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5/5
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Uncle David () |
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Time Out
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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5/5
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98%
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Ten Canoes (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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5/5
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100%
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
"
At once a witty comedy of manners, a grotesque serial-killer caper and an acerbic satire on the class system."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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5/5
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89%
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A Serious Man (2009) |
"
The film's potency is rooted in quiet precision and detailed realisation. Roger Deakins's typically polished photography gives an oppressively hard edge to Midwestern suburbia."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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5/5
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100%
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Citizen Kane (1941) |
"
Many of the novel techniques Welles developed with cinematographer Gregg Toland were calculated to offer new angles on film space."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2009
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5/5
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87%
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Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet) (1981) |
"
[A] strong current of humour belies a serious engagement with the general, perhaps intractable problem of whether our impulses toward intimacy and unaccountability can ever be reconciled."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
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5/6
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90%
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Knocked Up (2007) |
"
The year's best comedy; one that confirms the arrival of an extended group of talent that looks set to take the studio comedy crown from the likes of Ferrell, Stiller and Carrey."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 24, 2007
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4/5
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60%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
If a comedy is meant to make you laugh, mission accomplished. As a series of wonderfully grotesque set-pieces, The Dictator delivers."
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Time Out
Posted May 11, 2012
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4/5
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Beauty & the Briefcase (2011) |
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Time Out
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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4/5
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92%
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Noordzee, Texas (North Sea Texas) () |
"
Family life and adult power are central here, allowing for bittersweet engagement with emotions over time and the compromises of living in reality."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
The result is gripping, moving and revelatory, an unabashed if implicit critique of the death penalty."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 27, 2012
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4/5
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89%
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California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) (Endless) (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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4/5
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89%
|
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros) (2006) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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4/5
|
94%
|
Weekend (2011) |
"
Sexy, provocative, engrossing and occasionally ornery, it should appeal to anyone whose curiosity about someone new has provoked them to question their own identity."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2011
|
|
4/5
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58%
|
Kaboom (2011) |
"
If there's an undercurrent of impending cataclysm in today's culture, 'Kaboom' senses that feeling, seizes it in a surreal clinch and hurtles with it off a cliff."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 8, 2011
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|
4/5
|
73%
|
Heartbeats (2011) |
"
It can seem as if style is all in Dolan's films, but as well as revelling in its pleasures, they also dissect its limitations - sometimes without anaesthetic."
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Time Out
Posted May 25, 2011
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|
4/5
|
96%
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) |
"
Herzog notes, 'Time and space lose their meaning.' Inevitably bound by both, his film is as close to their beauty as we will ever get."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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4/5
|
83%
|
On Tour (Tournée) (2010) |
"
There's a strong sense of the tour as work - bland hotels, travel co-ordination, Muzak - as well as the situation's propensity to let cooped-up emotions, from anger to lust, marinate."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 9, 2010
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|
4/5
|
94%
|
La Nana (The Maid) (2009) |
"
Deadpan, handheld technique allows director Sebastián Silva to mine mundane situations for subtle hazard but also to take his story in unexpected directions, initial reticence preserving the potential for surprise."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 26, 2010
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|
4/5
|
99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
The 'Toy Story' films are deservedly seen as the gold standard for computer-generated animation..."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Life During Wartime (2010) |
"
Solondz's ongoing interests ... ensure some shocks but his underlying interests are sincere and humane: the consequences of trauma, the capacity for self-delusion, the possibility of change and the necessity of forgiveness."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 22, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"
'Where the Wild Things Are' stands out for its unusually potent evocation of the timbre of childhood imagining, with its combination of the outré and the banal, grand schemes jumbled up with delicate feelings and the urge to smash things up."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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|
4/5
|
95%
|
Goodbye Solo (2009) |
"
An endearing character piece shot through with beauty and humility in which, thanks to his leads' open, sometimes vulnerable performances, tolerance and respect take precedence."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
The September Issue (2009) |
"
Consistently funny and engaging, 'The September Issue' is also a window onto the top echelon of an industry in which fanciful escapism is deadly serious."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Big River Man (2009) |
"
If Werner Herzog had made 'Borat', the results might have been something like this documentary about the unusual athletic overachiever Martin Strel."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"
The Simpsons Movie does not feel at sea on the big screen and, crucially, it is very funny."
