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5/5	*The animated documentary Waltz With Bashir* is a memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film.** Posted Dec 29, 2008	Waltz with Bashir (2008)	95%
5/5	*It may be a bit, um, premature to say so, but Judd Apatow's Knocked Up* strikes me as an instant classic, a comedy that captures the sexual confusion and moral ambivalence of our moment.** Posted May 31, 2007	Knocked Up (2007)	91%
5/5	The Lives of Others is a supremely intelligent, unfailingly honest look at a shadowy period in recent German history. Posted Feb 9, 2007	The Lives of Others (2006)	93%
5/5	Pan's Labyrinth is a political fable in the guise of a fairy tale. Or maybe it's the other way around. Posted Dec 29, 2006	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)	96%
5/5	Another masterwork from Clint Eastwood's astonishing late period, and one of the best war movies ever. Posted Dec 19, 2006	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	91%
5/5	Pedro Almodóvar has made yet another picture that moves beyond camp into a realm of wise, luxuriant humanism. Posted Nov 2, 2006	Volver (2006)	91%
5/5	" Hubert Sauper's harrowing, indispensable documentary about Tanzania presents the agonized human face of globalization." Posted Aug 3, 2005	Darwin's Nightmare (2006)	92%
5/5	A complex, intriguing narrative about oil, terrorism, money and power. Posted Nov 23, 2005	Syriana (2005)	74%
5/5	The stop-motion pooch and his cheese-loving master return in a silly and sublime feature-length adventure. Posted Oct 5, 2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)	95%
5/5	" *With Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch's sly, touching new film, Bill Murray reaffirms his status as the quietest comic actor in movies today." Posted Aug 4, 2005*	Broken Flowers (2005)	86%
5/5	" An essay film, a work of painstaking and penetrating scholarship, and, as such, one of the most original and rigorous pieces of criticism in any medium I have encountered in quite some time." Posted Jul 28, 2005	The Aristocrats (2005)	80%
5/5	" Mysterious Skin is infused with remarkable tenderness and beauty." Posted May 5, 2005	Mysterious Skin (2005)	83%
5/5	" Kim Ki-duk's touching and improbable love story is pleasingly mysterious without being too difficult and a little gimmicky but not annoyingly so." Posted Apr 28, 2005	3-Iron (2005)	87%
5/5	Stephen Chow's kinetic, exhausting, relentlessly entertaining film throws scraps of a half-century of international pop culture into a fast-whirling blender. Posted Apr 7, 2005	Kung Fu Hustle (2005)	89%
5/5	" Lucrecia Martel's elusive, feverish and altogether amazing second feature seems to communicate as much to the nerves and skin as to the eyes and ears." Posted Oct 19, 2004	The Holy Girl (2005)	77%
5/5	" Clint Eastwood's drama about a grizzled boxing trainer and a spunky young fighter is the best movie released by a major Hollywood studio this year." Posted Dec 14, 2004	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	91%
5/5	" *To skip Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade* would be to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest.*" Posted Oct 14, 2004*	Moolaade (2004)	99%
5/5	" Bernardo Bertolucci's new film is an ardently romantic love song to sex, cinema and the spirit of the 60's." Posted Feb 5, 2004	The Dreamers (2004)	61%
5/5	" A tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief and unlikely sublimity." Posted Nov 25, 2003	The Triplets of Belleville (2003)	94%
5/5	" Not merely an interesting document from a far-off place; it is a masterpiece." Posted Apr 5, 2002	The Fast Runner (2002)	90%
5/5	" *Schepisi, aided by a cast that seems to include every top-notch British actor who did not appear in Gosford Park* (as well as one, Ms. Mirren, who did), has succeeded beyond all expectation.*" Posted Feb 14, 2002*	Last Orders (2002)	78%
5/5	" The movie just seems to happen, to grow out of the ground like a thorny plant, revealing the intricate intelligence of its design only in hindsight." Posted Dec 13, 2001	Lantana (2001)	90%
5/5	" The cast ... brings Mr. Clowes's sad world of loneliness and disaffection to vivid comic life." Posted Jul 20, 2001	Ghost World (2001)	92%
5/5	" As I watched the final credits of Yi Yi through bleary eyes, I struggled to identify the overpowering feeling that was making me tear up. Was it grief? Joy? Mirth? Yes, I decided, it was all of these. But mostly, it was gratitude." Posted Jan 10, 2001	Yi Yi (2000)	96%
5/5	" As a director [Crowe] has an extraordinary gift for drawing out rounded, complex performances even in supporting roles and for indicating the fine emotional shadings in the relationships among his characters." Posted Jan 1, 2000	Almost Famous (2000)	88%
5/5	" *Seven years after Fuller's death, 24 years after its initial, botched release, and almost 60 years after V-E day, The Big Red One* is finally here, in a form close to what Fuller intended.*" Posted Nov 11, 2004*	The Big Red One (1980)	91%
