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151 |
|
152↑ |
|
153 |
|
Black Book |
|
Paul Verhoeven (140) |
 |
| • Zwartboek
(original title) |
| 2006,
146m, Col, Germany-Netherlands-UK-Belgium, War-Thriller |
| Carice van
Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar
Kobus, Derek de Lint, Christian Berkel, Dolf De Vries, Peter
Blok, Michiel Huisman |
|
"Like much of
Verhoeven's best work, it's shamelessly melodramatic,
but in its dark moral complexities it puts Schindler's List
to shame." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by
Leonardo Garcia-Tsao, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Tom Charity. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Distant |
|
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (176) |
 |
| • Uzak
(original title) |
| 2002, 110m, Col,
Turkey-Netherlands, Drama |
| Muzaffer
Ozdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kirilmis, Feridun Koc,
Fatma Ceylan, Arif Asci, Nazli Aydin, Ahmet Bugay, Ebru Ceylan |
| "The compositions are
masterful, especially the snow-covered scenes in Istanbul and,
most memorably, the spectacle of an overturned ship in the
wintry harbor." - Desson Thomson, Washington Post |
|
Selected by
Jonathan Romney, Leonardo Garcia-Tsao, Michel Ciment,
Jia Zhangke,
Nick James. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Volver |
|
Pedro
Almodóvar
(144) |
 |
| 2006, 121m, Col,
Spain, Comedy-Drama |
| Penelope
Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave,
Antonio de La Torre, Carlos Blanco, Maria Isabel Diaz, Neus Sanz,
Blanca Portillo |
|
"Almodóvar
is still one of the few directors worth watching just for how he
uses color on the screen. But the pleasures have always run much
deeper, and now they run deeper still." -
Keith Phipps, The Onion A.V. Club |
|
Selected by David Ansen,
Molly Haskell, Stephen Holden, A.O. Scott, Peter Travers. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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|
154 |
|
155 |
|
156 |
|
Half Nelson |
|
Ryan Fleck (145) |
 |
| 2006, 106m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| Ryan
Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Jeff Lima, Nathan
Corbett, Tyra Kwao-Vovo, Rosemary Ledee, Tristan Wilds, Bryce
Silver, Monique Gabriela Curnen |
| "It's a complex and defiant
fable of American life run just slightly off the rails,
delivering all the impact of Crash without the phony-baloney
paradoxes or brick-in-the-face message delivery." -
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon |
|
Selected by David Ansen,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Scott Tobias, Andrew O'Hehir, Robert Horton. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
What Time
is it There? |
|
Tsai Ming-liang
(146) |
 |
| • Ni na bian
ji dian (original title) |
|
2001, 116m, Col, France-Taiwan-Italy, Drama |
| Kang-Sheng
Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Chung Lu, Tien Miao, Cecilia Yip,
Chao-Jung Chen, Guei Tsai, Arthur Nauzyciel, David Ganansia,
Jean-Pierre Leaud |
|
"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 David Sterritt, Chris Fujiwara, Michael Atkinson, J. Hoberman, Elvis
Mitchell. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Once |
|
John Carney
(152) |
 |
|
2007, 87m, Col, Ireland-USA, Drama-Musical-Romance |
| Glen
Hansard, Marketa Irglova, Hugh Walsh, Gerry Hendrick, Alastair
Foley, Geoff Minogue, Bill Hodnett, Danuse Ktrestova, Darren
Healy, Mal Whyte |
|
"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 |
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157↑ |
|
158 |
|
159 |
|
Certified Copy |
|
Abbas Kiarostami
new
|
 |
| •
Copie conforme (original title) |
|
2009, 106m, Col, France-Italy-Belgium, Drama |
| Juliette
Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carriere, Agathe Natanson,
Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore, Angelo Barbagallo, Andrea
Laurenzi, Filippo Troiano, Manuela Balsimelli |
|
"The Iranian filmmaker
Abbas Kiarostami's delicious
brain tickler, Certified Copy, is an endless hall of
mirrors whose reflections multiply as its story of a middle-aged
couple driving through Tuscany carries them into a metaphysical
labyrinth." -
Stephen Holden, The New York Times |
|
Selected by
David Denby, Richard
Brody, Noel Murray, Scott Tobias, Michael Phillips. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Carlos |
