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102
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103
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|
35 Shots of Rum |
|
Claire Denis
new
|
 |
| • 35 rhums
(original title) |
|
2000, 89m, Col, Portugal-France, Drama-Comedy |
| Alex Descas,
Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, Gregoire Colin, Jean-Christophe Folly,
Djedje Apali, Eriq Ebouaney, Ingrid Caven, Stephane Pocrain,
Julieth Mars Toussaint |
|
"For 20 years,
Claire Denis has been among France's foremost
filmmakers with her acute yet subtle observations of the ebbs
and flows within relationships. Her perception and understanding
seem to grow only richer over the years, and her newest film,
35 Shots of Rum, is surely one of her finest -- and thereby
one of the best films of the year." -
Kevin Thomas, Los
Angeles Times |
|
Selected by Amy
Taubin, Berenice Reynaud, Kent Jones, John Powers, Daryl Chin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Goodbye,
Dragon Inn |
|
Tsai Ming-Liang
(119) |
 |
| • Bu san
(original title) |
|
2003, 82m, Col, Taiwan, Drama-Comedy |
| Kang-Sheng
Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Tien Miao, Chun Shih,
Chao-Jung Chen, Kuei-Mei Yang |
|
"Has a quiet, cumulative magic, whose source is hard to
identify. Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of
mystery and feeling; it's an action movie that stands perfectly
still." - A.O. Scott, New York Times |
|
Selected by Daryl Chin, Dennis Lim, Philip French, Chris Chang,
Stig Bjorkman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Saraband |
|
Ingmar
Bergman (181) |
 |
| 2003, 120m, Col,
Sweden-Denmark-Norway, Drama |
| Liv Ullmann,
Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius, Gunnel Fred |
| "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 Joseph
McBride, Geoff Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Gilbert Adair,
Arnaud
Desplechin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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104
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105
|
|
106
|
|
Together |
|
Lukas Moodysson
(101) |
 |
| • Tillsammans
(original title) |
|
2000, 106m, Col, Sweden-Denmark-Italy, Drama-Comedy |
| Lisa
Lindgren, Gustaf Hammarsten, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson,
Sam Kessel, Anja Lundqvist, Jessica Liedberg, Ola Norell, Axel
Zuber, Shanti Roney |
| "Moodysson
captures exactly the preening narcissism and gumption of these
frazzled would-be revolutionaries trying to wriggle out of their
bourgeois straitjackets." - Peter Rainer, New York Magazine |
|
Selected by David Ansen, Armond White, Sukhdev Sandhu, Kenneth Turan, Owen Gleiberman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Holy Girl |
|
Lucrecia Martel (100) |
 |
| • La Niña
santa (original title) |
| 2004, 103m, Col,
Argentina-Spain-Italy-Netherlands-Switzerland, Drama |
| Mercedes
Moran, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Maria Alche,
Julieta Zylberberg, Mia Maestro, Marta Lubos, Arturo Goetz,
Alejo Mango, Monica Villa |
| "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
Raymond Bellour, Jonathan Romney, Phillip Lopate, Nick James, Kent Jones, |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| Vera Drake |
|
Mike Leigh (71) |
 |
| 2004, 125m, Col, UK-France,
Drama |
| Imelda
Staunton, Philip Davis, Peter Wright, Eddie Marsan, Alex Kelly,
Daniel Mays, Sally Hawkins, Adrian Scarborough, Heather Craney,
Ruth Sheen |
| "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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|
107
↑ |
|
108
|
|
109
|
|
Werckmeister
Harmonies |
|
Béla Tarr (149) |
 |
| •
Werckmeister harmóniák (original title) |
| 2000, 145m, BW,
Hungary-Germany-France-Switzerland-Italy, Drama |
| Lars
Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Janos Derzsi, Djoko
Rossich, Tamas Wichmann, Ferenc Killai, Mihaly Kormos, Putyi
Horvath, Eva Almassy Albert |
| "Mysterious, poetic and
allusive, Werckmeister Harmonies beckons filmgoers who
complain of the vapidity of Hollywood movie making and yearn for
a film to ponder and debate." -
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times |
|
Selected by David
Sterritt, Michael Atkinson, Jean-Michel Frodon, Jonathan Romney,
Tony Rayns. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Fog of War |
|
Errol Morris (83) |
 |
| • The Fog of
War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
(alternative title) |
