| |
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101
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102
|
|
103
|
|
Goodbye,
Dragon Inn |
|
Tsai Ming-Liang
(85) |
 |
|
2003, 82m, Col, Taiwan, Drama-Comedy |
|
"Has a quiet, cumulative magic, whose source is hard to
identify. Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of
mystery and feeling; it's an action movie that stands perfectly
still." - A.O. Scott, New York Times |
|
Selected by John Anderson, Berenice Reynaud, Dennis Lim, Chris
Fujiwara, J. Hoberman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The
Gleaners & I |
|
Agnès Varda
(95) |
 |
|
2000, 82m, Col, France, Documentary |
| "A
fascinating nonfiction voyage into rural and urban France,
focusing on idiosyncratic individuals who live off things the
rest of us throw away, from food to furniture." - David Sterritt,
Christian Science Monitor |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Manohla Dargis, John Anderson,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, David Ehrenstein. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Last Days |
|
Gus Van Sant
(105) |
 |
|
2004, 96m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"What Last Days offers is a blank and narrative-free, but
pitch-perfect, dreamscape on which to project your own personal
ruminations on Kurt, fame, whatever, nevermind. If you have
none, you're on your own." - Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Dennis Lim, Ed Halter, Phillip Lopate,
Ed Park. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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| |
|
|
|
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|
104
|
|
105
|
|
106
|
|
Platform |
|
Zhang Ke Jia
(106) |
 |
| 2000, 154m, Col,
Hong Kong-Japan-France-Netherlands-Switzerland, Drama |
| "One of the richest films
of the past decade." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by Manohla Dargis,
Berenice Reynaud, Chris Fujiwara, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael
Atkinson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Kinsey |
|
Bill Condon (91) |
 |
|
2004, 118m, Col, Germany-USA-UK, Drama-Biography |
| "A
stupendously moving film. Neeson nails Kinsey's rock-hard
decency and fragile ego, and Linney abets him beautifully: There
isn't an actress in movies right now who's more simply alive." -
David Edelstein, Slate |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman, David Ehrenstein, Richard Schickel,
A.O. Scott, Stephen Holden. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Together |
|
Lukas Moodysson
(115) |
 |
|
2000, 106m, Col, Sweden-Denmark-Italy, Drama-Comedy |
| "Moodysson
captures exactly the preening narcissism and gumption of these
frazzled would-be revolutionaries trying to wriggle out of their
bourgeois straitjackets." - Peter Rainer, New York Magazine |
|
Selected by Kenneth Turan, Owen Gleiberman, David Ansen, David
Edelstein, Paul Malcolm. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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| |
|
|
|
|
|
107
|
|
108
|
|
109
|
|
Erin
Brockovich |
|
Steven Soderbergh
(99) |
 |
|
2000, 130m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"The kind of stand-up-and-cheer movie Hollywood is supposed to
have forgotten how to make." - Lou Lumenick, New York Post |
|
Selected by Kenneth Turan, Gavin Smith, David Ansen, Mike Clark,
F.X. Feeney. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Son (Le
Fils) |
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
(98) |
 |
|
2002, 103m, Col, Belgium-France, Drama |
| "By
the climax, we can hardly breathe -- The outcome is less
important than our utter and complete empathy with this man. As
we await what he does, we breathe with him, in and out. This is
an astonishing movie." - David Edelstein, Slate |
|
Selected by Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Roger Ebert, Geoff Andrew,
J.Hoberman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Hours |
|
Stephen Daldry (109) |
 |
|
2002, 114m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore bring dignity
and Oscar-worthy performances to The Hours, a lovingly
crafted meditation on death, loss and literature." - Andrew
O'Hehir, Salon |
|
Selected by David Sterritt, Kenneth Turan, Mick LaSalle, Stephen
Holden, Andrew O'Hehir. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
110
New
|
|
111
New
|
|
112
|
|
Offside |
|
Jafar Panahi |
 |
| 2006,
93m, Col, Iran, Comedy-Drama-Sports |
|
"The masterly
Panahi concocts a spellbinding, often corrosively
and/or warmly funny story in which love of both country and
sport tries to, but doesn't quite, transcend dogmatic and
ingrained difference." -
Glenn Kenny, Premiere |
| Selected by
J. Hoberman, Dennis Lim, David D'Arcy, Bilge Ebiri, Ed Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Eastern
Promises |
|
David
Cronenberg |
 |
|
2007, 100m, Col, UK-Canada-USA, Crime-Drama-Thriller |
| "A
rhapsodic movie directed with considerable formal intelligence
and brooding power from an original screenplay by Steve Knight,
Eastern Promises is very much a companion to A History
of Violence." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Berenice Reynaud, Stephen Garrett,
Robert Horton, Kristin M. Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
