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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Mr. Linklater emerges once again as the Austin auteur par excellence, even if A Scanner Darkly is set in a ratty precinct of Orange County." |
Andrew Sarris |
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A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"Tells a seemingly familiar story, but in a daringly original manner." |
Andrew Sarris |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"Technically dazzling yet emotionally accessible to the inner child in everyone from 9 to 90." |
Rex Reed |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The most controversial conversation-piece to hit the dumbed-down American movie scene since heaven knows when." |
Andrew Sarris |
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About a Boy (2002) |
"That rare gem that tugs at the heartstrings with no manipulative sentimentality." |
Rex Reed |
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About a Boy (2002) |
"In the end, the film comes over as a messy delight, thanks to the skill, generosity and good-sport, punching-bag panache of Mr. Grant's performance." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Adam (2009) |
"A touching and engaging film about a likable and attractive young man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome." |
Rex Reed |
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Adam Resurrected (2008) |
"I can tentatively recommend it if only because there has never been anything like it in the history of cinema as far as I can remember." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Adoration (2009) |
"As for Mr. Egoyan, he remains an auteur at the highest level of cinematic creation, and even one of his lesser films, like Adoration, deserves to be seen." |
Andrew Sarris |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
"May be the strangest and most surprising film you’ll see this year, in that its character development runs counter to the expectations aroused by its narrative sequencing." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Alias Betty (2002) |
"Ms. Khiberlain, Ms. Garcia and Ms. Seigner brilliantly play the three mothers like a dissonant string trio on a single theme: the varied agonies of motherhood." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Alice et Martin (1998) |
"Alice and Martin is not to be missed, particularly in this endless lull of summer." |
Andrew Sarris |
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All About My Mother (1999) |
"All About My Mother, for all its self-deconstruction, is played with more sobriety and conviction than any of Mr. Almodóvar's previous films." |
Andrew Sarris |
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All of Us (2008) |
"Ms. Abt brings out the best in her subjects: Tara and Chevelle and their partners are fully realized, not just poster children for the cause." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
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Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert, from comedy material written and performed by Mohammed 'Mo' Amer, Bryant 'Preacher' Moss and Azhar Usman, strives to be both timely and funny as it confronts the problems of American Muslims in America after 9/11." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Almost Peaceful (2004) |
"This is a film of half-notes and nuances, and as a chronicle of emotional survival it is infinitely inspiring." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace, from a screenplay by Steven Knight, turns out to be blessed with inspirational nobility and comic eccentricity to bring it to emotional fruition." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Amelia (2009) |
"It has beautiful cinematography, a star performance that is shocking in its authenticity, a careful eye for nuance and detail and an irresistible blend of action and romance that should spell automatic success." |
Rex Reed |
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Amen (2003) |
"An unusually riveting experience for a story with an inevitable, dismal ending." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Amen (2003) |
"Flawed but unmistakably moving, Amen shines a flashlight on the darkest chapter in modern history." |
Rex Reed |
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American Beauty (1999) |
"As the latest mainstream movie symptom of our premillennial malaise, American Beauty is so brilliantly acted, written, directed and visualized that for all its despondency and despair, it is a lot of fun." |
Andrew Sarris |
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American Gangster (2007) |
"One must applaud American Gangster as the kind of socko entertainment many people thought Hollywood filmmakers had become incapable of. It is not to be missed." |
Andrew Sarris |
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An American Rhapsody (2001) |
"An American Rhapsody’s confident sense of time, place and emotional content is more European than American, and despite a few narrative lurches, it’s a moving experience." |
Rex Reed |
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American Splendor (2003) |
"There's a tremendous amount of cultural vitality out there in the land of the losers; American Splendor is one of the first and best films to capitalize fully on this phenomenon." |
Andrew Sarris |
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American Teen (2008) |
"Ms. Burstein has infused her film with an ever-rare authenticity and manages to see beyond each kid’s stereotype to the complicated screwed-up adolescent they are (and we were)." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