| 2003, 107m, Col,
USA, Documentary |
| Robert
McNamara, Errol Morris |
|
"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 Joseph
McBride, Phillip Lopate, Berenice Reynaud,
Stephen Holden, Scott Tobias. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Munich |
|
Steven Spielberg (91) |
 |
| 2005, 160m, Col,
USA, Drama-Historical-Thriller |
| Eric Bana,
Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz,
Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zorer, Gila Almagor, Michel Lonsdale,
Mathieu Amalric |
|
"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,
Armond White, Roger Ebert, Ty Burr, Michael Wilmington. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
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|
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|
110
↑ |
|
111
|
|
112
|
|
Up |
|
Pete Docter
new
|
 |
|
2009, 96m, Col, USA, Animated-Adventure-Comedy |
| Edward
Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy
Lindo, Jerome Ranft, John Ratzenberger, David Kaye, Elie Docter,
Jeremy Leary |
|
"Rarely has
any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of
dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so
effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic
territory." - Kenneth
Turan, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Kenneth Turan, Glenn Kenny, Peter Keough, David Denby, Michael
Atkinson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Piano
Teacher |
|
Michael Haneke (110) |
 |
| • La Pianiste
(original title) |
| 2001, 130m, Col,
Austria-France-Germany, Drama |
| Isabelle
Huppert, Benoit Magimel, Annie Girardot, Susanne Lothar, Udo
Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Kongden, Thomas Weinhappel,
Georg Friedrich, Philipp Heiss |
| "At once an emotional thriller
and a domestic horror movie -- a woman's picture with a
vengeance, in which the bloodletting is kept to a minimum, and
ends up all the more powerful and profound for it." -
Manohla Dargis, LA Weekly |
|
Selected by John
Waters, Michael Atkinson, Manohla Dargis, Ernest Hardy, Scott Foundas. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Colossal
Youth |
|
Pedro Costa
(109) |
 |
| • Juventude
Em Marcha (original title) |
| 2006,
155m, Col, France-Portugal-Switzerland, Drama |
| Ventura,
Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta, Cila Cardoso,
Isabel Cardoso, Alberto 'Lento' Barros, Antonio Semedo, Paulo
Nunes, Jose Maria Pina |
| "Beautifully
photographed, this elliptical, sometime confounding, often
mysterious and wholly beguiling mixture of fiction and
nonfiction looks and sounds as if it were made on another
planet. And, in some respects, it was." -
Manohla Dargis, New York Times |
|
Selected by
Dennis Lim, Richard Brody, Bill
Krohn, Thom Andersen,
Jia Zhangke. |
|
Amazon
IMDB |
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|
114
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|
115
|
|
The Man
Without a Past |
|
Aki Kaurismäki
(135) |
 |
| • Mies vailla
menneisyyttä (original title) |
|
2002, 97m, Col, Finland-Germany-France, Romance-Drama-Comedy |
| Markku
Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemela, Annikki Tahti, Kaija
Pakarinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Esko Nikkari, Outi Maenpaa, Pertti
Sveholm, Anneli Sauli |
|
"Kaurismäki
is Finland's greatest filmmaker, and never has he more artfully
balanced his patented blend of deadpan humor, low-key melodrama,
and toe-tapping music." - David Sterritt, Christian Science
Monitor |
|
Selected by Peter von Bagh, Vivian Sobchack, David Sterritt, Chris Fuijiwara, A.O. Scott. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Dark Knight |
|
Christopher Nolan
new
|
 |
|
2008, 152m, Col, USA-UK, Action-Crime-Thriller |
| Christian
Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Monique Gabriela Curnen,
Ron Dean, Cillian Murphy |
| "Beyond
dark. It's as black -- and teeming and toxic -- as the mind of
the Joker. Batman Begins, the 2005 film that launched
Nolan's
series, was a mere five-finger exercise. This is the full
symphony." -
Richard Corliss,
Time |
|
Selected by Matt Singer, Nick Schager, Scott Tobias, Nathan
Rabin, Noel Murray. |
| See also:
1,000
Greatest Films |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the World |
|
Peter Weir
(87) |
 |
| 2003, 138m, Col,
USA, Drama-Adventure-Action |
| Russell
Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Chris Larkin, Lee
Ingleby, George Innes, Mark Lewis Jones, Richard McCabe, Robert
