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A
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93%
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Barbara (2012) |
"
Barbara is Hoss' fifth film with Petzold, and the movie rests on the depth and subtlety of their working relationship."
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AV Club
Posted Dec 20, 2012
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A
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87%
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Middle of Nowhere (2012) |
"
The power of Middle Of Nowhere is cumulative, conveyed in sustained tone and deepening character rather than bravura sequences or explosive confrontations."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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5/5
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94%
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The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
It's one of few animated fairy tales to genuinely transport the audience into their world and, in the process, let us see our own with fresh awe and respect."
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Time Out New York
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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A
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93%
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The Tillman Story (2010) |
"
The Tillman Story puts the lie that the cover-up of his death was the result of a series of errors firmly in the ground at last."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Sep 2, 2010
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A
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92%
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Solntse (The Sun) (2005) |
"
The Sun took four years to reach American theaters, but the long delay hasn't diminished the force of Sokurov's experimentation."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 19, 2009
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A
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100%
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Aruitemo Aruitemo (Still Walking) (2008) |
"
Hirokazu Kore-Eda's home drama Still Walking is a master class in doing much with little."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 27, 2009
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5/5
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96%
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Romántico (2006) |
"
The movie's interests tend more toward the personal than the political. Cultural differences notwithstanding, Sánchez is the archetype of the overachieving dad, sacrificing his present to provide for his family's future."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 11, 2007
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A-
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90%
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Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
Mungiu works in long takes and at a measured pace, burying the story's true-crime origins for half the film's two-and-a-half-hour length. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 30, 2013
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A-
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92%
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No (2013) |
"
A canny comedy and cutting critique, Pablo Larraín's No looks back at the 1980 vote to extend or end Chilean autocrat Augusto Pinochet's rule through an adman's eyes. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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A-
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93%
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Barbara (2012) |
"
Petzold handles personal, formal and political concerns in such harmony that it's difficult, and not especially desirable, to separate one from the next. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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A-
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98%
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56 Up (2013) |
"
In 49 Up, many of the series' subjects seemed to be just settling into their bliss; now they're committed to it, and the foreclosed possibilities that come alongside. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Feb 23, 2013
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A-
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100%
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Wake in Fright (2012) |
"
Many reissues claim the mantle of lost masterpiece, but Wake in Fright is the genuine article."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Nov 15, 2012
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A-
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86%
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The Master (2012) |
"
The Master is less than the sum of its parts, but, oh, what parts they are."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Sep 28, 2012
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A-
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90%
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Keep the Lights On (2012) |
"
A poignant case study in the changing contours of gay life."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 6, 2012
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A-
|
88%
|
Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
"
The heart of any concert movie is the concert itself, and in the case of Neil Young Journeys, it's a great one."
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AV Club
Posted Jun 28, 2012
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A-
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96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne make great movies with such regularity they can be easy to overlook, but The Kid With a Bike puts just enough spin on the Dardennes' formula to let you feel their worth anew."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted May 3, 2012
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A-
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79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
Terence Davies doesn't make movies so much as he makes moods, languorous explorations of time and space that coalesce like a cloud of fragrant smoke."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted May 3, 2012
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A-
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99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
The characters are deliberately ordinary, but their stories take on the weight of myth."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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A-
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72%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
Drives home an oft-observed truth with wit and style. It's thin, but then so is a knife between your ribs."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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A-
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77%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
War Horse is not a movie that tries to cover its tracks, but when it works, you're more than willing to be led by the hand. "
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Dec 23, 2011
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A-
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81%
|
The Skin I Live In (2011) |
"
