|
8/10
|
60%
|
From the Other Side (De L'autre Cote) (2003) |
"
Akerman assumes the persona of a visitor who is probing the surface with the keen eye of a trained observer, but also with the humility of a stranger."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
If you dig Thor or Cap or Hulk, please check out the original sources. Support your local comic book shop. You wouldn't have any of these movies without them."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 7, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
100%
|
World on a Wire (2011) |
"
Pardon me if I get a little choked up, but this is Rainer Werner Fassbinder we're talking about. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 2, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
——
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The Letter That Was Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) (1959) |
"
Elaborate, gliding tracking shots provide a sense of mastery over nature that the characters can't achieve"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
95%
|
The War Room (1993) |
"
It's so intoxicating that sometimes it's easy forget we are, in effect, watching a couple of pitch men selling that year's newest brand of soap."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
83%
|
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) |
"
Martin Scorsese's long-ripening adaptation ... provides a much-needed corrective, focusing its attention on a man who is constantly plagued by doubts. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
100%
|
A Night to Remember (1958) |
"
(We have) stood witness to a spectacular tragedy that took place on a perfectly unspectacular, dead calm night"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
6/10
|
90%
|
The Woman With The 5 Elephants (2011) |
"
Literary Translators Gone Wild!"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
94%
|
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
I'll go to my grave believing that Elmo is a punk. Kevin Clash, however, is definitely not a punk, not one bit."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
50%
|
Chasing Madoff (2011) |
"
When the officials getting paid to do the job failed miserably in their duties, it was the crazy guy who stood as the public's last and only line of defense"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
——
|
Alambrista! () |
"
Free of false sentiment and always clear of vision."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
——
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I Compagni (The Organizer) (The Strikers) (1963) |
"
The style often features broad comic performances against a background of despair and defeatism; these were not comedies with happy endings which seems to be a contradiction."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
80%
|
The Flaw (2011) |
"
(The film) makes a series of points rather than an argument... Think of it as a Festivus-style airing of grievances. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Late Spring (1949) |
"
Ozu trains his trademarked fixed camera on the deceptively simple story of a father and daughter and finds in it nothing short of the whole wide world."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
100%
|
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
"
As courtroom thrillers go, it has few peers."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
94%
|
On the Bowery (1957) |
"
A portrait of the ravages of alcoholism so vivid that I cannot off-hand think of any equivalent."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
6/10
|
85%
|
Under The Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2011) |
"
Strictly a soft sell, a breezy, fan's-eye appreciation of one of America's (and now much of the world's) most popular board games. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
100%
|
How To Die In Oregon (2012) |
"
A sensitive and deeply moving portrait that you won't find easy to shake."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
——
|
Sanbiki no samurai (Three Outlaw Samurai) (1964) |
"
It's not that no good deed goes unpunished, just that good deeds, like bad ones, are most likely to go for naught."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
73%
|
Design for Living (1933) |
"
The dialogue is sharp without seeming too impeccably perfect to be real human speech."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
87%
|
Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011) |
"
An affective portrait of an intense, obsessed man and a tense, twisty, and occasionally inspiring narrative surrounding the Fischer-Spassky match."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
100%
|
Branded to Kill (1967) |
"
Seijun Suzuki doesn't do establishing shots, and when he does, they don't establish s***."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
73%
|
Revenge of the Electric Car (2011) |
"
This is more superficial rah-rah than investigation. I'm sure it serves its ideological purpose, but as a documentary, it's uninspired."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
83%
|
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) |
"
It's hard not to chuckle at the fiftieth cutaway to an oddly passive Burr after watching a scene from the Honda original, but this cut shouldn't be dismissed either."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
93%
|
Gojira (1956) |
"
I would be surprised if any recent digital monster proves as malleable and as enduring as this great gorilla-whale (goriro + kujira = Gojira, AKA Godzilla) who created an entire genre."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
78%
|
Il Momento della Verita (The Moment of Truth) (1965) |
"
There's one thing I can say about every bullfighting movie I've seen: I'm always rooting for the bull."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
——
|
Routine Pleasures (1986) |
"
It's all a wonderful mess that Gorin has the sense not to tidy up at the editing table."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
——
|
Poto and Cabengo (1980) |
"
Poto and Cabengo, where have you been all my life?"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
57%
|
Film socialisme (2011) |
"
The movie's critique of globalization ... is vast in scope, and the fragmented narrative is replete with allusions."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
Gina Carano's attitude-free performance more than merits top billing."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
——
|
Transcendent Man (2011) |
"
Is Kurzweil a crackpot? Opinions vary, but one thing everyone agrees on is that Ray Kurzweil is brilliant."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
71%
|
En la Ciudad de Sylvia (In the City of Sylvia) (2007) |
"
Sylvia is modern myth-making in a quiet register, and it's quite seductive once you give in to its playful rhythms."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
100%
|
Sasame-yuki (Fine Snow)(Hosone yuki)(The Makioka Sisters) (1983) |
"
Though the story unfurls slowly, Ichikawa directs with a lively step."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
90%
|
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010) |
"
A celebration of cinephilia and music and dance"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
97%
|
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) |
"
Kiss Me Deadly was so far out there that it is usually viewed as an end point to the classic film noir cycle. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
64%
|
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (2010) |
"
There was once a time when the nascent medium of cinema struggled for legitimacy."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
100%
|
Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday) (1930) |
"
The weekend is just an idyll and Monday must inevitably follow Sunday. And yet... another Sunday is guaranteed."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
50%
|
Black Moon (2011) |
"
Is there a single film that combines genocide, a talking unicorn, and breast feeding?... Yes!"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
6/10
|
87%
|
Zazie dans le métro (Zazie in the Subway) (1960) |
"
Zazie, you're so darned adorable, you even make getting picked up by Aqualung look like fun."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
85%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
The Tree of Life evokes the defining presence and absence of mom more vividly than any other film I know."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
——
|
Colony (2011) |
"
What (the film) lacks in rhetorical heft, it more than compensates for in its keen sense of portraiture and with its beautiful imagery."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
88%
|
White Material (2010) |
"
Unsentimental, brutal, and beautiful, (the film) is a harrowing experience."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
51%
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) |
"
A beautiful cinematic showcase for Thompson at the peak of his writing skills."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
88%
|
Something Wild (1986) |
"
If you don't already know where it ends up then I assure you that you have no idea where it's going to end up."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
86%
|
Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) (1964) |
"
They get no kicks from champagne."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
8/10
|
87%
|
Araya (1959) |
"
Not a documentary in the traditional sense ... this stark black and white film has the feel of an avant-garde science-fiction opus."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
4/10
|
77%
|
Thor (2011) |
"
Thor has the feel of a film that never quite starts. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 6, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
——
|
LennonNYC (2011) |
"
This is a story about a life shared by two lovers and artists who found, lost, and then found each other again. Its quite moving even if it smoothes out the story a bit. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 26, 2011
|
|
7/10
|
98%
|
Broadcast News (1987) |
"
(The) endlessly quotable writing... keeps the film fresh as Tom, Aaron and Jane carom off each other at ever-more oblique angles."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 26, 2011
|
|
6/10
|
86%
|
Senso (The Wanton Countess) (1954) |
"
As a chronicle of doomed love, the story gains quite a bit of steam as it bulldozes towards its tragic ending."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 26, 2011
|
79%
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