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5/5	An exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry — for life and meaning and immortality, and for other young and restless bodies — Reprise is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure. -- New York Times Posted May 16, 2008	Reprise (2008)	86%
5/5	There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson's epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. -- New York Times Posted Dec 26, 2007	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
5/5	An unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity [that] is such essential viewing. -- New York Times Posted Aug 17, 2007	The 11th Hour (2007)	66%
5/5	Year of the Dog is funny ha-ha but firmly in touch with its downer side, which means it�s also funny in a kind of existential way. -- New York Times Posted Apr 13, 2007	Year of the Dog (2007)	69%
5/5	This documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory. -- New York Times Posted Nov 23, 2006	Our Daily Bread (2006)	94%
5/5	An artful mixture of carefully culled and originally produced material, Werner Herzog's a science fiction fantasy purports to tell the story of an alien species. -- New York Times Posted Oct 26, 2006	The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy (2006)	67%
5/5	Kelly Reichardt's film is a triumph of modesty and of seriousness that also happens to be one of the finest American films of the year. -- New York Times Posted Sep 19, 2006	Old Joy (2006)	85%
5/5	A masterpiece of indirection and pure visceral thrills, David Cronenberg's latest mindblower is the feel-good, feel-bad movie of the year. -- New York Times Posted Sep 22, 2005	A History of Violence (2005)	87%
5/5	" Treadwell's journey was no less bold or reckless than ... earlier Herzogian tales and certainly no less enthralling." -- New York Times Posted Aug 11, 2005	Grizzly Man (2005)	93%
5/5	" The result is an unqualified triumph." -- New York Times Posted Aug 4, 2005	2046 (2005)	84%
5/5	" Alexander Payne's heart-piercing new film about a writer on the verge of disappointment is a reason to maintain hope in the film industry." -- New York Times Posted Oct 21, 2004	Sideways (2004)	96%
5/5	" Vera Drake, a film about a back-street abortionist in 1950 London, is the English director Mike Leigh's best work in a decade." -- New York Times Posted Oct 7, 2004	Vera Drake (2004)	92%
5/5	" A film that in its joy, optimism and aesthetic achievement keeps faith with American cinema at its finest." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 1, 2004	Before Sunset (2004)	94%
5/5	" An unblinking look at our mania for murder, the film is a stunning response to an American tragedy that in its senselessness and human cost embodies the larger tragedy of this country's blood lust." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 23, 2003	Elephant (2003)	71%
5/5	" *With The Pianist, Polanski's strange genius serves Szpilman's remembrance and, in doing so, rescues his legacy from the blunder of much of the director's recent work." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 26, 2002	The Pianist (2002)	95%
5/5	" A rapturous film about cool men, hot women and the thousand and one nights and cigarettes they share." -- New York Times Posted Nov 18, 2004	Days of Being Wild (1990)	90%
5/5	" A dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters and cigarettes." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 13, 2003	Le Cercle Rouge (1970)	96%
5/5	" he her in the title of Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film is meant to be Paris. There is, however, another 'her.'" -- New York Times Posted Nov 16, 2006	Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)	92%
5/5	" Bresson is one of the few directors for whom cinema was both an aesthetic and spiritual pursuit, a search that was reflected in films for which the words 'sublime,' 'transcendent' and 'masterpiece' can seem somehow lacking." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 11, 2003	Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)	100%
4.5/5	Ballast is a serious achievement and a welcome sign of a newly invigorated American independent cinema. -- New York Times Posted Oct 1, 2008	Ballast (2008)	75%
4.5/5	" *The extravagantly talented director Carlos Reygadas's immersion in the exotic world of Silent Light* feels so deep and true that it seems like an act of faith.*" -- New York Times* Posted Sep 24, 2008	Silent Light (2008)	83%
4.5/5	" A Girl Cut in Two is a rich, textured divertissement from Claude Chabrol, a sinister master of the art." -- New York Times Posted Aug 18, 2008	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	85%
4.5/5	" *If the insanely inventive and entertaining Mad Detective* weren�t so weird -- and in Cantonese -- hordes of action geeks would be lining the block to see it.*" -- New York Times* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mad Detective (2008)	83%
4.5/5	" *Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, The Dark Knight* goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind.*" -- New York Times* Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
4.5/5	A startlingly pitch-perfect reproduction of the kind of gauzy sex movies from the 1960s and early 1970s that preceded the hard-core revolution. -- New York Times Posted May 2, 2008	Viva (2008)	68%
