|
5/5
|
——
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Reno 911! - The Complete First Season (2004) |
"
Brilliant. Reno 911! makes up for all those horribly unfunny Police Academy movies."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
Pink Flamingos (1972) |
"
The alpha and omega of shock filmmaking."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
74%
|
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) |
"
Once every summer season, the Holy Grail appears on screen. In 2004, it came as a steaming sack of tiny square burgers, the good end to a long, superb stoner road revue."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Aug 5, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) |
"
Riefenstahl masterfully dissects her own Triumph of the Will and forcefully denies that artists bear any special political responsibility."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 22, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
The Muppet Movie (1979) |
"
Sure, a pig and a frog are an unlikely couple, but who isn't? This film reminds us that we are loved, regardless of whether we roll in the mud or swallow flies."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 21, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
Last Night (1998) |
"
Required viewing for anyone who hasn't yet planned her own last night."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 18, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
48%
|
De-Lovely (2004) |
"
'There are no little memories with you,' Cole tells her. "
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 18, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Reds (1981) |
"
Hey, hey, I saved the world today. A movie about the burdens that fall on those who take big ideas seriously."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 16, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
82%
|
The Natural (1984) |
"
The most sentimental movie you needn't be ashamed to love."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 14, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
Bottle Rocket (1996) |
"
Finely observed, fierce, and funny. The early stirrings of genius."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 14, 2004
|
|
99/100
|
96%
|
Intolerance (1916) |
"
D.W. Griffith wants to fight for your right to party."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 25, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Thelma & Louise (1991) |
"
Super-charged, Amazonian feminism hijacks the caper, buddy, revenge, and road trip genres. One hell of a ride."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 8, 2004
|
|
|
77%
|
I'm Not There (2007) |
"
I'm Not There may inspire great movies, but doesn't have the discipline to be one itself."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 25, 2007
|
|
|
45%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007) |
"
The wild, unstoppable commercial success of the Pirates franchise has freed Verbinski to spend a lot of time on flights of fancy and mythological asides."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
|
|
90%
|
Knocked Up (2007) |
"
Goodhearted and refreshingly messy."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
|
|
——
|
The Damned (These Are the Damned) (1963) |
"
Slow-building but creepy story of biker pug uglies, radiation poisoning, and prissy Brit schoolkids."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 8, 2007
|
|
|
56%
|
Keeping Mum (2006) |
"
Maggie Smith is like Mary Poppins...with a meat ax. Serial Grandmom strikes again."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 7, 2006
|
|
|
25%
|
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"
There is a natural limit as to how deeply any film, but especially a would-be summer blockbuster, can dig into radical ideas of faith and history. To his credit, Ron Howard hits that limit."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted May 21, 2006
|
|
|
46%
|
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"
Bad News Bears is a late summer hoot, and hopefully what your kids are really seeing when they tell you they're going to Sky High."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 7, 2005
|
|
|
——
|
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (2000) |
"
Belafonte is magic in his loneliness."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 26, 2005
|
|
|
85%
|
F for Fake (1974) |
"
A little gem, full of vintage Welles ruminations on the ephemeral nature of personal celebrity and the elusiveness of ultimate truth."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted May 22, 2005
|
|
|
85%
|
The Yes Men (2004) |
"
Chris Smith is the next great documentarian for mainstream American audiences to discover, and he richly merits a wide release."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted May 15, 2005
|
|
|
97%
|
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
"
While Smartest Guys sometimes veers into C-Span2: The Movie territory, just then another shocking tidbit will drop to keep the fires stoked."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted May 15, 2005
|
|
|
93%
|
Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004) |
"
Nothing more can be done to lay the concrete reality of poverty out for persons of conscience. Take and read."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Mar 14, 2005
|
|
|
88%
|
College (1927) |
"
Madcap fun as the supremely athletic Keaton plays a bookworm who, for love of a jock-loving girl, tries but fails heroically at every possible sport in every possible way."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 19, 2005
