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4/4
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93%
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Amour (2012) |
"
As remarkable as Haneke's films are, not a one has been as transcendently generous as Amour, which is nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best foreign-language film."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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4/4
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88%
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Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 4, 2013
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4/4
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87%
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Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Shelve your dislike of 3D glasses. Quiet your nattering criticism of CGI. Because Lee and his able crew wield those tools like wands."
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Denver Post
Posted Nov 21, 2012
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4/4
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96%
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Argo (2012) |
"
Argo has that solid, kick-the-tires feel of those studio films from the 70s that were about something but also entertained. Only it's as laugh outright amusing as it is sobering."
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Denver Post
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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4/4
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86%
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
Beasts is film as natural mystery museum."
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Denver Post
Posted Jul 13, 2012
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4/4
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84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
What a transcendent achievement."
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Denver Post
Posted Jun 10, 2011
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4/4
|
100%
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Poetry (2011) |
"
Now is the time to bestow on yourself the gift of one of the most, well, poetic films of 2010. And by "poetic," we mean rich with soulful pauses that are at once visual and aural and deeply observant of the dance of routine and quiet surprise."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 4, 2011
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4/4
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94%
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The King's Speech (2010) |
"
It is an intelligent, winning drama fit for a king -- and the rest of us. And this year, there were far too few of those coming from Hollywood."
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Denver Post
Posted Dec 25, 2010
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4/4
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96%
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The Social Network (2010) |
"
The Social Network shares creative DNA with a handful of classic, zeitgeist-savvy films like Network and All the President's Men, as well as more recent fare such as The Insider and Michael Clayton."
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Denver Post
Posted Oct 1, 2010
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4/4
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86%
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Inception (2010) |
"
Inception is a boldly constructed wonder with plenty of -- as one character describes it -- "paradoxical architecture." "
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Denver Post
Posted Jul 16, 2010
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4/4
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86%
|
Red Riding Trilogy () |
"
Red Riding Trilogy, with its remarkable performances, its brilliantly constructed puzzle, its dispiriting cycles of violence, isn't an easy ride. But it is an exhilarating one."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 5, 2010
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4/4
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90%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
From taxi to touchdown, Reitman knows how to get us to the next destination."
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Denver Post
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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4/4
|
91%
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) |
"
Mo'Nique plunges headfirst into a moral abyss that makes her frightening."
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Denver Post
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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4/4
|
87%
|
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"
This movie has flighty warmth. It makes delirious use of one of Hall & Oates' boppiest tunes. It has a bluebird of happiness, for crying out loud."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 24, 2009
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4/4
|
96%
|
Waltz with Bashir (2008) |
"
It is powerful because this work of art also provides such a cautionary tale about the psychic burdens young soldiers carry deep inside them decades after they've laid down their weapons."
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 6, 2009
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|
4/4
|
73%
|
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
"
There's leisure to the storytelling, a splendor that captures the movie's celebratory but also melancholy ideas about our time on this mortal coil."
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Denver Post
Posted Dec 30, 2008
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4/4
|
64%
|
Marley & Me (2008) |
"
Marley & Me turns out to be the best -- and truest -- film about humans and our animals to arrive onscreen in a dog's age."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 29, 2008
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4/4
|
94%
|
Milk (2008) |
"
At the heart of this eloquent portrait of a cultural catalyst is Penn's profoundly human, and possibly finest, performance."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 26, 2008
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4/4
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94%
|
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"
Watching The Dark Knight is like gazing into a mirror on a waning moon night: chilling and mesmerizing."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 18, 2008
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4/4
|
91%
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There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"
If [Day-Lewis] does not win the Academy Award for this protean portrayal, it will be because he's won before. Or because his gift, his discipline, is so daunting it can be confounding."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 4, 2008
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4/4
|
74%
|
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"
The film is a triumph of empathy."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 26, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007) |
"
The film is a triumph of empathy."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 26, 2007
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|
4/4
|
94%
|
Juno (2007) |
"
Juno is unerring, compassionate and funny as heck."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 14, 2007
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4/4
|
94%
|
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
This movie is that stunning."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 16, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
89%
|
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"
...Eastern Promises is as honorable an entertainment as it is a humbling work of art."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 21, 2007
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|
4/4
|
97%
|
Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (2007) |
"
So sad. So lovely. So profound."
