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151
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152
↑ |
|
153
|
|
Shaun of the
Dead |
|
Edgar Wright (246) |
 |
| 2004, 99m, Col,
UK-USA-France, Action-Comedy-Horror |
| Simon Pegg,
Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy,
Penelope Wilton, Jessica Stevenson, Peter Serafinowicz, Rafe
Spall |
|
"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
Quentin
Tarantino, Peter Bradshaw, Nick James, Richard
Corliss, Shawn Levy. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
La Commune
(Paris, 1871) |
|
Peter
Watkins (177) |
 |
| 2000, 345m, BW,
France, Drama-Historical |
| Elaine
Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis
Bouffartigue, Genevieve Capy, Anne Carlier, Veronique Couzon,
Piotr Daskiewicz, Nicole Defer, Caroline Esnard-Benoit |
| "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,
J. Hoberman, Michael Atkinson, James Quandt,
Amy Taubin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Eureka |
|
Shinji Aoyama (112) |
 |
| • 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. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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154
|
|
155
↑ |
|
156
|
|
Kill Bill Vol.
2 |
|
Quentin Tarantino (129) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Three Times |
|
Hou
Hsiao-Hsien (199) |
 |
| • Zui hao de
shi guang (original title) |
| 2005, 135m, Col,
France-Taiwan, Romance-Drama |
| Qi Shu,
Chen Chang, Fang Mei, Mei Di, Su-jen Liao, Chen Shi-Zheng, Lee
Pei-hsuan, Huang Ruo-shi, Liao Ling-tzu, Ko Yu-Lun |
| "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 Kent
Jones, Thom Andersen, Richard Combs, Piers Handling,
Martin
Scorsese. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Triplets
of Belleville |
|
Sylvain Chomet (114) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
| |
|
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|
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|
157
|
|
158
|
|
159
|
|
In the City
of Sylvia |
|
José Luis
Guerín
(123) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
|
|
In America |
|
Jim
Sheridan (132) |
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Songs from
the Second Floor |
|
Roy
Andersson (156) |
 |
| • Sånger från
andra våningen (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. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
160
|
|
161
|
|
162
|
|
Eastern
Promises |
|
David
Cronenberg
(125) |
 |
|
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 |
|
Selected by Peter Keough, Berenice Reynaud, Stephen Garrett,
Robert Horton, Kristin M. Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Last Days |
|
Gus Van Sant
(120) |
 |
|
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 |
|
Selected by
Arnaud Desplechin, Dennis Lim, Ed Halter, Phillip Lopate,
Ed Park. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Milk |
|
Gus Van
Sant
(153) |
 |
|
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 |
|
Selected by
Frank Darabont, Amy Taubin, Gerald Peary, David Sterritt, Matt
Singer. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
163
|
|
164
|
|
165
↑ |
|
Erin
Brockovich |
|
Steven Soderbergh
(128) |
 |
|
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 |
|
Selected by Frank Darabont, Kenneth Turan, Gavin Smith, David Ansen, Mike Clark. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Ten |
|
Abbas Kiarostami
(160) |
 |
| • 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 (184) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
| |
|
|
|
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|
166
|
|
167
|
|
168
↑ |
|
À ma soeur! |
|
Catherine Breillat
(134) |
 |
| • Fat Girl
(English title) |
|
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 |
|
Selected by Amy Taubin, B. Ruby Rich, J. Hoberman, Michael
Atkinson, David Ansen. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Spider |
|
David Cronenberg
(146) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
I Don’t
Want to Sleep Alone |
|
Tsai Ming-Liang (175) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
Selected by Dennis Lim, Stig Bjorkman,
Jia Zhangke, Piers Handling, Berenice Reynaud. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
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|
169
↑ |
|
170
|
|
171
↑ |
|
O Brother,
Where Art Thou? |
|
Joel Coen
and Ethan Coen (213) |
 |
| 2000, 107m, Col,
USA-France, Crime-Adventure-Comedy |
| George
Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John
Goodman, Michael Badalucco, Holly Hunter, Stephen Root, Chris
Thomas King, Wayne Duvall |
|
"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 Joseph McBride,
Cameron Crowe,
Scott Tobias, Charles Taylor, Gregory Solman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Hours |
|
Stephen Daldry (113) |
 |
|
2002, 114m, Col, USA, Drama |
| Nicole
Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda
Richardson, George Loftus, John C. Reilly, Ed Harris, Jack
