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5/5
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93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
As disturbing as it often is to watch, it's so rife with sheer cinematic material that it's likely to reward multiple viewings."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 17, 2012
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|
5/5
|
89%
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Lincoln (2012) |
"
It's the most remarkable movie Steven Spielberg has made in quite a spell, and one of the things that makes it remarkable is how it fulfills those expectations by simultaneously ignoring and transcending them."
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MSN Movies
Posted Nov 19, 2012
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|
5/5
|
86%
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The Master (2012) |
"
Quite possibly the movie of the year, or the decade. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 10, 2012
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5/5
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
Cosmopolis is almost certainly some kind of masterpiece, but I have to admit it's probably not for everyone."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Aug 14, 2012
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5/5
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
It's an extraordinary thing, from start to finish. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted May 22, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
The simple act of its being seems enough to constitute a kind of perfection. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Mar 13, 2012
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|
5/5
|
86%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
[Fincher] never abandons his meticulousness -- it's what allows him to position you in the exact right spot to deliver the blow. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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5/5
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
View more MSN videosGo to MSN Video One of the most relentlessly and purposefully harrowing movies of the year... "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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|
5/5
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
The harder you look at it, the wilder, and more disturbing, and more moving, it becomes."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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|
5/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
Aside from being one of Scorsese's most personal films, it's also one of the least cynical films of this or any other year."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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5/5
|
89%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
It works like a charm...to the extent that one's critic self wants to resist the urge to break down why it's working. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 14, 2011
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|
5/5
|
81%
|
The Skin I Live In (2011) |
"
... this is as visually and sonically gorgeous as anything Almodovar has ever done."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 11, 2011
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5/5
|
60%
|
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011) |
"
The title promises a concert movie, in 3-D, based on the show Glee, and the film delivers precisely that, in a way that I believe is sure to overjoy fans of the show. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Aug 11, 2011
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|
5/5
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
...it's the most bold and unconventional and visionary picture made using the apparatus of big-studio pictures since Kubrick's [2001]."
—
MSN Movies
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) |
"
This may infuriate some. It delighted me. Others might find the whole idea, well, pretentious. It's not. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Mar 8, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Another Year (2010) |
"
The acting is ... uniformly terrific, and Manville as Mary is particularly outstanding. It's virtuoso work in every sense."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 30, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
True Grit (2010) |
"
This is a visually and sonically beautiful movie that uses space, distance and time to immerse you in a very particular world of mystery, awe and brutality."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
87%
|
Black Swan (2010) |
"
...what makes Black Swan really special is the immediate way that it works on you if you give yourself over to it. It's a true cinematic experience..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 1, 2010
|
|
4/4
|
70%
|
The Duchess of Langeais (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)(Don't Touch the Axe) (2007) |
"
The latest film from master French director Jacques Rivette is a masterful, multilayered, sometimes enigmatic work of dark irony, an assured tragicomedy of manners and more."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Persepolis (2007) |
"
It is, as much as anything else, an expression of a personality, an insistence that the singular voice of a single heart has meaning and can speak meaningfully across cultural boundaries both real and created."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Jan 4, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
79%
|
Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs) (2007) |
"
What makes Private Fears so extraordinary is not just how it completely upends the expectations that have come to seem inherent in such a structure, but how Resnais constantly pushes the boundaries of his, well, let's call it visual depiction."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Jan 4, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"
This film invaded my consciousness (literally -- I had a dream about it the first night I saw it, a very rare occurrence) and still has a tight, daunting grip on it."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
48%
|
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres (2007) |
"
I am tempted to call Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters the most successful full-on surrealist film since Bunuel and Dali's 1930 L'Age d'Or."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Apr 12, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (2007) |
"
Thirty years after its creation, Charles Burnett's debut feature still hits with the force of revelation."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
51%
|
The Fountain (2006) |
"
If you're a movie lover who despairs that big-scale filmmaking today consists of little more than a self-cannibalizing system of clichés, then you need, badly, to see The Fountain, soon."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
The Departed (2006) |
"
The Departed ends up the most affectingly bleak movie Scorsese's made since Taxi Driver."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Oct 3, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
69%
|
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"
One doesn't leave the movie with a mind blown by visual bedazzlement but with a soul shattered by the profound sense of tragedy Linklater and company so beautifully put across."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Jul 6, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
72%
|
Clean (2005) |
"
Visually assured, beautifully acted, it's a movie of scrupulous straightforwardness — so matter of fact that you scarcely expect the emotional wallop it delivers at the end..."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted May 1, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
"
Everybody involved in Brokeback Mountain deserves credit for crafting a film strong enough to withstand all of the third-grade snickering that's attended it."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 27, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
57%
|
Breakfast on Pluto (2005) |
"
Playful, poetic, shocking, saddening, and ultimately gratifyingly and honestly big-hearted."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 6, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
It's a brave piece of work that's more than just moving -- it's genuinely upsetting, and haunting."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
53%
|
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) |
"
I savored every frame and gorged on every sound (being a fan of '70s Bowie helps)."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Bad Education (La Mala educación) (2004) |
"
A dense, audacious film in which layers of cinematic artifice lovingly camouflage (at least for a while) its characters' dark, damaged heart."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
83%
|
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"
I don't think there's another actor alive who can convey the intermingling of gentleness and passion with as much precision as Depp."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Sideways (2004) |
"
Every performance here is wonderful, and the movie abounds in moments so true as to be cringe-worthy."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Oct 30, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
62%
|
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"
By far the most original comedy of the year."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Hero (2004) |
"
One of the most beautiful and involving films of the year."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 7, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
81%
|
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"
Demme here shows off both the mastery of suspense that made The Silence of the Lambs a classic, and the humane understanding and appreciation of character that not just deepens but energizes this film."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
51%
|
Code 46 (2004) |
"
Provocative, quietly erotic, deeply romantic, and slyly witty."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
The Corporation (2004) |
"
Over the course of almost two and a half fascinating hours, they make a cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and they also make a terrific movie."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Before Sunset (2004) |
"
This movie is basically a yakfest, but an incredibly fluid and involving one . . ."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
84%
|
Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) |
"
This is a movie of head-spinning richness."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) |
"
A wildly imaginative, hugely entertaining tour de force that asks big questions about life and love and fate while never ceasing to fully engage the viewer."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
70%
|
Dogville (2003) |
"
It really is a masterpiece-von Trier's first, as it happens."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
60%
|
The Dreamers (2004) |
"
The thrills of this movie are aesthetic ones, the creation of new, ravishing imagery (and all three of our young heroes are beautiful enough to be up to this task), the surrender to dream logic, the adoration of the silver screen."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
Big Fish (2003) |
"
Not just Burton's best film, it's his least flawed -- it really does just bound along, an exemplary, and moving, entertainment from start to finish."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 16, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
"
Peter Jackson and his armies of actors and technicians have managed to do what the Wachowski brothers and George Lucas could not: make a perfect trilogy."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 16, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
89%
|
In America (2003) |
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 2, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
56%
|
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) |
"
It's flat-out comedy all the way, head-spinningly clever (you'll be talking about a sequence set in the Louvre for weeks) and always engaging."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Nov 18, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
85%
|
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) |
"
Quentin Tarantino's most wild-*** effort yet."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2003
|
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