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51
New
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52
New
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53
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I'm Not
There |
|
Todd Haynes |
 |
| 2007,
135m, Col-BW, USA-Germany, Biography-Drama-Musical |
| "Haynes's
picture may not be perfect -- hell, I'm not even sure that
perfection is a state it even aspires to -- but it's bold and
individualistic and accomplished." -
Glenn Kenny, Premiere |
| Selected by
Kent Jones, David Fear, Steve Erickson, Daryl Chin, Sean Axmaker. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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4 Months, 3
Weeks and 2 Days |
|
Cristian
Mungiu |
 |
| 2007,
113m, Col, Romania, Drama |
| "The
reason 4 Months has such resonance is because it believes
with fearless audacity in the power and possibility of the
medium." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by
Michael Atkinson, Berenice Reynaud, Tom Charity, David Sterritt,
Gerald Peary. |
|
Amazon
IMDB |
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The Pianist |
|
Roman
Polanski (43) |
 |
| 2002, 148m, Col,
France-Poland-Germany-UK-Netherlands, War-Drama |
| "A great movie on a powerful,
essential subject -- the Holocaust years in Poland -- directed
with such artistry and skill that, as we watch, the barriers of
the screen seem to melt away." -
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
| Selected by Michael Sragow,
Peter Keough, Chris Fujiwara, Ty Burr, Richard Schickel. |
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Amazon
metacritic |
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54
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55
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56
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Almost Famous |
|
Cameron
Crowe (41) |
 |
| 2000, 122m, Col,
USA, Comedy-Drama-Romance |
|
"What
Mr. Crowe has done is nonetheless remarkable. He has made a
movie about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that you would be happy
to take your mother to see." -
A.O. Scott, New York Times |
| Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Kenneth Turan, Roger Ebert, Owen Gleiberman, Gavin
Smith. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Dogville |
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Lars von Trier (53) |
 |
| 2003, 177m, Col,
Denmark-Sweden-France, Drama |
| "For passion, originality,
and sustained chutzpah, this austere allegory of failed
Christian charity and Old Testament payback is
von Trier's
strongest movie--a masterpiece, in fact." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by J. Hoberman,
Dennis Lim, David Sterritt, J.R. Jones, Scott Foundas. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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The Aviator |
|
Martin Scorsese (46) |
 |
| 2004, 170m, Col-BW,
Germany-USA, Drama-Biography |
|
"If you didn't know that
Martin Scorsese made The
Aviator, the enthralling new adventure-biography of Howard
Hughes, you might think it was the calling card of a neophyte
visual genius." -
Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun |
| Selected by Richard Schickel,
Kent Jones, Carrie Rickey, Roger Ebert, Michael Sragow. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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57
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58
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59
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Letters from
Iwo Jima |
|
Clint Eastwood (51) |
 |
| 2006, 141m, Col,
USA, Drama-Historical-War |
|
"Eastwood's
direction here is a thing of beauty, blending the ferocity of
the classic films of
Akira Kurosawa
(Seven Samurai) with the delicacy and unblinking gaze of
Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story)." -
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
| Selected by Dave Kehr, Peter
Keough, Manohla Dargis, David Ansen, Kent Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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Traffic |
|
Steven Soderbergh (50) |
 |
| 2000, 147m, Col,
Germany-USA, Drama-Crime |
| "It's a thriller that
really thrills, a drama that really engages, a portrait of a
world and system out of joint that is painfully convincing and
totally engrossing from the first simmering minute to the last
explosive second." -
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
| Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Roger Ebert, Michael Wilmington, David Sterritt, David
Edelstein. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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The House of
Mirth |
|
Terence Davies (48) |
 |
| 2000, 140m, Col,
UK-USA, Romance-Drama |
|
"The House of Mirth is not
one of those teacup and doily movies; it's harsh and disturbing.
