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100%
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All Is Lost (2013)
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"All Is Lost is amazing, deeply moving, and a harking back to an age when the best mainstream films might be the best pictures America made."
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David Thomson
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81%
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Prisoners (2013)
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"Prisoners is weary after ten minutes, and I suppose it has persuaded itself that its length is justified by its solemn gaze into the abyss."
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David Thomson
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81%
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
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"This is a hell of a film, a marvelous experience, far more beautiful than sentimental, so long as you don't have to have a mind made up for you."
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David Thomson
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58%
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Clear History (2013)
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"Clear History was improvised from 35 pages of script. "You are such an asshole!" one Vineyard resident tells Flomm, which is the movie's main revelation. "
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Laura Bennett
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22%
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The Canyons (2013)
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"The Canyons is inept and de-energizing, and Lindsay Lohan is enough to make you cry."
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David Thomson
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54%
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Lovelace (2013)
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"It is made by documentarians who show more concern for feminism than for fiction or fantasy."
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David Thomson
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97%
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The Act Of Killing (2013)
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"Better characters could hardly have been invented."
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Laura Bennett
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81%
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Crystal Fairy (2013)
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"Jamie and Crystal Fairy, though slightly exaggerated for comic effect, are still truer representations of gringo backpackers than I've ever seen on film."
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Ryan Kearney
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91%
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Blue Jasmine (2013)
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"Sooner or later a major film-maker has to give us someone we will never forget. Jasmine is that someone."
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David Thomson
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100%
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Såsom i en Spegel (Through A Glass Darkly) (1961)
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"It is almost superfluous to note that the film is beautifully made: visually exquisite, ingeniously knit."
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Stanley Kauffmann
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40%
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Only God Forgives (2013)
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"This is a ludicrous, showy film, and we are left to reconcile those two antagonistic qualities, or get out."
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David Thomson
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100%
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More Than Honey (2013)
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"[Markus] Imhoof makes bees more important than they have previously seemed."
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Stanley Kauffmann
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The Magic Flute With Webcast Q&a With Director Kenneth Branagh ()
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"The most disturbing fact about this film is that it continues what is by now almost a tradition-the concept of production."
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Stanley Kauffmann
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81%
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2013)
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"What affects us most is Resnais's ingenious idea. And that affect is magnified by a surprise ending. "
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Stanley Kauffmann
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94%
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Fruitvale Station (2013)
|
"From the moment the arrest begins, the film is blunt and stunning, a completely absorbing, protracted nightmare."
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Nora Caplan-Bricker
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89%
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In the Fog (2013)
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"In the Fog, which seems to me a masterpiece, is about occupation and the destruction of an understanding of one's own history."
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David Thomson
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82%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
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"Caesar [the main ape] is the reason to see this daft, breathless picture."
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David Thomson
|
|
100%
|
Brighton Rock (1947)
|
"Anyone interested after seeing this film [the 2011 version] should go straight to the 1947 original and the uncanny way in which the steadily decent and amiable Attenborough was so scary."
|
David Thomson
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51%
|
Brighton Rock (2011)
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"Drab in color, with very little of Brighton-they shot in neighboring Eastbourne, apparently because Brighton is too posh now to be its old self."
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David Thomson
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93%
|
Drive (2011)
|
"What it had going for it was an uncanny and moving relationship between Gosling and Mulligan."
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David Thomson
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97%
|
The Killing (1956)
|
"Faultless and enjoyable."
|
David Thomson
|
|
100%
|
The Prowler (Cost of Living ) (1951)
|
"It's really a quick, deft analysis of a kind of world where corruption and easy answers are on the advance."
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David Thomson
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67%
|
World War Z (2013)
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"Z has guts and energy. It starts its mayhem early and it never lets up."