Pugh |
| "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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
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|
116
|
|
117
|
|
118
|
|
Good Night,
and Good Luck |
|
George Clooney (81) |
 |
| 2005, 93m, BW,
USA, Drama-Historical |
| David
Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Robert Downey
Jr., Ray Wise, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, Tate Donovan,
Robert Burke, Reed Diamond |
| "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 |
|
|
|
Time Out |
|
Laurent Cantet (89) |
 |
| • L'Emploi du
temps (original title) |
| 2001, 134m, Col,
France, Drama |
| Aurelien
Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet, Jean-Pierre Mangeot,
Monique Mangeot, Nicholas Kalsch, Marie Cantet, Felix Cantet,
Olivier Le Joubioux, Maxime Sassier |
| "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 |
|
|
|
Paranoid
Park |
|
Gus Van
Sant (79) |
 |
|
2007, 85m, Col, France-USA, Drama |
| Gabe
Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Dan Liu, Lauren McKinney,
Scott Green, John 'Mike' Burrowes, Grace Carter, Jay 'Smay'
Williamson, Christopher Doyle |
| "The
pleasing circularity of
Gus Van Sant's masterful
Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative
structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few
directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such
vigor." -
J. Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by
David Ehrenstein, Tom Charity, Amy Taubin, J. Hoberman, Daryl Chin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
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|
119
↑ |
|
120
↑ |
|
121
↑ |
|
Regular
Lovers |
|
Philippe Garrel (145) |
 |
| • Les Amants
réguliers (original title) |
| 2004,
178m, BW, France-Italy, Drama |
| Louis
Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Nicolas Bridet, Mathieu
Genet, Raissa Mariotti, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Rebecca
Convenant, Marie Girardin, Maurice Garrel |
| "While
the film’s desperately sad finale indicates that
Philippe
Garrel knows the truth of '68 better than most and
might have suffered a crisis in faith in the years since, this
magnificent film is itself proof that all was not lost." -
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
|
Selected by
David Ehrenstein, Richard Brody, Michael Atkinson, Charles
Tesson, Berenice Reynaud. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Hunger |
|
Steve
McQueen (144) |
 |
|
2008, 96m, Col, UK-Ireland, Drama-Historical |
| Michael
Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan, Liam
Cunningham, Dennis McCambridge, Liam McMahon, Laine Megaw, Brian
Milligan, Rory Mullen |
|
"Hunger is extreme cinema for an extreme subject. It
is outstandingly made; long wordless sequences are composed with
judgment and flair and expository dialogue scenes are
confidently positioned. It surely confirms McQueen as a real
film-maker." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian |
|
Selected by
David Sterritt, Nick James, Graham Fuller, Gerald Peary, Dennis Lim. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Police, Adjective |
|
Corneliu Porumboiu
new
|
 |
| • Politist,
adj.
(original title) |
|
2009, 115m, Col, Romania, Comedy-Crime-Drama |
| Dragos
Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu, Ion Stoica, Marian Ghenea,
Cosmin Selesi, George Remes, Dan Cogalniceanu, Serban Georgevici,
Costi Dita |
|
"Police, Adjective is a deadly serious as well as
dryly humorous analysis of bureaucratic procedure and,
particularly, the tyranny of language. Images may record
reality, but words define it." - J. Hoberman, Village
Voice |
|
Selected by
Mark Cousins, Tom Charity, Amy Taubin, David Sterritt,
Phillip Lopate. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
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|
122
↑ |
|
123
|
|
124
|
|
The White Ribbon |
|
Michael Haneke
new
|
 |
| • Das
Weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (original title) |
|
2009, 144m, BW, Austria-Germany-France-Italy,
Crime-Drama-Mystery |
| Christian
Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina
Lardi, Fion Mutert, Michael Kranz, Burghart Klaubner, Steffi
Kuhnert, Maria-Victoria Dragus |
|
"Detailed yet
oblique, leisurely but compelling, perfectly cast and
irreproachably acted, the movie has a seductively novelistic
texture complete with a less-than-omniscient narrator." -
J.
