|
5/5
|
95%
|
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) |
"
Simultaneously created the genre and broke the mold"
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes are Flying) (1960) |
"
Lovely, humane and heartbreaking"
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Seven Chances (1925) |
"
Keaton at his stonefaced best"
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Lost in America (1985) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957) |
"
A film of rare beauty and pain"
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
Napoléon (1929) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
The Hustler (1961) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Repulsion (1997) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 18, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Night of the Living Dead (1968) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 18, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
The Player (1992) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 18, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
86%
|
Breaking the Waves (1996) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 1, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Larry Sanders Show, The - The Complete First Season (2002) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 13, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Scarface (1932) |
"
a potent, uncompromising and de-romanticized portrait of the gangster life"
—
All Movie Guide
Posted Jun 27, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
City Lights (1931) |
"
A paean to our finest impulses: perhaps Chaplin's finest effort."
—
All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 25, 2001
|
|
96/100
|
97%
|
The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) (1928) |
"
I fell in to a burning ring of fire"
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2003
|
|
95/100
|
96%
|
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Bicycle Thieves) (1949) |
"
Devastating. Brilliant. Perhaps the most influential film of all time."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 15, 2007
|
|
95/100
|
91%
|
La Jetée (The Pier) (1962) |
"
Eisenstein stripped back to the studs. Powerful, haunting, unforgettable."
—
Cinemania
Posted Sep 8, 2006
|
|
95/100
|
100%
|
Ikiru (Doomed) (Living) (To Live) (1956) |
"
A shotgun blast of existential desperation"
—
Cinemania
Posted Nov 1, 2005
|
|
95/100
|
100%
|
The Godfather (1972) |
"
Heartbreakingly paradoxical: exquisite filmmaking, tragic self-annhiliation."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 28, 2001
|
|
95/100
|
100%
|
Citizen Kane (1941) |
"
A cinematic phantasmagoria, this film is a movie lover's wet dream."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
94/100
|
96%
|
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
"
Kubrick's film not only changed the way I viewed film, but the way I experienced art and life"
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 23, 2009
|
|
94/100
|
90%
|
Hunger (2009) |
"
Worthy of comparison to Dreyer and Tarkovsky. Yes, McQueen's film is THAT good."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Feb 3, 2009
|
|
94/100
|
100%
|
Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) (1982) |
"
One of the Great Films by one of the Great Filmmakers."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 30, 2007
|
|
94/100
|
97%
|
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) (1972) |
"
A seminal film without which we almost cerainly would not have with us either Apocalypse Now or much of the ouevre of Terence Malick."
—
Cinemania
Posted Oct 20, 2006
|
|
94/100
|
93%
|
Persona (1966) |
"
Not a movie, but a Film. And a Great Film it is. As good as any."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 14, 2006
|
|
94/100
|
93%
|
Andrei Rublev (1973) |
"
A virulent assault on all that is wrong with Mother Russia, both past and present. One of the most significant movies of its (and all) time."
—
Cinemania
Posted Feb 17, 2005
|
|
94/100
|
100%
|
La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1950) |
"
Snarky, biting, hilarious: Equal parts Calvin Ball and Catch-22."
—
Cinemania
Posted Apr 4, 2004
|
|
94/100
|
70%
|
Dogville (2003) |
"
As deeply insightful as it is deeply disturbing, Dogville will challenge you both intellectually and emotionally. The first great film of '04."
—
Cinemania
Posted Feb 27, 2004
|
|
94/100
|
96%
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
"
The film has great themes ... fascinating characters expertly acted, a compelling plot and brilliant direction by one of the masters of the epic, David Lean."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
94/100
|
91%
|
A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
"
Real horrorshow, that."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
94/100
|
100%
|
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954) |
"
And it's not just that the story is compelling. It is unforgettable."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
94/100
|
100%
|
The Third Man (1949) |
"
The Third Man is full of greatness: the cinematography is remarkable; dark, quirky, angular, it accurately reflects the characters' stories."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
93/100
|
94%
|
2 ou 3 Choses que je Sais d'Elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) (1967) |
"
The pinnacle of Godard's art. Probing, uncertain, hesitant, humble, lyrical and profound"
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 5, 2011
|
|
93/100
|
100%
|
City Lights (1931) |
"
This is one of those rare creatures, the work of a master craftsman in full control of his craft. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
93/100
|
82%
|
Akahige (Red Beard) (1965) |
"
Something for everyone. A masterpiece, and with Kurosawa that's really saying something."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
93/100
|
95%
|
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) |
"
A great American-ization of the classic Scrooge tale, told from the POV of Bob Cratchet."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 21, 2009
|
|
93/100
|
100%
|
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) (1959) |
"
Truffault's masterpiece. Timeless and true, heartbreakingly sad."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 25, 2009
|
|
93/100
|
100%
|
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) |
"
Gobsmackingly good. A great and terrible film."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted May 1, 2007
|
|
93/100
|
98%
|
Annie Hall (1977) |
"
More jokes per frame than any other film I've seen."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 7, 2006
|
|
93/100
|
100%
|
Fawlty Towers - The Complete Set (1992) |
"
A scorchingly funny assault on British class pretension."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jun 22, 2006
|
|
93/100
|
81%
|
Mulholland Drive (2001) |
"
The Hollywood Dream Factory reimagined as Nightmarish Torture Chamber. Naomi Watts is phenomenol."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jun 18, 2006
|
|
93/100
|
82%
|
Akahige (Red Beard) (1965) |
"
Kurosawa at his Dickensian best. A masterpiece."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 30, 2005
|
|
93/100
|
100%
|
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
"
Criterion's release of Tokyo Story comes on the 100th anniversary of director Ozu's birth, and is a fitting tribute to this great filmmaker."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 25, 2004
|
|
93/100
|
100%
|
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
"
One of the most quietly powerful studies of the gradual and inevitable erosion of the family in a rapidly changing world."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 25, 2004
|
|
93/100
|
100%
|
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953) |
"
Rife with a pervasive sense of loss, Tokyo story offers little comfort and promises great sorrow. This is a profoundly moving film."
—
Cinemania
Posted Apr 5, 2004
|
|
93/100
|
98%
|
Wings of Desire (1987) |
"
What Wim Wenders has done in his most transcendent film is not merely praise assenting angels, but embrace descending ones - we humans - as well."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 29, 2003
|
|
93/100
|
100%
|
Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) (1955) |
"
Provokes contemplative self-inquiry, and moves us beyond our initial and immediate emotionally simplistic knee-jerk horror and disgust."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 5, 2003
|
|
93/100
|
98%
|
The Godfather, Part II (1974) |
"
The Mother of All Sequels: a film at once both greater and lesser than its predecessor"
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 30, 2001
|
|
93/100
|
98%
|
Taxi Driver (1976) |
"
Its themes of urban decay, anomie and violence which infuse the impending sense of doom at the heart of this film still hang like black clouds over many cities today."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
93/100
|
95%
|
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) |
"
This great American fable is buoyed by its unwavering faith in the wealth of the human spirit."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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