|
Olivier Assayas (155) |
 |
|
2010, 333m, Col, France-Germany-Belgium, Biography-Crime-Drama |
| Edgar
Ramirez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour,
Talal El-Jordi, Juana Acosta, Nora von Waldstatten, Christoph
Bach, Rodney El Haddad, Julia Hummer |
|
"Part of the accomplishment of Carlos is the sheer
accumulation of detail the movie amasses, and the longer running
time gives you a deeper sense of the terrorist lifestyle, and
when and why Ilich gradually succumbed to ego and
self-glorification without realizing it." -
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald |
|
Selected by David
Ansen, Glenn Kenny, J. Hoberman, Todd McCarthy, Andrew O'Hehir. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
| Capote |
|
Bennett Miller
(149) |
 |
| 2005, 98m, Col, USA,
Drama-Biography |
| Philip
Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris
Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban, Amy Ryan, Mark Pellegrino,
Marshall Bell, Bess Meyer |
| "The genius of the film, besides Hoffman's
stunning performance, is that it knows exactly how much is
enough. It never overplays, lingers or punches up." -
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post |
| Selected by Peter Keough, Carrie Rickey,
Molly Haskell, David Ansen, Tom Charity. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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160 |
|
161↑ |
|
162 |
|
Café
Lumičre |
|
Hou Hsiao-hsien
(150) |
 |
| • Kôhî jikô
(original title) |
|
2003, 108m, Col, Japan-Taiwan, Drama |
| Yo Hitoto,
Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi |
|
"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 Raymond Bellour, Tony Rayns, Piers Handling, Gavin
Smith, John Anderson. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Fahrenheit
9/11 |
|
Michael
Moore (167) |
 |
| 2004, 122m, Col,
USA, Documentary-War |
| Michael
Moore, George W. Bush, Craig Unger, Jack Cloonan, James Moore,
Dan Briody, Rosemary Dillard, Martha Brill Olcott, Jim
McDermott, Roy Gladding |
|
"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 Joseph
McBride, David Ehrenstein,
David Sterritt, Kenneth Turan, A.O. Scott. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
| The Host |
|
Bong
Joon-ho (151) |
 |
| • Gwoemul
(original title) |
| 2006, 119m,
Col, South Korea-Japan, Action-Comedy-Horror |
| Kang-ho
Song, Byeon Hie-bong, Hae-il Park, Du-na Bae, Ah-sung Ko, Dal-su
Oh, Jae-eung Lee, Dong-ho Lee, Je-moon Yoon, Pil-Sung Yim |
| "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
Quentin
Tarantino, Charles Tesson,
Kiyoshi
Kurosawa, Aaron Hillis, Dana Stevens. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
163 |
|
164 |
|
165↑ |
|
The Triplets
of Belleville |
|
Sylvain Chomet (159) |
 |
| • Les
Triplettes de Belleville (original title) |
| 2003, 80m, Col,
France-Canada-Belgium-UK, Comedy-Animated-Adventure |
| Jean-Claude
Donda, Dirk Denoyelle, Monica Viegas, Michele Caucheteaux,
Michel Robin, Graziela de Vila, Noel Baye, Suzy Falk, Nicole
Shirer, Germaine Charest |
| "A madcap milestone. Not
since Disney's 75-minute Alice In Wonderland (1951) has an
animator filled the screen with dazzling flights of random
invention that manage to hook up into a swift, brief narrative." -
Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
|
Selected by Michael Atkinson,
David Sterritt, Gerald Peary, Peter Rainer, A.O. Scott. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
In the City
of Sylvia |
|
José Luis
Guerín
(153) |
 |
| • En la
ciudad de Sylvia (original title) |
|
2007, 84m, Col, Spain, Drama |
| Pilar Lopez
de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Michael Balerdi, Laurence Cordier,
Tanja Czichy, Gladys Deussner, Eric Dietrich, Charlotte Dupont,
Philippe Ohrel |
|
"The film is
built on sensuous interplays between people and objects, reality
and representation, implying something profound is at risk here,
and the simultaneous thrill and danger of every scene nearly
stops the heart." -
Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine |
|
Selected by
John Anderson, Gerald Peary, Tom Charity, David Sterritt, Ed
Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
24 Hour
Party People |
|
Michael Winterbottom
(210) |
 |
|
2001, 115m, Col, UK, Drama-Comedy |
| Steve
Coogan, Rob Brydon, Ron Cook, Keith Allen, Chris Coghill, Paddy