Davies does superlatively right
by Wharton. There's blood on the walls." -
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone |
| Selected by J. Hoberman,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Amy Taubin, Nigel Andrews, John Anderson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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60
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61
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62
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City of God |
|
Fernando Meirelles (62) |
 |
| 2002, 129m, Col,
Brazil-Germany-France, Drama-Crime-Action |
| "An exhilarating slap in
the face, bracing and sexy, smart and visceral, stylish and raw
-- the advent of a fabulously exciting new moviemaking talent." -
Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian |
| Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Richard Corliss, Stephen Holden, Marc Caro, Jonathan
Foreman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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Russian Ark |
|
Aleksandr Sokurov (66) |
 |
| 2002, 96m, Col,
Russia-Germany-Japan-Canada-Finland-Denmark, Fantasy-Drama |
| "High art, low comedy, hard
labor and royal prerogative are here thrown together in an
elegant unity, a breathtaking demonstration of Russian cinematic
-- hence artistic -- brilliance." - Henry Sheehan, LA
Weekly |
| Selected by Michael Atkinson,
David Sterritt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, J. Hoberman, Andrew O'Hehir. |
|
See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| Vera Drake |
|
Mike Leigh (57) |
 |
| 2004, 125m, Col, UK-France,
Drama |
| "Vera Drake puts the passion in compassion.
Building up to a shattering conclusion,
Leigh's movie is both outrageously schematic and powerfully
humanist." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
| Selected by Roger Ebert, Michael
Wilmington, Richard Schickel, John Anderson, Kenneth Turan. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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63
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64
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65
New
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Pan's
Labyrinth |
|
Guillermo del Toro
(56) |
 |
| 2006, 119m, Col,
Mexico-Spain-USA, Drama-Fantasy-Horror |
|
"Nothing this year comes
close to being as utterly unforgettable as
Guillermo del Toro's
Pan's
Labyrinth, an extremely dark and disturbing fairy tale for
audiences say, ages 12 and up." -
Lou Lumenick, New York Post |
|
Selected by
Dave Kehr, Peter Keough, Michael Wilmington,
A.O. Scott, Joe Morgenstern. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Borat:
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation
of Kazakhstan |
|
Larry Charles (54) |
 |
| 2006, 84m, Col,
USA-UK, Comedy |
| "It's screamingly,
hysterically, laugh-through-the-next-joke,
laugh-for-the-next-week funny. It's so inventive…This is a film
by an original and significant comic intelligence." -
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle |
| Selected by J. Hoberman,
Manohla Dargis, Michael Sragow, David Ansen, Peter Rainer. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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|
The
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford |
|
Andrew
Dominik |
 |
| 2007,
160m, Col, USA-Canada, Western-Biography-Drama |
| "Though
there is plenty of gunplay, this is a wondrously contemplative
and poetic saga that offers a fresh and bewitching take on a
timeworn genre. " -
Claudia Puig, USA Today |
| Selected by
Phillip Lopate, Tom Charity, David Sterritt, Cheryl Eddy, Akiva
Gottlieb. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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66
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67
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68
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Shrek |
|
Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson (61) |
 |
| 2001, 90m, Col,
USA-France, Animated-Fantasy-Comedy |
| "It is the hilarious business of
Shrek, a delightful new animated feature based on the William Steig book, to subvert all the well-worn expectations of its
genre." - Richard Schickel, Time |
| Selected by Carrie Rickey,
Richard Schickel, Dave Kehr, Kenneth Turan, Owen Gleiberman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
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Half Nelson |
|
Ryan Fleck (59) |
 |
| 2006, 106m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| "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 |
|
|
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L'Enfant |
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
(63) |
 |
| 2005, 95m, Col,
Belgium-France, Drama |
| "For all its seeming simplicity,
this is an emotionally and intellectually complex film that
holds the viewer in a grip as tight as any classic thriller you
can name." -
Glenn Kenny, Premiere |
| Selected by Molly Haskell, J.
