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Owen Gleiberman 100
The Wizard of Oz remains the weirdest, scariest, kookiest, most haunting and indelible kid-flick-that's-really-for-adults ever made in Hollywood.- Posted Feb 16, 2011
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Critic Score 100
It boasts a more consistent tone, better special effects (such as villains throwing buses around like paper planes), and even an affecting love story. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The picture was made in 1969 and is only now being released in the U.S., in a beautiful restoration supervised by original cinematographer Pierre Lhomme. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Like any great myth, Pan's Labyrinth encodes its messages through displays of magic. And like any good fairy tale, it is also embroidered with threads of death and loss. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Before Midnight confounds expectations in powerful and even haunting ways. It's not just darker than the previous two films. It's bigger, deeper, and more searching. It follows the characters through a tale of embattled love that extends far beyond them.- Posted May 22, 2013
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Owen Gleiberman 100
It becomes as savage as ''Reservoir Dogs,'' ''The Killing,'' or any of the other dozens of films over which it still casts a shadow. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Nothing good happens in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the riveting, horrifying chronicle of an illegal abortion performed in 1987 when Ceauescu's dictatorial hand still gripped Romania's throat. And yet no lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The power of The Social Network is that Zuckerberg is a weasel with a mission that can never be dismissed. The movie suggests that he may have built his ambivalence about human connection into Facebook's very DNA. That's what makes him a jerk-hero for our time. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
They're like gods at play, paragons of pure delight, as they mock and feign their way through a universe of mere mortals. To see the movie again is to realize that they were never entirely of this earth and that they never will be. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Once in a long while, a fresh-from-the-headlines movie - like "All the President's Men" or "United 93" - fuses journalism, procedural high drama, and the oxygenated atmosphere of a thriller into a new version of history written with lightning. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's meticulous and electrifying re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is that kind of movie.- Posted Dec 5, 2012
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Farhadi is no mere formalist. His film is a spiritual investigation into the rise of women and the descent of male privilege in Iran, and a look at the toll that has taken. In a movie of flawless acting, it is Moadi - terse, proud, angry, haunted - who shows us that rare thing: a soul in transition.- Posted Jan 4, 2012
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Critic Score 91
This gonzo satiric thriller is a riveting portrait of early-60's paranoia. [15 Nov 1996, p.82] -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
A triumph of psychological depth and artistic brilliance offered as the magical adventures of one skinny little girl. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
In E.T., Spielberg proved a herald of the age when moviegoers would make full-time friends with fantasy, but his most special effect was taking us into ourselves. -
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[Tarantino's] ability to take what seem like minor conversational themes and dovetail them onto later exchanges for maximum comic effect is close to genius. And the action can be literally heart-stopping. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Way ahead of its time 30 years ago, and just as stunning today, Killer of Sheep is one of those marvels of original moviemaking that keeps hope of artistic independence alive. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The result is an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Nearly four decades ago, Pontecorvo anatomized the very form of modern terrorist warfare: the hidden cells, the cultish leaders, the brutish cycle of attack and counterattack. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The conclusion of Peter Jackson's masterwork is passionate and literate, detailed and expansive, and it's conceived with a risk-taking flair for old-fashioned movie magic at its most precious. -
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Owen Gleiberman 83
A rivetingly journalistic account of a scoundrel's rise and fall. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
In Amour, these two actors show us what love is, what it really looks like, and what it may, at its most secret moments, demand.- Posted Jan 2, 2013
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Critic Score 100
Funny and scary, Reversal is a tour de force for Schroeder, who examines the idle rich, the intricacies of the legal system, and the imperatives of morality concisely but with unmatched brio. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Spielberg restages the Holocaust with an existential vividness unprecedented in any nondocumentary film: He makes us feel as if we're living right inside the 20th century's darkest-and most defining-episode. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
By the end, the rug gets pulled out from under us, showing that even the reality we think we see may be an illusion.- Posted May 8, 2013
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
These 173 minutes don't drag, they waltz. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
The most beautiful movie ever made about a man who could only move one eyelid -- almost dangerously beautiful. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
For bleakness, the movie can't be beat -- nor for brilliance. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The first animated feature produced entirely on computer is a magically witty and humane entertainment, a hellzapoppin fairy tale about a roomful of suburban toys who come to life when humans aren't around. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Vibrantly, intricately alive on its own terms. This is what magic the movies can conjure with an inspired fellowship in charge, and unlimited pots of gold. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The result: This great work of art has the potential to change the world. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The antidote to every square tough-guy caper you've ever seen, and the inspiration for many great ones. It is an existential imperative to seek out a showing and burn rubber to get there, preferably in an excellent car. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
If ''Finding Nemo'' is an awesome Pixar superpower, The Triplets of Belleville is a charming, idiosyncratic, self-governing duchy with huge tourism potential on the other side of the animated-movie planet. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Helen Mirren's allure lies not in finding what's regal in every woman she plays, but in finding what's womanly in every royal. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
(Denis's) visual style is hypnotic, rapturous, and she makes barren landscapes look gorgeous, hard men look vulnerable. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Waltz With Bashir has transcended the definitions of ''cartoon'' or ''war documentary'' to be classified as its own brilliant invention. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
The breath of cinematic life, though, the sensibility, the energy, belong to Joel and Ethan Coen, and this is their stirring success. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The film, by seasoned cinematographer Dror Moreh, is a feat — of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.- Posted Feb 6, 2013
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Owen Gleiberman 100
