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|
201
|
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202
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203
New
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Shattered
Glass |
|
Billy Ray (171) |
 |
| 2003, 95m, Col,
USA-Canada, Drama |
| "An astute and surprisingly
gripping drama not only about the ethics of magazine writing,
but also, more generally, about the subtle political and
psychological dynamics of modern office culture." -
A.O. Scott, The New York Times |
| Selected by Michael Sragow,
Gerald Peary, Stephen Hunter, Mick LaSalle, Noel Murray. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Mysterious
Skin |
|
Gregg
Araki (172) |
 |
| 2004, 105m, Col,
USA-Netherlands, Drama |
| "Explores both prepubescent
and teen sexuality with an honesty that may make some people
uncomfortable, which is a sign of its potency, and a badge of
honor." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
| Selected by David Ehrenstein, A.O. Scott,
Kevin Thomas, B. Kite, Ed Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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|
Bamako |
|
Abderrahmane Sissako |
 |
| 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 |
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|
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204
|
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205
|
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206
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|
Keane |
|
Lodge H. Kerrigan (185) |
 |
| 2004, 100m, Col,
USA, Thriller-Drama |
| "Lodge Kerrigan is one of
the great, though largely unheralded, filmmakers of our time,
and with Keane, his third feature, he finally shows himself to
be in full command of his uncompromising talent." -
Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle |
| Selected by Michael Atkinson,
Kevin Thomas, Leslie Camhi, B. Kite, Anthony Kaufman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Chuck & Buck |
|
Miguel Arteta (176) |
 |
| 2000, 95m, Col,
USA, Drama-Comedy |
| "Manages to be not only
consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by Nigel Andrews,
Gerald Peary, Owen Gleiberman, A.O. Scott, Mark Caro. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
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Broken Flowers |
|
Jim
Jarmusch (174) |
 |
| 2005, 106m, Col,
USA-France, Drama-Comedy |
| "Funny, bittersweet, its
understatement yielding surprising depth charges, Broken Flowers
is a triumph of close observation and telling details." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by
Ty Burr, Kent Jones, Chris Fujiwara, Edward
Crouse, Donna Bowman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
207
|
|
208
|
|
209
|
|
The Life
Aquatic with Steve Zissou |
|
Wes
Anderson (175) |
 |
| 2004, 118m, Col,
USA, Drama-Comedy-Adventure |
| "An exquisitely evocative
movie that elevates rueful melancholia to a superpower." -
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by David Ehrenstein,
David Sterritt, Steven Rea, Carina Chocano, Mike D'Angelo. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Match Point |
|
Woody
Allen (177) |
 |
| 2005, 124m, Col,
UK, Crime-Drama-Thriller |
|
"The gloom of random,
meaningless existence has rarely been so much fun, and
Mr. Allen's bite has never been so
sharp, or so deep. A movie this good is no laughing matter." -
A.O. Scott, New York Times |
| Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Kent Jones, Molly Haskell, A.O. Scott, Phillip Lopate. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Land of the
Dead |
|
George
A. Romero (196) |
 |
| 2005, 93m, Col,
USA-Canada-France, Action-Horror-Thriller |
|
"One of the enormous pleasures
of genre filmmaking is watching great directors push against
form and predictability, as
Mr.
