| |
|
151
|
|
152
|
|
153
|
|
A Time for
Drunken Horses |
|
Bahman Ghobadi (178) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
demonlover |
|
Olivier Assayas
(129) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Nobody
Knows |
|
Hirokazu Koreeda
(130) |
 |
|
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 |
|
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|
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|
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154
New
|
|
155
|
|
156
New
|
|
The Diving
Bell and the Butterfly |
|
Julian
Schnabel |
 |
|
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 (131) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Into the
Wild |
|
Sean Penn |
 |
| 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
157
|
|
158
|
|
159
|
|
The Deep
End |
|
Scott McGehee & David Siegel (132) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
La Commune
(Paris, 1871) |
|
Peter
Watkins (243) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Monsoon
Wedding |
|
Mira Nair (157) |
 |
| 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
160
|
|
161
|
|
162
|
|
The New World |
|
Terrence Malick
(164) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
To Be and
to Have |
|
Nicolas Philibert (147) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Tristram
Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story |
|
Michael Winterbottom
(135) |
 |
|
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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
163
|
|
164
|
|
165
New
|
|
Paradise
Now |
|
Hany Abu-Assad (136) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Saraband |
|
Ingmar
Bergman (154) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
|
Persepolis |
|
Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
166
New
|
|
167
|
|
168
|
|
12:08 East
of Bucharest |
|
Corneliu Porumboiu |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
|
Climates |
|
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (160) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Before Night
Falls |
|
Julian Schnabel (140) |
 |
| 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
169
|
|
170
|
|
171
|
|
Gladiator |
|
Ridley Scott
(142) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
I Heart
Huckabees |
|
David
O. Russell (183) |
 |
| 2004, 106m, Col,
Germany-USA-UK, Comedy |
| "A fresh, buoyant,
mischievous and rather jolly meditation - if that's the word for
a movie as divinely nuts as this one is - on the meaning of life
in an unhappy world." - Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
| Selected by David Ehrenstein,
Glenn Kenny, Carina Chocano, Saul Austerlitz, Mark Holcomb. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
25th Hour |
|
Spike Lee
(173) |
 |
| 2002, 134m, Col,
USA, Drama-Crime |
|
"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 Ty Burr, David
Sterritt, F.X. Feeney, Cynthia Fuchs, Mike D'Angelo. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
172
|
|
173
|
|
174
|
|
Unknown
Pleasures |
|
Zhang Ke Jia
(166) |
 |
| 2002, 112m, Col,
Japan-France-Korea-China, Drama-Comedy |
| "Unknown Pleasures suggests
a coolly formalist reinvention of neorealism. The film is both
distanced and immediate -- a fiction with the force of
documentary." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by Dennis Lim,
Berenice Reynaud, Chris Fujiwara, Gavin Smith, Kent Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Billy
Elliot |
|
Stephen Daldry (144) |
 |
|
2000, 110m, Col, UK, Drama |
|
"This delightful film, with its surprising depth charges of
emotion, has the feel of a movie that's going to lodge itself in
the public's affections for a long time to come." - David Ansen,
Newsweek |
|
Selected by David Ansen, Peter Travers, Mark Caro, Paul Clinton,
Charles Cassady Jr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Collateral |
|
Michael Mann
(145) |
 |
|
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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
175
|
|
176
|
|
177
New
|
|
About a Boy |
|
Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz (139) |
 |
|
2002, 101m, Col, Germany-USA-France-UK, Drama-Comedy |
|
"It's funny, moving and true, and it respects the audience's
intelligence as much as the characters'. That combination, no
matter the movie's label, deserves to be treasured." - Marc
Caro, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by Carrie Rickey, Richard Schickel, John Powers, Mike
Clark, Thomas Doherty. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Crimson
Gold |
|
Jafar Panahi
(150) |
 |
|
2003, 96m, Col, Iran, Drama |
|
"Iranian director
Jafar Panahi's
Crimson Gold is an anti-blockbuster--a deceptively modest
undertaking that brilliantly combines unpretentious humanism and
impeccable formal values." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by John Anderson, Chris Chang, Robert Koehler, Wesley
Morris, Godfrey Cheshire. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Ratatouille |
|
Brad Bird |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
178
|
|
179
|
|
180
|
|
Under the
Sand |
|
François Ozon
