| |
|
151 |
|
152 |
|
153
New
|
|
Hotel Rwanda |
|
Terry George (126) |
 |
| 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
(127) |
 |
| • Kôhî jikô
(original title) |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Milk |
|
Gus Van
Sant |
 |
|
2008, 128m, Col, USA, Biography-Drama |
|
"What makes Milk extraordinary isn't just that it's
a nuanced, stirring portrait of one of the 20th century's most
pivotal figures, but that it's also a nuanced, stirring portrait
of the thousands of people he energized." - Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post |
| Selected by
Amy Taubin, Dennis Lim, Gerald Peary, David Sterritt, Matt
Singer. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
154 |
|
155
▲
|
|
156
▲
|
|
Nobody
Knows |
|
Hirokazu Koreeda
(153) |
 |
| • Dare mo
shiranai (original title) |
|
2003, 141m, Col, Japan, Drama |
|
"Unfolds with such leisurely, terrible beauty, it takes a while
to realize that what we are witnessing is the children's long
slide into beggary, exacerbated by the slow torture of faint
hope." - Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
|
Selected by
David Edelstein, Daryl Chin, Michael Koresky,
Ed Gonzalez, Cynthia Fuchs. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Gladiator |
|
Ridley Scott
(169) |
 |
|
2000, 154m, Col, USA, Drama-Action |
|
"It's that very rare feeling that you're settling into a movie
whose individual elements are so finely attuned they fuse into a
singular construct of pure entertainment." - Ted Fry, Film.com |
|
Selected by Peter Travers, Mike D'Angelo, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Paul
Clinton, Jami Bernard. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Songs from
the Second Floor |
|
Roy
Andersson (229) |
 |
| • Sånger från
andra våningen (original title) |
|
2000, 98m, Col, Sweden-France-Denmark-Norway-Germany, Drama |
| "A
brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own
idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new
millennium." - Marc Caro, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by Mike D'Angelo, Gabe Klinger, William Johnson,
Gillies
MacKinnon,
Mike Leigh. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
157 |
|
158 |
|
159
New
|
|
Flags of
Our Fathers |
|
Clint Eastwood
(146) |
 |
|
2006, 132m, Col, USA, War-Drama-Action |
|
"To an extent, Flags of Our Fathers
is to the WWII movie what
Eastwood's
Unforgiven was to the western -- a stripping-away of
mythology until only a harsher, uncomfortable reality remains."
- Scott Foundas, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Kent Jones, Michael Wilmington, Kirk Honeycutt,
Peter Travers, Rex Reed. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
24 Hour
Party People |
|
Michael Winterbottom
(136) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
The
Wrestler |
|
Darren
Aronofsky |
 |
|
2008, 109m, Col, USA, Drama-Sport |
|
"Rourke creates a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving
portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic
screen performances. An elemental story simply and brilliantly
told, Darren
Aronofsky's fourth feature is a winner from every
possible angle." - Todd McCarthy, Variety |
| Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Glenn Kenny, Donna Bowman, Peter Brunette,
Jason Anderson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
160 |
|
161 |
|
162 |
|
Ten |
|
Abbas Kiarostami
(134) |
 |
| • 10
(alternative spelling) |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Wallace &
Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
|
Nick Park & Steve Box (142) |
 |
| • Wallace &
Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (alternative title) |
| 2005, 85m, Col,
UK-USA, Animated-Adventure-Comedy |
| "This latest and biggest
installment is a whimsical success of a very high order: The
pace never lags, the invention is incessant, and it makes you
want to have a bite of cheese afterward." -
Ed Park, Village Voice |
| Selected by Kenneth Turan,
A.O. Scott, David Edelstein, Tom Charity, Donna Bowman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Tarnation |
|
Jonathan Caouette (135) |
 |
| 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
163 |
|
164 |
|
165 |
|
High
Fidelity |
|
Stephen Frears
(137) |
 |
|
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 (138) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
The Best of
Youth |
|
Marco Tullio Giordana (148) |
 |
