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BEST REVIEWED FILMS

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A	"To find something that can make you love America in the way that was so common for so many a generation ago can seem like a miracle." Posted Feb 3, 2006	The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007)	88%
A	"Heart of Gold feels like an ample slice of the real America, the one truly worth caring for. And it's such a rare thing in this benighted age that the simple clarity with which it's presented feels like nothing less than a miracle." Posted Feb 24, 2006	Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006)	90%
A	"An outstanding film, a film worthy, if you can imagine, of the book at its heart." Posted Oct 21, 2005	Capote (2005)	91%
A+	"For six hours that seemed more like two, I was wrapped up in a human drama that was also a historical drama and a genuine wonder of filmmaking." Posted May 20, 2005	The Best of Youth (2005)	95%
A+	"It absolutely seals the promise that the first two films made -- to match one of the last century's most celebrated literary works with the first truly monumental film of this century." Posted Dec 17, 2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	94%
A	"*This edition -- clean and tight as Scott would have it -- presents a strong case for Alien* as both the greatest horror film and the greatest science-fiction film ever made.*" Posted Oct 29, 2003*	Alien: The Director's Cut (2003)	94%
A	"'I've seen things you people wouldn't believe,' declares one of the androids late in the going. And if you've seen this film, you can make the same claim." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)	97%
A	"The film still holds an overwhelming power to startle and grip. If that's not a measure of a classic, I don't know what is." Posted Dec 2, 2005	The Conformist (1970)	100%
A	"*Welcome to The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir's delightful, frothy, bittersweet masterpiece about romance, class and manners." Posted Mar 16, 2007*	The Rules of the Game (1939)	97%
A-	"An altogether astounding testimony to the band's longevity, vitality and verve." Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
A-	"It's an unthinkable fate, but Schnabel's film manages both to give us a palpable sense of it and to lead us to appreciate the humanity of it. In that sense, it's a tale of triumph." Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
A-	"Be prepared to be fully immersed in it." Posted Dec 7, 2007	Hear and Now (2007)	88%
A-	"This film insists on being taken on its own terms -- the sort of demand, in other words, that defines the best art." Posted Nov 21, 2007	I'm Not There (2007)	78%
A-	"Emotionally brutal, ferociously acted, crafted with unflagging expertise and relentlessly locked in its vision of human darkness, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is as grim and despairing as any tragedy by Sophocles or Shakespeare." Posted Nov 16, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
A-	"Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is that rarest of movie biographies: a warts-and-all exploration of the life and times of its subject." Posted Nov 9, 2007	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	88%
A-	"In its assured pacing, framing, cutting and detail, the film takes on an almost supernatural air." Posted Sep 21, 2007	Eastern Promises (2007)	88%
A-	"Quiet City is a slight film, but it's so pure and precise and honest that it takes on stature beyond its actual size. As a work of art, it makes a big noise indeed." Posted Sep 14, 2007	Quiet City (2007)	86%
A-	"The miracle of Hairspray is that it does exactly what it sets out to do. It takes the sassy 2002 Broadway musical translation of [John] Waters' most accessible film and brings it to the screen with energy, wit, sex, laughs, craft and unabashed fun." Posted Jul 20, 2007	Hairspray (2007)	91%
A-	"It should be no surprise that the best American studio film of the year should come from the only American studio never to have made a bad film." Posted Jun 29, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	95%
A-	"Once, a film so sweet, unassuming, real, surefooted and warm that you might find yourself loving it as you would a person, is a bare-bones boy-meets-girl story." Posted Jun 1, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
A-	"It's a wonderful debut, despite all the pain you may feel watching it." Posted May 25, 2007	Red Road (2007)	89%
A-	"Dance Party, USA is part of a new direction for independent film: homemade movies that feel more personal than communitarian and, as a result, seem less moralizing and dogmatic than the familiar, tired Sundance model." Posted Mar 16, 2007	Dance Party USA (2006)	86%
A-	"O'Toole is absolutely magnificent ..." Posted Jan 26, 2007	Venus (2006)	89%
A-	"*Like Flags, Letters* is a story about sacrifice, duty, loyalty, bravery and honor. But it is both more unsparing and more stirring.*" Posted Jan 19, 2007*	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	91%
