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4/4
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89%
|
Alle Anderen (Everyone Else) (2010) |
"
Like Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence, Ade's film is as unpredictable and ambiguous as it is raw."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 12, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
35%
|
Southland Tales (2007) |
"
Richard Kelly's wildly ambitious and widely loathed Southland Tales now seems among the most believable works of film futurism ever made in this country."
—
Boston Phoenix
Posted Nov 19, 2007
|
|
3/4
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91%
|
Winnebago Man (2010) |
"
The movie becomes oddly deep and even poignant."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
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3/4
|
59%
|
Centurion (2010) |
"
Bloody well done."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 27, 2010
|
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3/4
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82%
|
Cairo Time (2010) |
"
Cairo Time proves hard to resist, the film's familiarity gradually giving way to a playfulness that feels new to the impossible-love subset of bourgeois melodrama."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 26, 2010
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|
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74%
|
Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) (2010) |
"
Carefully apportions its visual jokes rather than bombarding the viewer with them."
—
Variety
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
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72%
|
Wah Do Dem (2010) |
"
Slight but winning and often funny, the scrappy Amerindie Wah Do Dem is a fish-out-of-water comedy driven by Sean "Bones" Sullivan's offbeat performance."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 26, 2010
|
|
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65%
|
Warlords (Tau ming chong) (2010) |
"
Chan's old-fashioned, highly watchable megaproduction comes complete with God's-eye surveys of mass carnage, the moist sounds of sword-skewering, and little or no discernible CGI."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 2, 2010
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|
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65%
|
Warlords (Tau ming chong) (2010) |
"
Chan's old-fashioned, highly watchable mega-production comes complete with God's-eye surveys of mass carnage, the moist sounds of sword-skewering, and little or no discernible CGI."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 31, 2010
|
|
|
92%
|
Vincere (2010) |
"
A movie whose audacious editing fully captures the hot and heavy relationships between past and present, sex and politics, reality and, yes, cinema."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 16, 2010
|
|
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69%
|
Shutter Island (2010) |
"
Acting more Kubrickian than ever, Scorsese uses the promise of horror to subvert expectations as thoroughly as did The Shining, which offers nothing terribly supernatural besides the twin horrors of parenthood and writer's block."
—
minnpost.com
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
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93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
Sparked by wonderfully lived-in performances from Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, "The Kids Are All Right" is alright, if not up to the level of writer-director Lisa Cholodenko's earlier pair of new bohemian dramas."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 26, 2010
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|
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86%
|
Buried (2010) |
"
In purely cinematic terms, Buried, set in late 2006, is an ingenious exercise in sustained tension that would make Alfred Hitchcock turn over in his grave."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2010
|
|
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81%
|
Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces) (Broken Hugs) (2009) |
"
Equal parts comic melodrama and film noir, and twice as fun as it ought to be, Broken Embraces boasts more bifurcations than any two Hitchcock classics."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 17, 2009
|
|
|
73%
|
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"
An intimate epic, Jonze's film is nearly unique among modern kid fare for its total lack of condescension to the core audience."
—
minnpost.com
Posted Oct 25, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land (Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country) (2008) |
"
Burma VJ would be even more intense without its early announcement that some scenes have been restaged, putting the viewer in a regrettably uncertain relationship to what follows."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
|
84%
|
Whip It (2009) |
"
Laced with good-natured hipster kitsch and endearingly goofy girl power, director Drew Barrymore's roller-derby dramedy, Whip It, is a gas."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 14, 2009
|
|
|
61%
|
Carriers (2009) |
"
Put into extremely limited release by Paramount Vantage after spending years in studio lockdown, Carriers has moments of genuinely communicable horror and thus deserves better than a de facto theatrical quarantine."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 7, 2009
|
|
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43%
|
Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998) |
"
The rare post-Tarantino men-with-guns indie that works on its own terms, this hyperactive B-movie has the title selling points in abundance but also a lot of wit and flair."
—
Boston Phoenix
Posted Sep 5, 2009
|
|
|
38%
|
Out to Sea (1997) |
"
The desperately overboard coming-attractions clip suggests something like Speed 0: Bladder Control--so it's a relief that this film's own seamanly "action" finale involves nothing more adventurous than shooting off a flare."
—
Boston Phoenix
Posted Sep 5, 2009
|
|
|
42%
|
Bean (1997) |
"
Atkinson's reactive brand of bug-eyed and near-silent comedy has always been more akin to Jacques Tati--plus a lecherous pinch of Jerry Lewis, the better to invade the viewer's personal space."
—
Boston Phoenix
Posted Sep 5, 2009
|
|
|
71%
|
Brother of Sleep (Schlafes Bruder) (1995) |
"
The film's real pleasure isn't its humor so much as its overall excess, the tone it projects of several major chords being struck at once."