(151) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Southland
Tales |
|
Richard
Kelly |
 |
|
2006, 144m, Col, Germany-USA-France, Comedy-Drama-Science
Fiction |
|
"Funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired look at America
and its discontents." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
|
Selected by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Mark Peranson, Mark Olsen,
Rob Nelson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Three Times |
|
Hou
Hsiao-Hsien (162) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
181
|
|
182
|
|
183
|
|
Battle in
Heaven |
|
Carlos Reygadas (153) |
 |
| 2005, 97m, Col,
Mexico-France-Germany, Drama |
| "Reygadas'
radical rejection of filmmaking conventions is at first
off-putting, but he's able to elicit remarkable performances
from the cast of non-professionals while building tension that
will hold viewers' attention." - V.A. Musetto, New York
Post |
|
Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Peter Keough, J. Hoberman,
Peter Brunette, Ed Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Va Savoir |
|
Jacques Rivette (155) |
 |
| 2001, 154m, Col,
France-Italy-Germany, Romance-Drama-Comedy |
| "Va
Savoir doesn't so much flow as wander, trailing off into drama
one minute, slapstick the next; it tries your patience, but ever
so gently, masterfully." - Manohla Dargis, LA Weekly |
| Selected by David Sterritt,
Chris Fujiwara, David Ehrenstein, Elvis Mitchell, Chris Chang. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
O Brother,
Where Art Thou? |
|
Joel Coen
and Ethan Coen (137) |
 |
| 2000, 107m, Col,
USA-France, Crime-Adventure-Comedy |
|
"It is, all in all, a
rambunctious and inspired ride in which the
Coen brothers' voracious fascination
with the arcana of American popular culture and their whiz-kid
inventiveness reach new heights of whimsy." - A.O. Scott,
New York Times |
|
Selected by
Scott Tobias, Charles Taylor, Gregory Solman,
Mark Olsen, Jeffrey M. Anderson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
184
|
|
185
|
|
186
|
|
Bus 174 |
|
Felipe Larceda & Jose Padilha (227) |
 |
| 2002, 119m, Col,
Brazil, Documentary |
| "Tense, engrossing, and
superbly structured, Bus 174 is not just unforgettable drama but
a skillfully developed argument." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by John Anderson,
Stephen Hunter, Scott Tobias, A.O. Scott, Jason Anderson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Distant (Uzak) |
|
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (158) |
 |
| 2003, 110m, Col,
Turkey-Netherlands, Drama |
| "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 Chris Fuijiwara,
Gerald Peary, Tom Charity, Robert Koehler, Scott Foundas. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Five
Obstructions |
|
Jorgen Leth &
Lars von Trier
(156) |
 |
| 2003, 90m, Col-BW,
Denmark-Belgium,
Documentary |
| "Part of what hooks you to this
movie is how Leth outsmarts his taskmaster, and how the two men
have divergent, almost incompatible aesthetic ideals." -
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe |
| Selected by John Anderson,
Kenneth Turan, Richard Corliss, Ron Stringer, Justine Elias. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
187
|
|
188
New
|
|
189
|
|
Morvern Callar |
|
Lynne Ramsay (149) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Atonement |
|
Joe Wright |
 |
| 2007,
123m, Col, USA-UK-France, Drama-Romance-War |
| "No
two-hour film could ever capture all the riches of McEwan's
masterly novel. But Wright and Hampton's Atonement comes
tantalizingly close, while adding sensual delights all its own." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by Roger Ebert, Nathan Rabin, Keith
Phipps, Peter Brunette, J.R. Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Man Who
Wasn't There |
|
Joel Coen
and Ethan Coen (161) |
 |
| 2001, 116m, BW,
USA-UK, Drama-Crime-Comedy |
|
"Most of the way this ranks
with the Coens' most immaculately
crafted work. Cain would have loved its dreamlike chills, and so
will audiences nostalgic for the movies of half a century ago." - David Sterritt, Christian Science
Monitor |
| Selected by David Sterritt,
Kent Jones, A.O. Scott, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
190
New
|
|
191
|
|
192
New
|
|
Away from
Her |
|
Sarah
Polley |
 |
| 2006,
109m, Col, Canada-UK-USA, Drama-Romance |
|
"Rarely has love at any age been depicted so honestly on screen.
For such a fully realized portrait to be created by a
28-year-old first-time director is even more remarkable." -
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post |
| Selected by
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Roger Ebert, J.R. Jones, V.A. Musetto, Dana
Stevens. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Syriana |
|
Stephen Gaghan (163) |
 |
| 2005, 126m, Col,
USA, Thriller-Drama |
| "Takes off with the
lightning speed of a thriller, the gonzo force of frontline
journalism and the emotional wallop of a drama that puts a human
face on shocking statistics." - Peter Travers, Rolling
Stone |
| Selected by Carrie Rickey,
Roger Ebert, F.X. Feeney, Cynthia Fuchs, Saul Austerlitz. |
| |