Hoberman, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Manohla Dargis. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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69
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70
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71
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Good Night,
and Good Luck |
|
George Clooney (60) |
 |
| 2005, 93m, BW,
USA, Drama-Historical |
| "This is an elegant and
stirring entertainment about the hard-drinking, hard-smoking
reporters of "See It Now," the show that Murrow and the producer
Fred Friendly put together every week." -
David Denby, The New Yorker |
| Selected by David Ansen,
Molly Haskell, David Ehrenstein, Peter Keough, Ty Burr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Fog of War |
|
Errol Morris (70) |
 |
| 2003, 107m, Col,
USA, Documentary |
|
"Errol
Morris may have been put on earth to make
The Fog of War, a
stunning portrait of Robert S. McNamara that closes a year of
outstanding nonfiction movies on a high note." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly |
| Selected by Berenice Reynaud,
Stephen Holden, Scott Tobias, Wesley Morris, Marc Caro. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Children of
Men |
|
Alfonso Cuarón (71) |
 |
| 2006, 109m, Col,
UK-USA, Drama-Science Fiction-Thriller |
| "Made with palpable energy,
intensity and excitement, it compellingly creates a world gone
mad that is uncomfortably close to the one we live in. It is a
Blade Runner for the 21st century." -
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by Peter Keough,
Manohla Dargis, Peter Rainer, Kirk Honeycutt, Scott Foundas. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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72
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73
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74
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|
The World |
|
Zhang Ke
Jia (69) |
 |
| 2004, 140m, Col,
China-Japan-France, Drama |
| "The title of
Jia Zhang-ke's
2004 masterpiece, The World -- a film that's hilarious and
upsetting, epic and dystopian -- is an ironic pun and a
metaphor." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
| Selected by Dave Kehr,
Michael Atkinson, Chris Fujiwara, J. Hoberman, Tom Charity. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the World |
|
Peter Weir
(64) |
 |
| 2003, 138m, Col,
USA, Drama-Adventure-Action |
| "As magnificent as a high-masted
19th-century British warship, as explosive as a Napoleonic-era
ocean battle seen above the cannon's mouth... probably the best
movie of its kind ever made." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago
Tribune |
| Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Michael Sragow, Ty Burr, Roger Ebert, J. Hoberman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Requiem for a
Dream |
|
Darren Aronofsky (52) |
 |
| 2000, 100m, Col,
USA, Drama |
| "Aronofsky
brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce,
through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want
to feel, or fear to feel." -
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
| Selected by Gerald Peary,
John Anderson, Owen Gleiberman, Roger Ebert, Elvis Mitchell. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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75
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|
76
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77
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|
Donnie Darko |
|
Richard Kelly (49) |
 |
| 2001, 112m, Col,
USA, Fantasy-Drama |
| "A stunning technical
accomplishment that virtually bursts with noise, ideas and
references, but it's fundamentally a gracefully crafted movie
that's about human beings and not images." -
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon |
| Selected by J. Hoberman,
Dennis Lim, Amy Taubin, Andrew O'Hehir, Elliott Stein. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Time Out |
|
Laurent Cantet (65) |
 |
| 2001, 134m, Col,
France, Drama |
| "There's piercing sadness,
and fury, too, in this Everyman's isolation, and Cantet is
singularly skilled at evoking the universal condition of such
tragic ordinariness." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment
Weekly |
| Selected by John Anderson,
Dave Kehr, John Powers, Kenneth Turan, Chris Fujiwara. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Elephant |
|
Gus Van
Sant (68) |
 |
| 2003, 81m, Col,
USA, Drama |
|
"Calmly, almost serenely,
Mr. Van Sant and his superb
cinematographer, Harris Savides, reveal a vision of contemporary
American youth quite unlike any other." - Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal |
| Selected by Michael Atkinson,
Dennis Lim, Manohla Dargis, David Sterritt, Berenice Reynaud. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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|
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78
|
|
79
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80
|
|
Munich |
|
Steven Spielberg (67) |
 |
| 2005, 160m, Col,
USA, Drama-Historical-Thriller |
|
"A superbly taut and well-made
thriller that jumps from Geneva to Rome, from Paris to Beirut,
from Athens to Brooklyn, each lethal assignment staged with a
mastery
Hitchcock might envy." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
| Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Roger Ebert, Ty Burr, Michael Wilmington, Richard Schickel. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Circle |
|
Jafar
Panahi (80) |
 |
| 2000, 90m, Col,
Iran-Italy-Switzerland, Drama |
| "A triumph of invisible
craftsmanship that embraces so much specific detail that none of
the women ever comes across as an emblem or an abstraction." -
David Chute, LA Weekly |
| Selected by Peter Keough,
David Sterritt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gerald Peary, Peter Rainer. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
I'm Going Home |
|
Manoel de Oliveira (80) |
 |
| 2000, 89m, Col,
Portugal-France, Drama-Comedy |
|
"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 Manohla Dargis,
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Peter Keough, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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81
|
|
82
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|
83
|
|
Amores perros |
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu (74) |
 |
| 2000, 153m, Col,
Mexico, Drama |
| "An overpowering and
original piece of bravura filmmaking that constitutes one of the
most breathtaking and impressive directing debuts in years." -
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Richard Schickel, Elliott Stein, Peter Rainer,
Andrew O'Hehir. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Kill Bill Vol.
