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85%
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Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) (2010) |
"
Ward plays Reagan as not just engaged but swaggering and overexcitable -- a fun revisionist performance. But this is Kusturica's movie."
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New York Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2010
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62%
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Salt (2010) |
"
Salt is a senseless blast."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2010
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90%
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Winnebago Man (2010) |
"
[A] frustrating, borderline exploitative, madly entertaining documentary."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jul 14, 2010
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69%
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Life During Wartime (2010) |
"
Solondz conjures a world that's rotting away from the inside, in which only the children -- freckle-faced Dylan Riley Snyder and Emma Hinz -- weep over the loss of moral authority."
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New York Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2010
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100%
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Racing Dreams (2010) |
"
The journey is thrilling -- even if, on some level, you know that these kids are going in circles."
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New York Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2010
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93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
The title, like Nicole Holofcener's Please Give, is one that trails you out of the theater and gives you something to brood on."
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New York Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2010
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96%
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Restrepo (2010) |
"
Restrepo is, on its own terms, a stunning piece of work, but to get even more from it you should buy Junger's book, WAR, which expands on the footage we see."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2010
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99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
The gags are all of a piece, right up to the forlorn yet enchanting finale."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2010
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76%
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Let it Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (2010) |
"
This wistful little film is at just the right temperature."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2010
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91%
|
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) |
"
This is a thoroughly exhilarating, thoroughly depressing portrait of the agony and ecstasy of celebrity."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2010
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94%
|
Winter's Bone (2010) |
"
For all the horror, it's the drive toward life, not the decay, that lingers in the mind. As a modern heroine, Ree Dolly has no peer, and Winter's Bone is the year's most stirring film."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2010
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53%
|
Agora (2010) |
"
Given all the weighty colloquia, Agora has remarkably few bad laughs, and the CGI re-creations of ancient Alexandria are so detailed I wanted to freeze the frame and linger on the city's layout."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 24, 2010
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82%
|
Solitary Man (2010) |
"
It's smoothly written and smartly paced, and Michael Douglas is riveting."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 17, 2010
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51%
|
Holy Rollers (2010) |
"
Holy Rollers fuses a somber, old-world palette with a jittery urban unease -- a good mix of tones. It's also wonderfully acted."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 17, 2010
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95%
|
Best Worst Movie (2010) |
"
It seems that the hunger for celebrity is so fierce that people will exploit anything -- even their most embarrassing moments -- to attain some measure of it."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 10, 2010
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90%
|
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009) |
"
I'm not wholly clear on the link between a jellied green thing wriggling along a tree branch and the oneness of life, but Shinto Buddhist ruminations sound good in almost any context, and the film is entrancing."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 10, 2010
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83%
|
Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010) |
"
Casino Jack is audience-friendly without turning into a Michael Moore-ish clown show."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 10, 2010
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69%
|
Babies (2010) |
"
Presents itself as an ethnographic meditation on the first year of life but is better approached as an "oooooh" and "awww" fest..."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 10, 2010
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81%
|
Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010) |
"
Though it's not all it could be, Anton Chekhov's The Duel is convincingly--yes--Chekhovian."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 4, 2010
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79%
|
Mother and Child (2010) |
"
Mother and Child is suffused with grief and loss. It's also suffused with compassion and insight."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 3, 2010
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73%
|
Iron Man 2 (2010) |
"
It doesn't come close to the emotional heft of those two rare 2s that outclassed their ones: Superman 2 and Spider-Man 2. But Iron Man 2 hums along quite nicely."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 3, 2010
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64%
|
Harry Brown (2010) |
"
Caine makes a grave, soulful vigilante avenger, and first-time director Daniel Barber gives the film a dank, streaky, genuinely unnerving palette."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2010
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87%
|
Please Give (2010) |
"
An engagingly high-strung comedy about lack of empathy and the gnawing guilt that can attend it."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2010
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74%
|
Handsome Harry (2010) |
"
David has honed this script for 30 years, and every word he utters is momentous. Handsome Harry transcends its somewhat melodramatic narrative."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Apr 19, 2010
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76%
|
Kick-Ass (2010) |
"
Kick-Ass is a compendium of all sleazy things, and it sings like a siren to our inner Tarantinos."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Apr 12, 2010
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96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) |
"
Narrated by Rhys Ifans with the dryness of a dessicated toad, Exit Through the Gift Shop is both an exhilarating testament to serendipity and an appalling testament to art-world inanity."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Apr 12, 2010
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53%
|
The Thorn in the Heart (2010) |
"
This is an extraordinary film."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Apr 5, 2010
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61%
|
Leaves of Grass (2010) |
"
Leaves of Grass is part goofy drug comedy, part shocking bloodbath. It's a riot of tones and genres, but unlike that other recent hybrid, Pineapple Express, the parts add up to something larger."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 29, 2010
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92%
|
Vincere (2010) |
"
The movie, a near-masterpiece, is a monument to intoxication: of sexual conquest, of military conquest, and, most of all, of cinema."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 22, 2010
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79%
|
Office Space (1999) |
"
A take-this-job-and-shove-it movie about the crushing malevolence of the corporate environment, it's on the verge of being really good."
