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A
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91%
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Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004) |
"
You feel privy to mysterious secrets and a monumental unraveling... It's impossible to look away."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Feb 16, 2005
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A
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87%
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The Aviator (2004) |
"
THE AVIATOR is almost impossibly fertile and rich, but always Scorsese marshals his resources to get inside Hughes' head."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Dec 27, 2004
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A+
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100%
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Stolen Children (Il Ladro di bambini) (1992) |
"
A sublime movie in the neorealist tradition, in which man helps two damaged children discover, for a few days, the childhood that has been denied them."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 8, 2004
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A+
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93%
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) |
"
Kaufman's previous screenplays have always been intellectually rigorous, but you wouldn't necessary say they have a lot of passion. This one is different."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Mar 19, 2004
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A
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72%
|
Girl With a Pearl Earring (2004) |
"
No artist biopic has succeeded as completely in capturing the magical, inexplicable artistic moment. [A commentary including an interview with director Peter Webber]"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 26, 2004
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A
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95%
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Fireworks (Hana-bi) (1997) |
"
Kitano makes static, understated movies about existences wasted, and rediscovering the joy of being, for a brief time, alive.... Violence comes in sudden bursts, as a shocking interruption."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Oct 23, 2003
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A
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95%
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Lost In Translation (2003) |
"
The man who once stole every film he did, bending it to his comic will, tranquilly inhabits LOST IN TRANSLATION... Understatement is his tool now."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 12, 2003
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A
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93%
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
"
The first half hour alone forever redefines the war movie genre. Ryan has just one minor flaw: the plot is completely contrived. And if you can characterize a weak story as just a minor flaw... well, that's some damn fine filmmaking."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 11, 2003
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A
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75%
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Secretary (2002) |
"
Secretary is not a movie about fetishism. It is a movie about passion."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 19, 2002
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A
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93%
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In the Bedroom (2001) |
"
truthful in every detail"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 31, 2002
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A
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92%
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"
a jaw-droppingly successful film adaptation...stunning on every level"
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Posted Jan 17, 2002
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A
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84%
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The Others (2001) |
"
prioritizes human drama above horror-film gimmickry..."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 21, 2001
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A
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62%
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Session 9 (2001) |
"
In this era of post-modern teen slasher films and computer graphics-saturated genre pictures, Session 9 is an unusual film. It is a character study foremost..."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 6, 2001
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A
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76%
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Winter Sleepers (1997) |
"
Picture a cross between 'Run Lola Run' and 'The Sweet Hereafter.' If you can do such a thing, you have an idea of what Winter Sleepers is like."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Mar 25, 2001
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A+
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95%
|
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
"
No common follow-the-clues, get-the-bad-guy movie"
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Posted Mar 15, 2001
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A+
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92%
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Blade Runner (1982) |
"
A genre-defining science-fiction thriller with echoes of old-fashioned film noir"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Mar 15, 2001
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A+
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97%
|
GoodFellas (1990) |
"
An expert blend of narration, period music, and dynamic tableaux creating an energetic, darkly funny, and unforgettable portrait of life among the Mob's bottom feeders"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A+
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97%
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Alien (1979) |
"
...a seminal movie in the history of horror..."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A+
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88%
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Titanic (2012) |
"
The genius of Titanic does not lie in the story itself. It lies in how the story is told."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A
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88%
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Boys Don't Cry (1999) |
"
Raw, unvarnished power"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A
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96%
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Gods and Monsters (1998) |
"
A movie of infinite patience"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A
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98%
|
Aliens (1986) |
"
Scott's tension-building atmospherics are replaced by Cameron's high-octane punch."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A
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89%
|
Trainspotting (1996) |
"
A spirited, energetic, hilarious take on one of the least spirited, energetic, or hilarious topics of all: heroin addition"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A
