|
4/4
|
93%
|
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) |
"
Walking into a theater with Charlie Kaufman on the screen is like volunteering for that wacky boat trip Willy Wonka took through the chocolate factory tunnel..."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 2, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Memento (2000) |
"
If Pulp Fiction represents the birth of post-modern filmmaking, Memento marks its adolescent spurt."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 13, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
79%
|
Iris (2001) |
"
Some films, like some people, grow more dear to one's heart with time. Iris is such a film."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 13, 2002
|
|
3.75/4
|
97%
|
The Hurt Locker (2009) |
"
First female best director Oscar right here."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 13, 2009
|
|
3.75/4
|
91%
|
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"
The best film of 2007 starts with quiet drilling in the desert and ends decades later with a violent showdown in a bowling alley."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jan 8, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
The Social Network (2010) |
"
Cool, fast, smart and sleek. It's also a surprisingly deep and almost painful reminder of the importance of a real social network - as opposed to, say, Facebook."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Oct 3, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
Inception (2010) |
"
It's bold. It's exciting. It makes you think. It engages. It impresses. It frustrates. And it does it all a helluva lot better than Shutter Island."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 18, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) |
"
Is it breaking new ground, the way Pixar does? No, it's not quite that ambitious. It just wants to entertain for 98 minutes. I was wowed. That's what I was hoping for and that's what I got."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Apr 1, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
Best since Finding Nemo."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted May 30, 2009
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Star Trek (2009) |
"
Sacrilege alert! It may even be better than The Dark Knight."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted May 8, 2009
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
The Wrestler (2008) |
"
If The Wrestler doesn't get the Oscar attention it deserves I'm going after someone with a staple gun."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jan 15, 2009
|
|
3.5/4
|
72%
|
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
"
Elegant, understated epic takes its time going backward with forward-thinking director at the helm."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 26, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"
I'm tired of the early Oscar talk too, but when you're talking the best performance in years, if not decades, it's worth talking about. The whole movie is worth the buzz. Christopher 'Slowly Revealing Myself To Be God' Nolan has done it again."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 17, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) |
"
This is a low, slow whistle film. Just wow. Gripping. Emotionally honest. Frustrating, too. Sad. Not one many pro-lifers would enjoy although the message coming at me loud and clear was 'nothing is worth going through that!'"
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Apr 3, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007) |
"
This is the second best films of 2007 and by far the most moving."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jan 25, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"
I want Albert Finney's Lincoln Town Car."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 31, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
If nothing else, No Country should win an award for Best Use of an Oxygen Tank."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Nov 12, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Red Road (2007) |
"
I couldn't get this film's quiet power out of my mind."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jun 21, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
Zodiac (2007) |
"
You don't need a tidy ending when the payoff is the whole film."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Mar 7, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
The Italian (Italianetz) (2007) |
"
A gorgeous, heartbreaking modern fairy tale that felt so real my cynical heart melted, then immediately froze in fear that it was all too real."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Sep 21, 2006
|
|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) |
"
Tarantino is killing off his mentors - directors who have passed or should have passed the torch long ago - to pave the future of cinema."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 2, 2006
|
|
3.5/4
|
57%
|
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) |
"
The Last Stand is as good if not better than X2."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 2, 2006
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
Gattaca (1997) |
"
This film illustrates what some of us have long suspected - Uma Thurman and Jude Law were genetically engineered."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Aug 10, 2002
|
|
3.25/4
|
91%
|
Crazy Heart (2009) |
"
I wanted to walk out bowled over by Jeff Bridges and his 'performance of a lifetime,' but I was fixated on the Colin Farrell factor."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jan 21, 2010
|
|
3.25/4
|
93%
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"
Fantastic Mr. Fox is (waves hands around face) different. In a good way. In a great way, actually."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Nov 30, 2009
|
|
3.25/4
|
73%
|
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"
Where the Wild Things Are is the least fantastical fantasy and the most raw, honest, personal and magical film about childhood angst since ... ever?"