Rovello, Allison Janney |
|
"Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore bring dignity
and Oscar-worthy performances to The Hours, a lovingly
crafted meditation on death, loss and literature." - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon |
|
Selected by David Sterritt, Kenneth Turan, Mick LaSalle, Stephen
Holden, Andrew O'Hehir. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| The Host |
| Bong
Joon-ho (173) |
 |
| • 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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|
172
↑ |
|
173
|
|
174
|
|
Man on Wire |
|
James Marsh
(196) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Spellbound |
|
Jeffrey Blitz (130) |
 |
|
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 |
|
Selected by Ty Burr, A.O. Scott, Wesley Morris, Stephanie
Zacharek, Charles Taylor. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Bloody
Sunday |
|
Paul Greengrass
(126) |
 |
|
2001, 110m, Col, UK-Ireland, Historical-Drama |
| James
Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley,
Kathy Kiera Clarke, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Mary Moulds,
Carmel McCallion, Christopher Villiers |
|
"For the viewer, the miracle of Bloody Sunday is that
firm moral judgment can exist side by side with a wild and
bitter exhilaration in the sheer physicality of violence." -
David Denby, The New Yorker |
|
Selected by Michael Atkinson, Peter Keough, Gavin Smith, Kenneth Turan, Scott
Foundas. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
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|
175
↑ |
|
176
|
|
177
↑ |
|
Distant |
|
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (217) |
 |
| • 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 |
|
|
|
Kinsey |
|
Bill Condon (124) |
 |
|
2004, 118m, Col, Germany-USA-UK, Drama-Biography |
| Liam Neeson,
Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton,
John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker, Julianne
Nicholson |
| "A
stupendously moving film. Neeson nails Kinsey's rock-hard
decency and fragile ego, and Linney abets him beautifully: There
isn't an actress in movies right now who's more simply alive." -
David Edelstein, Slate |
|
Selected by Owen Gleiberman, David Ehrenstein, Richard Schickel,
A.O. Scott, Stephen Holden. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Ratatouille |
|
Brad Bird (193) |
 |
|
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 |
|
Selected by Frank Darabont, Philip French, David Denby, Peter Keough, Matt Zoller Seitz. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
178
|
|
179
↑ |
|
180
|
|
George Washington |
|
David Gordon Green
(167) |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Irréversible |
|
Gaspar Noé (202) |
 |
| 2002, 97m, Col,
France, Crime-Drama-Horror |
| Monica
Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia, Philippe
Nahon, Stephane Drouot, Jean-Louis Costes, Michel Gondoin,
Mourad Khima, Gaspar Noe |
| "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
Stuart Gordon,
John Waters,
Ian Christie, Ty Burr, Gerald Peary. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Hotel Rwanda |
|
Terry George (151) |
 |
| 2004, 121m, Col,
UK-USA-South Africa-Italy, War-Drama |
| Don Cheadle,
Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, David O'Hara,
Cara Seymour, Fana Mokoena, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Mosa
Kaiser |
| "It is a powerful portrait
of a slightly befuddled man who, when inhuman demands were
placed on him, found within himself an unexpected response." -
Richard Schickel, Time |
|
Selected by Roger Ebert,
Richard Roeper, Mick LaSalle, Charles Taylor, Desson Thomson. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
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|
181
↑ |
|
182
↑ |
|
183
↑ |
| Two Lovers |
|
James Gray
new
|
 |
| 2008, 110m,
Col, USA-France, Drama-Romance |
| Joaquin
Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Moni Moshonov, Isabella
Rossellini, John Ortiz, Bob Ari, Julie Budd, Elias Koteas,
Shiran Nicholson |
| "As in a good
European film, shots are allowed to breathe. The focus is on
character and human emotion. At the same time, the movie shows
an American concern for pace and story development. The result
is the best of both worlds." - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco
Chronicle |
| Selected by
Tom Charity, F.X. Feeney, Karina Longworth, Charles Taylor,
Keith Uhlich. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
| Up in the
Air |
|
Jason Reitman
new
|
 |
| 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 |
|
|
|
Minority
Report |
|
Steven Spielberg (227) |
 |
| 2002, 144m, Col,
USA, Thriller-Science Fiction-Action |
| Tom Cruise,
Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton,
Lois Smith, Tim Blake Nelson, Neal McDonough, Patrick
Kilpatrick, Jessica Capshaw |
| "This film is such a