—
Boston Phoenix
Posted Sep 5, 2009
|
|
|
63%
|
The Preacher's Wife (1996) |
"
Houston's inevitable chart-toppers aside, the film mainly sells the values of cooperation and good-samaritanism."
—
Boston Phoenix
Posted Sep 5, 2009
|
|
|
94%
|
Home (2009) |
"
Director Ursula Meier generally distinguishes her feature debut by not pushing elements to melodramatic or farcical extremes."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
——
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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008) |
"
Spanning the pair's half-century-long friendship and individual work on strikingly shot films of the past four decades, pic deftly combines personal, political and cinematic histories through anecdote-laden interviews and eye-popping clips."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Woodpecker (2008) |
"
A birdwatchers' Best in Show, Alex Karpovsky's mock-doc Woodpecker stretches its single joke to feature length, earning a beakful of yuks."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
79%
|
Genova () |
"
Genova conveys its strongest themes through insinuation, and modulates its shifting moods through Winterbottom's precisely calibrated DV processing."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
78%
|
Examined Life (2009) |
"
Taylor's stimulating film, enlivened by creative location shooting, will surely find an appreciative audience among highbrow cinephiles."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
73%
|
Hansel & Gretel (2007) |
"
Hardly innovative, but effective and handsomely produced, Hansel & Gretel puts the "grim" in Grimm while placing South Korean director Yim Phil-sung on the shortlist of Pan's Labyrinth emulators to trust."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
83%
|
We Live in Public (2009) |
"
Like Timoner's DIG!, this astounding new docu burrows into the thin and darkly funny spaces between artistry and vanity, isolation and community, collaboration and exploitation, sanity and madness."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
13%
|
The Informers (2009) |
"
Rating less than zero on the sophistication scale, The Informers is thus a totally faithful adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel--and an accurate look at early '80s-era Los Angeles."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
——
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Call of the Wild (2009) |
"
Alternately jerking the audience's tears and splashing snow in their faces, 3-D indie Call of the Wild loses focus (literally) but gets by on its good-hearted demeanor."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
90%
|
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) |
"
Six decades before Diablo Cody and Juno, Preston Sturges carried unplanned comedy to term."
—
minnpost.com
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Uncounted: The New Math Of American Elections (2008) |
"
Earnhardt's film is pointedly infuriating, not least when it uses the simplest mathematical equations."
—
minnpost.com
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
97%
|
His Girl Friday (1940) |
"
The ultimate lesson of His Girl Friday--that it's tougher to manage a marriage than a newspaper--looks in 2008 like pure nostalgia."
—
minnpost.com
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
86%
|
Shine a Light (2008) |
"
Note to self: Need more yoga ASAP."
—
minnpost.com
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
70%
|
Religulous (2008) |
"
The Passion of the Maher"
—
minnpost.com
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
21%
|
Spread (2009) |
"
Shooting in widescreen while conveying a sharp sense of verticality, [director David] Mackenzie gets us dizzy from the wealth of playthings on display, from swimming pool to private parts."
—
minnpost.com
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
92%
|
Ponyo (2009) |
"
There's a miraculous transformation in almost every moment of the film."
—
minnpost.com
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
87%
|
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) |
"
Invoking social realism more than pulp fiction, Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress is an innovative genre film on several counts."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
80%
|
Casino (1995) |
"
To understand that Scorsese suffers for his art, it isn't important to know that he's been married four times, or that he considered joining the Catholic priesthood before choosing the equally masochistic experience of NYU."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
100%
|
A Short Film About Love (1988) |
"
A Short Film About Love, despite its title, has more to do with guilt and remorse and manipulation; it might not be about love at all."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
83%
|
A Short Film About Killing (1988) |
"
Thou Shalt Not Miss"
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
96%
|
Chungking Express (1996) |
"
As Time Goes Wild"
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
89%
|
Planet of the Apes (1968) |
"
Signifying Monkeys"
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
89%
|
Trainspotting (1996) |
"
Trainspotting is a thoroughly shitty movie, which isn't to say it's a bad one."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
88%
|
Girls Town (1995) |
"
Girls Town Subverts the Patriarchy."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
52%
|
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) |
"
Princess of Tides"
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
51%
|
Mars Attacks! (1996) |
"
The pinko commie Independence Day, Burton's film orders an invasion of little green men not to reinvigorate our all-American bloodlust, but to make us look like complete and utter boobs."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
|
|
86%
|
Breaking the Waves (1996) |
"
Von Trier may put his characters and the viewer through the ringer, yet his empathy toward both is unmistakable."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 1, 2009
|
68%
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98%