Romero does brilliantly in Land of the Dead." -
Manohla Dargis, New York Times |
| Selected by Dave Kehr, Chris
Fujiwara, Tom Charity, Scott Foundas, Mike D'Angelo. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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|
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|
210
|
|
211
|
|
212
|
|
Springtime in
a Small Town |
|
Tian Zhuangzhuang (219) |
 |
| 2002, 116m, Col,
China-Hong Kong-France, Romance-Drama |
| "This erotically charged drama
may not be quite as great as the original, but it's an amazing
and beautiful work just the same." -
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
| Selected by Chris Fujiwara,
J. Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, Doug Cummings. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
The Station
Agent |
|
Thomas McCarthy (192) |
 |
| 2003, 88m, Col,
USA, Drama-Comedy |
| "Its charming story of the
delicate intersection of three highly individual lives is the
kind of completely personal yet universal film that the festival
and the entire independent movement came into being to
celebrate." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Jami Bernard, Peter Brunette, Ann Hornaday,
Ruthe Stein, Megan Lehmann. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| The Proposition |
| John Hillcoat
(193) |
 |
| 2004, 98m, Col, Hong
Kong-China,
Action-Comedy-Crime |
| "Directed by John Hillcoat, this Aussie
feature perfectly re-creates the charbroiled landscapes and
cruel psychodrama of the old Sergio Leone westerns, with John
Hurt particularly fine as a raging old mountain goat." -
J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader |
| Selected by Andrew O'Hehir, Lisa
Schwarzbaum, J.R. Jones, Graham Fuller, Sean Axmaker. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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|
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213
|
|
214
|
|
215
|
|
Spider-Man 2 |
|
Sam Raimi
(195) |
 |
| 2004, 127m, Col,
USA, Action-Fantasy-Science Fiction |
| "The filmmakers smartly
counter heavy drama with goofy comedy, mining a rich vein of
humor in the juxtaposition of the mundane and the superheroic." -
Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club |
|
Selected by
Michael Sragow, Roger Ebert, Mike Clark, Chris
Kaltenbach, Peter Brunette. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Dirty Pretty
Things |
|
Stephen Frears (197) |
 |
| 2002, 97m, Col,
USA-UK, Thriller-Drama |
| "This is a film that
insinuates itself deeply into our awareness. It's that rare pulp
story with something on its mind, an unnerving, socially
conscious thriller with a killer sense of narrative drive." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by David Ansen,
Philip French, Stephen Hunter, Ann Hornaday, Carla Meyer. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Irreversible |
|
Gaspar Noé (168) |
 |
| 2002, 97m, Col,
France, Crime-Drama-Horror |
| "It would be easy and
convenient to dismiss Irreversible as blatant sensationalism.
But Noe's bruising film is too artfully crafted to write off as
exploitation." -
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
| Selected by Ty Burr, James
Berardinelli, Gerald Peary, Lucas Hildebrand, Philip Matthews. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
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|
216
|
|
217
|
|
218
|
|
Brick |
|
Rian Johnson (179) |
 |
| 2005, 110m, Col,
USA, Mystery-Drama |
| "A Big Sleep with underage
bozos, a Maltese Falcon where the stuff that dreams are made of
rests in the lockers of a well-worn high school, Brick is a
remarkable oddity, audacious and engaging." - Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
| Selected by Scott Tobias,
Keith Phipps, Mike D'Angelo, Mark Jenkins, Jeffrey M. Anderson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Ray |
|
Taylor Hackford (180) |
 |
| 2004, 152m, Col,
USA-UK, Musical-Drama-Biography |
|
"Bursting at the seams with
music,
Taylor Hackford's
ambitious film provides a good sense of the pioneering
entertainer's extraordinary journey and brings it to life with
plenty of colorful detail." - Todd McCarthy, Variety |
| Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Michael Wilmington, Joe Morgenstern, Richard Corliss, Joel
Siegel. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Motorcycle
Diaries |
|
Walter
Salles (182) |
 |
| 2004, 125m, Col,
UK-USA-France, Drama-Adventure |
| "Mr. Bernal's soulful,
magnetic performance notwithstanding, the real star of the film
is South America itself, revealed in the cinematographer Eric
Gautier's misty green images as a land of jarring and enigmatic
beauty." -
A.O. Scott, New York Times |
| Selected by Ed Halter, Joe
Morgenstern, Lou Lumenick, Steven Rea, Thomas Doherty. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
|
|
219
|
|
220
|
|
221
New
|
|
Cold Mountain |
|
Anthony Minghella (184) |
 |
| 2003, 155m, Col,
USA-UK-Romania-Italy, War-Romance-Drama |
|
"As he did in The English Patient,
Minghella artfully
weds movie-movie romanticism with a dark historical vision. The
man knows how to cast a spell." - David Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by
John Anderson, Stephen Hunter, Wesley Morris,
Peter Travers, Richard Corliss. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Junebug |
|
Phil Morrison (186) |
 |
| 2005, 107m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| "A deceptively simple,
deeply resonant story about the inherent loneliness of family,
the odds against assimilation and the enormous distances that
can divide two people." - Carina Chocano,
Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Roger Ebert, Stephen Holden, David Edelstein, J.R. Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Michael
Clayton |
|
Tony Gilroy |
 |
| 2007,
119m, Col, USA, Drama-Thriller |
| "At
once spare and dense, chilly and thrilling, literate and
visceral, it feeds in gray areas, teasing ambiguities and
conundrums out of shadows and making strengths of
inconclusiveness and uncertainty." - Shawn Levy, Portland
Oregonian |
| Selected by
David Sterritt, Michael Atkinson, Saul Austerlitz, Peter
Brunette, Mark Olsen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
222
|
|
223
|
|
224
|
|
A Scanner
Darkly |
|
Richard Linklater (187) |
 |
| 2006, 100m, Col,
USA, Animated-Mystery-Science Fiction |
| "There's no other
filmmaker, living or dead, who could produce a futuristic sci-fi
nightmare, a hipster comedy, a haunting film noir and a cartoon,
all in the same movie." - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon |
| Selected by Kent Jones, J.
