82%
|
Drumline (2002) |
"
Charles Stone III is a craftsman with brains and taste, an instinctive sense of where to put the camera and the discipline not to belabor scenes."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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96%
|
The Pianist (2002) |
"
In The Pianist, Polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say, confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions, and he allows nothing to get in the way."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 27, 2002
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96%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
"
Yes, there are some 'middle-chapter' problems, but Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptation hasn't lost its devastating humanity, its heart-stopping cinematography or its epic sweep."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 17, 2002
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48%
|
Femme Fatale (2002) |
"
It's a sexy, violent, glamorous, sinfully funny movie with a surface as hard and brilliant as diamonds."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 6, 2002
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83%
|
All or Nothing (2002) |
"
Leigh's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of Margaret Thatcher's ruinous legacy, he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 31, 2002
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87%
|
Le Bossu (On Guard) (1997) |
"
This far-fetched adventure tale might be old-fashioned, but it's also one of the best swashbucklers in movie history."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 18, 2002
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79%
|
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) |
"
By turns irritating, strange, and finally entrancing, Punch-Drunk Love is something we haven't seen before: a manic-depressive romantic comedy that aspires to the soul of a musical."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 11, 2002
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65%
|
Brown Sugar (2002) |
"
Taye Diggs never overdoes Dre's intensity or integrity; he's an understated leading man who is all the more likable because of it. But it's Sanaa Lathan as Sidney who won my heart here."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 11, 2002
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82%
|
Barbershop (2002) |
"
What makes Barbershop so likable, with all its flaws, is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 13, 2002
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61%
|
Blue Crush (2002) |
"
Blue Crush offers the most intense visual experience I've had at the movies all year."
—
Salon.com
Posted Aug 16, 2002
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53%
|
Blood Work (2002) |
"
It's not an important picture, and probably not even a memorable one, but I had a good time."
—
Salon.com
Posted Aug 9, 2002
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55%
|
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
"
Structurally and formally, Goldmember is a mess. What saves it is that Myers possesses in spades the thing that's crucial for comedy: an absolute lack of embarrassment and the willingness to go with his gut instinct."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 26, 2002
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65%
|
My Wife Is an Actress (2002) |
"
Despite the wobbly tone, and the ambiguity that hangs over the last section of the movie, My Wife Is an Actress is a light, enjoyable night out."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 11, 2002
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97%
|
Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) (2002) |
"
The pleasure of Read My Lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string. We're drawn in by the dark luster."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 11, 2002
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73%
|
The Emperor's New Clothes (2002) |
"
A trifle but an exceptionally civilized, charming trifle."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 21, 2002
|
68%
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