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A
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97%
|
The Class (2008) |
"
... filled with a world of real detail that blurs the line between documentary and fiction."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 19, 2009
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A
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89%
|
Coraline (2009) |
"
This is fairy tale stuff right out of the Brothers Grimm .... Think Dr. Seuss by way of Edward Gorey."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 5, 2009
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A
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96%
|
Waltz with Bashir (2008) |
"
... you could call it an animated documentary by way of oral history, but it's best not to get caught up with labels concerning this film."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 29, 2009
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A
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85%
|
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"
This is survival, revealed in all the blunt details of a documentary portrait and the simple power of [Michelle] Williams' unadorned, Oscar-worthy performance."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 22, 2009
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A
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85%
|
Un Conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale) (2008) |
"
The most emotionally rich and cinematically thrilling film I've seen all year, a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 21, 2008
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A
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85%
|
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"
... the resolution is neither neat nor expected. True to [director Jonathan] Demme, it's honest and generous and very human."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 9, 2008
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A
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89%
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Auf der Anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven) (On the Other Side) (2007) |
"
Akin doesn't hide the fatal destinies of major characters... but it's the lives of the survivors and how they choose to carry on that carry these crisscrossing stories."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 14, 2008
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A
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94%
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
"
It's the new gold standard for superhero noir."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 17, 2008
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|
A
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89%
|
Haebyonui Yoin (Woman on the Beach) (2008) |
"
Hong [Sang-soo] moves slowly but deftly through scenes rich with social games and veiled confessions and allows his characters to emerge sadder but wiser."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 1, 2008
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|
A+
|
96%
|
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) |
"
... a grueling and deeply affecting human drama."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 7, 2008
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A
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96%
|
Persepolis (2007) |
"
While not visually explicit, "Persepolis" is an uncompromising look at the culture of Iran as seen by an observant and open-minded child..."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 24, 2008
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A
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94%
|
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
... strong, evocative storytelling pared to the bone and braced with a sensibility perfectly matched to the material."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 15, 2007
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A
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94%
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My Kid Could Paint That (2007) |
"
Like the best of the new wave of American documentaries, it becomes about far more than the human-interest angle at the center of the story..."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 18, 2007
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A
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72%
|
Golden Door (2007) |
"
Painted onscreen in a hypnotic mix of hypercharged naturalism and magic realism, Golden Door is not about the destination but the journey."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 21, 2007
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A
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100%
|
Cha no aji, (The Taste of Tea) (2004) |
"
The imagery is joyous, delightfully imaginative, serene and beautiful, and ultimately enchanting."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 26, 2007
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|
A
|
88%
|
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) |
"
It's unmistakably the work of aging cinema activist Ken Loach, who wears his social-justice heart on his sleeve..."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 19, 2007
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|
A
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94%
|
2 ou 3 Choses que je Sais d'Elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) (1967) |
"
... revolutionary, impudent and personal, and still Godard stops to admire the sublime in the ordinary..."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 29, 2007
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A
|
97%
|
51 Birch Street (2006) |
"
51 Birch Street, like the best of the recent wave of personal documentaries, is both a compelling story and an eye-opening bit of social history."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 11, 2007
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|
A
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96%
|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"
Like the folk tales from centuries past, Pan's Labyrinth is a dark odyssey with nightmarish visions and cruel threats..."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 11, 2007
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|
A
|
88%
|
Mutual Appreciation (2006) |
"
The shaggy honesty is bracing and the modest stories of young adults too tentative and nervous to do more than talk around an issue have a perceptive authenticity that doesn't shake off easily."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 7, 2006
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|
A
|
91%
|
Iraq in Fragments (2006) |
"
... a beauty and a richly textured palette rarely seen in such video documentaries."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 9, 2006
|
|
A
|
——
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Iskanderija... Lih? (Alexandria... Why?) (1978) |