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American Violet (2009) |
"A harrowing, compelling and profoundly true story that dares to tackle an important but too rarely exposed issue of the abuse of power in the American criminal justice system." |
Rex Reed |
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Amores Perros (2001) |
"One of the most honored and most expertly articulated Mexican films of recent years." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Amu (2005) |
"[Amu] is clearly a labor of love for the activist filmmaker, as she breaks all the traditional inhibitions of Bollywood to remind the world of -- and, for most of us, reveal for the first time -- one of the most shameful episodes in Indian history." |
Andrew Sarris |
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An Education (2009) |
"Captivatingly written, directed and acted with sensitivity and nuance, this is one of the best films of the year. It lives up to its title in more ways than one." |
Rex Reed |
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Antwone Fisher (2002) |
"A fine film that proves the past is never too bleak -- or the future too hopeless -- to discover a productive new life, and a home and family to share it." |
Rex Reed |
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The Aristocrats (2005) |
"See it if you aren’t too jaded to appreciate a few laughs in these mostly mirthless times." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Army of Shadows (1969) |
"A film to be seen and savored for its moral magnitude." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Art School Confidential (2006) |
"Curiously, this relentlessly cynical tone turns out sounding refreshingly original compared to the usual pieties in the genre." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Ashes of Time Redux (1994) |
"One feels the passionate intensity of the filmmaker in every strand of his luminously intricate narrative." |
Andrew Sarris |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"The extraordinary expressive performers, male and female; the haunting interior and exterior conflicts; the painstaking authenticity of the period detail; and the subtly modulated mood shifts all combine to make a modern masterpiece of an old legend." |
Andrew Sarris |
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The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"In boots, spurs and bow-legged jeans under his homemade Stanley Kubrick space suit, Billy Bob makes dreamers of us all." |
Rex Reed |
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Asylum (2005) |
"A leanly structured, richly detailed and artistically thrilling work that is one of the most important films of the year." |
Rex Reed |
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Asylum (2005) |
"Powerful, haunting and beautifully crafted, Asylum deserves attention, praise, respect, admiration and Oscars." |
Rex Reed |
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Atonement (2007) |
"One of the most successful adaptations of a distinguished novel I have ever seen." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Atonement (2007) |
"Atonement is everything a true lover of literature and movies could possibly hope for. It is unquestionably, without any reservations, my favorite film of the year." |
Rex Reed |
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August Evening (2007) |
"August Evening is infinitely more absorbing and entertaining than we had any right to expect from such simple and undemanding creatures." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Australia (2008) |
"I must confess that I might have been harder on Mr. Luhrmann’s film if I had not remained entranced by Ms. Kidman." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Auto Focus (2002) |
"From the opening razzmatazz and Vegas lounge-band arrangements behind the credits, to the crime-lab murder scene itself, Mr. Schrader captures the air-conditioned look and feel of the Hollywood dream factory." |
Rex Reed |
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Autumn Spring (2003) |
"Tells the story of a cantankerous and death-denying Czech oldster with enough unsentimental nuances and character reversals to make the film an instant classic in a genre that is seldom high on the list of commercially viable projects." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Avatar (2009) |
"Did everything make sense? Nope. And you know what? Who cares! Avatar is thrilling, exciting and, best of all, something new that your eyeballs didn't even know they very much wanted to see." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
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Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"The film serves as a timely reminder of the tastefully sybaritic terrain that our own mainstream moviemakers have largely ignored in the commercially driven thirst for blood and gore." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Away From Her (2007) |
"A heartbreaking and memorable cinematic experience." |
Rex Reed |
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Away From Her (2007) |
"I have seen few films in recent years as emotionally engrossing and edifying. It is not to be missed by any moviegoer professing to be looking for something different." |
Andrew Sarris |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
"Both as satire and as drama, About Schmidt turns out to be a fascinating setback." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Adaptation (2002) |
"Adaptation gets an A for audacity and a Z for Zzzzz..." |
Rex Reed |
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