In America |
|
Jim
Sheridan (96) |
 |
| 2003, 105m, Col,
USA-Ireland-UK, Drama |
| "In America is not
unsentimental about its new arrivals (the movie has a warm heart
and frankly wants to move us), but it is perceptive about the
countless ways in which it is hard to be poor and a stranger in
a new land." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
| Selected by Michael Sragow,
J. Hoberman, Michael Wilmington, Roger Ebert, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
113
|
|
114
|
|
115
|
|
Notre Musique |
|
Jean-Luc Godard (97) |
 |
| 2004, 80m, Col,
France-Switzerland, Drama |
| "Visually sublime and
intellectually dense, this is one of the extremely rare movies
that prove cinema can be as complex and profound as the very
greatest art works in any form." - David Sterritt,
Christian Science Monitor |
| Selected by Gerald Peary,
Chris Fujiwara, David Sterritt, J. Hoberman, Kent Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bloody
Sunday |
|
Paul Greengrass
(102) |
 |
|
2001, 110m, Col, UK-Ireland, Historical-Drama |
|
"For the viewer, the miracle of Bloody Sunday is that
firm moral judgment can exist side by side with a wild and
bitter exhilaration in the sheer physicality of violence." -
David Denby, The New Yorker |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Gavin Smith, Kenneth Turan, Scott
Foundas, Elvis Mitchell. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Kill Bill Vol.
2 |
|
Quentin Tarantino (108) |
 |
| 2004, 136m, Col-BW,
USA-China, Thriller-Drama-Action |
|
"This installment delivers
more of the pleasures that made
Tarantino the wunderkind of 90s cinema: offbeat scumbag
characters, narrative sleight of hand, an extraordinary visual
sense, and affectionate genre pillaging." - J.R. Jones,
Chicago Reader |
| Selected by Ty Burr, Roger Ebert,
Manohla Dargis, Scott Foundas, David Chute. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
|
|
116
|
|
117
|
|
118
|
|
The Man
Without a Past |
|
Aki Kaurismäki
(118) |
 |
|
2002, 97m, Col, Finland-Germany-France, Romance-Drama-Comedy |
|
"Kaurismäki
is Finland's greatest filmmaker, and never has he more artfully
balanced his patented blend of deadpan humor, low-key melodrama,
and toe-tapping music." - David Sterritt, Christian Science
Monitor |
|
Selected by Chris Fuijiwara, David Sterritt, A.O. Scott, Chris
Chang, Alice Lovejoy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bowling for
Columbine |
|
Michael Moore
(114) |
 |
|
2002, 120m, Col, USA, Documentary-Comedy |
|
"Moore's
best movie, and one of the most blisteringly effective polemics
and documentaries ever." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman, Ed Halter, Scott Foundas, Edward
Crouse, Mike Clark. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
What Time
is it There? |
|
Tsai Ming-Liang
(103) |
 |
|
2001, 116m, Col, France-Taiwan-Italy, Drama |
|
"This wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie hops from Taiwan to France,
from tragedy to deadpan comedy and, in its mysterious
conclusion, from the worldly to the otherworldly." - David Ansen,
Newsweek |
|
Selected by Chris Fujiwara, Michael Atkinson, J. Hoberman, Elvis
Mitchell, Alice Lovejoy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
119
|
|
120
|
|
121
|
|
Little Miss
Sunshine |
|
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (100) |
 |
| 2006, 102m, Col,
USA, Comedy-Drama |
| "This indie, a sweet, tart and
smart satire about a family of losers in a world obsessed with
winning, is an authentic crowd pleaser. There's been no more
satisfying American comedy this year." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
| Selected by David Ansen, Joe
Morgenstern, Peter Travers, Stephen Holden, Claudia Puig. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Spellbound |
|
Jeffrey Blitz (101) |
 |
|
2002, 96m, Col, USA, Documentary |
| "At
its most unsettling level, Spellbound asks us to consider
what words are for and what childhood should be. It's as
profound as anything you'll see this year, and, yes, it should
have won the Oscar." - Ty Burr, Boston Globe |
|
Selected by Ty Burr, A.O. Scott, Wesley Morris, Stephanie
Zacharek, Charles Taylor. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Maria Full
of Grace |
|
Joshua Marston (104) |
 |
|
2003, 100m, Col, USA-Colombia-Ecuador, Drama-Crime |
|
"Moreno, with her wide, watchful eyes, owns the camera - and the
film. Her performance is perfectly natural and profoundly
moving. Maria Full of Grace is a remarkable picture, full
of suspense and discovery." - Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by John Anderson, Owen Gleiberman, Richard Schickel,
Stephen Holden, Kevin Thomas. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
122
New
|
|
123
|
|
124
|
|
Regular
Lovers |
|
Philippe Garrel |
 |
| 2004,
178m, BW, France-Italy, Drama |
| "While
the film’s desperately sad finale indicates that
Philippe
Garrel knows the truth of '68 better than most and
might have suffered a crisis in faith in the years since, this
magnificent film is itself proof that all was not lost." -
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
| Selected by
Kent Jones, Michael Atkinson, Dennis Lim, Manohla Dargis, Nathan
Lee. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
À ma soeur!
