|
10/10
|
98%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
A picture that romances its audience into watching in a new way - by, paradoxically, asking us to watch in an old way. The Artist is perhaps the most modern movie imaginable right now."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
71%
|
Somewhere (2010) |
"
Coppola is a filmmaker who fills up a big canvas with small moments."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 22, 2010
|
|
9.5/10
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
The movie's intricacy, and the way it finds its way into the emotional lives of its characters via (and not in spite of) that intricacy, is what makes it extraordinary. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy challenges audiences to believe in craftsmanship again."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
9.5/10
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
If it's true that misery loves company, maybe this is von Trier's way of reaching out. Melancholia may be as close as he'll ever come to wrapping us in a bear hug."
—
Movieline
Posted May 18, 2011
|
|
9.5/10
|
99%
|
Bill Cunningham New York (2011) |
"
Cunningham has spent some 60 years out on the street, listening, he says, for what it has to say to him. Press' movie shows Cunningham leading by example, urging us not just to look, but to really see."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
|
9.5/10
|
90%
|
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011) |
"
The key is to let yourself go with the meandering current of its narrative."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 2, 2011
|
|
9.5/10
|
94%
|
The King's Speech (2010) |
"
A direct and heartfelt piece of work."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 24, 2010
|
|
9.5/10
|
96%
|
The Social Network (2010) |
"
Fincher and his screenwriter, TV writer-god Aaron Sorkin, have made a seemingly modest picture that achieves something close to greatness the old-fashioned, slow-burning way: By telling a story with faces, dialogue and body language of all types."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 27, 2010
|
|
9.5/10
|
93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
Such a low-key feat of filmmaking that the scope of its offhanded generosity -- toward its characters, its story, its actors and its audience -- may not hit you until days after you've seen it."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
|
9/10
|
81%
|
A Cat in Paris (2012) |
"
The visuals of A Cat in Paris resonate in any language, and it doesn't hurt that the picture features a stunning, stealthy Bernard Hermann-style orchestral score by Serge Bessett."
—
Movieline
Posted May 31, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
86%
|
Chico & Rita (2012) |
"
This is the kind of sophisticated storytelling you rarely get even in live-action movies any more, full of unexpected turns and unruly human complications."
—
Movieline
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
83%
|
Crazy Horse (2012) |
"
Even Wiseman, cerebral, perceptive, and a maestro in the editing room, can't resist urging us, with images if not with words, "Just look at them!" And so we do."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 18, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
95%
|
Pina (2011) |
"
Less a strict documentary than a heartfelt - and visually gorgeous - celebration of Bausch's work and her mode of working."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 21, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
Scorsese's Hugo is oversized, ambitious and expensive-looking - and still it manages to be lovely, which is the hardest task of all to pull off, even for an alleged movie genius like Scorsese."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
36%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
The movie doesn't punish its characters for being young and beautiful. Instead it revels in the sight of them, and that's just one of the ways Niccol makes sure that his movie, despite its blunt message, never succumbs to preachiness."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 26, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
71%
|
Footloose (2011) |
"
It's as if Brewer is taking a stand for movies that look like movies instead of audience hipness barometers."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
95%
|
Moneyball (2011) |
"
Even if you think you don't care about baseball, I'd urge you to give it a try."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
96%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) |
"
Director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves guide the story to a graceful and satisfying end. The movie's final moments are the equivalent of the half-jubilant, half-mournful thrill you get when you close the cover of a book you've savored."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 13, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
77%
|
Thor (2011) |
"
Branagh was meant to work on this scale. And even if ambition doesn't always equal vision, with Thor Branagh brings the two pretty closely in line."
