|
76/100
|
90%
|
The Red Badge of Courage (1951) |
"
The fall and redemption of the protagonist, while clearly predictable, is still intelligently and effectively executed"
—
Cinemania
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
82/100
|
98%
|
The Hustler (1961) |
"
A crackling good morality tale"
—
Cinemania
Posted Sep 24, 2013
|
|
68/100
|
98%
|
Mary Poppins (1964) |
"
The entire set was constructed indoors and it shows: the "outdoor" scenes are bathed in a dull gray light"
—
Daily-Reviews
Posted Sep 16, 2013
|
|
84/100
|
100%
|
12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) (1957) |
"
There is real value is how it allows each member of the cultural mosaic of a jury to develop into distinct, damaged, and interesting characters"
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
79/100
|
60%
|
Oliver Twist (2005) |
"
A smorgasbord of urban decay, social disorder, and class conflict imbues the film with a potent sensuality"
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
76/100
|
100%
|
Great Expectations (1947) |
"
With characters so vividly drawn, their ambitions and disappointments are keenly felt"
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 26, 2013
|
|
70/100
|
89%
|
A Soldier's Story (1984) |
"
The film really belongs to Adolph Caesar who excels as a tyrannical, vicious and masochistic army sergeant."
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
81/100
|
96%
|
Babettes Gæstebud (Babette's Feast) (1987) |
"
The film leaves us with a haunting echo of the roads not taken, as the characters ask themselves: have they made the most of their gifts?"
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 9, 2013
|
|
84/100
|
87%
|
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) |
"
A work of tremendous intellectual depth and emotional range"
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
86/100
|
100%
|
The Philadelphia Story (1940) |
"
Spoofs and plays sly homage to Clifford Odets' earnest socialist dramas"
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
72/100
|
90%
|
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) |
"
Most powerful for its subtle and shaded characterizations of both victim and victimizer. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
81/100
|
100%
|
Adam's Rib (1949) |
"
Despite many improbabilities, this is a barbed and entertaining comedy thanks to some great casting and a very clever Kanin/Gordon script"
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 30, 2013
|
|
71/100
|
97%
|
Romeo and Juliet (1968) |
"
Neither lead is a skilled actor, but the film's lush and unrepentant romanticism carries the day"
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 28, 2013
|
|
77/100
|
92%
|
The Stunt Man (1980) |
"
A puzzle-master's delight. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 28, 2013
|
|
81/100
|
59%
|
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992) |
"
A fascinating tightrope-walk: Lynch's ultra-cool unconventional storytelling techniques are modified just enough to allow the movie to reach a broad audience"
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 15, 2013
|
|
70/100
|
100%
|
Pride and Prejudice (1940) |
"
The gentle satire of Austen's novel sits quietly, just beneath the surface, only to rise up and take the occasional bite out of offending characters at opportune moments. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 5, 2013
|
|
73/100
|
82%
|
Bronco Billy (1980) |
"
"The film's sweetly nostalgic tone also conveys Eastwood's deep love of the Wild West and the simple values of the old-fashioned cowboy characters who fantasize about inhabiting it. ""
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 5, 2013
|
|
82/100
|
100%
|
The Yearling (1946) |
"
The internal and external loyalties and relationships that pull and push young Jody provide the story with its powerful conflicts."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
76/100
|
90%
|
Little Caesar (1930) |
"
Edward G. Robinson's gravelly snarl and sociopathic disdain for human conventions became the template for countless future gangster anti-heroes"
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
79/100
|
100%
|
The Three Musketeers (1921) |
"
An epic film that is neither stuffy nor stale"
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
81/100
|
100%
|
The Leopard (1963) |
"
A fine drama that Tolstoy would endorse, remarkable for relying not on conflict between the uncle and the nephew but rather on their thorough devotion to each other."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
67/100
|
75%
|
Hakuchi (The Idiot) (1963) |
"
The Idiot is essentially a long string of talking-heads sequences that, despite being elegantly framed by Kurosawa's cinematic eye, tend to all run on longer than seems necessary."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
82/100
|
89%
|
Moon (2009) |
"
Solaris and Blade Runner meet Silent Running. A movie with both a brain and a heart. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Jun 5, 2013
|
|
80/100
|
89%
|
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) |
"
A sort of feminist Deadwood"
—
Cinemania
Posted May 29, 2013
|
|
78/100
|
96%
|
3 Women (1977) |
"
Insinuates itself into your skull, and earwig-like proceeds to consume all you thought you knew of ontological security"
—
Cinemania
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
84/100
|
95%
|
The Hunt (2013) |
"
Often painful, but always riveting"
—
Cinemania
Posted May 19, 2013
|
|
76/100
|
92%
|
California Split (1974) |
"
The Odd Couple of poker films"