1 |
|
Quentin Tarantino (89) |
 |
| 2003, 111m, Col-BW,
USA, Crime-Action |
|
"Reconfirms
Tarantino's status as the
master of pop cinema and puts a sense of excitement into the
year. He has matched, if not eclipsed, the power and scope of
1994's Pulp Fiction, though not its human charm." - Desson Thomson, Washington Post |
| Selected by Owen Gleiberman,
Richard Corliss, Peter Travers, Stephen Hunter, Scott Tobias. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
House of
Flying Daggers |
|
Zhang
Yimou (78) |
 |
| 2001, 111m, Col,
Hong Kong-China, Action-Drama-Romance |
| "House of Flying Daggers finds
the great Chinese director at his most romantic in this
thrilling martial arts epic that involves a conflict between
love and duty carried out to its fullest expression." -
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by Michael
Wilmington, Richard Roeper, J.R. Jones, David Edelstein, Richard
Corliss. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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84
|
|
85
|
|
86
|
|
Moolaadé |
|
Ousmane Sembene (76) |
 |
| 2004, 120m, Col,
Senegal-Burkina
Faso, Drama |
| "To skip
Moolaadé would be
to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming,
world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest." -
A.O. Scott, New York Times |
| Selected by Carrie Rickey,
Chris Fujiwara, Gerald Peary, Roger Ebert, Ty Burr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| Capote |
| Bennett Miller
(75) |
 |
| 2005, 98m, Col, USA,
Drama-Biography |
| "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 |
|
|
|
Gosford Park |
|
Robert Altman (73) |
 |
| 2001, 137m, Col,
UK-USA, Comedy-Mystery-Drama |
|
"It ranks among
Robert Altman's best work ever,
and that its many satisfactions derive in large part from a
superbly written screenplay by Julian Fellowes that has no equal
this year." -
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post |
|
Selected by
Michael Wilmington, Philip French, Peter
Rainer, David Edelstein, Jay Carr. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
87
|
|
88
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|
89
|
|
In Praise of
Love |
|
Jean-Luc Godard (92) |
 |
| 2001, 97m, Col-BW,
France, Drama |
|
"Like most
Godard, it can be watched
repeatedly, always yielding new secrets and beauties. Most
profound of all, perhaps, are those incredible black-and-white
images of Paris." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
| Selected by Amy Taubin, Chris
Fujiwara, Michael Atkinson, Dave Kehr, David Sterritt. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Volver |
|
Pedro
Almodóvar
(84) |
 |
| 2006, 121m, Col,
Spain, Comedy-Drama |
|
"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 |
|
|
|
The Holy Girl |
|
Lucrecia Martel (79) |
 |
| 2004, 103m, Col,
Argentina-Spain-Italy-Netherlands-Switzerland, Drama |
| "A subtle artist and a
sharp observer, Martel manages a large cast with an ease that
matches her skill at storytelling, within which psychological
insight and social comment flow easily and implicitly." -
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times |
| Selected by Kent Jones, Kevin
Thomas, Steve Erickson, William Johnson, Robert Koehler. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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90
New
|
|
91
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|
92
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|
Black Book |
|
Paul Verhoeven |
 |
| 2006,
146m, Col, Germany-Netherlands-UK-Belgium, War-Thriller |
|
"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
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Tom Charity, Joshua
Land. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|