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82%
|
American History X (1998) |
"
For Director Tony Kaye to disown this is irrational beyond belief"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A
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91%
|
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) |
"
You will be able to watch it over and over and continue to discover nuances and possibilities that you hadn't seen before"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
A
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87%
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The Matrix (1999) |
"
A reminder of how exhilirating it is when Hollywood hits a home run"
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A
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95%
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Richard III (1995) |
"
Setting Richard III in a fictional fascist England of the 1930s is inspired..."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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A
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80%
|
Fight Club (1999) |
"
Fight Club is not a glorification of violence. It is a deconstruction."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
A+
|
97%
|
Schindler's List (1993) |
"
What is most memorable is not the tragedy of the lives lost or even the number of people Schindler saved, but how such an imperfect man could have done something so perfect"
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
A-
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77%
|
Match Point (2005) |
"
Thank goodness Allen has left New York and left himself out of the script."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Dec 29, 2005
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|
A-
|
90%
|
My Summer of Love (2004) |
"
Despite the predictable collision course between Tasmin and Phil, this is a remarkable film."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jul 7, 2005
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A-
|
68%
|
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
"
Few things are as exciting as watching a great actor successfully turn off the star wattage and don the skin of an utterly weak, insignificant person."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Dec 27, 2004
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A-
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90%
|
Hotel Rwanda (2004) |
"
This is an important film to see, but its "importance" does not alone make it good. It only makes a powerful film even more worthy of your time. "
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Nov 30, 2004
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A-
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La Famiglia (The Family) (1987) |
"
An excellent intergenerational family drama that traces 80 years of Italian history through the life of one man, without leaving the walls of his Roman apartment."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 8, 2004
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A-
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64%
|
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"
With a hungry, compulsive, tender, angry, and passionate performance, Ruffalo has definitely shed the shiftless stoner typecast."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 15, 2004
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A-
|
55%
|
Ricordati di me, (Remember Me, My Love) (2004) |
"
Remember Me, My Love is well acted all around, but Muccino is proving to be an especially wonderful director of women."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Jul 10, 2004
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|
A-
|
77%
|
Two for the Road (1967) |
"
One of the best movies about relationships ever. Outstanding performances."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Nov 26, 2003
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A-
|
80%
|
21 Grams (2003) |
"
The actors are magnificent. They unequivocally know who their characters are, inhabiting them so completely that you cease to remember these are actually actors, even stars."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Nov 25, 2003
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|
A-
|
87%
|
Mystic River (2003) |
"
While restrained and internal throughout most of the film, Penn displays both chilling intensity and heart-wrenching grief when it really counts."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Oct 31, 2003
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|
A-
|
76%
|
Kundun (1997) |
"
Though a meditative, introspective film, Scorsese's distinctive techniques cause Kundun to pulse with life under its calm surface."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Oct 23, 2003
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A-
|
84%
|
Swimming Pool (2003) |
"
Swimming Pool is surprisingly deep... giving us that special fun that only the very best movies provide-the pleasure of diving in again and again."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Jun 27, 2003
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A-
|
96%
|
The Pianist (2002) |
"
THE PIANIST is Polanski's most personal work to date, and perhaps because of that, Polanski seems to have rediscovered the cinematic voice he had as a young man."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Dec 19, 2002
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A-
|
72%
|
Das Experiment (The Experiment) (2001) |
"
a psychic explosion of a movie--a film as difficult to watch as it is to stop watching"
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 10, 2002
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|
A-
|
92%
|
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) (2001) |
"
Though the plot is predictable, the movie never feels formulaic, because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Aug 15, 2002
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A-
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92%
|
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) |
"
Evans is such a capable storyteller that you find yourself liking him even though he's not exactly likeable."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Jul 24, 2002
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|
A-
|
96%
|
The Big Sleep (1946) |
"
Bogart and Bacall are so good together that the story's impenetrability doesn't matter much, as long as it keeps serving up suspenseful situations and sassy dialogue."
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Apr 20, 2002
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|
A-
|
95%
|
Monsoon Wedding (2002) |
"
delightfully rendered"
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Feb 28, 2002
|
|
A-
|
86%
|
Gosford Park (2001) |
"
CLUE! meets REMAINS OF THE DAY"
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Jan 5, 2002
|
|
A-
|
40%
|
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"
The continued presence of Jung's MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS on the table as the movie unfolds via flashback...is the key to unlocking...Vanilla Sky"
—
AboutFilm.com
Posted Dec 17, 2001
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|
A-
|
90%
|
Together (Tillsammans) (2001) |
"
Moodysson unerringly finds the humanity in each character, thus making you care about the people, even those who aren't all that likable."
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AboutFilm.com
Posted Sep 20, 2001
|
78%
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