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98%
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The Wild Bunch (1969) |
"
Arguably the strongest Hollywood movie of the 1960s -- a western that galvanizes the clichés of its dying genre with a shocking jolt of delirious carnage. "
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 29, 2013
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83%
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Performance (1970) |
"
The movie is a facile enough pastiche of underground pyrotechnics and Euro-art pretensions, but far more evocative now is the fast, offhand repartee between the principals."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2013
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89%
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Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai) (1936) |
"
The great Japanese director followed his tough-minded Osaka Elegy with an equally forceful but more subtle analysis of female subjugation."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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85%
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Blow-Up (1966) |
"
A prize '60s artifact, Michelangelo Antonioni's what-is-truth? meditation on Swinging London is a movie to appreciate -- if not ponder."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 4, 2013
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88%
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Starlet (2012) |
"
As its title suggests, "Starlet" is a Hollywood story, albeit one that Hollywood would not be likely to produce."
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ARTINFO.com
Posted Nov 15, 2012
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96%
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The Birds (1963) |
"
Hitch's much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films -- a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror. "
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2012
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94%
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
157-minute police procedural at once sensuous and cerebral, profane and metaphysical, "empty" and abundant, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is closer to the Antonioni of L'Avventura, and it elevates the 52-year-old director to a new level of achievement."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 3, 2012
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100%
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Laura (2005) |
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 28, 2011
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99%
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A Separation (2011) |
"
What's fascinating is how the various issues -- religious or practical -- are played out in these two quite different families, yet always come down to irreconcilable differences between rebellious women and their stiff-necked, controlling men."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 27, 2011
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86%
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
An altogether leaner, meaner, more high-powered, stylish, and deftly directed affair, though similarly hampered by a too-long narrative fuse."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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77%
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War Horse (2011) |
"
Dialogue is superfluous; in its way, War Horse is as much a "silent movie" as The Artist. Every triumph is pounded into your head and punctuated by a dolly-in close-up."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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83%
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
Best known for Let the Right One In, the bleak tween vampire drama remade here as Let Me In, Alfredson is strong on chilly atmospherics."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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80%
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Young Adult (2011) |
"
Young Adult might be brushed off as curdled rom-com were it not for two things. The first is the depth of Theron's performance."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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80%
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Shame (2011) |
"
Was that an angel of hope riding to work on the Lexington Avenue local? Does the Lord really live in this cold, ethereal New York City? And is anyone even interested?"
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2011
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81%
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House of Pleasures (2011) |
"
Glamorously louche."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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78%
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A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
As cataclysmic as it is, this historically scrupulous science-fiction romance concerning the discovery of the unconscious mind might have been titled War of the Worlds or The Beast From 5,000 Fathoms."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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95%
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) |
"
A 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaboration so unambiguously satirizing the military mind-set that Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to have it banned."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 15, 2011
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89%
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The Descendants (2011) |
"
It left me cold. The pathos is as unearned as the protagonist's privilege."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 15, 2011
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44%
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J. Edgar (2011) |
"
Although hardly flawless, Eastwood's biopic is his richest, most ambitious movie since the Letters From Iwo Jima-Flags of Our Fathers duo, if not Unforgiven."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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80%
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La Mariée était en Noir (The Bride Wore Black) (1968) |
"
For all of Truffaut's digressive asides, deadpan gags, and lyrical cinephiliac touches, his slow-starting movie is overly schematic, emotionally shallow, and not so much fun."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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100%
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Sometimes a Great Notion (Never Give an Inch) (1971) |
"
A New Hollywood movie suffused in Old Hollywood values."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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50%
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The Rum Diary (2011) |
"
The Rum Diary could use a shot of the mania that fueled Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. As deadpan as he is, Depp could use a crazed Benicio Del Toro to complement his cool."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 25, 2011
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92%
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Il etait une fois le Havre, son port, ses navires () |
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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99%
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Le Havre (2011) |
"
Le Havre is utopian precisely because it shows everything as it is not."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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90%
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
