|
5/5
|
100%
|
Cutter's Way (1981) |
"
Exceptional script, direction and performances make this elliptical neo-noir a forgotten classic."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
86%
|
Inception (2010) |
"
You will no doubt need to see Inception more than once to appreciate every nuance of Nolan's carefully balanced ambiguities - but, more importantly, you will also want to."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 12, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
56%
|
Vinyan (2008) |
"
Without resorting to cheap frights or bogeymen, Vinyan locates its horror in the human heart of darkness."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
United 93 (2006) |
"
a real-time reconstruction of events on the doomed flight that manages to encapsulate all the anxieties and sorrows of our age."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Aug 10, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
King Kong (2005) |
"
funny, frightening, romantic, nostalgic, moving and grimly fatalistic, it races along, like its central character, with a speed and grace that utterly belies its great size."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
——
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Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films () |
"
While Svankmajer's vision may at times be pessimistic, bleak and disturbing, it is also playful, irreverent and devilishly funny."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 5, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
75%
|
Sunshine (2007) |
"
Sunshine is canny enough to avoid being reducible to the sum of its parts, and finds a perfect balance between claustrophobic thrills and eye-goggling awe."
—
musicOMH.com
Posted Jul 2, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
82%
|
Live Free or Die Hard (2007) |
"
Marrying punishing action set-pieces to an unnerving disaster movie scenario, it grips the viewer with vice-like intensity, while never forgetting to revel in its own amiable absurdity."
—
musicOMH.com
Posted Jun 26, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
83%
|
Keane (2005) |
"
Only Kerrigan's previous Clean, Shaven surpasses Keane as a sympathetic study of a man unravelled."
—
musicOMH.com
Posted Jun 19, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
The Deer Hunter (1978) |
"
Gauging the shifting moods of the 1970s, this tale of life and love disrupted by war is as arresting as a bullet to the brain."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 13, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"
in Pan's Labyrinth, the world of Ofelia's imagination and the realities of Falangist Spain are two different, ideologically opposed ways of telling the same story - a story of tyranny, resistance and the timeless struggle between good and evil."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 13, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Beyond Hatred (Au-dela de la haine) (2007) |
"
a contemplative, almost poetic examination of the proper workings of justice, and an exemplary depiction of a ruined family rebuilt on the foundations of its own humanistic values."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 13, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Zodiac (2007) |
"
Fincher manages the pace brilliantly, making the viewer feel as frustrated, paranoid and, most importantly, driven, as the film's characters."
—
musicOMH.com
Posted Jun 12, 2007
|
|
10/10
|
——
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Musa (The Warriors) (Musa the Warrior) (2006) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Feb 12, 2005
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) (1955) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Jan 24, 2005
|
|
10/10
|
88%
|
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Jan 15, 2005
|
|
10/10
|
91%
|
L' Âge d'Or (Age of Gold) (The Golden Age) (1979) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Nov 26, 2004
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
La Dolce Vita (1960) |
"
A timeless, bittersweet carnival of severed roots, disintegrating values, lost innocence and dumbing down. Unmissable!"
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 30, 2004
|
|
10/10
|
88%
|
The Five Obstructions (2003) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Jan 13, 2004
|
|
10/10
|
——
|
Fausto 5.0 (2004) |
"
a haunting, intelligent piece of grand guignol - with a look all of its own"
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 28, 2003
|
|
10/10
|
97%
|
Spirited Away (2001) |
"
It races along with the speed of a bullet train, visiting weird, enchanted places the likes of which have never been seen before."
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 28, 2003
|
|
10/10
|
85%
|
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) |
"
Simply beautiful to look at and listen to."
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 28, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
100%
|
Körkarlen (Korkarlen) (The Phantom Carriage) (Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness) (1920) |
"
Sjöström's film is not just an early horror, but an argument for the moral validity of cinema itself."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Sep 26, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
100%
|
L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno) (2010) |
"
This 'unmaking-of' documentary is as mesmerisingly compelling as its subject might have been, and adds some splendidly disorienting reels to the cinema of anxiety. Unmissable - even if we all missed the film at its centre."
—
Film4
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
83%
|
Pontypool (2009) |
"
This unsettlingly quirky account of semiological breakdown and small-town apocalypse plays like My Winnipeg for fans of intellectual horror. Pontypool is as astonishing as it is original, and amply repays multiple viewings."
—
Film4
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
76%
|
Afterschool (2008) |
"
It's sex, lies and videotape in a privileged high school as Antonio Campos casts a cold eye over the adolescent state of postmodernity."
—
Film4
Posted Aug 18, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
98%
|
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"
a stunningly poetic work that will appeal not just to the niche market of horror fans, but to any viewer discerning enough to appreciate the beauty of melancholy, the pain of growing up, and the irresistibility of violence."