—
Slate
Posted Mar 12, 2010
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53%
|
Green Zone (2010) |
"
It's only the adrenaline-inducing techniques that conceal the lack of imagination."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2010
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84%
|
The Art Of The Steal (2010) |
"
Calculated to enrage and pulling it off like gangbusters..."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2010
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67%
|
The Yellow Handkerchief (2010) |
"
The first half of The Yellow Handkerchief is the half-movie of the year, and the rest isnâ(TM)t bad -- just more sentimental, more ordinary."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2010
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51%
|
Alice in Wonderland (2010) |
"
Burton, bless him, knows you can't CG a soul."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2010
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97%
|
A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
"
Rahim is an exciting, unpredictable presence, and Arestrup's César has a stature that's nearly Shakespearean."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2010
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76%
|
Kundun (1997) |
"
The music ties together all the pretty pictures, gives the narrative some momentum, and helps to induce a kind of alert detachment, so that you're neither especially interested nor especially bored."
—
Slate
Posted Feb 1, 2010
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58%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
Edge of Darkness is a meathead revenge picture, but it's very satisfying."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2010
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74%
|
Banlieue 13 - Ultimatum (District 13: Ultimatum) (2009) |
"
It's campier than its predecessor, but its gung ho union of black, white, and Asian gangs against reactionaries who'd destroy them is a virtuosic assertion of punky Parisian multiculturalism."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2010
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37%
|
From Paris with Love (2010) |
"
Morel will inevitably be compared to John Woo, whom he trounces. He has fewer mannerisms and a keener eye; his fastest, most kinetic shots flow together like frames in a flipbook."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2010
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27%
|
Extraordinary Measures (2010) |
"
Anyway, I cried. A lot. What can I say? I'm a sucker for kids on ventilators."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2010
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38%
|
Wonderful World (2010) |
"
The movie is unfailingly likable and finally impressive. Goldin doesn't settle for easy answers, and he makes you think that no one should."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 11, 2010
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66%
|
Youth in Revolt (2010) |
"
I love this new breed of dirty movie. It goes beyond leering, beyond sexism, to the core tension of a culture that ricochets between Puritanism and promiscuity. And it has in Michael Cera a sterling mascot."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 11, 2010
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90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
The final scenes have a transcendent mixture of hope and sadness. I've never seen anything like Mia's final dance, or the leave-taking with her little sister that follows."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 11, 2010
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70%
|
Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"
By now we've seen so many good, bad, and indifferent Sherlocks that it's almost a relief to get something different, however wrongheaded. And there's no such thing as too much Downey."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 28, 2009
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83%
|
Avatar (2009) |
"
The narrative would be ho-hum without the spectacle. But what spectacle! Avatar is dizzying, enveloping, vertiginous ... I ran out of adjectives an hour into its 161 minutes."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 21, 2009
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91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
Clooney -- slim, dark, perfectly tailored -- glamorizes insincerity in a way that makes you want to go out and lie."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2009
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62%
|
Brothers (2009) |
"
Sheridan pulls you so deep into Brothers so fast that there isn't time for the alarm bell to go off that says: "Warning! Another Traumatized-Vet Movie!" You never catch Sheridan or Benioff grandstanding, only observing."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2009
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50%
|
Mammoth (Mammut) (2009) |
"
Too many films exploit the perils faced by children when the social contract is ruptured, but Mammoth earns its cruel, sensationalistic turns and then some."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2009
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81%
|
Broken Embraces (2009) |
"
Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces is a lush, deeply romantic noir dense with nods to films past, yet it plays as if it sprung fully formed from the director's unconscious."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2009
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88%
|
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"
If there's a sure thing in movies, it's that if you cast Nicolas Cage in a role in which he goes crazy, he'll rise to the occasion and keep on rising until he seems even loonier than his character."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Nov 16, 2009
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