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Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell, 2012 (8.7*) This is a surprising romance, better than I expected, largely because the screenplay is refreshingly different, with some witty and original dialogue, and beca...
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild *10* Benh Zeitlin, 2012 Sundance Award This is a mesmerizing and powerful film by debut director Benh Zeitlin, from a play by Lucy Alibar, a fellow writer that Zeitlin...
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Mr. Nobody
Jan Van Dormeal, 2009 (9.5*) Belgium-Canada-France-Germany It's hard to describe this film without making it sound perhaps incohesive and out of control, but quite the contrary, this ...
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
John Madden, 2011 (8.1*) From the director of Shakespeare in Love (1998) comes a more serious film, as a disparate group of seven Brits go to India to live in the hotel of the title, n...
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Margin Call
J.C. Chandor, 2011 (8.2*) Another spooky film about how flimsy and corrupt western capitalism is at the top levels, those megalithic banking corporations that control everyone’s money and who a...
Melancholia
Lars von Trier, 2011 (8.4*) This is a rarity among films, a science fiction film that has little to do, really, with that aspect of the story. Instead, the fact that a hidden planet has emerged f...
Source Code
Duncan Jones, 2011 (7.9*) Interesting science fiction film that leans more toward the intellectual and less action style, which is a welcome relief on one aspect. However, as usual, you can’t l...
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicious, France-Belgium, 2011 (8.5*) Best Picture (AA, BAA) Having won 114 awards so far, second only to Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, you would expect this film to be one o...
The Ides of March
George Clooney, 2011 (8.4*) This is an intelligent political thriller with a few unpredictable twists. One would say the acclaim is due George Clooney, since he co-wrote the screenplay, directed ...
Rango
Gore Verbinski, 2011 (8.8*) Academy Award, Best Animated Film I loved this trippy, clever, irreverent film! You know you’re into something heady when a family's pet chameleon character, hilario...
Bolt
Byron Howard, Chris Williams, 2008 (7.8*) Another enjoyable Pixar-Disney animated film, with some incredibly realistic graphics, at least the landscape portions (the humans look a little stiff an...
Take Shelter
Jeff Nichols, 2011 (8.5*) An intense young man, brilliantly portrayed by Michael Shannon, begins having apocalyptic dreams, leading him to think a huge storm is coming. He slowly drifts toward hi...
The James Bond Films
The James Bond Films (aka 007) The James Bond series of films is based on the wildly successful series of novels by British author Ian Fleming, which helped popularize the genre of espionage nove...
Drive
Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011 (9.0*) Ryan Gosling plays a man we see in the beginning of the film driving a getaway car for men pulling a heist. The audience is immediately sucked into this film by ...
Powwow Highway
Jonathan Wacks, 1989 (8.2*) This is a funny modern Native American film that also has some points to make about the survival of N.A. traditions in the modern era, and how some manage to walk with...
Downton Abbey
Jim Carter as the butler leads the servant staff (L), whileHugh Bonneville as the Earl heads the family (R) Brian Percival and Brian Kelly, directed four episodes each; several others direct...
Emma (Miniseries)
Jim O’Hanlon, 2009 (9.5*) Masterpiece Theater version for BBC There have been a veritable plethora of Jane Austen’s novels put to film, usually 3 to 5 per novel. In fact, this is the fourth v...
Five Minutes of Heaven
Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2009 (8.4*) Sundance Awards for directing and screenplay. Based on a true story of the troubles in Northern Ireland. A Protestant worker is ordered to leave a shipyard in Lur...
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Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen, 2011 (9.0*) Woody is back! This is a light romantic fantasy in the same vein as The Purple Rose of Cairo and Alice, which mixes reality with a fantasy world that obviously comes from...
Lost Horizon
Frank Capra, 1937 (8.2*) Exotic, unspoiled locales around the world have always appealed to the more daring individuals of more populous regions, such as Europe; just look at the nationalities of...
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dir: Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (10*) AFI Top 100 This groundbreaking SciFi epic was the first to feature totally realistic space effects, and changed forever the way SF films looked. The story, by A...
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Death at a Funeral
Frank Oz, 2007 (8.3*) It’s not every day that you laugh all through a film about a funeral. Writer Dean Craig has managed to do just that in this black comedy. It’s also not in any other cine...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
Noomi Rapace, her biopic, and as Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Denmark - Sweden - Germany - Norway Niels Arden Oplev, 2009 (7.8*) I’m reviewi...
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Performance
Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, 1970 (8.5*) Roeg was also cinematographer This is #326 on our Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls. Former cinematographer Nicolas Roeg shared directing cr...
Splendor in the Grass
Elia Kazan, 1961 (8.6*) Ranked #1003 on our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls. Not considered one of Kazan’s best, certainly not when compared to On the Waterfront ...