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5/5
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96%
|
Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
"Stories We Tell" has a number of transparent virtues, including its humor and formal design, although its most admirable quality is the deep sense of personal ethics that frames Ms. Polley's filmmaking choices."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
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|
5/5
|
51%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Life and death, nature and culture, sex and money, man and beast, God and the Devil - "Post Tenebras Lux" embraces the world even if it doesn't open itself up to ready interpretation."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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|
5/5
|
79%
|
Reality (2013) |
"
Mr. Garrone offers a glimpse not only of one man, but also of the soul of a people."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
41%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
An effectively creepy thriller about a 911 operator and a young miss in peril, "The Call" is a model of low-budget filmmaking."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
5/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
[Korine] turns his exploration into such a gonzo, outrageously funny party that it takes a while to appreciate that this is more of a horror film than a comedy."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
5/5
|
100%
|
Pavilion (2013) |
"
Mr. Sutton tends toward quiet. And while his characters don't say a lot in these 70 ephemeral minutes, he says enough to make you wonder what's next."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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|
5/5
|
82%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
Every shot - everything you see, and everything you don't - imparts a disturbing and thrilling sense of discovery."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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|
5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
The most important American fiction movie about Sept. 11, a landmark that would be more impressive if there were more such films to choose from."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 17, 2012
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|
5/5
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
"Silver Linings Playbook," the exuberant new movie from David O. Russell, does almost everything right."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
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|
5/5
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
To watch Mr. Zemeckis working fluidly in consort with Mr. Washington's ferocious performance is to regret this director's last, technologically determined decade. "
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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|
5/5
|
90%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
A dream of the movies that looks like a movie of dreams."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 16, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
87%
|
Middle of Nowhere (2012) |
"
"Middle of Nowhere" carries the imprimatur of Sundance, but without the dreary stereotypes or self-satisfied politics that can (at times unfairly) characterize its offerings."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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|
5/5
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
In the end, this is a story about outwitting rather than killing the enemy, making it a homage to actual intelligence and an example of the same."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
The House I Live In (2012) |
"
A model of the ambitious, vitalizing activist work that exists to stir the sleeping to wake."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) |
"
What a gift Werner Herzog offers with "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," an inside look at the astonishing Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc - and in 3-D too."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
75%
|
Cold Weather (2011) |
"
With only the most natural of conversations and an exacting relay of close-ups, intimate two shots and meditative landscapes, Mr. Katz reveals how the self-knowing individual becomes known to others, and me turns into we."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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|
5/5
|
96%
|
True Grit (2010) |
"
The Coens, who like to play with genre, often with giggles and winks, haven't mounted an assault on the western. But in Mattie they have created a character whose single-minded pursuit of vengeance has unmistakable resonance."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 22, 2010
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|
4/4
|
94%
|
Carlos (2010) |
"
Carlos steps into the abyss created by the loss of political hope and fills it with blood and terror, playing to the faithful with anti-imperialist rhetoric and a pantomime of that old-time revolutionary feeling."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 15, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) |
"
To their credit, the filmmakers don't try to make her look good, and while they omit some of her uglier routines, they don't (perhaps can't) ask you to love her. That's a wise move. "
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 11, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
67%
|
New York (2009) |
"
It's a remarkable history, rich in comedy and occasionally heartbreaking, filled with wise reflections and strange digressions about the wonders of life."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 1, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"
While [director] Alfredson takes a darkly amused attitude toward the little world he has fashioned with such care, he also takes the morbid unhappiness of his young characters seriously."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
69%
|
Synecdoche, New York (2008) |
"
To say that Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is one of the best films of the year is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Reprise (2006) |
"
An exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry â" for life and meaning and immortality, and for other young and restless bodies â" Reprise is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure."
—
New York Times
Posted May 16, 2008
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"
There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson's epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 26, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
67%
|
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"
An unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity [that] is such essential viewing."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 17, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
70%
|
Year of the Dog (2007) |
"
Year of the Dog is funny ha-ha but firmly in touch with its downer side, which means it's also funny in a kind of existential way."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 13, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Unser täglich Brot (Our Daily Bread) (2006) |
"
This documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 23, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
2 ou 3 Choses que je Sais d'Elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) (1967) |
"
he her in the title of Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film is meant to be Paris. There is, however, another 'her.'"