Considine, Dave Gorman, Sean Harris, Shirley Henderson, Andy
Serkis |
|
"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 |
|
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|
166↑ |
|
167 |
|
168 |
|
Take
Shelter |
|
Jeff Nichols
new
|
 |
|
2011, 120m, Col, USA, Drama-Thriller |
| Michael
Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart, Shea Wigham, Katy
Mixon, Natasha Randall, Ron Kennard, Scott Knisley, Robert
Longstreet, Heather Caldwell |
|
"Nichols has
said that the idea for the film emerged from a free-floating
anxiety that he sensed in the world at large, the feeling that
everything we treasure in life could be lost in an instant. That
sensation permeates this strikingly original movie - especially
its enigmatic mind-fuck of a finale, which will haunt you for
several lifetimes." - Keith Uhlich,
Time Out New York |
|
Selected by Anne Thompson, Roger Ebert, Ann
Hornaday, Steven Rea, Andrew O'Hehir. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Gangs of New
York |
|
Martin Scorsese (154) |
 |
| 2002, 166m, Col,
USA, Drama-Crime-Action |
| Leonardo
DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C.
Reilly, Henry Thomas, Brendan Gleeson, Gary [2] Lewis, Alec
McCowen, David Hemmings |
| "A grand achievement in
history and anthropology, supporting its ambition and scope with
a sumptuous re-creation of the period and an immediacy that
allows a forgotten past to barrel into the present." -
Scott Tobias, The Onion |
|
Selected by
Jonathan Romney, Carrie Rickey,
Kent Jones, Stephen Holden, F.X. Feeney. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
A
Prophet |
|
Jacques Audiard
(164) |
 |
| • Un
Prophčte (original title) |
|
2009, 155m, Col, France-Italy, Drama-Crime |
| Tahar Rahim,
Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb,
Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen, Antoine Basler, Leila Bekhti,
Pierre Leccia |
|
"There's also no romanticizing on the part of the director,
who proceeds with calm, unshowy attentiveness (even in the midst
of scenes of violence), creating a stunning portrait of an
innately smart survivor for whom prison turns out to be a
twisted opportunity for self-definition." - Lisa
Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
|
Selected by Anthony
Lane, David Ansen, Michael Atkinson, Philip French, Todd
McCarthy. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
169↑ |
|
170 |
|
171 |
|
To Be and
to Have |
|
Nicolas Philibert (171) |
 |
| • Ętre et
avoir (original title) |
|
2002, 104m, Col, France, Documentary |
| Georges
Lopez, Alize, Axel, Guillaume, Jessie, Johann, JoJo, Julien,
Laura, Letitia |
| "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
(156) |
 |
|
2000, 89m, Col, USA, Drama |
| Candice
Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee, Curtis Cotton III,
Rachael Handy, Paul Schneider, Eddie Rouse, Janet Taylor,
Derricka Rolle, Ebony Jones |
|
"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 Jeanine Basinger, Armond White, Roger Ebert,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, David Sterritt. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Kill
Bill Vol. 2 |
|
Quentin Tarantino
(158) |
 |
|
2004, 136m, Col-BW, USA-China, Thriller-Drama-Action |
| Uma Thurman,
David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Chia Hui Liu,
Michael Parks, Larry Bishop, Sid Haig, Samuel L. Jackson,
Jeannie Epper |
|
"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
Arnaud
Desplechin, Ty Burr, Roger Ebert, Manohla Dargis,
Scott Foundas. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
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|
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| |
|
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|
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|
172 |
|
173 |
|
174↑ |
|
25th Hour |
|
Spike Lee
(157) |
 |
| 2002, 134m, Col,
USA, Drama-Crime |
| Edward
Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson,
Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Tony Siragusa, Levani, Misha Kuznetsov,
Isiah Whitlock Jr. |
|
"The film persuades us to
think long and hard about what prison means, and
Lee has shaped it like a poem that
builds into an epic lament, especially in a beautiful and tragic
closing that risks absurdity to achieve the sublime." -
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by A.O.