"
Chahine's reach exceeds his grasp, but it hardly seems a fault in the bright, bustling mural of a film."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 31, 2006
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|
A
|
85%
|
The Descent (2006) |
"
It's a film stripped to bloody basics, a ferocious and taut exercise in action horror that recalls early James Cameron, with more gore and less sentimentality."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 3, 2006
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|
A
|
97%
|
Iron Island (Jazire Ahani) (2006) |
"
But behind the utopian fairy tale is the genial authoritarianism... Ambivalence has rarely been made so lyrical and lovely."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 20, 2006
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|
A
|
86%
|
Zui hao de shi guang (Three Times) (2005) |
"
The style is pure Hou: richly textured atmosphere, tiptoeing camerawork and long, languorous takes of scenes full of privileged moments of human activity."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 13, 2006
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|
A
|
93%
|
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lazarescu) (2006) |
"
Cristi Puiu doesn't pull his punches in his barbed black comedy on the state of socialized medicine in Hungary."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 4, 2006
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|
A
|
85%
|
Old Joy (2006) |
"
... the dynamics shift from moment to moment. The beauty of the film is how director Kelly Reichardt brilliantly captures those moments with lucid simplicity."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 4, 2006
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|
A
|
68%
|
Innocence (2004) |
"
... haunting and hypnotic fairy tale... with a distinctly European sensibility... lovely lingering scenes that cast a spell over the almost abstract story."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 13, 2006
|
|
A
|
92%
|
Fateless (2006) |
"
Lajos Koltai's.. textured re-creation of enduring the unimaginable with quiet delicacy is the most hauntingly beautiful film about the Holocaust ever made."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 13, 2006
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|
A
|
85%
|
The Intruder (L'Intrus) (2005) |
"
... the emotions and wishes and fears of the human animal thrown large on the screen in primal, lush images."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 6, 2006
|
|
A
|
86%
|
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"
... a sly, smart and very funny caricature of corporate politics and image culture."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 27, 2006
|
|
A
|
85%
|
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006) |
"
... the most impressive directorial debut the American cinema has seen in some time, a contemporary western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 2, 2006
|
|
A
|
65%
|
Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei (The Weeping Meadow) (2004) |
"
Though he's foggy on the specifics, Angelopoulos makes the tides of history felt through each painterly frame."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 12, 2006
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|
A
|
73%
|
Pulse (Kairo) (2005) |
"
Kurosawa... fills the film with an eerie emptiness, where suicides erupt out of nowhere and mankind dissolves in an oily smudge of hopelessness..."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 4, 2005
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|
A
|
100%
|
Winter Soldier (1972) |
"
Searing and sharp as a knife..."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 10, 2005
|
|
A
|
75%
|
Nine Lives (2005) |
"
Rodrigo Garcia may be the closest thing we have to a master short-story artist working on the big screen."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 27, 2005
|
|
A
|
88%
|
Rois et Reine (Kings and Queen) (2005) |
"
His scenes ripple with undercurrents of awkward emotions... creating a film both devastating and uplifting, but he passes no judgments."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 25, 2005
|
|
A
|
85%
|
2046 (2005) |
"
... rich, lush -- simply exquisite"
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 25, 2005
|
|
A
|
65%
|
5x2 (5 x 2: Five Times Two) (2004) |
"
These aren't puzzle pieces that fit snuggly together but fragments of character in revealing moments when weakness or pettiness overcome calm and affection."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 21, 2005
|
|
A
|
——
|
Ucho () |
"
There's not a more acerbic, scathing or compelling critique of the Communist regime."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 20, 2005
|
|
A
|
95%
|
The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù) (2003) |
"
Giordana's redemptive vision provides a sense of discovery and a well of hope in the most devastating of troubles, and beautiful surprises in love, friendship and family."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 12, 2005
|
|
A
|
87%
|
Comme une Image (Look at Me) (Like an Image) (2005) |
"
... a bittersweet look at the joy and frustration and inspirational possibilities of art in a world fixated on appearances and measured by the marketplace."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 14, 2005
|
|
A
|
93%
|
Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004) |
"
Beautiful, elevating and achingly sad."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 10, 2005
|
|
A
|
99%
|
Moolaadé (2004) |
"
As empowering and triumphant a film as you'll see this or any year."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 17, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
"
There isn't a film in the trilogy that benefits more from the "Extended Edition" treatment."
—
St@tic Multimedia
Posted Jan 10, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
——
|
Twilight Zone: The Definitive Edition - Season 1 (2004) |
"
This collection has been lovingly put together, and as it boasts, it makes for the Definitive treatment of this essential show."
—
St@tic Multimedia
Posted Dec 21, 2004
|
|
A
|
95%
|
Before Sunset (2004) |
"
Romantic, real and as generous as it is vulnerable, the art of conversation has rarely been so acute, honest and revealing."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 1, 2004
|
|
A
|
91%
|
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2004) |
"
... the wonderfully weird trip leaves you with meaty questions, both metaphysical and moral, and a journey... even more philosophically invigorating and emotionally intense."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 2, 2004
|
|
A
|
77%
|
Peter Pan (2003) |
"
Deft and delightful."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 26, 2003
|
|
A
|
48%
|
Demonlover (2003) |
"
... a brilliant, stunning piece of work, perhaps not Assayas' best, but certainly his most fearless and impassioned."
—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 2, 2003
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