| • La Meglio
gioventù (original title) |
| 2003, 373m, Col,
Italy, Drama |
| "The Best of Youth doesn't
have a boring millisecond. It isn't an art film, with longueurs;
it's a mini-series with the sweep of a classic novel, with tons
of plot." -
David Edelstein, Slate |
| Selected by David Ansen,
Kenneth Turan, Michael Wilmington, A.O. Scott, J.R. Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
166 |
|
167 |
|
168 |
|
To Be and
to Have |
|
Nicolas Philibert (161) |
 |
| • Être et
avoir (original title) |
|
2002, 104m, Col, France, Documentary |
| "A
deceptively simple French film about teaching that keeps
enlarging as you watch it, becoming beautiful and inspiring in a
way most films never touch." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago
Tribune |
|
Selected by Chris Fujiwara, Peter Rainer, Alice Lovejoy, Wesley
Morris, Stephanie Zacharek. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
George
Washington |
|
David Gordon Green
(139) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
A Prairie Home
Companion |
|
Robert
Altman (140) |
 |
| 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
169 |
|
170 |
|
171 |
|
Chicken Run |
|
Peter Lord & Nick Park (149) |
 |
| 2000, 84m, Col,
USA-UK, Animated-Family-Comedy |
| "Never loses its priceless
stamp of individuality. Reduced to its essence, this is a joke
told by a person, not a corporation--and that makes all the
difference." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by Kenneth Turan,
Desson Howe, A.O. Scott, Lisa Schwarzbaum, David Chute. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Monsoon
Wedding |
|
Mira Nair (159) |
 |
| 2001, 114m, Col,
USA-Italy-Germany-France, Romance-Drama |
| "Has an engaging warmth and
an effortless sense of life. It also has an instinct for the
humanity and universality of situations that are comic, romantic
and quite seriously dramatic by turns." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by Carrie Rickey,
David Ansen, Stuart Klawans, Karen Durbin, Claudia Puig. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
12:08 East
of Bucharest |
|
Corneliu Porumboiu
(166) |
 |
| • A fost sau
n-a fost? (original title) |
| 2006,
89m, Col, Romania-France, Comedy-Drama |
|
"This brilliantly caustic movie - easily the best in a
burgeoning and fertile effort to come to grips with post-Soviet
malaise in Central and Eastern Europe - offers living proof that
when it comes to politics, comedy is the sincerest form of
dissidence." -
Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
| Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Jeffrey M. Anderson, V.A. Musetto, Sam Adams,
Mark Asch. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
172
New
|
|
173 |
|
174 |
|
Howl's
Moving Castle |
|
Hayao
Miyazaki |
 |
| • Hauru no
ugoku shiro (original title) |
|
2004, 119m, Col, Japan, Animated-Adventure-Fantasy |
|
"Howl's Moving Castle is one animated epic that has
it all: poetic intensity, potent storytelling, vivid and
surprising characters, and intoxicating powers of visual
imagination." - Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
| Selected by
Kenneth Turan, Michael Wilmington, Tom Charity, Peter Rainer,
Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| The
Host |
| Bong
Joon-ho (144) |
 |
| • Gwoemul
(original title) |
| 2006, 119m, Col,
South Korea-Japan, Action-Comedy-Horror |
| "The mix of dark
humor, creeping suspense, and a sort of apocalyptic tenderness
makes this the best horror flick in years." - J.R. Jones,
Chicago Reader |
| Selected by
Aaron Hillis, Dana Stevens, V.A. Musetto, Mike D'Angelo, David
D'Arcy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Old Joy |
|
Kelly
Reichardt (145) |
 |
|
2005, 73m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"It's in all the moments where little happens that Reichardt is
most amazing, investing even a gas-station pit stop with perfect
emotional pitch." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
|
Selected by Scott Tobias, Ed Halter, Brian Miller, Melissa
Anderson, Godfrey Cheshire. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
175 |
|
176
New
|
|
177 |
|
I Don’t
Want to Sleep Alone |
|
Tsai Ming-Liang (147) |
 |
| • Hei yan
quan (original title) |
|
2006, 115m, Col, Taiwan-France-Austria, Drama |
|
"The movie is a
block of paper that, when
Tsai's finished with it,
becomes a chain of snowflakes. Loneliness doesn't often get such
a gorgeously ornate tribute."
- Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe |
|
Selected by Dennis Lim, Berenice Reynaud, David Sterritt, Jay
Kuehner, Chuck Stephens. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Duchess
of Langeais |
|
Jacques
Rivette |
 |
| • Ne touchez
pas la hache (original title); Don't Touch the Axe (alternative
title) |
|
2007, 137m, Col, France-Italy, Drama-Romance |
|
"Jacques
Rivette has brought the Balzac short story to screen
as a superb chamber drama. His is a graceful work of austerity
and formality that perfectly captures the chaos of repressed
emotions that see beneath the rigid conventions of aristocratic
society." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by
Graham Fuller, Melissa Anderson, Mike D'Angelo, Glenn Kenny,
Michael Sicinski. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
La Commune
(Paris, 1871) |
|
Peter
Watkins (158) |
 |
| 2000, 345m, BW,
France, Drama-Historical |
| "Taped in stark
black-and-white and clocking in 15 minutes shy of six hours,
this invigorating pic is big, passionate and brimming with
compelling human details and broad sociopolitical idealism." -
Eddie Cockrell, Variety |
| Selected by David Ehrenstein, Chris Fujiwara, Michael Atkinson, Andrew Tracy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
178 |
|
179 |
|
180 |
|
The New World |
|
Terrence Malick
(160) |
 |
| 2005, 150m, Col,
USA, Drama-Adventure |
|
"Not since
Stanley Kubrick's
2001: A
Space Odyssey and
Malick's own
Days of Heaven has a movie been both so breathtakingly
beautiful and so narratively abstract." -
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Selected by Manohla Dargis,
Kent Jones, Keith Phipps, Michael Koresky, Ed Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
King Kong |
|
Peter Jackson
(150) |
 |
|
2005, 187m, Col, New Zealand-USA, Action-Adventure-Fantasy |
|
"Break out the popcorn and prepare to be blown away. King Kong
is the most pulse-pounding and heart-stirring romantic
adventure since Titanic." - Lou Lumenick, New York Post |
|
Selected by
Michael Wilmington, Roger Ebert, Keith Phipps,
Lisa Schwarzbaum, F.X. Feeney. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
A Time for
Drunken Horses |
|
Bahman Ghobadi (151) |
 |
| • Zamani
barayé masti asbha (original title) |
| 2000, 80m, Col,
Iran, Drama |
| "Presents us with
characters of such humanity and dignity that it begins to seem
obscene that until now we haven't exactly given all that much
thought to the Kurds." - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco
Chronicle |
| Selected by Robert Sklar, Jay
Carr, Sam Adams, Andrew O'Hehir, Phillip Lopate. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
181 |
|
182 |
|
183 |
|
Saraband |
|
Ingmar
Bergman (164) |
 |
| 2003, 120m, Col,
Sweden-Denmark-Norway, Drama |
| "With
Saraband, the great
writer-director has stepped back into the ring for one last epic
wrestle with his demons. There is, as always, no easy outcome.