4.5/5	*Jacques Rivette�s Duchess of Langeais* seems to me a nearly impeccable work of art -- beautiful, true, profound.** -- New York Times Posted Apr 14, 2008	The Duchess of Langeais (2008)	68%
4.5/5	*The luscious red orb in Flight of the Red Balloon* is as much a reminder of the precariousness of life as an emblem of innocence.** -- New York Times Posted Apr 3, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	79%
4.5/5	*Alexander Sokurov�s Alexandra* feels like a communiqu� from another time, another place, anywhere but here.** -- New York Times Posted Mar 26, 2008	Alexandra (2008)	94%
4.5/5	" This is personal cinema at its most uncompromising and fierce." -- New York Times Posted Mar 7, 2008	Frownland (2008)	90%
4.5/5	*In 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,* a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film, the camera doesn�t follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself.** -- New York Times Posted Jan 24, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	97%
4.5/5	*Tamara Jenkins�s The Savages* is a beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls.** -- New York Times Posted Nov 28, 2007	The Savages (2007)	90%
4.5/5	" A satisfyingly tough look into conscience, to those dark places where some men also go astray." -- New York Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	94%
4.5/5	Effectively fashioned, as jolting as it is polished, as well as a surprising, insistently political work of commercial art. -- New York Times Posted Jun 21, 2007	A Mighty Heart (2007)	77%
4.5/5	*The surfaces gleam as luxuriously in Johnnie To's exemplary gangster thriller Triad Election* as those in a similarly slicked-up Hollywood film, but the blood on the floor here seems stickier.** -- New York Times Posted Apr 25, 2007	Triad Election (2007)	96%
4.5/5	Private Fears in Public Places is far from difficult and that, it is also worth noting, is not a criticism. The film is accessible, pleasant, dreamy, a touch goofy and melancholic. -- New York Times Posted Apr 13, 2007	Private Fears in Public Places (2007)	79%
4.5/5	*David Fincher's magnificently obsessive new film Zodiac* is part police procedural, part monster movie, a funereal entertainment that is a testament to this cinematic savant's gifts.** -- New York Times Posted Mar 2, 2007	Zodiac (2007)	89%
4.5/5	" *Literally and existentially down and dirty, In the Pit* is an absorbing documentary about work and the transformation of men into laborers.*" -- New York Times* Posted Feb 2, 2007	In The Pit (2007)	71%
4.5/5	*A dark fairy tale from Russia, The Italian* pulls you into a richly atmospheric, persuasively inhabited world teeming with foundlings and pathos.** -- New York Times Posted Jan 22, 2007	The Italian (2007)	91%
4.5/5	*Beautifully photographed, the elliptical, often mysterious and wholly beguiling film Colossal Youth* looks and sounds as if it were made on another planet.** -- New York Times Posted Aug 8, 2007	Colossal Youth (2006)	80%
4.5/5	Children of Men, the superbly directed political thriller by Alfonso Cuarón, may be something of a bummer, but its the kind of glorious bummer that lifts you to the rafters. -- New York Times Posted Dec 26, 2006	Children of Men (2006)	92%
4.5/5	*In The Case of the Grinning Cat, the filmmaker Chris Marker fluidly moves over and under Paris, capturing images of fugitive beauty and pathos.* -- New York Times Posted Dec 20, 2006	The Case of the Grinning Cat (2006)	100%
4.5/5	David Lynch's extraordinary, savagely uncompromised new film is as cracked as Mad magazine, though generally more difficult to parse. -- New York Times Posted Dec 5, 2006	Inland Empire (2006)	69%
4.5/5	Stephen Frears' sublimely nimble evisceration of the British royal family pries open a window in the House of Windsor around the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. -- New York Times Posted Sep 28, 2006	The Queen (2006)	96%
4.5/5	Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, this wonderful independent film won't save or change your life, but it may make your heart swell. -- New York Times Posted Aug 31, 2006	Mutual Appreciation (2006)	88%
4.5/5	A trilogy of desire from the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien in which the same actress and actor play variations on lovers in three distinct historical periods. -- New York Times Posted Apr 25, 2006	Three Times (2006)	86%
4.5/5	What interests the Dardennes ... is not only how Bruno became the kind of man who would sell a child as casually as a slab of beef, but also whether a man like this, having committed such a repellent offense, can find redemption. -- New York Times Posted Mar 23, 2006	L'Enfant (2006)	86%
4.5/5	Patrice Chéreau's startling drama recounts the dissolution of a marriage of a couple (Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert) from the haute bourgeoisie. -- New York Times Posted Jul 13, 2006	Gabrielle (2005)	75%
4.5/5	" In Terrence Malick's elegiac film, Pocahontas is a woman whose story has the reach of myth and the tragic dimension of life." -- New York Times Posted Dec 22, 2005	The New World (2005)	60%
4.5/5	" An excellent freakout of a movie." -- New York Times Posted Jun 23, 2005	George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005)	75%
4.5/5	" Andrew Wagner's strange and delightful movie shouldn't work but does rather remarkably." -- New York Times Posted Jun 16, 2005	The Talent Given Us (2004)	58%

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