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5/5
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88%
|
White Material (2010) |
"
Possesses a defiant, exhilarating life, a testament to its peerless crafts(wo)manship and its uniqueness."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 7, 2010
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|
5/5
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The Tale of the Fox (Le Roman de Renard) (1930) |
"
One of the greatest animated films ever created."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Oct 1, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
83%
|
Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) (1951) |
"
One of the handful of best Christmas movies ever made."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 25, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) |
"
One of Hollywood's, and cinema's, grandest and most emotionally satisfying tales of unrequited love and self-sacrifice."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jul 4, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1928) |
"
The film denies us the safe distance between viewer and viewed, and it does this so effectively that its horrors are occurring all around us."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 25, 2008
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|
5/5
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98%
|
Wings of Desire (1987) |
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Sunset Boulevard (1950) |
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
On the Waterfront (1954) |
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
The Quiet Man (1952) |
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
An American Werewolf in London (1981) |
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
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Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) |
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
75%
|
Die Freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street) (1925) |
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1961) |
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Johnny Guitar (1954) |
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Phantom Of The Opera (1925) |
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
When Harry Met Sally (1989) |
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) |
"
One of the best suspense films ever made."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Once (2007) |
"
An embodiment of what the digital revolution was supposed to provide but so often doesn't."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Oct 5, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Voyna i Mir (War and Peace) (1967) |
"
There's literally not another film in the world like it."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Sep 12, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) (Lift to the Scaffold) (Frantic) (1958) |
"
It's devilishly clever, bleakly hilarious, and fatalistically romantic throughout, a celebration of grand, doomed gestures made for the sake of making them."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Nov 30, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
63%
|
Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man) (Demons '95) (Of Death, of Love) (1996) |
"
Has a satirical undercurrent that's easy to miss; I think this is where the film is most intelligent."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 27, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
61%
|
The New World (2005) |
"
There are so many mysteries in this film, and Malick's greatest achievement was to suggest them without forcing answers on us."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 2, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1998) |
"
I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a stand-up act, and I don't think I've ever learned so much about comedic influences in one sitting."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 3, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
The Big Lebowski (1998) |
"
It's the actors that make this film: without the perfect casting ... and without their perfect comic timing, it wouldn't work. But it does work, every minute."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 18, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Unknown (1927) |
"
Not a second of its brief 50-minute running time is wasted."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 6, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù) (2003) |
"
By the end of the film, it's as if I know these people, and I want to sit with them again for a few hours. Or six."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 15, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Tarnation (2004) |
"
No film has ever, ever affected me as much as this one did. I don't know whether it's a great movie, or just particularly good at hitting all of my buttons."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Oct 31, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Halloween (1978) |
"
One of the first and the flat-out best of that ghetto of the horror film genre, the slasher movie."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Sep 12, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Les Vampires (1915) |
"
One of the great masterpieces of the cinema."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jul 25, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) |
"
In Akerman's masterpiece... small gestures take on a visual richness that is also the richness of foiled narrative expectation."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jun 12, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"
Tolkien's world explodes onto the screen in vibrant, brooding, beautiful life."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 4, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) |
"
Utterly convincing."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 4, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Lost In Translation (2003) |
"
The best film of 2003."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jan 11, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
57%
|
Northfork (2003) |
"
Every second of it was entrancing, and the filmmakers did not waste a second of their relatively brief 103 minute running time."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jul 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
"
One of the greatest Hollywood films ever produced."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jun 14, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
"
What can I say? This is the father of all buddy pictures, against which most of them seem forced and derivative."
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Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) (1920) |
"
You have never seen anything like it."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 20, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) |
"
A perfect mix of comedy and tragedy."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Mar 16, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
87%
|
Hybrid (2001) |
"
The director, Monteith McCollum, has created a living, breathing film, as interesting and moving as any fictional film."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Mar 16, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
The Pianist (2002) |
"
Adrien Brody's Oscar-winning performance is nothing short of miraculous."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jan 26, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Stroszek (1977) |
"
For every cheap shot about rural America (and there are many), there's an answering scene that kicks you in the stomach with its brutal honesty."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jan 12, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) |
"
Lancaster is monumental."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 16, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) |
"
Angela Lansbury [is] the most effective actor among a troupe of memorable roles."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 1, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
The Red Shoes (1948) |
"
One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking films I have ever seen."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Nov 10, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Rear Window (1954) |
"
A stellar film."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jun 30, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Gimme Shelter (1970) |
"
There are so many great and terrible things about this documentary."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jun 2, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Paths of Glory (1957) |
"
This is a terrifically powerful film; polemical and propagandist, yes, but so immensely effective."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 28, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Y Tu Mamá También (2001) |
"
An incredibly joyous and life-affirming film that gushes with the energy and daring that is increasingly hard to find in Hollywood."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 14, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Manhattan (1979) |
"
Woody Allen's best movie? It has my vote."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Mar 17, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Jules and Jim (1962) |
"
This story of a lover's triangle of sorts is as alive today as it was when it was filmed."
—
Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 28, 2002
|
67%
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98%