Hoberman, Peter Rainer, Ed Halter, Ben Kenigsberg. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| Kung Fu Hustle |
| Stephen Chow
(194) |
 |
| 2004, 98m, Col, Hong
Kong-China,
Action-Comedy-Crime |
| "Gut-Bustingly funny moves are pretty
rare, so hustle over to Kung Fu Hustle, actor-director Stephen
Chow's exhilaratingly hilarious and affectionate send-up of Hong
Kong action flicks." -
Lou Lumenick, New York Post |
| Selected by Dave Kehr, Tom Charity, Sam
Adams, Nathan Rabin, Donna Bowman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Time of the
Wolf |
|
Michael Haneke (188) |
 |
| 2003, 113m, Col,
France-Austria-Germany, Drama |
|
"Haneke
demonstrates profound insight into the essence of human behavior
when all humility is pared away, raw panic and despair are the
order of the day, and man becomes more like wolf than man." -
Scott Foundas, Variety |
| Selected by Michael Atkinson,
Manohla Dargis, Robert Koehler, Leslie Camhi, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
225
|
|
226
|
|
227
|
|
Femme Fatale |
|
Brian
De Palma (189) |
 |
| 2002, 110m, Col,
France, Thriller-Crime |
| "Here, the message is the
moviemaking and the unparalleled joy you get from a film that
can carry you off so completely, making you forget about
everything save for the beautiful lies in front of you." -
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by Michael Sragow,
Manohla Dargis, Gavin Smith, Scott Foundas, Chuck Wilson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Crash |
|
Paul Haggis (190) |
 |
| 2004, 113m, Col,
Germany-USA-Australia, Drama-Crime |
| "Not just one of the best
Hollywood movies about race, but, along with Collateral, one
of the finest portrayals of contemporary Los Angeles life
period." - Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
| Selected by Richard Schickel,
Roger Ebert, Kevin Thomas, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Howard Feinstein. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Lovely &
Amazing |
|
Nicole Holofcener
(181) |
 |
| 2001, 91m, Col,
USA, Drama-Comedy |
| "Emerges as something rare,
an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it
doesn't feel like one. It earns its thesis statement through
minute details and a unique grasp of a commonplace problem." -
Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club |
| Selected by Peter Keough,
Steven Rea, Wesley Morris, David Edelstein, Mark Olsen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
228
|
|
229
New
|
|
230
|
|
The Others |
|
Alejandro Amenábar
(204) |
 |
|
2001, 100m, Col, Spain-USA, Thriller-Horror |
| "An
elegantly crafted entertainment, balanced between the
psychological and the supernatural, that gets extra credit for
not relying on computer effects." - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon |
|
Selected by Gerald Peary, Steve Davis, Geoffrey O'Brien, Thomas
Doherty, George Wu. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Songs from
the Second Floor |
|
Roy
Andersson |
 |
|
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. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Whale Rider |
|
Niki Caro (223) |
 |
| 2002, 101m, Col,
New Zealand-Germany, Drama-Family |
| "The genius of the movie is the
way it sidesteps all of the obvious cliches of the underlying
story and makes itself fresh, observant, tough and genuinely
moving." -
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
| Selected by Roger Ebert, J.