Hoberman, Village Voice |
|
Selected by
Geoff Andrew, Piers Handling, David Denby. Berenice Reynaud, David Ehrenstein. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Circle |
|
Jafar
Panahi (92) |
 |
| • Dayereh
(original title) |
| 2000, 90m, Col,
Iran-Italy-Switzerland, Drama |
| Maryam
Parvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Fereshteh Sadr Orafal, Mojgane
Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin, Monire Arab, Solmaz Panahi, Fatemeh
Naghavi, Maedeh Tahmasbi, Maryam Shayegane |
| "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 |
|
|
|
School of
Rock |
|
Richard Linklater
(88) |
 |
|
2003, 108m, Col, Germany-USA, Musical-Comedy |
| Jack Black,
Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman, Adam Pascal, Lucas
Papselias, Chris Stack, Lucas Babin, Jordan-Claire Green,
Veronica Afflerbach |
|
"This joyous farce is a big, big deal, and Jack Black is nothing
less than majestic as a scruffy, irreverent rocker passing
himself off as a pedagogue in a private school." - Joe
Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal |
|
Selected by
Kevin MacDonald, Dennis Lim, Owen Gleiberman, Ty Burr, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
125
↑ |
|
126
|
|
127
|
|
Little Miss
Sunshine |
|
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (142) |
 |
| 2006, 102m, Col,
USA, Comedy-Drama |
| Greg
Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano,
Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, Marc Turtletaub, Beth Grant, Jill
Talley |
| "This indie, a sweet, tart and
smart satire about a family of losers in a world obsessed with
winning, is an authentic crowd pleaser. There's been no more
satisfying American comedy this year." -
David Ansen, Newsweek |
|
Selected by David Ansen, Joe
Morgenstern, Peter Travers, Stephen Holden, Claudia Puig. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Happy-Go-Lucky |
|
Mike Leigh (84) |
 |
|
2008, 118m, Col, UK-USA, Comedy-Drama |
| Sally
Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sylvestra Le Touzel,
Stanley Townsend, Kate O'Flynn, Caroline Martin, Oliver Maltman,
Sarah Niles, Samuel Roukin |
| "Leigh
and his actors work mysterious magic in Happy-Go-Lucky.
This is a movie about hitting the groove of everyday life and,
nearly miraculously, getting music out of it." -
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon |
|
Selected by
Armond White, Amy Taubin, John Anderson, Phillip Lopate, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Volver |
|
Pedro
Almodóvar
(104) |
 |
| 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
128
|
|
129
|
|
130
↑ |
|
Half Nelson |
|
Ryan Fleck (82) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Bad Education |
|
Pedro
Almodóvar (105) |
 |
| • La Mala
educación (original title) |
| 2004, 105m, Col,
Spain, Thriller-Drama |
| Gael Garcia
Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lluis Homar,
Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira, Raul Garcia Forneiro, Nacho
Perez, Javier Camara, Alberto Ferreiro |
| "Bad Education is a
voluptuous experience that invites you to gorge on its beauty
and vitality, although it has perhaps the darkest ending of any
of the films by the Spanish writer and director." -
Stephen Holden, New York Times |
|
Selected by Gilbert Adair, Tony Rayns, Carrie Rickey,
Stephen Holden, Wesley Morris. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The
Wrestler |
|
Darren
Aronofsky
(159) |
 |
|
2008, 109m, Col, USA, Drama-Sport |
| Mickey
Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd
Barry, Wass Stevens, Judah Friedlander, Ernest Miller, Dylan
Keith Summers, Tommy Farra |
|
"Rourke creates a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving
portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic
screen performances. An elemental story simply and brilliantly
told, Darren
Aronofsky's fourth feature is a winner from every
possible angle." - Todd McCarthy, Variety |
|
Selected by
James Franco, Michael Atkinson, Glenn Kenny, Donna Bowman, Peter Brunette. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
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|
131
↑ |
|
132
|
|
133
|
|
The Best of
Youth |
|
Marco Tullio Giordana (165) |
 |
| • La Meglio
gioventù (original title) |
| 2003, 373m, Col,
Italy, Drama |
| Luigi Lo
Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio
Gifuni, Maya Sansa, Valentina Carnelutti, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea
Tidona, Lidia Vitale |
| "The Best of Youth doesn't
have a boring millisecond. It isn't an art film, with longueurs;
it's a mini-series with the sweep of a classic novel, with tons
of plot." -
David Edelstein, Slate |
|
Selected by
Kenneth Turan, A.O. Scott, Vivian Sobchack, Richard Schickel, Michael Wilmington. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
House of
Flying Daggers |
|
Zhang
Yimou (95) |
 |
| • Shi mian
mai fu (original title) |