virtuoso high-wire act, daring so much, achieving it with such
grace and skill. Minority Report reminds us why we go to the
movies in the first place." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
|
Selected by Peter Keough,
James Berardinelli, Mike Clark, Chris Chang, William Arnold. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
184
|
|
185
|
|
186
|
|
21 Grams |
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu (164) |
 |
| 2003, 125m, Col,
Germany-USA, Drama |
| Sean Penn,
Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa
Leo, Clea Duvall, Danny Huston, Eddie Marsan, Paul Calderon,
Annie Corley |
| "What gives the film a formalist
kick is that the story unfolds piecemeal as a series of
nonlinear moments. What gives it soul are the three lead actors
who pull the pieces together with devastating power." -
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times |
|
Selected by
Jonathan Romney, Gerald Peary, Manohla Dargis, Mick LaSalle, Elvis Mitchell. |
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Amazon
metacritic |
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|
24 Hour
Party People |
|
Michael Winterbottom
(158) |
 |
|
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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Offside |
|
Jafar Panahi (131) |
 |
| 2006,
93m, Col, Iran, Comedy-Drama-Sports |
| Sima
Mobarak-Shahi, Safdar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi,
Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi, Nazanin Sediq-zadeh, Mohammad
Kheir-abadi, Masoud Kheymeh-kabood, Mohammed-Reza Gharebaghi |
|
"The masterly
Panahi concocts a spellbinding, often corrosively
and/or warmly funny story in which love of both country and
sport tries to, but doesn't quite, transcend dogmatic and
ingrained difference." -
Glenn Kenny, Premiere |
|
Selected by
J. Hoberman, Dennis Lim, David D'Arcy, Bilge Ebiri, Ed Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
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187
|
|
188
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189
↑ |
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Hero |
|
Zhang Yimou
(150) |
 |
| • Ying xiong
(original title) |
|
2002, 99m, Col, Hong Kong-China, Drama-Action |
| Jet Li,
Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Daoming Chen, Donnie Yen,
Liu Zhong Yuan, Zheng Tia Yong, Yan Qin, Chang Xiao Yang |
| "Hero
is a movie that lives up to all the nobility of its title, a
gift to movie audiences who cherish the opportunity to be
transported to a heretofore unimagined world and absorbed
totally into what happens there." - Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore
Sun |
|
Selected by Richard Corliss, David Edelstein, Charles Taylor,
Chris Kaltenbach, Mark Jenkins. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Chicago |
|
Rob Marshall (137) |
 |
| 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. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Tie Xi Qu: West of
the Tracks |
|
Wang Bing
new
|
 |
|
2003, 551m, Col, China, Documentary |
| "Wang's
monumental documentary is a poetic summation of the death throes
of the heavy industries (copper smelting, sheet metal
production, cable manufacture) in Shenyang, North-east China." -
Tony Rayns,
Time Out |
|
Selected by Ying
Liang, Berenice Reynaud, Dennis Lim, Jean-Michel Frodon, Thom
Andersen. |
|
Amazon
The New York Times |
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| |
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|
190
|
|
191
↑ |
|
192
|
|
Nobody
Knows |
|
Hirokazu Koreeda
(154) |
 |
| • Dare mo
shiranai (original title) |
|
2003, 141m, Col, Japan, Drama |
| Yuya Yagira,
Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan, You, Kazumi
Kushida, Yukiko Okamoto, Sei Hiraizumi, Susumu Terajima |
|
"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
Jia Zhangke, David Edelstein, Daryl Chin, Michael Koresky,
Ed Gonzalez. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
In the Loop |
|
Armando Iannucci
new
|
 |
|
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 |
|
Selected by
Phillip
Lopate, David Ansen, Michael Phillips, Keith Phipps, Nathan
Rabin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Tarnation |
|
Jonathan Caouette (162) |
 |
| 2003, 88m, Col-BW,
USA, Documentary |
| Renee
Leblanc, Jonathan Caouette, Adolph Davis, Rosemary Davis, David
Sanin Paz, Michael Cox, Dagon James, Joshua Williams, David
LeBlanc, Stacey Mowery |
| "Harrowing, extremely
disturbing at times, but brought to the screen in dazzling
pop-art images that make the movie's grim content very much
worth watching." -
David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor |
|
Selected by
Guy Maddin, Kenneth Turan,
A.O. Scott, Ella Taylor, Lou Lumenick. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
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|
193
|
|
194
↑ |
|
195
|
|
A Prairie Home
Companion |
|
Robert
Altman (168) |
 |
| 2006, 105m, Col,
USA, Comedy-Drama-Musical |
