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Bill White

Bill White

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Total Reviews:
292

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
A 90% Ningen no joken I (The Human Condition I) (No Greater Love) (1959) " A masterpiece on all fronts." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 5, 2008
A 89% Aleksandra (Alexandra) (2007) " Every woman with a child in the military dreams about the mysterious environs of war into which her child has disappeared. Such a dream is the subject of Alexander Sokurov's astonishing Alexandra." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 18, 2008
a 91% Shotgun Stories (2007) " An allegory of our times, Shotgun Stories is a tragedy of biblical scale and an intimate family drama." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 8, 2008
A 97% Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (2007) " Free of the ghetto clichés that fill the movies made by people who have never lived in one, Killer of Sheep is a strongly individual portrait of black, working-class America." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 21, 2007
A 97% Once (2007) " A television director and two musicians have made a miracle of a movie that is both fairy tale and slice of life." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 31, 2007
A 81% The Holy Mountain (1973) " So extreme in its sacrilege that it achieves a kind of sacredness, The Holy Mountain is a transcendental feast of the grotesque and the sublime." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 8, 2007
A 100% Deliver Us From Evil (2006) " It is a heartbreaking story of betrayed trust, broken faith and the misuse of privilege." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 9, 2006
A 76% Time to Leave (Le Temps Qui Reste) (2006) " Director Francois Ozon, who can define physical desire in a swift gesture or extend a moment of self-reflection with acute stillness, has become more confident and specific with each film." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 2, 2006
A 76% The Puffy Chair (2005) " The fleeting emotions of domestic conflict are captured more succinctly than any film since John Cassavettes' A Woman Under the Influence." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 7, 2006
A 50% Fall to Grace (2006) " Marchbanks captures the essence of a melting pot neighborhood where economics, not race, is the dividing factor." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 6, 2006
A 57% Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) " Not since the collaborations of Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi), have music and visuals been so satisfyingly combined." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 18, 2006
A 91% Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes) (2006) " Actors Laia Marull and Luis Tosar explore the intricate details of a relationship based on the laws of attraction and repulsion, in which the intellect is repeatedly devastated by primal passion." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 20, 2006
A 86% Wattstax (2000) " Commentary from shockingly outspoken Watts residents on topics ranging from revolution to infidelity are a vital part of the documentary, as are the several Richard Pryor monologues upon which the film is structured." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 5, 2003
A- 91% Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2009) " Troell's profound insistence that life -- even in its most miserable chapters -- is an occasion for rejoicing, goes beyond gender politics to a place of transcendent sublimity." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 12, 2009
A- 83% The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006) " Most political films involving children are vicious or sentimental. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, set in 1970 when Brazil was under the military dictatorship of General Emilio Medici, is neither." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 11, 2008
A- 84% The Singing Revolution (2007) " The Singing Revolution becomes a tense political thriller that culminates in one of the most significant events of past century: The collapse of the Soviet Union." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 3, 2008
A- 83% Angels in the Dust (2007) " An inspiring portrait of a saint battling for the lives of the sick and forsaken in a frightened and superstitious world." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 27, 2007
A- 93% Riding Giants (2004) " A film that will stand as an essential document on one of the world's most spectacular obsessions." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 15, 2004
A- 97% Autumn Spring (2003) " A proud and optimistic testament to the youthful spirit of seniors who refuse to let such a trifle as their failed lives get in the way of a bit of fun." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 11, 2003
B+ 42% Blindness (2008) " The cast does excellent ensemble work, with each of its members contributing to the overall effect rather than seeking opportunities for star turns." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 2, 2008
B+ 89% Sanxia Haoren (Still Life) (2006) " Director Jia Zhang-ke sees the urbanization of China through the eyes of the relocated laborers." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 26, 2008
B+ 55% Elsa y Fred (2008) " Who would have guessed that, in this age of excess and one-upmanship, when bigger is always better, the year's most romantic screen kiss would last a mere two seconds." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 1, 2008
B+ 88% The Willow Tree (2007) " Iranian director Majid Majidi... takes his place alongside Robert Bresson as a master of sacred cinema. His Iran is a place of natural beauty so intense that even the sightless can experience its splendor." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 24, 2008