Scott, David Sterritt, Roger Ebert, Ty Burr, F.X. Feeney. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Inception |
|
Christopher Nolan
(161) |
 |
|
2010, 148m, Col, USA-UK, Action-Mystery-Science Fiction |
| Leonardo
DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard,
Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael
Caine, Dileep Rao |
|
"A
tremendously exciting science-fiction thriller that's as
disturbing as it sounds. This is a popular entertainment with a
knockout punch so intense and unnerving it'll have you worrying
if it's safe to close your eyes at night." -
Kenneth Turan, Los
Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Philip
French, Ann Hornaday, Claudia Puig, James Berardinelli, Keith
Phipps. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Drive |
|
Nicolas Winding Refn
new
|
 |
|
2011, 100m, Col, USA, Crime-Drama-Thriller |
| Ryan
Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar
Isaac, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Kaden Leos, Jeff Wolfe,
James Biberi |
|
"Few actors working today could make emotional sense of such a
protean character, but Ryan Gosling does so with calm authority.
He's a formidable presence in a film that grabs your gaze and
won't let go except for moments when you can't help but look
away." - Joe
Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal |
|
Selected by Marshall Fine, Stephanie Zacharek, Scott Tobias,
Wesley Morris, Richard Roeper. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
| |
|
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| |
|
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|
175 |
|
176 |
|
177 |
|
I'm Going Home |
|
Manoel de Oliveira (160) |
 |
| • Je rentre ŕ
la maison (original title) |
| 2000, 89m, Col,
Portugal-France, Drama-Comedy |
| Michel
Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey,
Leonor Baldaque, Leonor Silveira, Ricardo Trepa, Jean-Michel
Arnold, Adrian de Van, Sylvie Testud |
|
"Piccoli
gives one of the most nuanced performances of his distinguished
career, but the primary star of the movie is
de Oliveira, who unfolds the
story with unfailing skill and sensitivity." -
David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor |
|
Selected by
Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues, Manohla Dargis,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Peter Keough, Kent Jones. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Notre musique |
|
Jean-Luc Godard (163) |
 |
| 2004, 80m, Col,
France-Switzerland, Drama |
| Sarah
Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine, Jean-Christophe
Bouvet, George Aguilar, Ferlyn Brass, Leticia Gutierrez,
Jean-Luc Godard, Elma Dzanic |
| "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 Peter
von Bagh,
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tom Gunning, Gerald Peary,
Chris Fujiwara |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Wonder Boys |
|
Curtis
Hanson (165) |
 |
| 2000, 112m, Col,
USA-Germany-UK-Japan, Drama-Comedy |
| Michael
Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr.,
Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, Richard Knox, Jane Adams, Michael
Cavadias, Philip Bosco |
| "Michael Douglas digs deep
and delivers one of his best performances in Wonder Boys -- a
comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity that is driven
by characters, not jokes." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
|
Selected by Dave Kehr, Roger
Ebert, David Ansen, Amy Taubin, Michael Atkinson. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
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|
178 |
|
179 |
|
180↑ |
|
Ten |
|
Abbas Kiarostami
(166) |
 |
| • 10
(alternative spelling) |
|
2002, 92m, Col, France-Iran, Drama |
| Mania
Akbari, Amin Maher, Roya Arabshahi, Katayoun Taleidzadeh,
Mandana Sharbaf, Armene Moradi |
|
"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
Catherine Breillat, Stig