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 16, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
69%
|
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) |
"
An artful mixture of carefully culled and originally produced material, Werner Herzog's a science fiction fantasy purports to tell the story of an alien species."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 26, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
Old Joy (2006) |
"
Kelly Reichardt's film is a triumph of modesty and of seriousness that also happens to be one of the finest American films of the year."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2006
|
|
5/5
|
87%
|
A History of Violence (2005) |
"
A masterpiece of indirection and pure visceral thrills, David Cronenberg's latest mindblower is the feel-good, feel-bad movie of the year."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 22, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Grizzly Man (2005) |
"
Treadwell's journey was no less bold or reckless than ... earlier Herzogian tales and certainly no less enthralling."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 11, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
2046 (2005) |
"
The result is an unqualified triumph."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 4, 2005
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
Days of Being Wild (A Fei zheng chuan) (1990) |
"
A rapturous film about cool men, hot women and the thousand and one nights and cigarettes they share."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 18, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
Sideways (2004) |
"
Alexander Payne's heart-piercing new film about a writer on the verge of disappointment is a reason to maintain hope in the film industry."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 21, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Vera Drake (2004) |
"
Vera Drake, a film about a back-street abortionist in 1950 London, is the English director Mike Leigh's best work in a decade."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 7, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Before Sunset (2004) |
"
A film that in its joy, optimism and aesthetic achievement keeps faith with American cinema at its finest."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 1, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) |
"
Bresson is one of the few directors for whom cinema was both an aesthetic and spiritual pursuit, a search that was reflected in films for which the words 'sublime,' 'transcendent' and 'masterpiece' can seem somehow lacking."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 11, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
72%
|
Elephant (2003) |
"
An unblinking look at our mania for murder, the film is a stunning response to an American tragedy that in its senselessness and human cost embodies the larger tragedy of this country's blood lust."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 23, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Le Cercle Rouge (1970) |
"
A dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters and cigarettes."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 13, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
The Pianist (2002) |
"
With The Pianist, Polanski's strange genius serves Szpilman's remembrance and, in doing so, rescues his legacy from the blunder of much of the director's recent work."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 26, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
It's serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
White Material (2010) |
"
A striking film filled with images that sometimes reveal their full meaning only when their beauty curdles in the chain of signification."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 18, 2010
|
|
4.5/5
|
96%
|
The Social Network (2010) |
"
Mr. Fincher and Mr. Sorkin offer up a creation story for the digital age and something of a morality tale, one driven by desire, marked by triumph, tainted by betrayal and inspired by the new gospel: the geek shall inherit the earth. "
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 24, 2010
|
|
4.5/5
|
66%
|
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010) |
"
A funny, soulful movie about love and other agonies and is among his finest movies in years."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 22, 2010
|
|
4.5/5
|
95%
|
Mother (Madeo) (2010) |
"
Though richly and believably drawn, Mr. Bong's characters are often opaque and mysterious, given to sudden rages, behavioral blurts and hiccups of weird humor. But it's this very mystery that can make them feel terribly real."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 12, 2010
|
|
4.5/5
|
97%
|
A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
"
A Prophet is one of those rare films in which the moral stakes are as insistent and thought through as the aesthetic choices."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 25, 2010
|
|
4.5/5
|
83%
|
The Ghost Writer (2010) |
"
Mr. Polanski's work with his performers is consistently subtle even when the performances seem anything but, which is true of this very fine film from welcome start to finish."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 19, 2010
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
Solntse (The Sun) (2005) |
"
First shown at the Berlin Film Festival four years ago, The Sun is finally receiving its welcome American theatrical release, which means that one of the best movies of 2005 is now also one of the best of 2009."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 19, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
85%
|
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex) (2008) |
"
A taut, unnerving, forcefully unromantic film."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 21, 2009
|
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