|
10/10
|
91%
|
Y Tu Mamá También (2001) |
"
A monumental, transformational motion picture, challenging the viewer and changing the way you think of movies being put together."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 25, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) (1994) |
"
No better swan song to such a rich, weighty career has yet been filmed."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 8, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Three Colors: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu) (1993) |
"
The story of how to become a new, better, more whole self... There is nothing less tragic than that."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
90%
|
Three Colors: White (Trzy kolory: Bialy) (Trois Couleurs: Blanc) (1994) |
"
As probing and meaningful as any arthouse hit of the '90s, lacking only the drama and mystical qualities of Blue and Red to overtly flag itself as such. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
97%
|
Stop Making Sense (1999) |
"
It's all so precise even as it is totally loopy, and the music pressed up in our face so urgently and enticingly, that the movie is as close to perfect as it gets. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 1, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Evil Dead 2 (1987) |
"
The best horror-comedy ever made."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 28, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
82%
|
Empire of the Sun (1987) |
"
The best mix in his directorial career between typical Spielbergian flourishes of audience-friendly spectacle and seriousness of intent."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 7, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) |
"
One of the most philosophically and narratively complex films of the year."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
86%
|
Tabu (2012) |
"
After a point, you start to forget what actual boundary-pushing cinema looks like. Well, it looks like this."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Dec 26, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
96%
|
Psycho (1960) |
"
It's not hardly Hitchcock at his most flawless, but not a single film he ever made... is so absolutely flattening as a total experience."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Dec 1, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
76%
|
Moulin Rouge! (2001) |
"
Sensual ravishment, indeed."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 4, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
95%
|
Suspiria (1977) |
"
Its outlandish, confounding style [does] more than virtually any other film to create the exact sort of unsettled, panicky mood in the viewer that is at the heart of horror."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 30, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
92%
|
Cat People () |
"
The scariest American horror movie of the 1940s."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 7, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
95%
|
Before Sunset (2004) |
"
A stone-cold masterpiece."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 1, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Before Sunrise (1995) |
"
The combination of optimism, tragedy, and the fuzzy warmth of new love is absolutely flawless."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 10, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Some Like It Hot (1959) |
"
Re-viewing Some Like It Hot is invariably a rewarding experience, not because it is a great comedy but because it is a great movie."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 3, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
96%
|
Unforgiven (1992) |
"
One of the absolute masterpieces of American cinema in the 1990s."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 23, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
97%
|
Alien (1979) |
"
In a century of sci-fi/horror hybrids, few if any movies do such a good job at reaching the absolute highest peaks of both halves of that equation as this one."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 11, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
91%
|
Blade Runner (1982) |
"
It takes a particularly weird kind of sincerity to end a movie that has been for its entire running time an exploration of surfaces... with its most sublime and humane gesture."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 11, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
90%
|
The Wicker Man (1973) |
"
A truly unique horror movie, one of the odd handful throughout history that doesn't really seem to have been influenced by anything and has no obvious heirs, not even its own remake."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 2, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Ordet (The Word) (1954) |
"
The greatest movie about religion."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 15, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) |
"
The final third is an absolute miracle - one of the greatest sequences in 1930s American cinema."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 17, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
93%
|
Campanadas a medianoche (Chimes at Midnight) (Falstaff) (1965) |
"
Top-notch Shakespeare and top-notch filmmaking, a rare combination that, when it works, is like nothing else in the whole world. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Jaws (1975) |
"
One of the absolute masterpieces of populist cinema."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jan 10, 2012
|
|
10/10
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
So much fun to watch that you could very nearly miss the important fact that it is also as piercing a critique of Iranian society as that country has produced in some time."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Dec 30, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
95%
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark (2012) |
"
Breathtakingly efficient, immaculately constructed... This is the ne plus ultra of blockbuster filmmaking."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Dec 18, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) |
"
One of the pinnacles of world cinema."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
86%
|
The Haunting (1963) |
"
Borderline perfect... Strip away all of its frightening elements, and the film remains a sophisticated, complex, and tremendously subtle character study."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 29, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
97%
|
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo.) (1966) |
"
A unique vision of the American West as place of desolation and ruin on a truly epic scale."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 27, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
99%
|
Metropolis (1927) |
"
A perfect gateway drug for old movies."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 6, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
61%
|
The New World (2005) |
"
It is about the dreams we have when we are awake but in a state of absolute peace and perfect self-reflection."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 10, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
78%
|
The Thin Red Line (1998) |
"
Though it is not only a great war film, perhaps not even primarily a great war film, it is assuredly a great war film."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 8, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
It is not demanding more of The Tree of Life than it can withstand to call it the defining film of Terrence Malick's whole life."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 4, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
93%
|
Days of Heaven (1978) |
"
A film about awareness, standing still and being cognizant of the things around you."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 1, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Badlands (1974) |
"
Incredibly beautiful, of course (you may have heard that Malick movies are famous for their landscapes), but it's not "just" beautiful."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 31, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Captain Blood (1935) |
"
Crammed full of all the adventure that $1 million in 1935 dollars could buy... It's all so much candy, I guess, but candy made with the utmost precision and attention."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 24, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
88%
|
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) |
"
A remarkable meditation on the meaning of art, love, history, and the definition of reality."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 1, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) |
"
The best film directed by Zemeckis; the best of the many great high-concept '80s popcorn-comedies; the best American film of 1988."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Feb 16, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
——
|
Day & Night (2010) |
"
The most impressive short-form piece that Pixar has put out - no small bit of praise for the studio behind Luxo Jr. and Geri's Game."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jan 17, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
96%
|
Sweetgrass (2009) |
"
A documentary of uncommon elegance and abstract expression... What always impresses about the movie is its here-and-nowness."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jan 16, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
90%
|
The Illusionist (L'illusionniste) (2010) |
"
One of the funniest movies of the year has just about the most heartbreaking finale of the year, and the turn from one to the other feels not only unforced, but absolutely necessary."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jan 15, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
94%
|
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) |
"
First and most obviously one of the most flat-out gorgeous movies ever filmed."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jan 4, 2011
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (2004) |
"
A number of different factors raise this absurdly simple scenario to the level of highest excellence, but the chief among them is surely Michel Legrand's iconic score."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Dec 30, 2010
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Mary Poppins (1964) |
"
One of the best films ever produced by Disney, indeed one of the best American films of the 1960s... a fantasy of the most delicate touch and charming disposition."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 29, 2010
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Last Train Home (2010) |
"
An extraordinary debut film... uncomfortably powerful and direct in its indictment of an entire way of living that the wealthier parts of the world take for granted."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 22, 2010
|
|
10/10
|
99%
|
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"
The best British film of the 1960s."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 14, 2010
|
|
10/10
|
61%
|
E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà (The Beyond) (1981) |
"
The masterpiece of the great Italian horror director Lucio Fulci."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 30, 2010
|
|
10/10
|
97%
|
Babe (1995) |
"
Every movie for children should be made with this much care, expressing this much unparalleled richness and beauty"
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 4, 2010
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) |
"
A rousing and fun popcorn movie of the highest order."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 17, 2010
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Omohide poro poro (Only Yesterday) (1991) |
"
The most singularly mature, adult-oriented of all Ghibli's theatrical features... a cinematic masterpiece of the first order."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 14, 2010
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