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A
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98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
Perhaps the boldest and probably longest running sociological experiment on film."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 9, 2013
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A
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81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
The ultimate heart-wrenching roller-coaster ride made all the more powerful by a superb cast. "
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 4, 2013
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A
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93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
A grade-A, needle-meet-haystack manhunt-thriller"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 4, 2013
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A
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88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Brought to us by the much imitated, uniquely gifted and never surpassed Quentin Tarantino..."
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Boston Herald
Posted Dec 25, 2012
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A
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75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
'Killing Them Softly' a knockout"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Nov 30, 2012
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A
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87%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
Burton's stop-motion 'Frankenweenie' is a lush, black-and-white monster-piece about children, pets, the allure of the neighborhood cemetery and unforgettable images created by the artist known as James Whale."
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Boston Herald
Posted Oct 5, 2012
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A
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97%
|
La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (2012) |
"
Like Universal's Oscar winner 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (1930), 'La Grande Illusion' was banned in Germany by Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels. See it and sing 'La Marseillaise.'"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Aug 10, 2012
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A
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79%
|
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012) |
"
In turn, cruel, savage, humane, joyful and finally devastating and visually transcendent. Originally in 3-D."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jul 27, 2012
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A
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98%
|
Silent Souls (2011) |
"
In spite of its exotic origins, 'Silent Souls' might best be described as a Slavic version of William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying.'"
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Boston Herald
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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A
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78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
Are you ready for some "Sexual Healing," David Cronenberg-style?"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Dec 23, 2011
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A
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85%
|
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) |
"
Finally, a film about an artist acknowledges that the art is what's important."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Sep 16, 2010
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A
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83%
|
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (L'ennemi public n1) (2010) |
"
It is the latest addition to the pantheon of great gangster films and the great leading men in them."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Sep 2, 2010
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A
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82%
|
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (2010) |
"
Meet the new "Public Enemy." A French "Goodfellas," "Mesrine: Killer Instinct" begins in the 1970s with what might be the end of the life of Jacques Mesrine (a magnificent Vincent Cassel), France's most charismatic criminal."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Aug 27, 2010
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A
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93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
While firmly set in a privileged, locavorian California milieu, "The Kids Are All Right" is downright Chaucerian in its warts-and-all, roll-in-the-hay view of human behavior."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jul 16, 2010
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A
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99%
|
Metropolis (1927) |
"
If you've never seen the German expressionist landmark "Metropolis" on a big screen, get moving."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jun 4, 2010
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A
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87%
|
Please Give (2010) |
"
Forget the dreaded "Sex and the City 2." Holofcener's wonderful new film about mammograms, marriage, infidelity, child-rearing and waiting for the old lady next door to die so you can buy her sprawling, pre-WWII apartment is the most sophisticated America"
—
Boston Herald
Posted May 6, 2010
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A
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100%
|
Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods) (1951) |
"
The film, a 1950 landmark exploration of the confoundingly elusive nature of truth, received an Academy Award at a time when the prize for foreign-language film did not exist."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 22, 2010
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A
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96%
|
Sweetgrass (2009) |
"
Dust off your chaps. Oil your saddle. Stock up on liniment. You're about to go on the last Montana sheep drive over the Beartooth Mountains in the western documentary "Sweetgrass," and it's an experience you're not likely to forget."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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A
|
95%
|
Mother (Madeo) (2010) |
"
"Mother," a film that might also be described as Douglas Sirk on crystal meth, is Joon-ho Bong's follow-up to "The Host" (2006), his fantastic, Seoul-set monster movie (Bong contributed to the omnibus film "Tokyo!" in between). The new film is an Eastern"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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A
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86%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) |
"
After "Shutter Island" and "Red Riding," a scary British trilogy sure to find a cult following on DVD, the Swedish thriller "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" arrives, and it's a perfect addition to the horror show."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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A
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97%
|
A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
"
The film is a ferocious coming-of-age tale beginning with the arrival of 19-year-old Malik El Djebena (French-Algerian Tahar Rahim, who recalls the beautiful ruffians of Caravaggio) in a hard-core French prison."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 4, 2010
|
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A
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92%
|
Ponyo (2009) |
"
A dazzlingly dreamy anime certain to delight children worldwide."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Aug 14, 2009
|
|
A
|
91%
|
Every Little Step (2009) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 17, 2009
|
|
A
|
80%
|
Gran Torino (2009) |
"
Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood's second 2008 release, is a knockout punch delivered by the best old brawler in the business."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Dec 25, 2008
|
|
A
|
86%
|
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson (2008) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
77%
|
Paranoid Park (2007) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
82%
|
In Bruges (2008) |
"
The first film to earn a place on my 2008 10-best list, In Bruges is a laughing skull of a movie."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
94%
|
Encounters at the End of the World (2007) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
94%
|
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"
Probably my favorite film of the year."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Aug 30, 2008
|
|
A
|
96%
|
WALL-E (2008) |
"
Get ready to fall in love with a glorified trash compactor -- and ditto for his little buddy, a cute cockroach."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jul 8, 2008
|
|
A
|
85%
|
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted May 22, 2008
|
|
A
|
67%
|
Theater of War (2008) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 1, 2008
|
|
A
|
86%
|
El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007) |
"
The best haunted-house-cum-ghost-movie I have seen in years."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 15, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
In Cold Blood (1967) |
"
A sociological crime drama that plays like a noose tightening around all our necks."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Dec 31, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
78%
|
Munich (2005) |
"
Powerful, polarizing and excruciatingly violent."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Dec 24, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
84%
|
King Kong (2005) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Dec 14, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
68%
|
North Country (2005) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Oct 22, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Capote (2005) |
"
A haunting gin-and-J & B-soaked meditation on the classic American themes of murder and celebrity."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Oct 15, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
83%
|
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) |
"
[It] may be the purest expression of Burton's comic-nightmarish neo-gothic vision so far. It also restores the venerable technique known as stop-motion animation to its rightful place as one of cinema's greatest forms."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Sep 24, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
67%
|
The Return of the King (1980) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jul 16, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
86%
|
Medea (1987) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jul 16, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
Eyes Without a Face (1962) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jul 16, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jul 16, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Major Dundee (1965) |
"
They don't make movies or movie directors like this anymore."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 23, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Kung Fu Hustle (2005) |
"
Here, finally, is the first must-see movie of 2005."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 22, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
The actor-director takes a dark look at another venerable archetype, the prize fighter, and in the process has created a masterpiece of American pulp noir."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 15, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
House of Flying Daggers (2004) |
"
This is the Wuxia masterpiece we've been waiting for."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Dec 17, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) |
"
The paradigm of all end-of-the-world political thrillers and a part of the American vernacular."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Nov 5, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
The Incredibles (2004) |
"
The best 3-D animated extravaganza since Monsters, Inc."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Nov 5, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
67%
|
The Door in the Floor (2004) |
"
A beautifully acted examination of the bedeviling and perversely inspiring legacy of family tragedy, it's one of the most sophisticated American films of the year."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jul 20, 2004
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