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5/5
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94%
|
In the Loop (2009) |
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 10, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) (1959) |
"
This should be required viewing for today's droves of would-be memoirsts in film or any other medium, and otherwise is simply a must for anybody who likes great movies."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
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|
5/5
|
98%
|
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"
It is a rare film that comes across as instant horror classic, multilevel preteen wish-fulfillment fantasy and Euro-arty critical darling all at once."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jan 26, 2008
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5/5
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94%
|
Away from Her (2007) |
"
A magnanimous and devastating directorial debut from the young Canadian actress Sarah Polley."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 4, 2007
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|
5/5
|
88%
|
Touch The Sound (2004) |
"
Thomas Riedelsheimer's portrait of deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie is an absolute masterwork, both of filmmaking and of musicianship."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
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|
5/5
|
94%
|
Saraband (2003) |
"
No one else could have made it, and you should see it."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
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|
5/5
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81%
|
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 12, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
A slight but bittersweet tale about a neurotic lesbian couple whose formerly anonymous sperm donor becomes their potential home wrecker."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 29, 2010
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|
4/5
|
87%
|
Please Give (2010) |
"
Writer-director Nicole Holofcener seems to get better with every film, and now she's cruising along the well-trodden path of neurotic New Yorker comedy-drama with grace and comely confidence."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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|
4/5
|
81%
|
Panique au village (A Town Called Panic) (2009) |
"
Aubier and Patar would have us believe that Panic really can be reduced to child's play, which just makes it seem all the more like a place worth visiting."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 20, 2010
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|
4/5
|
79%
|
Mother and Child (2010) |
"
The leads have excellent support from Jimmy Smits, Cherry Jones, Shareeka Epps and S. Epatha Merkerson-plus, that most welcome rarity, a subtle turn from Samuel L. Jackson."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 7, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Le Couperet (2005) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 6, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) |
"
It's a colorful cocktail of subversiveness, self-seriousness, wonder, horror and joy."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 16, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
The Eclipse (2010) |
"
It's a film of measuredness and maturity, and a fine one to curl up with."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Mar 26, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
The Ghost Writer (2010) |
"
The movie's masterful control -- from its elegantly foreboding opening to the mordant glee of a striking final shot -- is pure Polanski."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Mar 11, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
"
It may be grim, but ultimately it's a story of survival, both topical and timeless."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
Ambitious [and] unnervingly timely."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
La Nana (The Maid) (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
The Damned United (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Whip It (2009) |
"
Barrymore's goofball girl power gets her through the clunky moments and formulaic sports-movie redempion clichés."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 2, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Zombieland (2009) |
"
This disposable horror comedy is nothing more than a popcorn-chomping spectacle of subgenre nonsense."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 2, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
The Hurt Locker (2009) |
"
It's only a movie about men at work in war. Yet it seems like a definitive war movie."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009) |
"
It's a production of sensational confidence."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 10, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Thirst (1979) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Funny People (2009) |
"
We have no shortage now of films whose subject is vulnerable male self-centeredness, but Apatow is approaching mastery of the form."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Soul Power (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Humpday (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Séraphine (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 5, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Unmistaken Child (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 3, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Goodbye Solo (2009) |
"
The beauty of this third feature from director Ramin Bahrani, who co-wrote it with Bahareh Azimi, is how efficiently it disarms uneasy expectations."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 21, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours) (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 15, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
The Cove (2009) |
"
The real grabber in director Louie Psihoyos' attention-demanding documentary is the tortured soul of dolphin trainer Richard O'Barry, a marine mammal specialist at Berkeley's Earth Island Institute."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 25, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Sin Nombre (2009) |
"
This sense of equilibrium even carries over to Fukunaga's crafty integration of professional and nonpro actors."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 23, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Every Little Step (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 17, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2009) |
"
Troell knows that what we want from our photographic memories and the stories they prompt is a special kind of emotional precision: a permanent one."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 9, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch) (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 1, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"
This sort of austere, elliptical portrait of the downtrodden owes much to the Italian neorealism made internationally famous by scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini and director Vittorio De Sica after World War II."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Mar 5, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Coraline (2009) |
"
The 3-D isn't a Super Bowl-commercial-style gimmick, but instead a savory essential element, used with restraint and in artfully deliberate contrast to the grounded tactility of Selick's signature stop-motion animation."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Feb 5, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Kráska v Nesnázích (Beauty in Trouble) (2006) |
"
For a class-conscious farce that's at least serious enough to borrow its title from Robert Graves, it's impressively unaffected and utterly watchable."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 18, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Milk (2008) |
"
Transcends the solemnity of its historical duty, seeming both timely and timeless -- and fully alive."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 11, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Un Conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale) (2008) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Nov 14, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"
The movie compares not to other movies but to life. That's how it gets under the skin and why it's a breakthrough for Hathaway, who so skillfully evokes the paradoxically comforting and dissociating regression of returning to a messy nest."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 23, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
70%
|
Religulous (2008) |
"
Doubt, Maher says, is his product, and you have to hand it to him for staying on message."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 9, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
La Fille Coupée en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two) (2008) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 14, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
70%
|
Year of the Dog (2007) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Mio Fratello è Figlio Unico (My Brother Is an Only Child) (2007) |
"
A merry swirl of vital, passionate performances."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007) |
"
Diving Bell is modishly slick, visually inventive and vaguely immaterial but ultimately moving because, well, how could it not be?"
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Control (2007) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Beowulf (2007) |
"
The bane of English majors for 1,300 years makes it back to the big screen, now with 75 percent more hostility toward Christianity!"
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Aug 7, 2008
|
68%
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