But no one ever fought for higher emotional and spiritual
stakes." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
| Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Molly Haskell, Andrew O'Hehir, Stephen Holden, Peter
Rainer. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
Paradise
Now |
|
Hany Abu-Assad (163) |
 |
|
2005, 90m, Col, France-Germany-Netherlands-Israel, Drama-Crime |
| "A
powerful, poignant, provocative drama, it gets its strength from
its dispassion, from an uncompromising determination to explain
rather than justify or condemn, to put a human face on
incomprehensible acts." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Carrie Rickey, Kenneth Turan, Kent Jones,
Daryl Chin, Alice Lovejoy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Demonlover |
|
Olivier Assayas
(152) |
 |
|
2002, 129m, Col, France-Japan-Mexico-USA, Thriller-Drama-Mystery |
|
"It's an exasperating, irresistible, must-see mess of a movie
about life in the modern world and so very good that even when
its story finally crashes and burns the filmmaking remains
unscathed." - Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Dennis Lim, Manohla Dargis, Gavin Smith, Kent
Jones, Charles Taylor. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
184 |
|
185 |
|
186
New
|
|
The Diving
Bell and the Butterfly |
|
Julian
Schnabel (154) |
 |
| • Le
Scaphandre et le papillon (original title) |
|
2007, 112m, Col, France-USA, Biography-Drama |
| "It
is wonderful: a rhapsodic adaptation of a memoir, a visual
marvel that wraps its subject in screen romanticism without
romanticizing his affliction. It left me feeling euphoric." - Michael
Phillips, Chicago
Tribune |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Stephen Garrett, Sam Adams, Peter
Debruge, Cheryl Eddy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Late Marriage |
|
Dover Kosashvili (155) |
 |
| • Hatuna
Meuheret (original title) |
| 2001, 102m, Col,
Israel-France, Comedy-Drama-Romance |
| "So intimate and sensual
and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most
of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics." -
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine |
| Selected by J. Hoberman,
Chris Chang, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Alice Lovejoy, Leslie Camhi. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Edge of
Heaven |
|
Fatih Akin |
 |
| • Auf der
anderen Seite (original title) |
|
2007, 121m, Col, Germany-Turkey-Italy, Drama |
|
"With impeccable skill, Akin has made a film roiling with
cruelty but guided by tough political optimism. No, we can't all
get along, but some us of are trying." - Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe |
| Selected by
Graham Fuller, Saul Austerlitz, Daryl Chin, J.R. Jones, Charles
Taylor. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
187 |
|
188 |
|
189 |
|
Climates |
|
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (167) |
 |
| • Iklimler
(original title) |
| 2006, 101m, Col,
Turkey-France, Drama |
| "This film paints a
haunting portrait of existential solitude, one in which the
images speak louder and often more forcefully than do any of the
words." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
| Selected by J. Hoberman,
Peter Brunette, Scott Foundas, Michael Phillips, Graham Fuller. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Into the
Wild |
|
Sean Penn (156) |
 |
| 2007,
140m, Col, USA, Adventure-Biography-Drama |
| "The
beauty of Into the Wild, which
Penn has written and directed
with magnificent precision and imaginative grace, is that what
Christopher is running from is never as important as what he's
running TO." -
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly |
| Selected by
Gerald Peary, Roger Ebert, Tom Charity, Thomas Doherty, Susan
Gerhard. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Before Night
Falls |
|
Julian Schnabel (168) |
 |
| 2000, 133m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| "It's an horrific and
tragic story, but somehow made beautiful through the care and
attention of Schnabel's direction and Bardem's tender,
unforgettable performance." -
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle |
| Selected by B. Ruby Rich,
Peter Keough, Owen Gleiberman, A.O. Scott, Elvis Mitchell. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
190 |
|
191 |
|
192 |
|
The Deep
End |
|
Scott McGehee & David Siegel (157) |
 |
|
2001, 100m, Col, USA, Drama-Crime |
|
"Exquisitely made with a mesmerizing sense of style, it shows
the wonderful things that can happen when traditional material
is both handled with care and adroitly updated." - Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Richard Schickel, Kenneth Turan, B. Ruby Rich, David
Ehrenstein, Jay Carr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Collateral |
|
Michael Mann
(174) |
 |
|
2004, 120m, Col, USA, Thriller-Crime-Action |