The Skin I Live In feels like the culmination of a process, and perhaps the beginning of something new."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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A-
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79%
|
Blank City (2011) |
"
Above all, the film is a poignant valentine to an era when artists could afford to live and work on the island of Manhattan, and the cultural ferment goosed by their low-rent lifestyle. "
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
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A-
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
Sections of Malick's expansive, fitfully brilliant, occasionally sloppy film are so powerful that you can only gaze up at the screen in wordless awe."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
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A-
|
81%
|
Four Lions (2010) |
"
The jihadis' absurdity is rooted in real life, but Morris doesn't trivialize the danger they represent. "
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Nov 6, 2010
|
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A-
|
94%
|
Samson and Delilah (2010) |
"
Pitched somewhere between City Of God and the Dardenne brothers, Samson And Delilah is unsparing in its brutal vision of the world."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 14, 2010
|
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A-
|
81%
|
Catfish (2010) |
"
The movie itself is an invasion of privacy, as the constant sparring between the filmmakers and their increasingly reluctant subject reminds us."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Sep 24, 2010
|
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A-
|
99%
|
Metropolis (1927) |
"
Kino's The Complete Metropolis contains nearly a hundred instances of restored footage, ranging from brief reaction shots to entire sequences."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
|
A-
|
89%
|
Alle Anderen (Everyone Else) (2010) |
"
Feels less like voyeurism than symbiosis, merging spectator and spectacle until the boundary between them starts to dissolve. "
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Jul 14, 2010
|
|
A-
|
92%
|
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2010) |
"
Giorgos Lanthimos' sublimely unsettling parable begins with an outlandish idea and follows it through with devastating logic."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Jul 9, 2010
|
|
A-
|
92%
|
Vincere (2010) |
"
Vincere's images are indelible, if oddly romantic, as dangerously seductive as Il Duce himself."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
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A-
|
74%
|
The Exploding Girl (2010) |
"
Gray's limpid compositions draw plangent stillness from urban darkness, counterpointing but not unbalancing his actors' understated naturalism."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
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A-
|
100%
|
Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods) (1951) |
"
Akira Kurosawa's four-way account of a man's murder has become so associated with its central device %u2014 not to mention its myriad offshoots %u2014 that it requires an effort to see it only for itself."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Nov 19, 2009
|
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A-
|
89%
|
A Serious Man (2009) |
"
A stylized, slow-speed farce, the movie is frequently absurd and occasionally silly, but it also touches on profound moral and spiritual quandaries, the kinds of things the Coens would never be caught dead addressing directly."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Oct 2, 2009
|
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A-
|
63%
|
Brideshead Revisited (2008) |
"
It's rare to find a work that explores issues of faith without veering into religious fundamentalism or militant atheism, which is reason enough to revisit Brideshead one more time."
—
AV Club
Posted Jul 24, 2008
|
|
4.5/5
|
65%
|
Wondrous Oblivion (2006) |
"
For all its bright-hued nostalgia (the cricket greens are practically incandescent), Wondrous Oblivion edges up to hard truths, most powerfully expressed in Lindo's towering performance."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
3.5/4
|
45%
|
Happy Feet Two (2011) |
"
It's familiar enough not to spook fans of the (highly profitable) first, but Happy Feet Two branches out beyond prefab coming-of-age stories and gimmicky pop-song set pieces."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
B+
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
It's easy to roll your eyes at the film's overreach, but every movie should be so flawed"
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
B+
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
Malick doesn't reach for the sublime so much as lunge, arms outstretched, face turned to the sky. He stumbles, but still, it's a beautiful fall."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) |
"
In spite of its attention-grabbing opening and provocative title, Free Angela And All Political Prisoners is less a work of agitprop than straightforward history, intriguing but never unsettling."
—
AV Club
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
B+
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Potter's take on the '60s occasionally slides into Big Chill cliché, but with her actors, she's on virgin ground."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 30, 2013
|
|
B+
|
100%
|
White Elephant (2013) |
"
[Trapero is] as thoughtful and perceptive a filmmaker as ever, using tools appropriate to the goal of drawing attention to systemic social ills."
—
AV Club
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
B+
|
73%
|
Violeta Went to Heaven (2013) |
"
Unlike most awards-grubbing biopics, this one feels no need to telegraph its own difficulty."
—
AV Club
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
B+
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Works mostly as a mood piece, but what a mood it is."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
Shows a different side of the Japanese animation house, one that finds equal wonder in comparatively mundane affairs."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 12, 2013
|
|
B+
|
56%
|
The End of Love (2013) |
"
Shot with tiny digital cameras to minimize the sense of intrusion, The End Of Love sometimes feels like a home movie, but that's also the source of its strength."
—
AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
War Witch (2013) |
"
The film's subject is almost too horrible to contemplate, but it finds a way to space out the blows without softening them."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Feb 26, 2013
|
|
B+
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
The most eloquent episode of Schoolhouse Rock ever made."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
B+
|
89%
|
A Royal Affair (2012) |
"
At least for a while, Arcel manages to animate the long-settled debate, at least until the inevitability of its resolution becomes too clear to overlook."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
B+
|
79%
|
A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
Zilberman is breaking no new ground, but he gives his actors strong material and room to breathe. When the playing is strong enough, even a few notes can be as rich as a symphony."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
B+
|
67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
A movie of big ideas, and only some of them are terrible."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
87%
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