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David Wood

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The Beast (1975) 68% 2/5 EDIT “At times the film is also undeniably offensive, pandering to male fantasy, as is the pseudo-rape fantasies the film attributes to its female characters.” – BBC.com Jan 16, 2002 Full Review Aimée & Jaguar (1999) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Rewarding viewing, evocatively re-creating a narrative milieu and war-time Berlin rarely seen on screen.” – BBC.com Jul 3, 2001 Full Review Code Unknown (2000) 75% 4/5 EDIT “European cinema at its very best.” – BBC.com Jul 3, 2001 Full Review Psycho (1960) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Gripping and irrevocably gruesome fare played to perfection by a top notch cast.” – BBC.com Jun 13, 2001 Full Review Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Wonderfully performed and imbued with a genuine sense of trepidation and unease.” – BBC.com Jun 13, 2001 Full Review Band of Outsiders (1964) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Emphatically entertaining, provocatively self-assured.” – BBC.com Jun 13, 2001 Full Review Blackboards (2000) 74% 4/5 EDIT “An intelligent, multi-layered and profoundly humanist (not to mention gently political) meditation on the values of knowledge, education, and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement.” – BBC.com May 30, 2001 Full Review The Captive (2000) 79% 4/5 EDIT “A gently captivating, deceptively austere work.” – BBC.com May 7, 2001 Full Review Don't Look Now (1973) 93% 5/5 EDIT “With Sutherland and Christie in fine form it all adds up to one of Roeg's finest films and an undeniably key work in British cinema.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Diva (1981) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A witty, playful intelligent film as enjoyable as it is influential.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Diner (1982) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Barry Levinson's directorial debut from his own Oscar-nominated script remains his most perfectly realised and charming movie and is a fitting eulogy to his home town of Baltimore.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Citizen Kane (1941) 99% 5/5 EDIT “A potent metaphor for the betrayal of principles, the souring of the American Dream, and an intelligent mediation on the corrupting nature of power.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Touch of Evil (1958) 96% 5/5 EDIT “one of [Welles'] richest and most rewarding pictures” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review The Philadelphia Story (1940) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Grant, Stewart, and Hepburn deliver impeccable performances.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review National Velvet (1944) 98% 3/5 EDIT “Both Taylor and Rooney give without doubt the best performances of their pre-adult years but there's also much pleasure to be had from a stellar supporting cast.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review The Long Good Friday (1980) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A touchstone for many of the sub-standard gangster films Britain mercilessly churns out today, The Long Good Friday is classy fare and superior viewing to its modern counterparts in every way.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Last House on the Left (1972) 64% 4/5 EDIT “The film, to its credit, details both the initial acts of violation and the revenge that ensues as similarly de-humanising and reprehensible.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Klute (1971) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Informed in part by the conventions of film noir...Klute manages to distil them all into something highly original and distinctly unsettling.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Likely to appeal to grown-ups of all ages--while putting the fear of God into kids--it's a perfect antidote to standard festive fare and evidence of the rich and varied possibilities of stop-motion animation. In a word, wonderful.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review High Noon (1952) 94% 5/5 EDIT “A film about what it means to be a man that manages to avoid the musk of machismo, High Noon is truly a film that improves with each and every viewing.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review The Sweet Hereafter (1997) 98% 4/5 EDIT “...Egoyan looks at the essence of guilt and the complexity of human relationships in all their rich variety.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Flawless (1999) 40% 3/5 EDIT “The involvement of several real-life drag queens contributes to both the exhuberence, authenticity, and sheer panache to mark something of a return to form for the idiosyncratic director.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Dark Days (2000) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Mark Singer's astonishing debut is a stylishly shot black and white 16mm documentary which focuses on the homeless who inhabit the subway tunnels beneath Manhattan.” – BBC.com Apr 17, 2001 Full Review Yi Yi (2000) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Intricately nuanced, lovingly crafted ... and decidedly wry in tone.” – BBC.com Apr 16, 2001 Full Review Bread and Roses (2000) 67% 3/5 EDIT “An impassioned work of integrity and a human drama of observation, insight, and great import.” – BBC.com Apr 16, 2001 Full Review
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