—
Film4
Posted Mar 3, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
87%
|
Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes) (2007) |
"
Meticulous plotting, breathless pacing, paradoxes aplenty, and some surprisingly human dilemmas, all make this low-key sci-fi thriller well worth going back over again and again. It is a Primer-like triumph of ideas over budget."
—
Film4
Posted Feb 5, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
96%
|
Waltz with Bashir (2008) |
"
In this animated 'leisure trip' back through an atrocity, the nightmarish hell of war assumes a new kind of reality. Devastatingly good."
—
Film4
Posted Nov 21, 2008
|
|
4.5/5
|
90%
|
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Saibogujiman kwenchana) (2006) |
"
This uncategorisable asylum-set ensemble dramedy backs up its extraordinary visual effects with a lot of heart."
—
Film4
Posted Mar 26, 2008
|
|
4.5/5
|
97%
|
Du Levande (You, The Living) (2007) |
"
this litany of human disconnection, misery, frustration and despair... would be an almost unbearably bleak mosaic of our living deaths, were it not for Andersson's profound appreciation of Chaplin's observation that comedy is tragedy seen in long-shot."
—
Film4
Posted Mar 21, 2008
|
|
4.5/5
|
62%
|
Diary of the Dead (2007) |
"
sees the writer/director well and truly back from the dead and returning to his independent roots, with a small, character-based production that is intelligent, bleak, and at times jarringly funny."
—
Film4
Posted Feb 28, 2008
|
|
4.5/5
|
82%
|
In Memory of Me (In memoria di me) (2007) |
"
for the two hours that Costanza's hauntingly earnest film lasts, and perhaps beyond, it is all too easy to forget yourself."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Nov 7, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
——
|
Wong gok hak yau (One Night in Mongkok) (2004) |
"
a taut crime thriller that moonlights as ensemble morality tale and allegory of Hong Kong's post-handover relationship with mainland China."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Aug 2, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
78%
|
Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs) (2007) |
"
Spring surely follows winter, but there is no sign of a coming thaw in this bleakly melancholic comedy of manners and mortality."
—
Film4
Posted Jul 13, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
The Host (Gwoemul) (2007) |
"
like a mutant hybrid spawned from the improbable union of Little Miss Sunshine and Godzilla; for in this family comedy and political satire an unnaturally evolved tadpole just happens to loom (very) large."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 9, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
——
|
Ansatsu (The Assassin)(The Assassination) (1964) |
"
A masterpiece of cinematic storytelling, matching a jigsaw-like economy of construction to a wide variety of visual styles, while never being anything less than gripping."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 5, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
76%
|
Crash (2004) |
"
a searingly powerful, at times transcendent, examination of a nation's culture, alienated from, and afraid of, itself."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 3, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
93%
|
Children of Men (2006) |
"
he only thing that strikes a false note here is...the final sequence (and a sound heard over the closing credits)... Otherwise a perfect film."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 3, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
36%
|
Chicken Little (2005) |
"
the cinematic equivalent of a battery-farmed egg: not exactly rotten, but surrounded by dozens of others just like it in appearance, shape and taste."
—
Eye for Film
Posted Jul 3, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
Requiem (2006) |
"
an intense, disturbing and bleak drama of ecstasy and insanity, all set in a world where, if there is a God at all, it truly requires a leap of faith into the dark to grasp Him."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
——
|
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (2007) |
"
Thirteen Kafkaesque pieces of puppetry that defy all categorisation, comprehension or reason. Unsettling, baffling and darkly brilliant."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 13, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
60%
|
Them (Ils) (2007) |
"
This superb horror thriller breaks violently into your consciousness, robbing you of all sense of security."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 13, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
67%
|
Isolation (2006) |
"
Isolation is a claustrophobic, increasingly icky chiller that is just as horrifying for its underlying ideas as for the more visceral shocks that it presents on screen."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 13, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
72%
|
Inland Empire (2006) |
"
this story of magic, madness and metempsychosis will have you feeling like a rabbit trying to puzzle out what exactly is going on as wilder wolves circle and headlights career toward you out of the darkness."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 13, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
——
|
Manji (1964) |
"
Masumura's marriage of convenience between the demure and the shocking is a classic of modernist cinema."
—
Film4
Posted Jun 12, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
64%
|
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006) |
"
This low-budget comedy-drama may not have the glossiest of coats, but nor is it the dog you might be expecting."
—
Film4
Posted Mar 16, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
72%
|
Climates (Iklimler) (The Climate) (2006) |
"
Dress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny."
—
Film4
Posted Feb 9, 2007
|
|
9/10
|
53%
|
The Devil's Rejects (2005) |
"
one disorientingly demented trip through the terrain of 1970s outlaw grindhouse."
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Aug 13, 2005
|
|
9/10
|
41%
|
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) |
—
Movie Gazette
Posted Jul 13, 2005
|
66%
——
97%