A deft, old-school psychological thriller (or perhaps horror film) that relies mainly on the power of suggestion and memories of hippie cult crazies."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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77%
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Melancholia (2011) |
"
We are alone, and yet Melancholia dares to imagine (and insist we do as well) the one event that might bring us all together."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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95%
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Weekend (Week End) (1967) |
"
This apocalyptic farce-Alice in Wonderland as reconceived by the Marquis de Sade-would mark both the high point and the end of Godard's meteoric career as a popular artist."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 4, 2011
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93%
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Drive (2011) |
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The film... has a kind of daredevil control, swerving dangerously close to and abruptly away from self-parody."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 13, 2011
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98%
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Silent Souls (2011) |
"
At 75 minutes, Silent Souls has the sustained flow of a musical composition."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 13, 2011
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87%
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Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011) |
"
Garbus handles this decline with tact. The sorry spectacle of the ranting codger never effaces the image of the boy concentrating his entire being over a chessboard. You have to love that kid and pity him."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 6, 2011
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91%
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) |
"
Black nationalism lives and breathes in this remarkably fresh documentary assembled by Göran Hugo Olsson."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 6, 2011
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73%
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011) |
"
Still, for all the 40-year-old filmmaker's interpolated animations and puppets, for the insouciant, slapdash tone that characterizes his graphic novels, and for his protagonist's proclivity for scandal, the movie is too timidly conceived by half."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 30, 2011
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81%
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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011) |
"
Magnificent and cheesy, the latest and most proudly absurd of Chinese historical spectaculars, Detective Dee is a cinematic comic book for people who are sick of the mode."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 30, 2011
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100%
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Battleship Potemkin (1925) |
"
For all Potemkin's rabble-rousing propaganda, Eisenstein's aestheticism is everywhere apparent."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 29, 2011
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94%
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Tales from the Golden Age (2011) |
"
Bracketed by the Ceausescu anthem, the movie recalls a social disaster in painstaking detail and with a measure of ambivalent love."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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Ostalgie () |
"
Recalls a social disaster in painstaking detail and with a measure of ambivalent love."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 23, 2011
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84%
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Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) |
"
Say what you will about 19th-century literature -- they had stories in those days (and stories within stories)."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 2, 2011
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72%
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Magic Trip (2011) |
"
Gibney and Ellwood have a sense of historical evanescence and inevitability."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 2, 2011
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79%
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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) |
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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—
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75%
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Mei loi ging chaat (Future X-Cops) (2010) |
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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72%
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The Future (2011) |
"
Sophie's (or is it July's?) coy narcissism becomes a criticism of itself, and her "sadness" turns into something truly sad. In short, I have seen The Future and it's heartbreaking."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 26, 2011
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91%
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Point Blank (2011) |
"
A wildly improbable adrenaline-pumper, replete with fierce shoot-outs, mad metro chases, and one very tough delivery."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 26, 2011
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91%
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Tabloid (2011) |
"
Absurd as it sounds, Joyce's conviction is not only convincing but contagious. So, too, is her elastic sense of reality-a 90-minute immersion in her world is enough to make you question your own."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 12, 2011
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100%
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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011) |
"
In the spirit of the Sholem Aleichem oeuvre, Laughing in the Darkness is a collective family album."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 5, 2011
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73%
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Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish (2011) |
"
Annenberg's attitudinous Shakespeare riff is a unique blend of psychodrama, ethnographic experimentation, and high-concept hustle."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 5, 2011
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86%
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Terri (2011) |
"
The cast is spirited, the premise is honest, and the direction is sufficiently skillful to obscure most of the platitudes inherent in the material."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 28, 2011
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77%
|
Aurora (2011) |
"
Aurora is not a movie to make you glad that you exist; it's a movie that makes you aware that you do."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 28, 2011
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79%
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Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011) |
"
Will Page One lead American kids to that golden city behind the pay wall on their iPad? Not sure about that, but the movie is at least someone's answered prayer."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 14, 2011
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89%
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The Trip (2011) |
"
The verbal jousts are droll and the countryside is splendid, although the food -- an endless succession of fussy little presentations -- may be an acquired taste."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 7, 2011
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