|
5/5
|
83%
|
!Women Art Revolution (2011) |
"
A staunch declaration of identification and reverence."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
73%
|
The Last Exorcism (2010) |
"
At my tent revival, I'll pray The Last Exorcism goes platinum."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2010
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
Treeless Mountain (2009) |
"
I crossed. It's the sort of "slice of life" that defies words, which is perhaps why these little girls and their overwhelmingly grey world are rendered in such quietude."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 15, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
Breakneck speedy, hysterically funny and appropriately lithe, UP handles itself in action with the same intensity as with comedy, never stopping to leave room for a laugh or a gasp."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 13, 2009
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Brand Upon the Brain! (2006) |
"
This more-than-surreal feat is swimming in winks and nods to Maddin's influences. Moments of Bunuel, Hitchcock and Lang are everywhere."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2007
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
Forever (2007) |
"
Internationally revered documentarian Heddy Honigmann lends her voice to this heartbreakingly beautiful exposition on the enduring nature of art that takes place almost entirely in the famous Pere-Lachaise cemetery."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2007
|
|
4.5/5
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
Jonah Hill is masterful at delivering an absurd story with so much sweetness, the nonsense ceases to get in the way."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 9, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
Martha Marcy May Marlene enters so richly into psychological horror it recalls those disturbing dramatizations of Jonestown that were big on TV in the '80s."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
64%
|
Biutiful (2010) |
"
This Cannes Festival competition entry may be too dark and depressing for mainstream audiences, but it is clearly the heartfelt and very personal achievement of a master filmmaker with a potentially award winning performance from its star."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 25, 2010
|
|
4.5/5
|
32%
|
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"
Peter Jackson returns to the engrossing and poetic imagery that earned him his name more than a decade ago."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
71%
|
Loren Cass (2006) |
"
What begins as an almost sullen and certainly glacial story about wayward teens in St. Petersburg, Florida grows into an eerie meditation-the sort that people, when they've had the distance, look back on with a misplaced feeling of warmth."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
68%
|
Funny People (2009) |
"
Apatow's bravest and most personal comedy yet."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
93%
|
Oblivion (2009) |
"
Poetic in its structure and humane in its storytelling, Oblivion is poignant, filled with interviews that effortlessly speak volumes."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 15, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
91%
|
Strange Culture (2007) |
"
Hershman-Leeson's film amply lives up to the task of exposing and criticizing this governmental wrong that typifies the current context of paranoia while also highlighting the massive divide that continues to grow between art and government."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
54%
|
V/H/S (2012) |
"
Men are bastards, women are beasts and heroes are doomed"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 31, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) |
"
Doesn't mask its awe of the man, who comes off as a cross between a wise Buddha-figure and Santa Claus"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Waiting Room (2012) |
"
There's more to it than a black-and-white political conclusion, and the laundry list of California documentary heroes in the credits suggests this film is humanist before it's agenda driven."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Wuthering Heights (2012) |
"
This film provides a striking and immersive feeling of place and the ache of desire."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
58%
|
The Dish & The Spoon (2012) |
"
The Dish and Spoon poses the possibility that, from a different proximity, the MPG is a volatile beast and far more than the promise of your fantasies can actually tolerate."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Declaration of War (2012) |
"
You don't have to be a parent for it to wreck you and make you glad it exists."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Love Exposure (2011) |
"
This four-hour opus about the fury of love and the love of fury is ritually fascinating, often excessive and, with a caution the film wields like a blade, achingly poignant."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
60%
|
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011) |
"
Glee leaps past antiseptic politeness or political correctness-it's got its crosshairs on self-acceptance and personal pride, and the film proves the agenda is working."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
36%
|
Burlesque (2010) |
"
This rags-to-sequins tale may be schmaltzy in its sincerity, but 'tis the season. Glitter is optional, but certainly encouraged."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 24, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Tangled (2010) |
"
An instant classic, Disney's animated revamp of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Rapunzel, has produced a spunky heroine that might just infiltrate the heavily-guarded princess canon."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 12, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Biker Fox (2010) |
"
Ultimately, the joy/suffering of Biker Fox revolves around our orientation to the man: Do we think he's a parody or is he "the real thing?" "Are we laughing with him or laughing at him?""
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 17, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Audrey The Trainwreck (2010) |
"
At once utterly down home and completely philosophical."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 23, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
43%
|
Air Doll (Kûki ningyô) (2009) |
"
What's most interesting about the story is not its apparent oddness, but the fact it maintains a sense of fairy tale magic even while it's set in a cold and seemingly hollow world."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 30, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
The Missing Person (2009) |
"
Michael Shannon adds another stunning performance to his resume with this small-scale neo-noir by writer/director Noah Buschel."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
The House of the Devil (2009) |
"
Carefully, perfectly, beautifully built occult horror follows the roadmap of the early '70s and '80s Indie Screams with reverent precision and the occasional, wise reference to the cannon."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Araya (1959) |
"
Not just an artifact of a pre-industrialized culture infiltrated by modern equipment, it's an artifact of perspective and form."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Amreeka (2009) |
"
As poignant as it is buoyant."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Taxidermia (2006) |
"
As sweeping in scope and vision as it is in viscera."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 28, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
7%
|
Post Grad (2009) |
"
It should be popular fare at slumber parties for diligent girls well into the next decade."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
Beeswax (2009) |
"
[A] quiet backyard-story from the reluctant figurehead of mumblecore, Andrew Bujalski."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Canary () |
"
The direction could influence or be part of a new trend in filmmaking."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Ferlinghetti: A City Light (2008) |
"
Truly, the authenticity of this doc, by photographer and filmmaker Christopher Felver, sweeps you off your feet."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 30, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
41%
|
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"
Like a really good date, you'll be crossing fingers this one won't end until the morning."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008) |
"
A solid picture that leaves much for discussion, Crips and Bloods maps the paths, even if it leaves some lots vacant along the way."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 27, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Milk (2008) |
"
The authenticity this Oregon native [director Gus Van Sant] provides is palpable and, at times, breathtaking."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Obscene (2008) |
"
The doc formally mirrors its subject in its pacing, which balances the titillation/education of the doc's subject with consistent and pleasantly teasing speed and tone from start to finish."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 30, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Reprise (2006) |
"
Charming, clever and well made, Norway's Reprise employs just the right kind of meta."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 16, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
The Cool School (2008) |
"
Sweeps you off your feet with quick-witted visuals and cleverly used archival footage."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
On Broadway (2008) |
"
offers some truly sweet parts that feel like a return to the indies of the early '90s, when regional cinema still felt fresh and full of purpose."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
52%
|
Funny Games (2008) |
"
Performances are stellar."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
The Devil Came on Horseback (2007) |
"
One of the most painful documentaries made in the last many years."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2007
|
|
4.5
|
75%
|
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"
While women seem the most immediate audience for this soufflé-light summer film, anyone with even fleeting interest in writing or in eating (a much larger demo, for sure) will want to revel in this two hour long celebration of love, life and Lobster Therm"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 4, 2009
|
|
|
80%
|
Never Forever (2007) |
"
A beautiful and insightful picture."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 11, 2008
|
|
|
85%
|
All in This Tea (2007) |
"
A beautiful metaphor for filmmaking and a painful comment on the price of civilization."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2008
|
|
|
94%
|
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2008) |
"
Smart and savvy doc"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2008
|
|
|
100%
|
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (2008) |
"
The band is treated reverently, which will no doubt please fans, but its eternal length may test the dedication of even Petty fanatics."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2008
|
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