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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Family Fundamentals (2002)
While Family Fundamentals will have special significance for homosexuals and their parents, its emotional honesty echoes beyond cultural niches.
Posted Jun 9, 2020
2
Barrabas (1919)
3
Underground Orchestra (1998)
The Underground Orchestra is an agreeably offbeat documentary that comes with certain built-in but easily forgiven frustrations.
Posted Jul 15, 2019
4
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los Amantes del CÃrculo Polar) (The Lovers from the North Pole) (1998)
5
Toy Story 2 (1999)
6
Control Room (2004)
Control Room leave viewers susceptible to the deceptions of politicians and media charlatans.
Posted Jun 28, 2019
7
Liberty Heights (1999)
It's atrocious. Twisted sociology.
Posted Jun 27, 2019
8
The Iron Giant (1999)
The Iron Giant should have been immediately recognized as a near-perfect, classical expression of imagination, combining childlike wonder and adult sophistication.
Posted May 14, 2019
9
Being John Malkovich (1999)
For two hours, it works like the best music videos: making high-concept philosophies graspable, marvelous and fun.
Posted Apr 30, 2019
10
American Honey (2016)
11
Frost/Nixon (2008)
It takes a nincompoop like Howard to imagine depth in this silliness.
Posted Oct 28, 2014
12
The Orphanage (2007)
Let the anticipation of Bayona's next move begin.
Posted Oct 14, 2014
13
A-
The To Do List (2013)
Carey's celebratory approach to bawdy one-liners marries form with content.
Posted Jul 26, 2013
14
Coming from a director renowned as spartanly anti-dramatic, the film's escape is almost preternaturally gripping.
Posted Mar 5, 2013
15
5/5
The Central Park Five (2012)
Exclusive interviews with former heads of Israel's counter terrorism agency reveal insiders' analysis about the country's policies. Fascinating. Frightening.
Posted Dec 16, 2012
16
5/5
How to Survive a Plague (2012)
What making a difference is really all about!
Posted Dec 16, 2012
17
5/5
Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2012)
An alarming look at the profitable industry that has grown up around nonprofit fund raising for breast cancer research. Must see!
Posted May 28, 2012
18
The Forgiveness of Blood (2012)
Marston examines the barriers of ritual and the passage from youth to adulthood in Albanian society with the perceptive detail of a grand literary feat.
Posted Feb 24, 2012
19
Love Crime (2011)
Corneau got his start directing simple, effective cop movies and Love Crime's second half is sort of a return to form.
Posted Sep 1, 2011
20
The Family Tree (2011)
Like the body of a peeping tom high school student that hangs hidden in the Burnett's tree for the duration of the film, the direction of the movie remains dangling over audiences.
Posted Aug 26, 2011
21
Special Treatment (2011)
Huppert's performance is strong and Labrune's previous films show she's not without talent. You wish she hadn't so stubbornly adhered to one tiresome idea.
Posted Aug 25, 2011
22
Tales from the Golden Age (2011)
Puiu's a skillful widescreen filmmaker, but he's also an urban snob who finds farm animals backward and funny.
Posted Aug 24, 2011
23
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011)
Sfar rescues Gainsbourg from hipsters' self-satisfied claims.
Posted Aug 24, 2011
24
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Usually movies this slick and contrived have a shiny, Hollywood look, but Our Idiot Brother's unslick look is dreadful. It lacks the professionalism of mumblecore.
Posted Aug 24, 2011
25
Griff the Invisible (2011)
What at first seemed to be a superhero film is actually a melancholy portrait of the maladjusted.
Posted Aug 18, 2011
26
One Day (2011)
One Day is neither comedy nor satire; it uses numerous narrative gimmicks to avoid the fact of its humdrum banality.
Posted Aug 18, 2011
27
30 Minutes or Less (2011)
Sexism may be inseparable from the imperatives of male aggression. 30 Minutes or Less ridicules this...
Posted Aug 17, 2011
28
The Help (2011)
The Help demonstrates the conned intelligence of the "post-racial" and "postblack" Obama era, where the anxieties of unequal yet mutually beneficial black-white relationships are conveniently, speciously, put behind us.
Posted Aug 10, 2011
29
It is easily the best American movie of this corrupted summer.
Posted Aug 8, 2011
30
The Whistleblower (2011)
The film is not good or bad, but utterly affecting and incredibly timely.
Posted Aug 5, 2011
31
Good Neighbors (2011)
32
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Cowboys and Aliens is an uninspired, third-rate rehash of Western and monster movie lore. It turns genre into formula.
Posted Aug 3, 2011
33
Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)
If the title suggests soap opera rather than political history, that's part of Ruiz's game -- but it's also why this art project feels overlong for its purpose.
Posted Aug 3, 2011
34
The Devil's Double (2011)
The film disastrously focuses on Uday's outrages and does so without any moral perspective. "Rape, torture, disembowelment, killing, drinking, drugs and decadence" is practically the film's synopsis. Madness is its misjudged rationale.
Posted Aug 3, 2011
35
The Guard (2011)
McDonaugh's reflective script and darker tone separates it from the usual pacing of the standard cop film.
Posted Aug 3, 2011
36
Attack the Block (2011)
It enhances a sense of the world rather than peddling distraction from it.
Posted Jul 27, 2011
37
Project Nim (2011)
Project Nim provides the much needed backstory to modern scientific achievement unavoidably earned on the backs of innocent apes.
Posted Jul 26, 2011
38
Fire in Babylon (2011)
Rather than explore the nuanced reality of playing a white man's game with white teammates, Riley simply plays the race card and tells the tale in monochrome.
Posted Jul 26, 2011
39
Me and My Gal (1932)
Me and My Gal justifies the loftiest standards of realism and entertainment.
Posted Jul 22, 2011
40
When all these bland Marvel Comics franchise movies blur together in memory, it won't prove that they amounted to one great epic master narrative, but that they're all indistinguishable.
Posted Jul 22, 2011
41
Farmageddon (2011)
For a film about the benefits of natural food and raw milk, there is ironically nothing organic about Farmageddon.
Posted Jul 19, 2011
42
Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.
Posted Jul 13, 2011
43
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Although this is an adaptation of the A.A. Milne tales first published in 1926, it unleashes an essential quality of dreaming -- and of cinema.
Posted Jul 13, 2011
44
Tabloid (2011)
Evading the issue of what used to be called "yellow journalism," Morris' depraved method prevents us from ever getting out of this swamp.
Posted Jul 13, 2011
45
Tribe's music takes a backseat to power struggle and personality conflict.
Posted Jul 11, 2011
46
Love Etc. (2011)
Each of the six protagonists in Love Etc. are sweet and hopeful in a genuinely human way that fictional films simply cannot touch.
Posted Jul 4, 2011
47
By avoiding contemplation about the emotional nature of its clanging, morphing, warring creatures ... Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg accommodate the insensitivity that characterizes post-9/11 culture.
Posted Jun 30, 2011
48
Larry Crowne (2011)
The humanist opposite to Hollywood's self-congratulatory snark.
Posted Jun 29, 2011
49
Bad Teacher (2011)
Kasdan and company miss the opportunity to connect Elizabeth's venality to the greed and materialism that her pop consumer students absorb daily.
Posted Jun 27, 2011
50
General Orders No. 9 (2011)