—
Cinemania
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
80/100
|
96%
|
House of Games (1987) |
"
David Mamet's sometimes baffling, never less than fascinating glimpse into the dark underbelly of this world where it turns out that winning games of chance involve more skill (and con artistry) than luck. "
—
Cinemania
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
75/100
|
98%
|
Croupier (2000) |
"
Clive Owen's breakthrough role"
—
Cinemania
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
71/100
|
65%
|
Rounders (1998) |
"
John Dahl's film is not as sinister or complex as its cinematic cousin, House of Games, but it is fun to see these young Hollywood studs (Damon, Edward Norton, Gretchen Mol) strut their stuff. "
—
Cinemania
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
78/100
|
85%
|
The Cincinnati Kid (1965) |
"
A slighter version of The Hustler, on a different sort of felt"
—
Cinemania
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
80/100
|
97%
|
GasLand (2010) |
"
A must-see documentary"
—
Cinemania
Posted May 1, 2013
|
|
77/100
|
97%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
French Loach."
—
Cinemania
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
86/100
|
94%
|
Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) (1951) |
"
As a contemporary comment on the powerful element of suffering and redemption that is the centre of the Christ story, Diary of a Country Priest is a very interesting and unexpectedly moving experience."
—
Cinemania
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
85/100
|
76%
|
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"
Affleck manages to strike so many right notes, that by the end of the film, it is easy to forget what a loathsome toady he was at film's start, and you cannot help but feel real pain as Ford's inevitably sad fate unravels before our eyes. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
70/100
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
I do not find fault with these characters as I believe they accurately reflect our so-called post-modern times and they deserve to be laughed at. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
54/100
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
The film does not do even minimal justice to the themes informing the tragedy."
—
Cinemania
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
62/100
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
Worth taking seriously, but hamstrung by avoiding larger political issues and coming down to a matter of individual conscience. "
—
Daily-Reviews
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
88/100
|
97%
|
Pickpocket (1959) |
"
Pragmatic to the point of being almost mechanical, Pickpocket it is paradoxically saturated with soulfulness. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
65/100
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
I love the work that deNiro and Lawrence do here, but ultimately all they do is prove the old adage that you can cover up a lot of problems with the script by hiring good actors. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
72/100
|
75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
A noir-ish crime drama with a brain, and despite its flaws and inconsistencies, a film worth seeing. Dominik remains a filmmaker to watch. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
73/100
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
I had a good enough time to wish that it had been better. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
88/100
|
97%
|
La Strada (The Road) (1954) |
"
La Strada has an unmistakable other-ness to it, as it is an early precursor to the sort of magical realism the would take hold in Fellini's late-career efforts."
—
Cinemania
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
|
50/100
|
60%
|
Reefer Madness - The Movie Musical (2005) |
"
A film you can only appreciate if you view it as pure camp, or make a drinking game out of spotting cliched expressions of mental illness"
—
Cinemania
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
|
77/100
|
78%
|
Tupac - Resurrection (2003) |
"
Tupac's evolution as an artist showed us a young man who was an activist, involved in the community, who showed signs of becoming a more self-aware and self-critical artist, as his music moved from the political to the personal. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Sep 12, 2012
|
|
81/100
|
97%
|
Giant (1956) |
"
The dust-up in a small diner between Rock and the racist owner proves to be a rollicking knock-em-down, drag-em-out conclusion to an uneven, but satisfying variation on the traditional western. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Sep 12, 2012
|
|
63/100
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
The best horror penetrates beyond external vibe to internal thought-process and the film never truly takes us within the mother's head."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 31, 2012
|
|
73/100
|
78%
|
The Mill and the Cross (2011) |
"
The Mill and the Cross provides a sort of stoner's take on Bruegel's masterpiece, if the stoner happens to be a scholar with expertise in the work of the genius painter. "
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 31, 2012
|
|
85/100
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
Much more compelling than the narratively confused Tree of Life, and a welcome return to form for the mad Dane."
—
Cinemania
Posted Jul 30, 2012
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