Hoberman, Joe Morgenstern, Ann Hornaday, Lawrence Toppman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
231
|
|
232
|
|
233
|
|
Shaun of the
Dead |
|
Edgar Wright (201) |
 |
| 2004, 99m, Col,
UK-USA-France, Action-Comedy-Horror |
|
"A gleefully gory, pitch-perfect
parody of
George Romero's zombie
films. But this isn't a movie about other movies. Shaun of the
Dead stands on its own." -
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Trubune |
| Selected by Shawn Levy, Marc
Savlov, Carla Meyer, Justine Elias, Travis Crawford. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The
Barbarian Invasions |
|
Denys Arcand
(202) |
 |
|
2003, 99m, Col, Canada-France, Drama-Comedy |
|
"Where
Denys Arcand's
delightful 1986 comedy The Decline of the American Empire
celebrated the good life, his profoundly funny sequel The
Barbarian Invasions heartily toasts the good death." -
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by David Ansen, Ruthe Stein, A.O. Scott, Stephen
Holden, Michael Rechtshaffen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
The Quiet
American |
|
Phillip
Noyce (215) |
 |
| 2002, 100m, Col,
USA-Germany, War-Thriller-Drama |
| "This thoroughly modern
movie pulls off a classical feat. It elicits the searing
combination of pity and terror that leaves a viewer feeling
purged." - Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
| Selected by Michael Sragow,
David Sterritt, Peter Rainer, Mark Olsen, Cynthia Fuchs. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
234
|
|
235
New
|
|
236
New
|
|
Little
Children |
|
Todd Field (213) |
 |
| 2006, 130m, Col,
USA, Crime-Drama-Romance |
| "A jolting, artfully made
drama set in and around a suburban playground somewhere between
American Beauty and In the Bedroom on America's psychic
highway." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
|
Selected by Michael Phillips,
Carina Chocano, Dennis Harvey, J.R. Jones,
Donna Bowman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The
Darjeeling Limited |
|
Wes Anderson |
 |
| 2007,
91m, Col, USA, Adventure-Comedy-Drama |
|
"This tale of filial love and family baggage is
Wes Anderson's
most heartfelt feature film yet. Its companion short, Hotel
Chevalier, is darn near perfect." - Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon |
|
Selected by Kent Jones, Matt Zoller Seitz, Glenn
Kenny, Dan Sallitt, Vadim Rizov. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Savages |
|
Tamara
Jenkins |
 |
| 2007,
113m, Col, USA, Comedy-Drama |
|
"What makes the movie memorable is the precision of its tone,
its finely calibrated combination of bitterness and warmth. Of
course the acting is tremendous, and you'd expect nothing less." -
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon |
|
Selected by David Sterritt, Gerald Peary, Nathan
Rabin, Godfrey Cheshire, Mark Jenkins. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
237
|
|
238
|
|
239
|
|
Ali |
|
Michael
Mann (198) |
 |
| 2001, 156m, Col,
USA, Biography-Drama-Sports |
| "A thoughtful epic is both
a rarity and an oxymoron. But that's what Ali is, and you can't
help being drawn sympathetically into its hero's struggle for
mastery of himself and his era." - Richard Schickel, Time |
| Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Richard Schickel, Manohla Dargis, Keith Phipps,
Hazel-Sawn Dumpert. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Cowards Bend
the Knee |
|
Guy Maddin
(199) |
 |
| 2003, 60m, BW,
Canada, Romance |
|
"What's truly extraordinary
about this movie--which strikes me on two viewings as
Maddin's masterpiece--is that it not
only plays like a dream but feels like one." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by Dennis Lim,
Michael Atkinson, J. Hoberman, Mike D'Angelo, Edward Crouse. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Hedwig and the
Angry Inch |
|
John Cameron Mitchell (205) |
 |
| 2001, 91m, Col,
USA, Musical-Drama-Comedy |
| "On the screen, the
rip-roaring rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch retains all
the excitement and energy it had on stage while adding depth,
clarity and emotional texture." -
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by David Ehrenstein,
Nathan Rabin, Stephen Holden, Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, Steve Davis. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
240
New
|
|
241
|
|
242
|
|
La Ciénaga |
|
Lucrecia
Martel |
 |
| 2001,
99m, Col, Argentina-USA-Japan-France-Switzerland-Spain-Brazil,
Drama-Comedy |
|
"Vital and alive. Frustration and malaise rumble through every
richly textured frame, but behind it all is a restlessness and a
desire for something better." - Sean Axmaker, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer |
| Selected by
B. Ruby Rich, Michael Atkinson, Ed Morales, Patrick McGavin,
Alice Lovejoy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Saddest
Music in the World |
|
Guy Maddin
(248) |
 |
| 2003, 100m, Col-BW,
Canada, Drama-Fantasy-Musical |
|
"If only there were a
surefire way to describe
Guy Maddin's
films without scaring off viewers. The quirky Canadian is a
genius who produces haunting, exquisitely droll movies that defy
explanation." - Jami Bernard, New York Daily News |
| Selected by David Sterritt,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ed Halter, V.A. Musetto, Elizabeth Helfgott. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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