—
Movieline
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
96%
|
13 Assassins (2011) |
"
Takashi Miike's samurai adventure 13 Assassins is so beautifully made, it could serve as a model for contemporary American action films."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
96%
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) |
"
Doesn't bring 3-D to dazzling new heights. Instead, it uses this relatively new technology to burrow a little deeper, both literally and figuratively, into history - into the nature of mankind, even."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
86%
|
Meek's Cutoff (2011) |
"
Meek's Cutoff is an ambitious feat of visual storytelling that's alive to both its landscape and the actors who people it. This is a big movie masquerading as a small one, fully awake in even its quietest, slowest moments."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 7, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
84%
|
Jane Eyre (2011) |
"
Watching Jane Eyre, I envied those who have never read the book: What would it be like to watch this movie without already knowing all of the story's secrets? Miraculously, Fukunaga preserves much of the book's spooky mysteriousnes."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 10, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
67%
|
The Company Men (2011) |
"
Wells touches on so many problems of the modern workplace, as it's affected by corporate greed and thoughtlessness, that it's almost a wonder The Company Men is as entertaining as it is."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 18, 2011
|
|
9/10
|
20%
|
The Tourist (2010) |
"
It's the kind of espionage caper that doesn't get made anymore, a visually sensuous picture made with tender attention to detail and an elegant, understated sense of humor."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 9, 2010
|
|
9/10
|
94%
|
Carlos (2010) |
"
In its full-length version, Carlos stretches out to a languorous yet surprisingly taut five and a half hours, though it has also been cut down to an equally effective -- though not as detailed -- two-and-a-half-hour version."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 15, 2010
|
|
9/10
|
66%
|
The American (2010) |
"
Anton Corbijn's The American looks and feels like a movie made by a filmmaker who hasn't been to the movies since the '70s -- and I mean that as the highest compliment."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 1, 2010
|
|
9/10
|
87%
|
Please Give (2010) |
"
Holofcener writes, and helps to shape on-screen, characters we often don't even like, and what do we do? We invite them home with us. Talk about a soft touch."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
9/10
|
99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
It winds its way gently toward its big themes instead of grabbing desperately at them, and because its plot is so beautifully worked out, getting there is almost all of the fun."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
9/10
|
52%
|
Cecil B. Demented (2000) |
"
[Waters] piles on one wacky notion after another, and somehow they stack without toppling."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
9/10
|
98%
|
All About My Mother (1999) |
"
All About My Mother is a movie so intrinsically rich that it doesn't need any metaphors."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
9/10
|
86%
|
Une liaison pornographique (An Affair of Love) (A Pornographic Affair) (1999) |
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
9/10
|
55%
|
Hamlet (2000) |
"
Oddly enough it's the picture's visuals -- its mournful, glassy Manhattan high-rises; its limos and Town Cars with their mirrorlike flanks -- that make it feel most like Hamlet."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
9/10
|
67%
|
Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
"
Danny Elfman's music is haunting and jaggedly elegiac, the perfect underpinning to the movie's look."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
9/10
|
76%
|
The Virgin Suicides (2000) |
"
Sofia Coppola's adaptation of The Virgin Suicides ... captures the loveliest visuals and bits of language from Eugenides' book and faithfully, but not slavishly, transfers them to the screen."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
9/10
|
80%
|
Emporte-moi (Set Me Free) (1999) |
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
8.5/10
|
55%
|
People Like Us (2012) |
"
This is a straightforward family comedy-drama, a movie made for adults, and one that actually gives its actors - among them Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Pfeiffer and Philip Baker Hall - something to do."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
78%
|
Brave (2012) |
"
This is a story about mothers and daughters and the ways they clash over basic, seemingly simple things, only to find their ultimate connection in the very things they can't change about each other."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
57%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles' The Dictator is indefensible and hilarious, an unruly thing that invites you to laugh at things you feel you shouldn't."
—
Movieline
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
95%
|
Marley (2012) |
"
It's at once leisurely and controlled, like a Bob Marley song, with fresh secrets in every groove."
—
Movieline
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
49%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
There's plenty of spectacle in movies these days; it's delight that's in short supply, and Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror offers plenty of it, shimmering like a school of minnows in a reflective pond."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
This is a movie about an independent-minded girl who just isn't sure she can trust a boy, as true to the spirit of the Shirelles as it is to Greek myth."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
99%
|
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) |
"
At its simplest level, Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a portrait of a master. In its deeper layers, it explores what drives us to make things: Beautiful, jewel-like things, or things that delight our palate - or, in this case, both."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 7, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 6, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2003) |
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 6, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
98%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
This Is Not a Film is so technically modest that it almost isn't a film. Yet in its simplicity it's as direct as a laser beam..."
—
Movieline
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
86%
|
The Forgiveness of Blood (2012) |
"
It's the kind of movie that makes the world feel like a smaller place, suggesting that the similarities connecting us across continents and cultures are more resonant than the things that divide us."
—
Movieline
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
This is the best kind of action film: One in which we're actually granted the pleasure of watching bodies move."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
77%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
It's the largest, most lavish handful of wistfulness money can buy, and sometimes it's too much. Yet it's nice to know that even Steven Spielberg can still wish for something."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 23, 2011
|
|
8.5/10
|
86%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
The Fincher version doesn't actively negate the presence of the earlier one - it doesn't have to - but its confidence and bravado are like a strong blast of sunlight with the ability to fade the memory of whatever came before."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 20, 2011
|
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