—
Denver Post
Posted Apr 20, 2007
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4/4
|
83%
|
Grindhouse (2007) |
"
One word, however, comes immediately to mind: Fun."
—
Denver Post
Posted Apr 9, 2007
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4/4
|
96%
|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"
Ofelia, you break our hearts. But you also restore our confidence in human decency."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 19, 2007
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4/4
|
72%
|
Stranger Than Fiction (2006) |
"
Will Ferrell delivers a moving and surprisingly delicate -- though not so surprisingly funny -- turn as the lonesome bureaucrat bedeviled by a voice only he hears."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 10, 2006
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4/4
|
87%
|
Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
"
Like these indelible cowboys, you, too, may find it impossible not to succumb to the powerful, quiet greatness that is Brokeback Mountain."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 20, 2005
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|
4/4
|
82%
|
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"
Is it sweet? Sure. But Charlie is so much richer than that."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 15, 2005
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4/4
|
91%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
Confident, powerful, a thing of deceptively effortless beauty, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby shifts its weight in the late rounds -- having seduced us with a gritty underdog tale -- and delivers a body blow."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 7, 2005
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4/4
|
56%
|
The Polar Express (2004) |
"
Polar Express honors its source, then exceeds it."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 10, 2004
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4/4
|
84%
|
Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) |
"
In Kill Bill - Vol. 2, cool has rediscovered its medium. It has found its master."
—
Denver Post
Posted Apr 16, 2004
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|
4/4
|
92%
|
L' Homme du Train (The Man on the Train) (2003) |
"
It is a perfected fable flashing across a screen."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 6, 2003
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|
4/4
|
99%
|
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"
An exquisitely touching saga about a father tracking down his lost son."
—
Denver Post
Posted May 30, 2003
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|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
Nerve-racking, sentimental and thrilling, Gravity honors terra firma even as it reaches for the stars with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
In the terse space film provides, Holofcener capturing her characters deftly. We know their fears, needs, lonesomeness. We trust the cars they drive, the food they eat, the rooms they keep tidy, or not."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
This is a deeply adult drama, not least because Howard shows the costs of being so driven in a sport in which a driver is encased in a potential fireball."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
Prisoners is unforgettably relentless in asking moviegoers if Keller has gone too far. And, by extension, asking us how far we would go."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
Short Term 12 captures the complex rhythms of institutional life -- for worker and inhabitant -- while weaving the story of Grace's journey through anguish toward, we hope, happiness."
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Denver Post
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
So many films featuring teens seem overstimulated or familiar. This one strikes a deep, rich note and holds it."
—
Denver Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
A history lesson in violence and endurance. A sentimental journey. A tribute. Director Daniels and the dedicated cast of The Butler deliver all that."
—
Denver Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
It's hard not to watch Fruitvale Station with a coiled dread... Yet, Coogler's greatest achievement may be in reminding us that Grant was a work in progress with people who loved him in spite of his flaws and because of his hopes."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
For all its reckoning with mass destruction, this franchise's vision of a future Earth remains optimistic. The film mixes the iconically familiar with the futuristic."
—
Denver Post
Posted May 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
With the arrival of The Place Beyond the Pines, the American dramatic film has found a loyal, gifted advocate in director Derek Cianfrance."
—
Denver Post
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
What hurt, nuanced terror and exhilaration there is in Sally Potter's beautiful coming-of-age drama Ginger & Rosa."
—
Denver Post
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
It captures the wonder (and more gently, the anxiety) of discovery time and time again. And the filmmakers have a hoot playing with the Croods' encounters with, as well as their misunderstandings of, all things new."
—
Denver Post
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Sugar (2008) |
"
Not only have director-writers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck crafted a poignant immigrant tale, they've made a sports saga rife with rare truths."
—
Denver Post
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
The level of candor here may not satisfy hard-liners of either stripe, but it can help viewers begin to formulate new questions about the philosophical, strategic and moral challenges of conflict, in particular "wars on terror.""
—
Denver Post
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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