(Fat Girl) |
|
Catherine Breillat
(94) |
 |
|
2001, 86m, Col, France-Italy, Drama |
| "As
fascinating as it is discomfiting and as intelligent as it is
primal. From first shot to last, France's foremost bad girl has
made an extremely good movie -- and maybe even a great one." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Amy Taubin, B. Ruby Rich, J. Hoberman, Michael
Atkinson, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Fahrenheit
9/11 |
|
Michael
Moore (107) |
 |
| 2004, 122m, Col,
USA, Documentary-War |
|
"Michael
Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11 has launched an unapologetic
attack, both savage and savvy, on an administration he feels has
betrayed the best of America and done extensive damage in the
world." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by David Ehrenstein,
David Sterritt, Kenneth Turan, A.O. Scott, Peter Travers. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
125
|
|
126
|
|
127
|
|
Werckmeister
Harmonies |
|
Bela Tarr (110) |
 |
| 2000, 145m, BW,
Hungary-Germany-France-Switzerland-Italy, Drama |
| "Mysterious, poetic and
allusive, Werckmeister Harmonies beckons filmgoers who
complain of the vapidity of Hollywood movie making and yearn for
a film to ponder and debate." -
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times |
| Selected by Manohla Dargis,
David Sterritt, Robert Sklar, J. Hoberman, Chris Fujiwara. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Hotel Rwanda |
|
Terry George (111) |
 |
| 2004, 121m, Col,
UK-USA-South Africa-Italy, War-Drama |
| "It is a powerful portrait
of a slightly befuddled man who, when inhuman demands were
placed on him, found within himself an unexpected response." -
Richard Schickel, Time |
| Selected by Roger Ebert,
Richard Roeper, Mick LaSalle, Charles Taylor, Desson Thomson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Café
Lumière |
|
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
(117) |
 |
|
2003, 108m, Col, Japan-Taiwan, Drama |
|
"Hou's
best film since The Puppetmaster (1993). It's also his
most minimalist effort to date, slow to reveal its depths and
beauties, and it marks a rejuvenation of his art." - Jonathan
Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by John Anderson, Dave Kehr, John Powers, Kenneth Turan,
Chris Fujiwara. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
128
New
|
|
129
|
|
130
|
|
Once |
|
John Carney |
 |
|
2007, 87m, Col, Ireland-USA, Drama-Musical-Romance |
|
"The music is so rich and completely satisfying and the
characters so appealing Once makes us believe that this
is all happening right in front of our eyes." - Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Tom Charity, Michael Atkinson, Aaron
Hillis, Thomas Doherty, Stephen Garrett. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Spider |
|
David Cronenberg
(138) |
 |
|
2002, 98m, Col, Canada-UK-Japan-France, Thriller-Drama |
|
"Deliciously wicked, strangely poetic portrait (adapted by
Patrick McGrath from his own novel) of a schizophrenic man at
once tyrannized and elevated by oedipal terrors." - Ella Taylor,
LA Weekly |
|
Selected by Jason Anderson, V.A. Musetto, Glenn Kenny, Graham
Fuller, Chris Fujiwara. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Black Hawk
Down |
|
Ridley
Scott (143) |
 |
| 2001, 144m, Col,
USA, War-Drama-Action |
| "Rivets our interest for
its entire lengthy running time. And it does this without any of
the usual war movie clichés, false heroics, barracks-humor
nonsense or grandstanding absurdities." -
William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Selected by Richard Schickel,
Kenneth Turan, Roger Ebert, Richard Corliss, Jack Mathews. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
131
|
|
132
|
|
133
|
|
Hero |
|
Zhang Yimou
(112) |
 |
|
2002, 99m, Col, Hong Kong-China, Drama-Action |
| "Hero
is a movie that lives up to all the nobility of its title, a
gift to movie audiences who cherish the opportunity to be
transported to a heretofore unimagined world and absorbed
totally into what happens there." - Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore
Sun |
|
Selected by Richard Corliss, David Edelstein, Charles Taylor,
Chris Kaltenbach, Mark Jenkins. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
School of
Rock |
|
Richard Linklater
(116) |
 |
|
2003, 108m, Col, Germany-USA, Musical-Comedy |
|
"This joyous farce is a big, big deal, and Jack Black is nothing
less than majestic as a scruffy, irreverent rocker passing
himself off as a pedagogue in a private school." - Joe
Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal |
|
Selected by
Dennis Lim, Owen Gleiberman, David Sterritt,
Ty Burr, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Chicago |
|
Rob Marshall (113) |
 |
| 2002, 113m, Col,
USA-Germany, Musical-Crime-Comedy |
| "Isn't just the most
explosively entertaining movie musical in a couple of decades.