| Woody
Harrelson, L.Q. Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin
Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Meryl
Streep, Lily Tomlin |
|
"Not since
Woody Allen's
Radio Days has
anyone created such a cinematic Valentine to the wonderfully
imaginative medium of radio as A Prairie Home Companion." -
Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter |
|
Selected by Joseph
McBride, Richard Combs, Michael
Wilmington, Molly Haskell, Kent Jones. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Downfall |
|
Oliver
Hirschbiegel
new |
 |
| • Der
Untergang
(original title) |
|
2004, 156m, Col, Germany-Austria-Italy, War-Drama |
| Bruno Ganz,
Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane
Kohler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Matthias Habich, Thomas
Kretschmann, Michael Mendl |
| "A
riveting re-creation of three world-changing collapses: those of
the Nazi party, of militarized Germany as a whole, and of the
Führer who guided them into self-destructive ruin." -
David Sterritt,
Christian Science Monitor |
|
Selected by
Philip
Kemp, Frank Darabont, Richard
Schickel, Stephen Holden, Saul Austerlitz. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
The Sun |
|
Aleksandr Sokurov
new |
 |
| • Solntse (original title) |
|
2005, 115m, Col, Russia-Italy-France-Switzerland,
Drama-Historical |
| Issei
Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi, Shiro Sano, Shinmei Tsuji,
Taijiro Tamura, Georgi Pitskhelauri, Hiroya Morita, Toshiaki
Nishizawa, Naomasa Musaka |
| "This
2005 masterpiece by Russian filmmaker
Alexander
Sokurov transforms the story of Emperor Hirohito at
the close of World War II into a melancholy meditation on power
and its loss." -
Fred Camper,
Chicago Reader |
|
Selected by Amy
Taubin, David Sterritt, Phillip Lopate, Kent Jones, J. Hoberman. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
196
|
|
197
|
|
198
|
|
Black Hawk
Down |
|
Ridley
Scott (139) |
 |
| 2001, 144m, Col,
USA, War-Drama-Action |
| Josh
Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Jason Isaacs, William
Fichtner, Eric Bana, Sam Shepard, Ewen Bremner, Gabriel Casseus,
Ioan Gruffudd |
| "Rivets our interest for
its entire lengthy running time. And it does this without any of
the usual war movie clichés, false heroics, barracks-humor
nonsense or grandstanding absurdities." -
William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
Selected by
Bruce
Beresford, Richard Schickel,
Kenneth Turan, Roger Ebert, Richard Corliss. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Rachel
Getting Married |
|
Jonathan Demme
(141) |
 |
|
2008, 113m, Col, USA, Drama-Romance |
| Anne
Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Mather
Zickel, Anna Deavere Smith, Anisa George, Robyn Hitchcock, Roger
Corman, Debra Winger |
|
"A friend asked: "Wouldn't you love to attend a wedding
like that?" In a way, I felt I had. Yes, I began to feel
absorbed in the experience. A few movies can do that, can slip
you out of your mind and into theirs." - Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times |
|
Selected by
Mike D'Angelo, Ed Gonzalez, Noel Murray, Matt Singer, Nathan
Rabin. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
|
Maria Full
of Grace |
|
Joshua Marston (143) |
 |
|
2003, 100m, Col, USA-Colombia-Ecuador, Drama-Crime |
| Catalina
Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Jhon Alex Toro, Guilied Lopez,
Patricia Rae, Virginia Ariza, Rodrigo Sanchez Borhorquez,
Charles Albert Patino, Wilson Guerrero, Johanna Andrea Mora |
|
"Moreno, with her wide, watchful eyes, owns the camera - and the
film. Her performance is perfectly natural and profoundly
moving. Maria Full of Grace is a remarkable picture, full
of suspense and discovery." - Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
Selected by John Anderson, Owen Gleiberman, Richard Schickel,
Stephen Holden, Kevin Thomas. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
199
↑ |
|
200
|
|
|
|
Crash |
|
Paul Haggis (214) |
 |
| 2004, 113m, Col,
Germany-USA-Australia, Drama-Crime |
| Sandra
Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William
Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Ludacris, Thandie
Newton, Ryan Phillippe |
| "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 |
|
|
|
Flags of
Our Fathers |
|
Clint Eastwood
(157) |
 |
|
2006, 132m, Col, USA, War-Drama-Action |
| Ryan
Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey,
John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert
Patrick, Neal McDonough |
|
"To an extent, Flags of Our Fathers
is to the WWII movie what
Eastwood's
Unforgiven was to the western -- a stripping-away of
mythology until only a harsher, uncomfortable reality remains."
- Scott Foundas, Village Voice |
|
Selected by Richard Combs, Philip French, Kent Jones, Michael Wilmington, Kirk Honeycutt. |
|
Amazon
metacritic |
|
|
> 201-250 |
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