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4/4
|
100%
|
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped) (1957) |
"
A Man Escaped seems to be one of the few Bresson films that both his fans and detractors can agree on."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 17, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Deep End (1971) |
"
Deep End is as soaked in pheromones and nervous electricity as its main character."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 12, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
David Holzman's Diary (1967) |
"
What makes it so effective as a puzzle film is the way it provokes us to piece together, mentally, the life that David must have had before we met him."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 13, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Fireworks (Hana-bi) (1997) |
"
Kitano uses his own face as a blank slate with which to sketch a complicated human being."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 7, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Mortal Storm (1940) |
"
Romance becomes the irritant and, effectively, Borzage positions his romanticism as a contribution to Hollywood's anti-fascist crusade."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 14, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (2000) |
"
Works as an essay far better than printed film criticism ever could."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
71%
|
Code Unknown (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages) (2000) |
"
A great movie, probably a masterpiece."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
84%
|
Ni na bian ji dian (What Time Is It Over There?) (2001) |
"
Not a strike against Yang's similarly themed Yi Yi, but I found What Time? to be more engaging on an emotional level, funnier, and on the whole less detached."
—
Daily-Reviews
Posted Oct 18, 2001
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|
4/4
|
80%
|
Waking Life (2001) |
"
To see it is to wake up."
—
Daily-Reviews
Posted Oct 18, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
81%
|
Mulholland Drive (2001) |
"
[Lynch's] most purely entertaining film to date, featuring his most assured amalgam of bizarre comedy and haunting otherworldliness...it's also one of his best-looking movies."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
Close-up (1999) |
"
One of the most extraordinary detective stories."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) |
"
Hellman creates a character study with faces, spaces, and noises."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
59%
|
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992) |
"
Occupies worlds of the natural, the supernatural, and the (wilfully, purposefully, and often wittily) clichéd."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 12, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
——
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Scorpio Rising () |
"
Self-indulgent, incoherent, heavy-handed, and a landmark of underground cinema."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
——
|
Le Tombeau d'Alexandre (The Last Bolshevik) (1992) |
"
An exploration, critique, and eulogy on a grand scale."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
"
It has a place among but a few masterpieces of the film medium."
—
Daily-Reviews
Posted Sep 10, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Shock Corridor (1963) |
"
Key American movie of its decade, both politically and aesthetically."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) |
"
The characters never seem to be having much fun, but we do, which makes the movie something of a happy aberration."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Jaws (1975) |
"
Unlike most blockbusters of today or yesterday, Jaws is rich with minutiae and has no problem with stopping to catch an odd detail or two, on land or at sea."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Do the Right Thing (1989) |
"
One of the greatest of all American movies."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
La Jetée (The Pier) (1962) |
"
Outside of the discussion of technique and aesthetic, it might be overlooked that 'La Jetée' is also a haunting, affecting piece of work."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Sans soleil (Sunless) (1983) |
"
Embodies the promise of the cinema."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jun 27, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Sans Toit ni Loi (Vagabond) (Without Roof or Rule) (1985) |
"
It may not be the kind of movie you fall in love with, but to come away unaffected or unprovoked from the experience is to have gone numb."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
84%
|
JFK (1991) |
"
It's a stunning sensory experience and a breathtaking, towering achievement."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) (1982) |
"
A challenging, lyrical, vibrant undertaking that is different every time I see it."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Third Man (1949) |
"
I love this movie."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Casablanca (1943) |
"
One hundred three minutes of unbeatable entertainment."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Wind (1928) |
"
A classic if there ever was one."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
82%
|
Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (2000) |
"
Supremely entertaining, as long as you let yourself be drawn into its strange rhythms."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
83%
|
George Washington (2000) |
"
A must for anyone who believes that poetry can be expressed through the cinema."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Chungking Express (1996) |
"
A mad masterpiece!"
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954) |
"
An engrossing, masterfully constructed epic."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) |
"
A brilliant work of art, performed by skilled actors who are all, without exception, in top form."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
"
The assembly is not a hair short of brilliant, the dialogue is endlessly inventive, and the story is chock full of entertaining bits of business."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Schindler's List (1993) |
"
I will say without fear of exaggeration that "Schindler's List" is Spielberg's best work as a director, and he is a man who has made many great films."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Toy Story 2 (1999) |
"
The inventiveness, both as a tale woven from the original "Toy Story" cloth, following the "Toy Story" rules, and as a visual experience, is head-spinning."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
You Can Count On Me (2000) |
"
Here's a lovely little movie, perfect in every way I can think of."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
81%
|
Kippur (2000) |
"
The narrative is a construction of scenes left out of normal war movies, and the result is one of the greatest and most unusual movies about war that I've ever seen."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
55%
|
Hamlet (2000) |
"
This movie has an immediacy and raw power that escapes not only the average Shakespeare adaptation, but also most new films coming out these days."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) |
"
Like any good film history professor, Scorsese makes us want to see what else is out there, to continue the construction of our own movie autobiography."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
82%
|
The Legend of Drunken Master (Jui kuen II) (Drunken Fist II) (1994) |
"
There are feats of acrobatics in this film that are comparable to any dance or fight sequence in motion picture history."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2001
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Being John Malkovich (1999) |
"
A fascinating, head-spinning, hilarious movie experience."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Boys Don't Cry (1999) |
"
There may be a great actress in Swank."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
4/4
|
71%
|
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) |
"
An uncompromising, brilliant, edgy, funny and enormously satisfying piece of work from two men who are masters of their trade."
—
Film Written Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
94/100
|
90%
|
Eureka (Yûreka) (2001) |
"
In the end we feel as if we've truly become friends, accomplices, and fellow passengers with the characters in Aoyama's masterfully constructed tale."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted May 3, 2001
|
|
92/100
|
97%
|
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) (1972) |
"
Herzog's finest film...one of the great, mad visions of cinema."
—
Apollo Guide
Posted May 31, 2001
|
|
4.5/5
|
93%
|
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"
The work of a photographer who has gone to the summery coast of Maine and brought back snapshots of heartache and loss, of an idyll irrevocably disturbed."
—
Daily-Reviews
Posted Nov 30, 2001
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Nothing But a Man (1963) |
"
It can't be overstated just how Nothing But a Man is militantly tone-deaf to the Hollywood muzak of race relations."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012) |
"
Triumphs when David Chase's empowerment as a kind of autobiographical historian is balanced with the thrill of submersing the viewer in the tidal pool of his memories"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
30%
|
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) |
"
At this point in the franchise, Anderson is content to alight the saga on a perpetual rewind loop, ever-ending, ever-rebooting, all subsidized by his nonpareil compositional sense."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
87%
22%
91%