| 2001, 111m, Col,
Hong Kong-China, Action-Drama-Romance |
| Takeshi
Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau, Song Dandan, Wang Yabin, Zheng
Lu, Wu Weifeng, Yan Yan, Zheng Jie, Zhao Hongfei |
| "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 |
|
|
| Capote |
| Bennett Miller
(96) |
 |
| 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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|
134
|
|
135
|
|
136
↑ |
|
Sexy Beast |
|
Jonathan Glazer (115) |
 |
| 2000, 88m, Col,
UK-Spain-USA, Drama-Crime-Comedy |
| Ray
Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Cavan
Kendall, Julianne White, Alvaro Monje, James Fox, Robert Atiko,
Nieves del Amo Oruet |
|
"Carries so much impacted menace
and visual narrative gamesmanship that it brought back some of
the excitement I felt nearly a decade ago watching
Quentin Tarantino's
Reservoir Dogs." -
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly |
|
Selected by Nick
James, Owen Gleiberman,
Peter Rainer, David Edelstein, Elvis Mitchell. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bowling for
Columbine |
|
Michael Moore
(108) |
 |
|
2002, 120m, Col, USA, Documentary-Comedy |
| Michael
Moore, Denise Ames, Arthur A. Busch, Barry Glassner, Charlton
Heston, Marilyn Manson, James Nichols, Matt Stone, Dick Clark,
Seth Collins |
|
"Moore's
best movie, and one of the most blisteringly effective polemics
and documentaries ever." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
|
Selected by Mark Cousins, Michael Atkinson, Ed Halter, Scott Foundas, Edward
Crouse. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Intruder |
|
Claire
Denis (147) |
 |
| • L'Intrus
(original title) |
| 2004, 130m, Col,
France-Korea, Drama |
| Michel
Subor, Gregoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva, Bambou, Florence
Loiret, Lolita Chammah, Alex Descas, Dong-ho Kim, Se-tak Chang,
Hong-suk Park |
| "Exhilarating and
exhausting, the kind of picture you don't bounce back from
immediately. Yet its elusiveness is the very source of its
poetic energy." - Stephanie Zacharek, Salon |
|
Selected by
Dominik Graf,
Kent Jones, Jonathan Romney, Chris Chang, Gavin Smith. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
137
↑ |
|
138
|
|
139
↑ |
|
What Time
is it There? |
|
Tsai Ming-Liang
(140) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
|
|
Black Book |
|
Paul Verhoeven (106) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
|
|
Café
Lumière |
|
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
(152) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
140
|
|
141
|
|
142
↑ |
|
Once |
|
John Carney
(138) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
I'm Going Home |
|
Manoel de Oliveira (93) |
 |
| • Je rentre à
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 |
|
|
|
Gladiator |
|
Ridley Scott
(155) |
 |
|
2000, 154m, Col, USA, Drama-Action |
| Russell
Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek
Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Richard Harris, David Schofield, John
Shrapnel, Thomas Arana |
|
"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 Frank Darabont, Owen Gleiberman, Peter Travers, Mike D'Angelo, Lisa Schwarzbaum. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
143
|
|
144
↑ |
|
145
|
|
Wonder Boys |
|
Curtis
Hanson (111) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
| Head-On |
| Fatih
Akin (148) |
 |
| • Gegen die
Wand (original title) |
| 2003, 121m, Col,
Germany, Romance-Drama |
| Birol Unel,
Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Meltem Cumbul, Stefan Gebelhoff,
Francesco Fiannaca, Mona Mur, Ralph Misske, Philipp Baltus,
Hermann Lause, Karin Niwiger |
| "In its
breathlessly claustrophobic way the movie is vital and
passionate, and lit with a lyric beauty that washes over love
scenes and violent acts alike." - Ella Taylor, LA Weekly |
| Selected by
David Ansen, Nick James, Ty Burr, Peter Keough, David Ehrenstein. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Fahrenheit
9/11 |
|
Michael
Moore (136) |
 |
| 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
146
↑ |
|
147
|
|
148
|
|
25th Hour |
|
Spike Lee
(204) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Gangs of New
York |
|
Martin Scorsese (107) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Notre musique |
|
Jean-Luc Godard (133) |
 |
| 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
149
↑ |
|
150
↑ |
|
|
|
Demonlover |
|
Olivier Assayas
(183) |
 |
|
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 |
|
"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
Jean-Michel Frodon, Sukhdev Sandhu, Jonathan
Romney, Maitland McDonagh,
Kiyoshi
Kurosawa. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
To Be and
to Have |
|
Nicolas Philibert (166) |
 |
| • Être 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 |
|
|
> 151-200 |
|
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