Bjorkman, Geoff Andrew, Peter von Bagh, Michael Atkinson. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
The Diving
Bell and the Butterfly |
|
Julian
Schnabel (175) |
 |
| • Le
Scaphandre et le papillon (original title) |
|
2007, 112m, Col, France-USA, Biography-Drama |
| Mathieu
Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Anne Consigny,
Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia,
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow |
| "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 David Denby, Peter Keough, Stephen Garrett, Sam Adams, Peter
Debruge. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Moneyball |
|
Bennett Miller
new
|
 |
|
2011, 133m, Col, USA, Biography-Drama-Sports |
| Brad Pitt,
Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt,
Stephen Bishop, Brent Jennings, Ken Medlock, Tammy Blanchard,
Jack McGee |
|
"The movie is an absolute triumph of culturally relevant
filmmaking – a film that will thrill and fascinate sport junkies
and non-fans alike. If you like baseball, you will love this
movie. If you hate baseball, you will still love this movie." -
Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald |
|
Selected by Ty
Burr, Marshall Fine, Ann Hornaday, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lou
Lumenick. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
181↑ |
|
182 |
|
183↑ |
|
Man on Wire |
|
James Marsh
(192) |
 |
|
2007, 94m, Col, UK, Documentary |
| Philippe
Petit, Jean-Francois Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix,
David 'Donald' Foreman, Alan Welner, Mark Lewis, N. Barry
Greenhouse, Jim Moore, Guy Tozzoli |
|
"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
Ty Burr, Phillip Lopate, David Fear, Jason Anderson, Chuck Wilson. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
Spider |
|
David Cronenberg
(168) |
 |
|
2002, 98m, Col, Canada-UK-Japan-France, Thriller-Drama |
| Ralph
Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville,
Bradley Hall, Lynn Redgrave, Gary Reineke, Philip Craig, Cliff
Saunders, Tara Ellis |
|
"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 Nick James, Jason Anderson, Glenn Kenny, Graham
Fuller, Chris Fujiwara. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
|
|
|
In the Loop |
|
Armando Iannucci
(204) |
 |
|
2009, 106m, Col, UK-Cayman Islands, Comedy |
| Peter
Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Chris
Addison, Anna Chlumsky, Paul Higgins, Mimi Kennedy, Alex
Macqueen, Olivia Poulet |
|
"Zooming back and forth between London and D.C., In the
Loop hasn't any real plot -- it plays like a rather
brilliant Brit-com stretched over 100 minutes, a collection of
anecdotes and incidents." -
Robert Wilonsky,
LA Weekly |
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Selected by
Phillip
Lopate, David Ansen, Michael Phillips, Keith Phipps, Nathan
Rabin. |
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Amazon
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184 |
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185 |
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186 |
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Ŕ ma soeur! |
|
Catherine Breillat
(169) |
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| • Fat Girl
(English title) |
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2001, 86m, Col, France-Italy, Drama |
| Anais
Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinee Khanjian,
Romain Goupil, Laura Betti, Albert Goldberg, Odette Barriere,
Anne Matthijsse, Pierre Renverseau |
| "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 |
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Selected by Amy Taubin, B. Ruby Rich, J. Hoberman, Michael
Atkinson, David Ansen. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Spellbound |
|
Jeffrey Blitz (183) |
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2002, 96m, Col, USA, Documentary |
| Angela
Arenivar, Nupur Lala, Ted Brigham, Emily Stagg, Ashley White,
Neil Kadakia, April DeGideo, Harry Altman, Paige Kimble, Dr.