B+ 98% Ten Canoes (2007) " ... a top-flight example of cinematic storytelling ..." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 26, 2007
B+ 73% Glastonbury (2007) " ... captures the open-air rock festival experience more completely than any previous film of its kind." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 9, 2007
B+ 85% Salvador Allende (2007) " What the world knows of Chile in the 1970s, it knows through the films of Patricio Guzman." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 14, 2006
B+ 67% Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy (1984) " Captures both the spirituality and humanity of monastic life." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 13, 2006
B+ 89% Machuca (2004) " Chilean director Andres Wood sharply observes and re-creates the era." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 12, 2006
B+ 94% Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005) " Brown has put together a heartbreaking yet inspiring portrait of a transcendently tragic artist through home movies, family scrapbooks, live performances and interviews with ex-wives, record producers, and peers." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 2, 2005
B+ 82% The Ninth Day (Der neunte Tag) (2005) " The dark, rotting interiors and sunless winter skies create a festering atmosphere of unexpiated guilt as Kremer ponders the question of how a decent man is to navigate the rivers of hell." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 10, 2005
B+ 88% Touch The Sound (2004) " A film that succeeds both as biography and poetic travelogue." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 13, 2005
B+ 88% Historias mínimas (Intimate Stories) (2005) " Sorin's charming road comedy captures the humanity of small-town dreamers." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 28, 2005
B+ 82% Hustle & Flow (2005) " Writer-director Craig Brewer has made a sensitive, low-key drama that values human life, no matter how degraded the circumstances." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 21, 2005
B+ 80% Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (The Place Promised in Our Early Days) (2004) " Shinkai Makoto, who made the 30-minute 'Voices of a Distant Star' by himself on a laptop computer, has written and directed an anime that favors human emotions over robot battles." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 17, 2005
B+ 62% Incident at Loch Ness (2004) " Those audience members whose gullibility has not been thoroughly tested may find themselves in search of a new Herzog film that could prove as elusive as the Loch Ness monster itself." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 30, 2004
B+ 57% Northfork (2003) " A love letter to the state of Montana and a landscape that is biblical in its desolation and splendor." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 25, 2003
78% You Kill Me (2007) " You Kill Me has more natural laughs than any half-dozen recent crime comedies." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 5, 2007
76% Absolute Wilson (2006) " Offer insights into the director's methods and motivations." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 8, 2007
78% CSA: Confederate States of America (2006) " CSA is best when inventing, not amending, history." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 23, 2006
55% Ricordati di me, (Remember Me, My Love) (2004) " For such a downbeat story, the film is full of humor and vivacity. The characters, though frustrated and delusional, are fully realized by the exceptional cast." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 4, 2004
B 77% Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived (2008) " Contrary to its title, Virtual JFK is less a counter-history of the Vietnam years than a tribute to John F. Kennedy's stubborn resistance to a military that pressured him to go to war on six occasions during his short presidency." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 12, 2008
B 92% Obscene (2008) " Rosset is a lively subject, and his interviews (over many years) provide an oral history of his life and times." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 21, 2008
B 89% Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback (2006) " Brings home the tragedy of being ahead of one's time in popular culture." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 6, 2008
B 74% Peur(s) du Noir (Fear(s) of the Dark) (2007) " These six tales only scratch the surface of our phobic subconscious." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 31, 2008
B 96% Trouble the Water (2008) " Directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal make jarring cuts from Roberts' personal footage to the mainstream news reports, emphasizing the unreal tone of the professional media." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 17, 2008
B 95% Hofshat Kaits (My Father My Lord) (2008) " David Volach's understated condemnation of religious extremism makes its points in lethally solemn tones, with neither caricature nor ridicule." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 2, 2008
b —— Corporal's Diary (2008) " A heartfelt tribute to a human being by those who loved him." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 29, 2008
B 72% Hallam Foe (Mister Foe) (2007) " [Director David] Mackenzie has reined in the strangeness to deliver a conventional, if better than average, mystery." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 18, 2008
B 85% In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008) " A naturalistic mix of vulgarity and romanticism gives this independent effort a mainstream appeal." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 11, 2008
B 66% Ping Pong Playa (2007) " Asian-American cinema breaks out of its identity crisis with a comedy that is competitive with the American standard while addressing social and cultural issues particular to minority audiences." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 11, 2008
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