It's going to be the most influential: the one that inspires the
rebirth of the Hollywood musical." -
David Edelstein, Slate |
| Selected by Michael Sragow,
Mick LaSalle, Ernest Hardy, David Edelstein, Stephen Holden. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
134
|
|
135
|
|
136
|
|
Ten |
|
Abbas Kiarostami
(148) |
 |
|
2002, 92m, Col, France-Iran, Drama |
|
"The film offers a fascinating glimpse of
the Iranian urban middle class, and though it eschews most of
the pleasures of composition and landscape found in other
Kiarostami
films, it's never less than riveting." - Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Leslie Camhi, Andrew O'Hehir,
Melissa Anderson, Peter Tonguette. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Tarnation |
|
Jonathan Caouette (125) |
 |
| 2003, 88m, Col-BW,
USA, Documentary |
| "Harrowing, extremely
disturbing at times, but brought to the screen in dazzling
pop-art images that make the movie's grim content very much
worth watching." -
David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor |
| Selected by Kenneth Turan,
A.O. Scott, Ella Taylor, Lou Lumenick, Wesley Morris. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
24 Hour
Party People |
|
Michael Winterbottom
(126) |
 |
|
2001, 115m, Col, UK, Drama-Comedy |
|
"The film is a whirlwind blur, a kinetic thrill ride through the
industrial backwater that was one of punk and post-punk's most
fertile Promised Lands: Manchester." - Robert Wilonsky, New
Times L.A. |
|
Selected by Gerald Peary, David Sterritt, Ella Taylor, Elvis
Mitchell, Steven Rea. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
137
|
|
138
|
|
139
|
|
High
Fidelity |
|
Stephen Frears
(121) |
 |
|
2000, 113m, Col, USA-UK, Comedy |
|
"With its knowing take on men, messed-up romance and music, it's
like one long, hook-filled pop song for the eyes." - Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by
Roger Ebert, Desson Howe, Jay Carr, Keith
Phipps, David Chute. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
21 Grams |
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu (119) |
 |
| 2003, 125m, Col,
Germany-USA, Drama |
| "What gives the film a formalist
kick is that the story unfolds piecemeal as a series of
nonlinear moments. What gives it soul are the three lead actors
who pull the pieces together with devastating power." -
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by Gerald Peary,
Manohla Dargis, Mick LaSalle, Elvis Mitchell, Stephen Hunter. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
George
Washington |
|
David Gordon Green
(120) |
 |
|
2000, 89m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"Like
Malick's
Days of Heaven, it is not about plot, but about memory
and regret. It remembers a summer that was not a happy summer,
but there will never again be a summer so intensely felt, so
alive, so valuable." - Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun-Times |
|
Selected by Roger Ebert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, David Sterritt,
Gerald Peary, Dave Kehr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
140
|
|
141
|
|
142
|
|
A Prairie Home
Companion |
|
Robert
Altman (122) |
 |
| 2006, 105m, Col,
USA, Comedy-Drama-Musical |
|
"Not since
Woody Allen's
Radio Days has
anyone created such a cinematic Valentine to the wonderfully
imaginative medium of radio as A Prairie Home Companion." -
Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter |
| Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Molly Haskell, Kent Jones, A.O. Scott, Stephen
Holden. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Intruder |
|
Claire
Denis (152) |
 |
| 2004, 130m, Col,
France-Korea, Drama |
| "Exhilarating and
exhausting, the kind of picture you don't bounce back from
immediately. Yet its elusiveness is the very source of its
poetic energy." - Stephanie Zacharek, Salon |
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