Alex J. Cameron |
| "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 |
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Selected by Ty Burr, A.O. Scott, Wesley Morris, Stephanie
Zacharek, Charles Taylor. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Demonlover |
|
Olivier Assayas
(170) |
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2002, 129m, Col, France-Japan-Mexico-USA, Thriller-Drama-Mystery |
| Connie
Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny, Gina Gershon, Jean-Baptiste
Malartre, Dominique Reymond, Edwin Gerard, Thomas M. Pollard,
Abi Sakamoto, Naoko Yamazaki |
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"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 |
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Selected by Jean-Michel Frodon, Sukhdev Sandhu, Jonathan
Romney, Maitland McDonagh,
Kiyoshi
Kurosawa. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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187 |
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188 |
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189 |
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Eureka |
|
Shinji Aoyama (172) |
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| • Yurîka
(original title) |
| 2000, 217m, Col-BW,
Japan-France, Drama |
| Koji
Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki, Sayuri Kokusho,
Yohichiroh Saitoh, Go Riju, Yutaka Matsuhige, Sansei Shiomi,
Kimie Shingyoji, Ken Mitsuishi |
| "Builds steadily through a
series of masterfully orchestrated modulations to a final act
without shattering revelations or lofty dramatic peaks but with
a quiet, formidable power." - David Rooney, Variety |
|
Selected by
Kiyoshi
Kurosawa, Dave Kehr, David
Sterritt, David Ansen, Jay Carr. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Eastern
Promises |
|
David
Cronenberg
(174) |
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|
2007, 100m, Col, UK-Canada-USA, Crime-Drama-Thriller |
| Viggo
Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Josef Altin, Mina E.
Mina, Aleksandar Mikic, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinead Cusack,
Donald Sumpter, Jerzy Skolimowski |
| "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 |
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Selected by Peter Keough, Berenice Reynaud, Stephen Garrett,
Robert Horton, Kristin M. Jones. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Last Days |
|
Gus Van Sant
(173) |
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2004, 96m, Col, USA, Drama |
| Michael
Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Green, Nicole Vicius,
Ricky Jay, Ryan Orion, Harmony Korine, Kim Gordon, Rodrigo
Lopresti |
|
"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 |
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Selected by
Arnaud Desplechin, Dennis Lim, Ed Halter, Phillip Lopate,
Ed Park. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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190 |
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191 |
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192 |
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Milk |
|
Gus Van
Sant
(182) |
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2008, 128m, Col, USA, Biography-Drama |
| Sean Penn,
Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison
Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Joseph Cross, Stephen
Spinella |
|
"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 |
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Selected by
Frank Darabont, Amy Taubin, Gerald Peary, David Sterritt, Matt
Singer. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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True
Grit |
|
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
(187) |
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|
2010, 110m, Col, USA, Adventure-Drama-Western |
| Jeff
Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry
Pepper, Dakin Matthews, Jarlath Conroy, Paul Rae, Domhnall
Gleeson, Elizabeth Marvel |
|
"In some ways, much like
Charles Laughton's Night of
the Hunter, which the
Coens quote both musically and
visually, True Grit is a parable about good and evil.
Only here, the lines between the two are so blurred as to be
indistinguishable, making this a true picture of how the West
was won, or - depending on your view - lost." - Manohla
Dargis, The New York Times |
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Selected by Michael
Sragow, Ty Burr, Anne Thompson, Keith Phipps, Kirk Honeycutt. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Ratatouille |
|
Brad Bird (178) |
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2007, 111m, Col, USA, Animated-Comedy-Family |
| Patton
Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn, Peter
O'Toole, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Will Arnett, Julius
Callahan |
|
"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 |
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Selected by Frank Darabont, Philip French, David Denby, Peter Keough, Matt Zoller Seitz. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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193 |
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194 |
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195 |
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In America |
|
Jim
Sheridan (179) |
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| 2003, 105m, Col,
USA-Ireland-UK, Drama |
| Samantha
Morton, Paddy Considine, Djimon Hounsou, Sarah Bolger, Emma
Bolger, Neal Jones, Randall Carlton, Ciaran Cronin, Juan
Hernandez, Nye Heron |
| "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 |
|
|
| Up in the
Air |
|
Jason Reitman
(189) |
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| 2009, 109m,
Col, USA, Comedy-Drama-Romance |
| George
Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton,
Melanie Lynskey, J.K. Simmons, Sam Elliott, Danny McBride, Zach
Galifianakis |
| "Up in the
Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, romantic and
real. It's everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do;
we're blessed that
Jason Reitman has remembered."