By the time The Crying Game is over, you'll never look at beauty in quite the same way. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A movie of staggering virtuosity and raw lyric power, a masterpiece of terror, chaos, blood, and courage. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
There's also no romanticizing on the part of the director, who proceeds with calm, unshowy attentiveness (even in the midst of scenes of violence), creating a stunning portrait of an innately smart survivor for whom prison turns out to be a twisted opportunity for self-definition. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
One of the unshowiest and most true-blooded epics of Americana you're ever likely to see. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Remains a majestic explosion of pure cinema. It's a hallucinatory poem of fear, projecting, in its scale and spirit, a messianic vision of human warfare stretched to the flashpoint of technological and moral breakdown. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
It's a mad cycle of arrogance and despair, and Bloody Sunday etches it onto your nervous system. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Leaves you shaken and ecstatic at the same time, transported by the vision of a major film artist. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
This is a great film, and a triumph of creativity and courage over repression.- Posted Feb 27, 2012
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The most excitingly original movie of the year. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The new film, which unfolds in real time over the course of 80 minutes, is a deeper, darker, altogether more memorable experience. It doesn't extend the characters so much as fulfill them. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Crowe, staying close to his memories, has gotten it, for perhaps the first time, onto the screen. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
American Splendor presents Pekar as drawn on the page, Pekar as brilliantly interpreted by Paul Giamatti, and the actual Pekar, in the double role of narrator and interview subject -- sometimes all at once. The magic act is thrilling, and truly surprising. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 91
Pulling the bandage of sentiment cleanly away from oozing concepts like ''heroism'' and ''our nation's war on terror'' in the aftermath of recent wounds, here's a drama about the most politically charged crisis of our time that grants the dignity of autonomy to every soul involved. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A beautifully sinister and transfixing entertainment-age daydream. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
An extraordinary film; it may be the most haunting documentary since ''Crumb.'' -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
The Passenger isn't finally the masterpiece some have made it out to be, but it retains a singular intrigue: It's the first, and probably the last, thriller ever made about depression. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity, and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema. -
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Critic Score 83
Surprisingly, given Lee's penchant for experimentation, there's nothing remotely innovative about this sober, often intensely moving exploration of a community's lingering grief and outrage -- just the usual talking heads, stock footage, montages of stills, and such. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
An outrageously gorgeous spectacle of balletic aggression. At the same time, it offers something we rarely encounter in a whirling martial-arts extravaganza: a romantic passion that's woven into the very fabric of the action. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The gorgeous music includes Ralph Vaughan Williams' wafting tone poem ''The Lark Ascending'' -- apt in describing an artist who might well be part bird. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
When Baron Cohen works without a net, he flies. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Ferguson spotlights two massive mistakes: the looting that was allowed to continue, destroying Iraqi infrastructure and morale; and--far more revelatory -- the apocalyptically stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army, sending half a million angry soldiers into the streets. -
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Owen Gleiberman 83
The result is a playful, elusive movie that isn't so much heartwarming as soul-cleansing. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Facing a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the older woman enrolls in a poetry class, desperate to find the words to describe beauty before language fails her. She does even better: She herself becomes a kind of poem about what it means to really see the world.- Posted Feb 16, 2011
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Days after I saw The Artist, I was still thinking (and grinning) about it, because the movie's real romance is the one between us, the jaded 21st-century audience, and the mechanical innocence of old movies, which here becomes new again.- Posted Nov 23, 2011
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Owen Gleiberman 100
By the end, Campion views all her characters with a compassion bordering on grace, a humanity-like her heroine's-as dark, quiet, and enveloping as the ocean. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Clint Eastwood's profound, magisterial, and gripping companion piece to his ambitious meditation on wartime image and reality, "Flags of Our Fathers." -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Until Once, I'm not sure that I'd ever seen a small-scale, nonstylized, kitchen-sink drama in which the songs take on the majesty and devotion of a musical dream. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers in revolt. -
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One of those rare gems that prove equally stunning on both aesthetic and cerebral levels. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Capote honors its subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
If you see only one comic love story from Kazakhstan this year, choose this prize-winning honey. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Hersonski quietly and insistently unravels reality from "reality"; her commitment to archival authenticity is its own tribute to those no longer able to testify. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
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. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
Mafioso does more than cast its fascinating shadow over "The Godfather." It captures, in a stark yet haunting way, the indelible fact that no man is born a mobster. -
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Owen Gleiberman 91
This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 83
Lest the audience miss a cue, Hooper and soundtrack composer Alexandre Desplat count on the ringing grandeur of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony - the famous second movement, no less - to amp the emotions.- Posted Dec 11, 2010
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Working from a superb script by Paul Attanasio, Redford has caught the way a show like Twenty-One offered a carny-barker version of the American Dream. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
It's a great, IQ-flattering entertainment both wonderful and wise. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Yagira's performance is so extraordinary, it won him the best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes film festival. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The richest and most satisfying romantic movie of the year. It's really about two great loves at once -- the love of life and of art -- and the way that Shakespeare, like no writer before him, transformed the one into the other. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Naples-born Servillo is a national star, famed as a theater, opera, and film director as well as an actor. And he's got the face of a mensch (or a Madoff) -- which makes his embodiment of criminal banality all the more identifiable, as well as horrifying. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Bestows generous blessings on all that's good in Englishness, in moviedom, and, of course, in cheese. -
