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92%
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Insomnia (2002) |
"
Scene by scene, screenwriter Hillary Seitz follows director Erik Skjoldbjaerg's original closely, but this remake deepens and improves upon the Norwegian film by giving Dormer a more complex relationship with Eckhart."
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Newsweek
Posted Aug 5, 2013
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68%
|
The Crucible (1996) |
"
I recommend Hytner's movie highly, but a part of me resists a work that makes the audience feel as noble in our moral certainty as the characters it invites us to deplore. Some part of its power seems borrowed from the thing it hates."
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Newsweek
Posted May 17, 2013
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—
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91%
|
Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004) |
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Newsweek
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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67%
|
Night and the City (1992) |
"
Relish the movie's snappy, low-life high spirits."
—
Newsweek
Posted Jan 18, 2013
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64%
|
The Public Eye (1992) |
"
In its moody, daffy way, The Public Eye gives off an authentic reek of artistic compulsion."
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Newsweek
Posted Jan 18, 2013
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96%
|
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
"
This cautionary fable (Be True to Your Ghoulish Self) may be a little too twisted for little kids but anyone 8 or older will spot the friendly glint behind jack's empty eye sockets."
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Newsweek
Posted Nov 2, 2011
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—
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24%
|
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) |
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Newsweek
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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67%
|
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) |
"
The Long Kiss Goodnight is the fall's best summer movie."
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Newsweek
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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71%
|
Somewhere (2010) |
"
Casting the less-than-charismatic Dorff may bolster Coppola's thesis, but it's dramatically self-defeating. How can we feel for Johnny, when there's no there there?"
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Newsweek
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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—
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18%
|
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) |
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Newsweek
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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|
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86%
|
Rabbit Hole (2010) |
"
How do you patch together a relationship that has been sundered by grief? The answers it gives, tentative and hard-won, may not be surprising, but they feel right."
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Newsweek
Posted Dec 13, 2010
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91%
|
The Fighter (2010) |
"
The suspense isn't just about who's going to win the big fight, but who's going to emerge from Ward's big, fierce jungle of a family with their lives intact."
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Newsweek
Posted Dec 9, 2010
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57%
|
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) |
"
Sillier than the Singer versions, Ratner's movie is also -- for this less-than-reverent X-Men fan -- more satisfying."
—
Newsweek
Posted Jul 7, 2010
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45%
|
Daredevil (2003) |
"
Torn between moody grandiosity and cartoonish mayhem, Daredevil tries to have it both ways, and succeeds at neither."
—
Newsweek
Posted Jul 7, 2010
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81%
|
Batman Returns (1992) |
"
Something about the filmmaker's eccentric, surreal, childlike images seems to strike a deep chord in the mass psyche: he makes nightmares that taste like candy."
—
Newsweek
Posted Jul 7, 2010
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91%
|
Minority Report (2002) |
"
Ferociously intense, furiously kinetic, it's expressionist film noir science fiction that, like all good sci-fi, peers into the future to shed light on the present."
—
Newsweek
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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96%
|
Waltz with Bashir (2008) |
"
These depictions of the dementia of war have a hallucinatory power that can stand alongside those of Apocalypse Now."
—
Newsweek
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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94%
|
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
"
Just when you thought the last thing the world needed was another violent, self-conscious, hipster homage to film noir, along comes Tarantino to blow away your deja vu."
—
Newsweek
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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76%
|
Invictus (2009) |
"
The lapses fade in the face of such a soul-stirring story -- one that would be hard to believe if it were fiction."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 7, 2009
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85%
|
A Single Man (2009) |
"
The movie has a hushed, sensual intensity and formal elegance that leaves no doubt Ford knows what he's doing behind the camera."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 4, 2009
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91%
|
Crazy Heart (2009) |
"
Crazy Heart gets to you like a good country song -- not because it tells you something new, but because it tells it well. It's the singer, not the song."
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Newsweek
Posted Dec 4, 2009
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|
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90%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
In its funny, rueful way, Up in the Air touches contemporary American notes few Hollywood movies acknowledge."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 4, 2009
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|
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70%
|
The Last Station (2010) |
"
The Last Station slides gracefully between comedy and pathos (it aims for tragedy, but doesn't quite get there)."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 4, 2009
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32%
|
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"
How do you literalize heaven? It's a problem moviemakers have struggled with forever, and Jackson hasn't solved it."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 4, 2009
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49%
|
Antichrist (2009) |
"
Though it's hard to deny the fierce purity of Gainsbourg's performance, Antichrist plays like an incoherent mix of Gothic horror claptrap and Bergmanesque power struggle. I was more bored and puzzled than shattered and provoked."
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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92%
|
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
"
For all its state-of-the-art pyrotechnics and breathtaking thrills, this bruisingly exciting movie never loses sight of its humanity. That's its point, and its pride."
—
Newsweek
Posted May 18, 2009
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68%
|
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"
Revolutionary Road is impressive, but it feels like a classic encased in amber."
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Newsweek
Posted Dec 22, 2008
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|
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92%
|
Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"
On Broadway, Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon made for a deliciously smart and dramatic mano a mano. The surprising news is that Frost/Nixon works even better on screen."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 1, 2008
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73%
|
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
"
Lyrical, original, misshapen and deeply felt, this is one flawed beauty of a movie."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 1, 2008
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|
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78%
|
Doubt (2008) |
"
Doubt stirs up a lot of stormy theatrical weather, but the stolid transfer from stage to screen does Shanley's play no favors."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 1, 2008
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|
|
61%
|
The Reader (2008) |
"
The Reader asks tough questions, and, to its credit, provides no easy answers."
—
Newsweek
Posted Dec 1, 2008
|
|
—
|
100%
|
Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) (1982) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Nov 24, 2008
|
|
—
|
74%
|
The Daytrippers (1997) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Nov 20, 2008
|
|
|
64%
|
Quantum of Solace (2008) |
"
Quantum of Solace isn't frivolous or cheesy, but it isn't all that much fun either. Craig is still the right guy for the job, but for his boiling-on-the-inside performance to work, he needs more to play with."
—
Newsweek
Posted Nov 13, 2008
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—
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88%
|
The Castle (1999) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Nov 10, 2008
|
|
—
|
86%
|
Fearless (1993) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Nov 4, 2008
|
|
—
|
70%
|
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Nov 4, 2008
|
|
—
|
82%
|
Pink Flamingos (1972) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Nov 3, 2008
|
|
|
98%
|
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"
A vampire movie like no other."
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 23, 2008
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|
|
62%
|
Changeling (2008) |
"
Eastwood tells his haunting, sorrowful saga with such a sure, steady hand, only a very hardened cynic could fail to be moved."
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Newsweek
Posted Oct 20, 2008
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—
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84%
|
JFK (1991) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
—
|
79%
|
Quick Change (1990) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
—
|
77%
|
The Company of Wolves (1984) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
—
|
98%
|
The Player (1992) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
—
|
22%
|
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
|
91%
|
Malcolm X (1992) |
"
Lee and company have performed a powerful service: they have brought Malcolm X very much to life again, both as man and myth."
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
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|
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62%
|
Interview with the Vampire (1994) |
"
It's about seduction, and either you succumb to its inky entrapments or you resist. When its mojo was working, I was happy to be had."
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
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|
—
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31%
|
Hook (1991) |
—
Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
—
|
61%
|
Wolf (1994) |
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Newsweek
Posted Oct 18, 2008
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