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Oct 20, 2009
|
|
3.25/4
|
93%
|
Drag Me to Hell (2009) |
"
Sam Raimi had me at the ticked-off talking goat, but he gave me so much more."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted May 31, 2009
|
|
3.25/4
|
70%
|
Last Chance Harvey (2009) |
"
I saw movie stars make a good movie great, because they know how. Emma Thompson is the best actress alive today. Full stop."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jan 18, 2009
|
|
3.25/4
|
92%
|
Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"
A Beltway Rocky - the jabs, punches, bobs and weaves political junkies geek out over but Average Joe can also get behind. But which one is the underdog?"
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 27, 2008
|
|
3.25/4
|
94%
|
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"
What is Slumdog Millionaire? A. The next Little Miss Sunshine. B. The greatest movie of all time. C. The most overrated movie of 2008. D. The most un-Danny Boyle Danny Boyle film. Only one answer..."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 7, 2008
|
|
3.25/4
|
62%
|
Changeling (2008) |
"
Somewhere along the road, Dirty Harry became the biggest feminist in Hollywood."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Nov 1, 2008
|
|
3.25/4
|
66%
|
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"
Puss in Boots, Gimli and Jesus Christ walk into a bar. The bartender, noticing how down they all look, asks what's wrong..."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted May 18, 2008
|
|
3.25/4
|
86%
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) |
"
If only Johnny Depp had made his Willy Wonka this disturbingly attractive."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 31, 2007
|
|
3.25/4
|
89%
|
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"
For all his three-dimensional humanism, it's clear Cronenberg likes his men to get their hands dirty and enjoys watching small-boned women dish out sass. In short, everyone in a Cronenberg film has to have the same kind of balls he does or they won't make"
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Sep 28, 2007
|
|
3.25/4
|
82%
|
Into the Wild (2007) |
"
Hal Holbrook will have been robbed if doesn't get nominated for every award available."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Sep 22, 2007
|
|
3.25/4
|
88%
|
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"
Great cinematography takes more than plopping a camera down in a desert canyon ... though it helps. It takes John Wayne framed by a doorway. Gary Cooper's walk. Clint Eastwood's squint. Gene Hackman's grin. And, now, Russell Crowe's eyes."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Sep 10, 2007
|
|
3.25/4
|
94%
|
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"
As the Moby song says, I would stand in line for this."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Aug 9, 2007
|
|
3.25/4
|
74%
|
La Vie en Rose (La Mome) (2007) |
"
You should regret missing it."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 16, 2007
|
|
3.25/4
|
93%
|
Children of Men (2006) |
"
Children of Men is depressing as hell, but it's also a helluva good movie. 28 Days Later meets V for Vendetta with, thankfully, more in common with the former."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jan 10, 2007
|
|
3.25/4
|
78%
|
Dreamgirls (2006) |
"
Show Jimmy some love, Oscar!"
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jan 4, 2007
|
|
3.25/4
|
66%
|
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) |
"
Maybe this sounds like a Hallmark card you've read before, but sometimes even they can warm the cockles of your heart."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 20, 2006
|
|
3.25/4
|
76%
|
The Prestige (2006) |
"
This guy knows how to tell stories for audiences who can hold their own hands, thank you."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Oct 25, 2006
|
|
3.25/4
|
93%
|
The Departed (2006) |
"
The only thing that surprises me more than thinking the former Marky Mark is one of the most talented actors working today is that I think his New Kids on the Block brother Donnie is just as good."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Oct 11, 2006
|
|
3.25/4
|
74%
|
Cars (2006) |
"
Cars makes Over the Hedge look like a Pinto."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jul 2, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
The Other Guys (2010) |
"
This peacock really flies, but what's with the credits?"
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
The Cove (2009) |
"
I don't think I can go to marine parks anymore."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
Daybreakers (2010) |
"
Now this is a vampire movie."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Jan 14, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Invictus (2009) |
"
Obama could use a Rugby World Cup. Something to unite his disaffected nation."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 13, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
Brothers (2009) |
"
In the large canon of war films, Brothers falls somewhere in the upper middle of the pack, but it's not bold or original enough to make a lasting name for itself."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 6, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
The Road (2009) |
"
It's a beautiful, harrowing story and a good film. I'm just worried it's not good enough considering its potential."
—
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
Posted Dec 3, 2009
|
68%
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98%
