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4/4
|
——
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After Lucia () |
"
After Lucia builds to an almost unbearable level of tension, and although you may think you know how the story turns out, Franco has a different idea"
—
Miami Herald
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
Shot in long, static takes, Amour stares directly into the indignities of old age and the curse of a slow death."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
A beautiful, strange tone poem about childhood and innocence."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jul 20, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
Saddled with the impossible expectations surrounding the final chapter in his trilogy of Batman movies, Nolan surprises by one-upping you. He gives you more than you expected."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jul 18, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
78%
|
Brave (2012) |
"
Brave is fearless."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Most of Wes Anderson's previous pictures came from the head; Moonrise Kingdom is one from the heart."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945) |
"
Shot in 1943 during World War II, Children of Paradise overcame so many seemingly impossible obstacles that today the film seems enchanted."
—
Miami Herald
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
27%
|
Project X (2012) |
"
Beneath its raunchy veneer, the movie is so noble and good-hearted that even the dog gets laid before the night is out. Twice. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
Sometimes, in an attempt to do the best we can for the people we love, we end up wreaking irreparable damage."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
There isn't a moment in the movie where you don't feel Spielberg's passion, and this time, the film is worthy of his enthusiasm. It's a knockout."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 28, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
Von Trier has thought his conceit through, and his vision was thorough enough to attract a superb cast to join him on his one-way joyride to hell."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Moneyball (2011) |
"
If you like baseball, you will love this movie. If you hate baseball, you will still love this movie."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Carlos (2010) |
"
The term "epic" often gets bandied around to describe movies that don't really fit the description. But Olivier Assayas' Carlos is the real deal..."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 21, 2010
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
The Social Network (2010) |
"
Despite the ceaseless yammering, The Social Network delivers the heady, rib-tickling rush of an action picture, and it gradually builds to an emotional wallop that blindsides you."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 29, 2010
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
Clooney has no peer at conveying suave, unflappable charm, but the role of Ryan requires the actor to do something different with his persona: Deflate the illusion and explore the emptiness beneath the cool."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 2, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
89%
|
A Serious Man (2009) |
"
That song (Jefferson Airplane's Somebody to Love), which becomes a sort of mantra to the movie, is the key to understanding what the Coens are after: When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies, you better find somebody to love. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 2, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"
Inglourious Basterds transcends the war genre to become its own kind of unique picture: A bloody blast of pure movie bliss."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Aug 20, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
The Hurt Locker (2009) |
"
Like every war before it, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has generated its share of movies. But The Hurt Locker is the first of them that can properly be called a masterpiece."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
Pixar's most mature and refined chunk of animation to date."
—
Miami Herald
Posted May 28, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"
From an early footchase in which the careening camera gives us a tour of the maze-like slums, to the ridiculously uplifting Bollywood dance number that plays over the end credits, Slumdog Millionaire makes for kinetic, exhilarating entertainment."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 12, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) |
"
[A] brilliant, suspenseful, absolutely riveting film."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
WALL-E (2008) |
"
WALL-E is Pixar's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or its Pinocchio: an archetypal fable about loneliness simple enough -- yet deep enough -- to instantly captivate anyone who sees it."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jun 27, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"
Anderson is attempting to harness the old-fashioned American Western epic with the probing psychology and intimacy of a modern-day character study. The fact that that character happens to be so repellent is one of the film's many strokes of genius."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 11, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
What makes the movie a masterpiece, however, is not the Coens' supreme command of their craft in these scenes, but their willingness to embrace the resigned worldview of McCarthy's novel."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 16, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"
It's pitch-perfect, impeccably conceived and replete with subtext and meaning. It is, in other words, a masterpiece."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 12, 2007
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
The Departed (2006) |
"
A great, resonant, psychologically complex popcorn movie made by a cast and crew of filmmakers at the top of their game. Welcome back, Marty."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 6, 2006
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
"
The best movie of the year."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 20, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
74%
|
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"
Steven Spielberg returns to the scary territory of Jaws and Jurassic Park and once again proves himself to be the most gifted movie entertainer of his generation."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jun 28, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
One of the many pleasures of this beautifully composed, measured movie is how it reminds you of the power of pure storytelling -- an art that's too often overlooked in contemporary films in the rush for sensation and excitement."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 7, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Sideways (2004) |
"
Much like Altman, Hal Ashby and Billy Wilder -- three filmmakers whose movies are celebrated for their naturalism, their humanism and their wicked, often merciless satire -- Payne makes films about ordinary people with their rumples and flaws left intact,"
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 12, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
The Incredibles (2004) |
"
A visually thrilling experience."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 5, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Before Sunset (2004) |
"
This is a wonderful movie."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jul 23, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Spider-Man 2 (2004) |
"
A masterpiece of pop filmmaking -- a fantastic, exuberant entertainment that manages to be both sleek and substantial without being patronizing."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jun 30, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) |
"
A thoughtful, audacious meditation on love and relationships that finds a group of wildly disparate talents clicking together in perfect unison."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Mar 18, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
70%
|
Dogville (2003) |
"
Maddening, challenging and audacious, Dogville is an unlikely masterpiece."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Feb 6, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
The Triplets of Belleville (2003) |
"
A mad masterpiece."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 30, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
"
A movie that exceeds even the most formidable expectations without straying from its singular path."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 16, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
72%
|
Elephant (2003) |
"
Elephant makes the Columbine shootings seem both abstract yet more painful and vivid."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 21, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"
The year's most compelling cinematic conversation piece."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jun 27, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
Finding Nemo 3D (2012) |
"
Parental anxiety may not be the kind of stuff children's films are usually made of, but this perfectly enchanting movie knows how to cater to its kiddie audience without condescending to them."
—
Miami Herald
Posted May 29, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
85%
|
About Schmidt (2002) |
"
A cuttingly funny, moving portrayal of a man searching for meaning in his unremarkable, unmemorable life."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 3, 2003
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Adaptation (2002) |
"
With Adaptation, Kaufman has found an entirely new way of telling a story, belying the old credo that there's nothing left that's new for the movies to show us."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 20, 2002
|
|
4/4
|
82%
|
Road to Perdition (2002) |
"
Its subject matter may be grim, but the film itself is exhilarating."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jul 11, 2002
|
|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
Simon Killer (2013) |
"
Simon Killer is a sensory, experiential film - more of a state of mind than a straightforward story."
—
Miami Herald
Posted May 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
The movie delivers the goods on both narrative and razzle-dazzle action levels."
—
Miami Herald
Posted May 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Even more than The Hurt Locker, which sometimes relied on traditional film techniques to build suspense, Zero Dark Thirty resists manipulating the viewer or building movie-movie excitement."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
The movie doesn't break any thematic ground, and in other hands this same material might have made for an insufferable Katherine Heigl vehicle. But Russell and his cast make it sing - and soar, too. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Mendes' approach to action is classical and elegant - no manic editing and blurry unintelligible images here - but what makes the movie special is the attention he pays his actors. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
Madrid, 1987 (2012) |
"
Madrid, 1987 operates on a dizzying number of levels - as a romantic comedy, a sex farce, a study of culture clash, ageism and idealism."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
This is an exciting, exceptionally well-made futuristic thriller that also happens to be loaded with lived-in touches and punchy ideas."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
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