A-	"Notes on a Scandal packs more heat, acid, danger and drama into its brief running time than most films of nearly double the length." Posted Jan 5, 2007	Notes on a Scandal (2006)	87%
A-	"Whatever the director asks of Cruz she delivers with poise and sincerity. It's easily her finest work, and one of the year's best performances." Posted Dec 22, 2006	Volver (2006)	91%
A-	"The Good Shepherd is a rich, sprawling film stuffed with fine performances and capable of expanding to take in vast chunks of history or narrowing to concentrate on delicate human moments." Posted Dec 22, 2006	The Good Shepherd (2006)	56%
A-	"From idealistic beginnings to the horror-movie ending, a singular episode of history is peeled open to expose a raw and ugly core." Posted Nov 10, 2006	Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)	94%
A-	"A film of nearly Shakespearean political, social and personal complexities, made with assured wit and craft." Posted Oct 27, 2006	The Queen (2006)	97%
A-	"A finer tribute is hard to imagine." Posted Oct 20, 2006	Flags of Our Fathers (2006)	73%
A-	"*If The Departed* isn't among his handful of his best pictures, it's still gripping, hot and wicked stuff.*" Posted Oct 6, 2006*	The Departed (2006)	92%
A-	"Beautifully shot and cut, written with a visceral aversion to cliche, deftly skirting sentimentality, sensationalism and simplicity, it continually surprises, engages and satisfies." Posted Jun 23, 2006	Clean (2006)	71%
A-	"In a film culture in which contrived tomfoolery and overinflated emotions stifle in their effort to provide comedy and romance, something as light and precise as The Puffy Chair feels like more than an exception; it feels like fresh air." Posted Jun 2, 2006	The Puffy Chair (2006)	76%
A-	"A pure comic delight: handsome, smart, quick and, blessedly, building as it progresses to climax in some truly hilarious gags." Posted May 19, 2006	Over the Hedge (2006)	73%
A-	"For all the convolutions of the form of the film, it's actually a gentle comedy with laughs for both the brain and the funny bone." Posted Feb 17, 2006	Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)	91%
A-	"*Unlike The Matrix, V for Vendetta* puts its ideological intent first, and happens to provide smashing entertainment only as a vehicle for delivering its message.*" Posted Mar 17, 2006*	V For Vendetta (2005)	73%
A-	"One of the most vital and strangely gripping films in recent years, a thriller more opaque, involving and realistic than just about anything that Hollywood is capable of." Posted Feb 3, 2006	Cach� (2005)	88%
A-	"Regardless of who made it, it's a strong film about forbidden love and the quandary of a man torn between his better instincts and his raw emotions." Posted Jan 20, 2006	Match Point (2005)	77%
A-	"This is true cinematic grandeur, earned over time and always deepening the film's themes." Posted Dec 20, 2005	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	87%
A-	"Almost everything that happens feels true and horrifying, and yet it's done so well you can't look away." Posted Oct 21, 2005	The War Within (2005)	72%
A-	"The cinema hasn't witnessed such a magical effort to make its leading ladies look so gorgeous since Josef Von Sternberg invented new lighting techniques to capture Marlene Dietrich." Posted Sep 2, 2005	2046 (2005)	84%
A-	"It's smart, sexy, allusive, fresh and real, getting under the skin like a fever dream. No fictional feature this year has been so grown-up, so provocative, so assured, so good." Posted Aug 31, 2005	The Constant Gardener (2005)	84%
A-	"As The Aristocrats demonstrates, there is real humor in the confrontation of taboos -- and if there are any taboos left to be stared down after this picture, friends, I'm not sure I want to know about 'em." Posted Aug 26, 2005	The Aristocrats (2005)	80%
A-	"It's amazing stuff: Treadwell the amusingly overeager bear-man vs. Herzog the cold-eyed chronicler of human excess." Posted Aug 19, 2005	Grizzly Man (2005)	93%
A-	"An engaging exercise in mature poignancy, existential consciousness and deadpan drollery." Posted Aug 5, 2005	Broken Flowers (2005)	86%
A-	"It's a very good film that satisfies the most essential requirement of a documentary: opening an audience's eyes to the fact that the world is bigger than most of us might have suspected." Posted Jul 29, 2005	Murderball (2005)	98%
A-	"A tale of loyalty hard-tested and hard-earned, a sumptuous travelogue, and a reminder that some of the critters with whom we share the planet are, in ways, as complex in their feelings as any human being." Posted Jul 15, 2005	March of the Penguins (2005)	94%
A-	"It's irresistibly magnetic because it serves as a barely distorted mirror to our world." Posted Apr 1, 2005	Sin City (2005)	77%
A-	"It's quite possible that we can hand the title Most-fun Movie of 2005 to this romp." Posted Feb 18, 2005	Kung Fu Hustle (2005)	89%
A-	"Joel and Clementine are played with such human believability by Carrey and Winslet that we feel a real stake in their finding each other again, either in memory or in the real world." Posted Mar 19, 2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	94%

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