|
|
|
88%
|
Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990) |
"
Superb thriller scored to Eurotrash synth pop, La Femme Nikita sets out a whole world of espionage and violence, and engages with a wild yet sympathetic lead."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 4, 2005
|
|
|
83%
|
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"
A celebration of artistry, not as mere ornament, but as the very stuff of life."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
92%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
Mystery of the Universe #237: the same Clint Eastwood who once co-starred with an orangutan is now America's finest director of tragedy."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
88%
|
Bad Education (La Mala educación) (2004) |
"
Sexy and complicated as between its adult leads, Bad Education also marks the most insightful critique yet of the pedophile scandals in the Catholic Church."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
96%
|
Sideways (2004) |
"
A funny, heartfelt coming-of-middle-age story by, for, and about snobs."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
69%
|
Carandiru (2004) |
"
Humanity struggles out from under a maximally oppressive system, commenting by haunting metaphor on life outside the prison walls."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
17%
|
Gacy (2003) |
"
Gacy channels its horror through bicentennial suburban kitsch, clowns-in-the-closet visuals, and a heaving, foul, maggot-carpeted crawlspace deep with death and lies."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Dec 31, 2004
|
|
|
88%
|
The Five Obstructions (2003) |
"
Despite his own pessimism, I think Von Trier does change Leth as an artist, a little, through these chastisements."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 25, 2004
|
|
|
49%
|
Alfie (2004) |
"
What at first seems a glossy ad for the swinging single life gradually reveals itself as an stinging indictment of the emotional impotent."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 17, 2004
|
|
|
62%
|
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"
See I Heart Huckabees before your boss asks you to tell your Shania Twain mayo story and you vomit all over a meeting of the Board."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 18, 2004
|
|
|
76%
|
Team America - World Police (2004) |
"
A post-9/11 gutbuster."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 10, 2004
|
|
|
72%
|
Bonhoeffer (2003) |
"
Bonhoeffer doesn't probe as deeply as one might like into the details and implications of his theology, but is an invaluable study of a man of conscience. "
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 6, 2004
|
|
|
53%
|
A Dirty Shame (2004) |
"
A Dirty Shame, a very funny movie, overcomes its limitations by playing to director John Waters' strengths."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 1, 2004
|
|
|
86%
|
Garden State (2004) |
"
Ultimately, The Graduate could only offer that the young would shut out the old and start over. Garden State is about the next season, about getting off the bus."
—
Flak Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
96%
|
The Lion in Winter (1968) |
"
A must-see for perhaps the most scathing verbal pyrotechnics ever committed to film."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
89%
|
The Mouse That Roared (1959) |
"
A welcome return to a more innocent time in geopolitics. Also be sure to catch the mod! fab! DVD preview for Dr. Strangelove."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
96%
|
Goldfinger (1964) |
"
Goldfinger remains the gold standard for the Bond movies. Recent entries can't compare to this lustrous thriller, a throwback to when the term "thriller" had meaning."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
71%
|
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"
With wit as dry as the chapped lips of a constant mouth-breather, Napoleon Dynamite finds moments of painful reserve even in slapstick."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 4, 2004
|
|
|
95%
|
Hero (2004) |
"
Truly beautiful, but undeniably resigned to peace through tyranny."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 4, 2004
|
|
|
43%
|
The Village (2004) |
"
In this election year, our cinemas have been overrun by insincere communities headed by dissemblers-in-chief."
—
Flak Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2004
|
|
|
——
|
Westray () |
"
Westray explains in painful detail how communities will themselves into fatal ignorance."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 13, 2004
|
|
|
72%
|
Bonhoeffer (2003) |
"
Bonhoeffer follows the life of one prominent churchman as he develops an ethics to nourish the anti-Nazi resistence."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 8, 2004
|
|
|
100%
|
A Nous la Liberté (Liberty for Us) (1931) |
"
The French have no equal when it comes to perfectly aligned bottom-kicking, showing revulsion at the ill-breeding of others, or performing semi-socialist slapstick."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 7, 2004
|
|
|
43%
|
The Village (2004) |
"
Don't go to The Village to be surprised, shocked, waylaid or titillated. Go to think hard about the human project."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 30, 2004
|
|
|
42%
|
The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) |
"
A poor man's Being There, which still makes for a great time."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 24, 2004
|
65%
——
97%