- Owen
Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly |
| Selected by
Kenneth Turan, Owen Gleiberman, David Denby, David Ansen, John
Powers. |
|
Amazon
Metacritic |
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Songs from
the Second Floor |
|
Roy
Andersson (177) |
 |
| • Sĺnger frĺn
andra vĺningen (original title) |
|
2000, 98m, Col, Sweden-France-Denmark-Norway-Germany, Drama |
| Lars Nordh,
Stefan Larsson, Hanna Eriksson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjorn
Fahlstrom, Sten Andersson, Rolando Nunez, Lucio Vucina, Peter
Roth, Klas-Gosta Olsson |
| "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 Michael Atkinson, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Mike D'Angelo,
Gillies
MacKinnon,
Mike Leigh. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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196 |
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197↑ |
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198 |
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127
Hours |
|
Danny Boyle (180) |
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2010, 94m, Col, USA-UK, Adventure-Biography-Drama |
| James
Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger,
Treat Williams, John Lawrence, Kate Burton, Bailee Michelle
Johnson, Rebecca C. Olson |
|
"All of the key creative personnel contribute to the
movie's nail-biting tension and unexpectedly moving finale. Jon
Harris's editing is matchless, and Rahman's score effectively
heightens the emotion. Ultimately, however, it is the talents of
Boyle
and Franco that sock this movie home." - Lisa
Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
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Selected by A.O.
Scott, Owen Gleiberman, Ann Hornaday, Claudia Puig, F.X. Feeney. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Chicago |
|
Rob Marshall (198) |
 |
| 2002, 113m, Col,
USA-Germany, Musical-Crime-Comedy |
| Renee
Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah,
John C. Reilly, Lucy Liu, Christine Baranski, Taye Diggs, Colm
Feore, Dominic West |
| "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 Frank
Darabont, Michael Sragow,
Mick LaSalle, Ernest Hardy, Stephen Holden. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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Erin
Brockovich |
|
Steven Soderbergh
(181) |
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|
2000, 130m, Col, USA, Drama |
| Julia
Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry
Jones, Peter Coyote, Veanne Cox, Conchata Ferrell, Scotty
Leavenworth, Tracey Walter |
|
"The kind of stand-up-and-cheer movie Hollywood is supposed to
have forgotten how to make." - Lou Lumenick, New York Post |
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Selected by Frank Darabont, Kenneth Turan, Gavin Smith, David Ansen, Mike Clark. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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199 |
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200 |
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> 201-250 |
|
Inside Job |
|
Charles Ferguson
(197) |
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|
2010, 120m, Col, USA, Documentary |
| Matt Damon
(narrator), William Ackman, Daniel Alpert, Jonathan Alpert,
Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Willem Buiter, John Campbell,
Christine Lagarde, Dominique Strauss-Kahn |
|
"Charles Ferguson's sophomore film Inside Job is the
definitive screen investigation of the global economic crisis,
providing hard evidence of flagrant amorality -- and of a new
nonfiction master at work." - Rob Nelson, Variety |
|
Selected by A.O.
Scott, Carrie Rickey, David Denby, J. Hoberman, Michael Sragow. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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I Don’t
Want to Sleep Alone |
|
Tsai Ming-liang (184) |
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| • Hei yan
quan (original title) |
|
2006, 115m, Col, Taiwan-France-Austria, Drama |
| Kang-Sheng
Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Norman Atun, Pearlly Chua, Qu Xin,
Soo-Suan Tan, Liew Lee-Lin, Leonard Tee, Samantha Tuh Su-Yee,
Chiew Kok-Fai |
|
"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 |
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Selected by Dennis Lim, Stig Bjorkman,
Jia Zhangke, Piers Handling, Berenice Reynaud. |
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Amazon
Metacritic |
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