5/5	Overlord, a prize-winning entry in the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, deserves to join the pantheon of essential World War II combat movies. Posted Jul 13, 2006	Overlord (1975)	91%
5/5	Takes place at the particular intersection of reality and fantasy defined by youthful moviegoing. Posted Jan 26, 2006	Spirit of the Beehive (1973)	100%
5/5	" Thirty-nine years after it first appeared, Jean-Luc Godard's document of youthful confusion has not aged one minute." Posted Feb 10, 2005	Masculin Feminin (1966)	94%
5/5	" It shows all of Fellini's unrivaled virtues -- his lyrical sense of place, his abiding affection for even the most hapless of his characters, his effortless knack for limpid, bustling composition -- and very few of his putative vices." Posted Nov 13, 2003	I Vitelloni (1953)	100%
5/5	" *Neither an exposé of social conditions nor a psychological case study and certainly not a moral parable G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box* is a tour de force of cinematic eroticism.*" Posted Jun 15, 2006*	Pandora's Box (1928)	91%
5/5	" *Far from a historical curio, Metropolis* arrives, three-quarters of a century late, like an artifact from the future.*" Posted Jul 12, 2002*	Metropolis (1927)	99%
4.5/5	" The Curious Case of Benjamin Button sighs with longing and simmers with intrigue while investigating the philosophical conundrums and emotional paradoxes of its protagonist�s condition." Posted Dec 25, 2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	72%
4.5/5	" *The richness of The Secret of the Grain* lies in the close, tireless, enthusiastic attention it pays to the most mundane daily tasks.*" Posted Dec 24, 2008*	The Secret of the Grain (2008)	92%
4.5/5	" Wendy and Lucy takes place mainly outdoors and registers the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest with unostentatious affection." Posted Dec 9, 2008	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	84%
4.5/5	" Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. And Milk is a marvel." Posted Nov 26, 2008	Milk (2008)	93%
4.5/5	" After two and a half hours in the thrilling, exhausting company of the characters in A Christmas Tale, the intimacy we feel with them is wired with surprise." Posted Nov 14, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	90%
4.5/5	*What is most impressive about A Secret* is the way Mr. Miller artfully and gently gestures toward such enormous themes without spelling them out.** Posted Sep 8, 2008	A Secret (2008)	84%
4.5/5	It is, undoubtedly, an earnest (though far from simplistic) ecological parable, but it is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity. Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
4.5/5	" *In the course of the extraordinary film The Edge of Heaven* children are lost, lost parents are never found, and generational and geographical distances grow wider.*" Posted May 21, 2008*	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
4.5/5	*The picture of Iceland that emerges in Baltasar Korm�kur�s Jar City* is vivid and powerful but not something the country�s tourist board would be likely to endorse.** Posted Feb 29, 2008	Jar City (2008)	94%
4.5/5	*If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the necessary clarity and ethical rigor, Taxi to the Dark Side* will be essential.** Posted Jan 18, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
4.5/5	Persepolis austere as it may look, is full of warmth and surprise, alive with humor and a fierce independence of spirit. Posted Dec 26, 2007	Persepolis (2007)	96%
4.5/5	Sweeney Todd is as much a horror film as a musical. It is also something close to a masterpiece. Posted Dec 20, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
4.5/5	" A remarkably pure and powerful documentary, partly because it's so simple. The sound mix is crisp, the black-and-white photography is lovely, and the songs, above all, can be heard in all their earnest, enigmatic glory." Posted Dec 7, 2007	Bob Dylan - The Other Side of the Mirror (2007)	100%
4.5/5	It has the quiet beauty of a late afternoon, late in the autumn, when New York seems to be not just the center of the world but the crystallization of its finest tendencies. Posted Nov 23, 2007	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	85%
4.5/5	" *Among its many achievements, Todd Haynes�s I�m Not There* hurls a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory.*" Posted Nov 21, 2007*	I'm Not There (2007)	77%
4.5/5	*For formalists -- those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design -- No Country for Old Men* is pure heaven.** Posted Nov 8, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
4.5/5	*As the loving documentary, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, makes clear, Pete Seeger is still busy, still angry, still hopeful, still singing.* Posted Oct 26, 2007	Pete Seeger - The Power of Song (2007)	95%
4.5/5	Before the Devil Knows You�re Dead is a chronicle of destruction -- physical, spiritual and moral. Posted Oct 26, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%

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