|
"As a result of
Mann's
craftsmanship and concern, Collateral crackles with energy and
purpose, a propulsive film with character on its mind and
confident men and women on both sides of the camera." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Richard Schickel, Manohla Dargis, Mike Clark, Ella
Taylor, Richard Roeper. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Morvern Callar |
|
Lynne Ramsay (187) |
 |
| 2002, 97m, Col,
UK-Canada, Drama |
| "A work of astonishing
delicacy and force, a tone poem about the Frankenstein jolts
that all of us, at one time or another, have to live through." -
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon |
|
Selected by
Elvis Mitchell, Ella Taylor, Mark Olsen,
Charles Taylor, Graham Fuller. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
193 |
|
194 |
|
195 |
|
Ratatouille |
|
Brad Bird (177) |
 |
|
2007, 111m, Col, USA, Animated-Comedy-Family |
|
"If there is a
genius working in Hollywood today, it's animation director
Brad Bird,
who tops the delightful The Incredibles with arguably the finest
'toon in the Pixar canon, Ratatouille." - Lou
Lumenick, New York Post |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Matt Zoller Seitz, Nathan Rabin, Ray
Pride, Noel Murray. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Tristram
Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story |
|
Michael Winterbottom
(162) |
 |
| • A Cock and
Bull Story (alternative title) |
|
2005, 94m, Col, UK, Comedy |
|
"This is not just a movie-within-a-movie, but a
movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie, something that sounds
unbearably arch but that is swift, funny and surprisingly
unpretentious." - Dana Stevens, The New York Times |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Molly Haskell, Sam Adams, Carina
Chocano, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Persepolis |
|
Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
(165) |
 |
| 2007,
95m, Col-BW, France-USA, Animated-Comedy-Drama |
|
"Cinematic poetry in black and white. It also is a deeply
affecting tale of the power of resilience and an unflagging
sense of humor through the worst of situations." -
Claudia Puig, USA Today |
| Selected by
Tom Charity, Jim Emerson, Sam Adams, Melissa Anderson, David
D'Arcy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
196
New
|
|
197
New
|
|
198 |
|
Man on Wire |
|
James Marsh |
 |
|
2007, 94m, Col, UK, Documentary |
|
"An engrossing study in abnormal psychology, an
inspirational drama that tells us a determined man really can do
anything his mind can envision." - William Arnold, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer |
| Selected by
Phillip Lopate, David Fear, Jason Anderson, Chuck Wilson, Andrew
O'Hehir. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
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Ballast |
|
Lance
Hammer |
 |
|
2008, 96m, Col, USA, Drama |
|
"A rock-ribbed sense of committed, personal cinema and a
core belief in people being able to pull themselves out of
misery supports Ballast, an extraordinary debut by
editor-writer-director Lance Hammer." - Robert Koehler,
Variety |
| Selected by
Amy Taubin, Chuck Stephens, Adam Nayman, Rob Nelson, Michael
Koresky. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Under the
Sand |
|
François Ozon
(178) |
 |
| • Sous le
sable (original title) |
|
2000, 96m, Col, France-Japan, Drama |
| "A
beautifully acted, carefully written meditation on one woman's
grief, the enigma of imagination, the persistence of desire and
-- let's face it -- the power of denial." - Bill Gallo, New
Times L.A. |
|
Selected by Dennis Lim, Chris Fujiwara, Desson Howe, Jessica
Winter, Mike Rubin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
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199 |
|
200
▲
|
|
|
|
Three Times |
|
Hou
Hsiao-Hsien (180) |
 |
| • Zui hao de
shi guang (original title) |
| 2005, 135m, Col,
France-Taiwan, Romance-Drama |
| "Three varieties of love:
unfulfilled, mercenary, meaningless. All photographed with such
visual beauty that watching the movie is like holding your
breath so the butterfly won’t stir." - Roger Ebert, Chicago
Sun-Times |
| Selected by Manohla Dargis,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Tom Charity, Sam Adams, Godfrey Cheshire. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bamako |
|
Abderrahmane Sissako (203) |
 |
| 2006,
117m, Col, France-Mali-USA, Drama |
| "As
demonstrated in his previous film, a plangent snapshot of
subsistence called Waiting for Happiness, Sissako is a
poet, and the filmmaking in this new picture is stuff of a
deserving laureate." - Carina Chocano,
Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Berenice Reynaud, Michael Sicinski, James
Quandt, Andrew O'Hehir. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
> 201-250 |
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