—
Time Out
Posted Jul 21, 2007
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|
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62%
|
Grace Is Gone (2007) |
"
The focus is solidly on the human cost borne by those serving their country and their families."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 13, 2007
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|
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55%
|
Undertow (2004) |
"
Green's signature pastoral tangents and codeine pacing don't slow down this tale of two boys fleeing their psychotic uncle so much as inappropriately slacken any of the story's suspenseful aspects."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2007
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|
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47%
|
The Transformers - The Movie (1986) |
"
The anime-inflected look is generally impressive too, although the power-rock soundtrack is unsalvageable."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 16, 2007
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|
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68%
|
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) |
"
A scientific context is offered by interviews with researchers expounding modes of intergalactic travel, but the real pleasures are in the organic beauty of deep spaces and the ambiguous position of the humans suspended in them."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 14, 2007
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|
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71%
|
28 Weeks Later... (2007) |
"
The capital locations are put to cannily distressing use."
—
Time Out
Posted May 10, 2007
|
|
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63%
|
Spider-Man 3 (2007) |
"
The tone is ultimately more subdued than your average superhero movie. Kudos to Raimi for making it feel justified."
—
Time Out
Posted May 4, 2007
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|
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88%
|
Mutual Appreciation (2006) |
"
Despite their lackadaisical impression, the pictures are quite tightly structured: each scene covers emotional and narrative distance. Funny, forgiving, credible and deft, they offer much to appreciate."
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Time Out
Posted May 3, 2007
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|
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84%
|
Jack Smith and the Destruction Of Atlantis (2006) |
"
Jordan's film is a glorious visual achievement in its own right, as well as part of the rancorous ongoing dispute over Smith's legacy."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 14, 2007
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|
|
75%
|
Sunshine (2007) |
"
It's in the relationship between the crew and the sun that 'Sunshine' really shines."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 10, 2007
|
|
|
88%
|
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005) |
"
It's a celebration of cinema-going as a 'ritual experience or trip', a communal adventure with no real equivalent in the exquisitely atomised YouTubeverse."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2007
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|
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75%
|
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) |
"
The plot itself might not break much new ground, but the telling, by both cast and crew, makes this a memoir to remember."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 28, 2007
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|
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67%
|
The Bridge (2006) |
"
The whole thing invokes the bodies falling from that other architectural icon on 9/11 - but it's not clear what is achieved beyond disturbance."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2007
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|
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91%
|
Hot Fuzz (2007) |
"
It's not a perfect template - running motifs are glaringly flagged up and there are at least two too many climaxes - but for both gags and thrills, few current British filmmakers come close."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2007
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|
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91%
|
Iraq in Fragments (2006) |
"
There's something of a period quality to this beautifully photographed documentary snapshot of Iraq in transition."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 16, 2007
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|
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93%
|
This Is England (2007) |
"
Cross-cutting between Roland Rat and Maggie Thatcher, rioting and the royal wedding, itâ(TM)s a nifty scene-setter for a deft, heartfelt local story."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
|
89%
|
Beyond Hatred (Au-dela de la haine) (2007) |
"
Exemplifies the finest French traditions of dignified rationalism in the pursuit of understanding - in both personal and judicial contexts."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2006
|
|
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55%
|
A Soap (En Soap) (2006) |
"
[The film takes] some of its cues from the soaps and melodramas the characters watch together and others from a realist tradition of considerable emotional heft."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
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66%
|
Shortbus (2006) |
"
Few arthouse directors have put real sex to such narratively constructive and credibly, humorously human use."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 28, 2006
|
|
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93%
|
The Departed (2006) |
"
few directors can compose a movie with the power, grace and assurance that Scorsese brings to each shot and scene, and The Departed is more fun, and certainly more funny, than his last few films."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 5, 2006
|
|
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95%
|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"
A disjunction remains between the story's childlike form and its gruesome execution, but few directors are so adept at conveying both the uncanny in the real and the recognisable in the fantastic."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 24, 2006
|
|
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92%
|
Volver (2006) |
"
...It's some achievement that the film is both funnier and more moving on repeated viewing, when its pervasive dramatic ironies emerge."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 24, 2006
|
|
|
69%
|
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"
Wondrously attractive, all the more so for the avoidance (with one or two exceptions) of extrovert Waking Life-style set-pieces."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 17, 2006
|
|
|
81%
|
Friday Night Lights (2004) |
"
The affecting, gruelling result is less a document of recreational sport than one of obligation and ordeal."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
87%
|
The Proposition (2005) |
"
A beautifully shot tracker's western that brings the Fordian poles of garden and desert to bear on the bushrangers' Outback, this is also a revenge drama of substantial horror."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
66%
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97%