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David Thomson
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92%
|
Take Shelter (2011)
|
"In my estimate, this unique and frequently arresting film suffers from the monotony of the lead players' affect, and from the film's urge to have its gloomy cake and eat it."
|
David Thomson
|
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94%
|
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
|
"It came nowhere close to the numbers on Easy Rider, but it is so much more worthwhile as a film. Indeed, I'm going to push my luck and say there has never been a better film about sweaters."
|
David Thomson
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36%
|
In Time (2011)
|
"In Time is so crammed with provocative ideas it begins to feel over-crowded."
|
David Thomson
|
|
92%
|
Page Eight ()
|
"Bill Nighy is the hushed engine of the film, just as Rachel Weisz is asked to be the emblem of a vein of decency and commitment that is worth defending."
|
David Thomson
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43%
|
J. Edgar (2011)
|
"The Hoover material is ugly and very American, and it might have made an authentic monster story. But the picture offered is muddled, cautious, and at cross purposes."
|
David Thomson
|
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89%
|
The Descendants (2011)
|
"The Descendants is humane, decent, and close to real quality."
|
David Thomson
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84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
|
"I believe the heart of the film, and the cleverest stroke of all, is Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark, someone few of us will have heard of."
|
David Thomson
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79%
|
Shame (2011)
|
"The film's numb attitude assumes that Brandon's problem is beyond reach or rescue. So why are we watching, except for high-tone misery and something close to pornography?"
|
David Thomson
|
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80%
|
Young Adult (2011)
|
"There has always been something so inward about [Theron;] she can seem detached or deprived. But here it's as if the script and the direction felt bound to heed that loneliness, and let the actress go with her bravery and the depressive sag of her mouth."
|
David Thomson
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83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
|
"The movie is riveting in the exact sense of the word: We feel nailed to the screen in the impossible task of working out what is going on-let alone why it matters."
|
David Thomson
|
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011)
|
"It makes for an absorbing drama and leaves the mustiness of cigars in the theatre."
|
David Thomson
|
|
98%
|
The Artist (2011)
|
"The whole thing is so damn clever and charming, it might just sneak off with Best Picture. "
|
David Thomson
|
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011)
|
"You cannot watch the film without feeling kinship with the characters and admitting their decency as well as their mistakes. "
|
David Thomson
|
|
92%
|
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2011)
|
"Sophie Cattani as Julie takes us with her over several borders, and Vincent Rottiers as the latter-day Thomas is complete in his inchoate anger at fate."
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
75%
|
Blackthorn (2011)
|
"This story, parboiled out of one of the most memorable Westerns, is supported all the way by Gil's directing. "
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
78%
|
The Mill and the Cross (2011)
|
"We almost feel that we ourselves have accomplished something just by being around while Bruegel doodled."
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
66%
|
The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)
|
"All in all-if all is meant moderately-the story leaves an agreeable aftertaste, which lingers longer than we expected."
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
86%
|
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2011)
|
"It leaves us almost gasping with its impudence."
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
85%
|
Happy, Happy (2011)
|
"Sewitsky is a bit too fond of the handheld camera, but she is immediate, close. Her first picture, daring title and all, takes an empathic look at a permanent puzzle. "
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
93%
|
You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (2011)
|
"What makes this film especially biting is the editing. "
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
64%
|
Young Goethe In Love (2011)
|
"Stylistically, the most engaging aspect of the picture is Stölzl's direction. "
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
99%
|
Le Havre (2011)
|
"We are so held by the film's impact that its ending, surprise or not, is like a bonus."
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
95%
|
Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011)
|
"It is generally pungent and enlightening. "
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
86%
|
In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (2011)
|
"Interviews with the cemetery director and with adults who grew up in buildings on the outskirts convey something we might not have imagined, or bothered to imagine-affection for a cemetery. "
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
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76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)
|
"It becomes a film about her [Swinton] scattered mind. That produces wonders from Swinton, but it ignores the plea in the title. What about Kevin? Kevin deserves so much more attention-indeed, he deserves being played by Tilda Swinton. "
|
David Thomson
|
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97%
|
Tomboy (2011)
|
"Tomboy is a lovely reminder that the French have long been famous for a quite different sort of film-about children. "
|
Stanley Kauffmann
|
|
74%
|
The Conquest (2011)
|
"The Sarkozy story glistens, snakelike."
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Stanley Kauffmann
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