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4/4	"*Paul Thomas Anderson's loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!* finds the director exhibiting newfound maturity and restraint without sacrificing any measure of artistry.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Dec 13, 2007	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
A	"Vividly captures Young's greatness by simply letting him do his thing." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Apr 6, 2006	Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006)	90%
4/4	"An act of auteurist self-reflexivity in keeping with the director's belief in the powerful influence of history on the here and now." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 4, 2005	Three Times (2006)	86%
A	"A rigorously austere masterpiece infused with intense humanism." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Sep 26, 2005	L'Enfant (2006)	86%
A	"An unqualified masterwork...[that] feels less like a manipulative man-made construction than like a piece of organically produced art." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Dec 16, 2005	The New World (2005)	60%
A	"An austere descent into inexplicable, unbridled mayhem." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Dec 6, 2005	Wolf Creek (2005)	53%
A	"A superb portrait of the dangers as well as euphoria that can come from chasing one's most treasured dreams." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Nov 29, 2005	The White Diamond (2005)	94%
A	"Wonderfully conveys how the act of loving another can be a game, a sacrifice, a ruse, a weapon, a betrayal, and, most of all, a political act." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 4, 2005	House of Flying Daggers (2004)	88%
4/4	"Hodges, working from a bleak Trevor Preston script, is fascinated by the aspirations, desires, and base compulsions that propel society�s murderous fringe population." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2004	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004)	42%
A	"The finest anime film I�ve ever seen." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 4, 2005	Millennium Actress (2003)	94%
A	"A stunning tale of survival." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Oct 21, 2005	Little Dieter Needs To Fly (1997)	93%
4/4	"Hou Hsiao-hsien remains a master at conveying movement, progression, and a sense of the inexorable rotations of the wheel of time." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 19, 2005	The Puppetmaster (1993)	100%
A	"[Ferrara's] crowning achievement." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 5, 2006	Bad Lieutenant (1992)	74%
A	"Conveys the power of the Western genre�s myths ... as well as the ugly, unromantic realities that lurk behind them." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 4, 2005	Unforgiven (1992)	96%
4/4	"The film's overriding mission is to expose both the inherent absurdity and tragedy of war." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2004	The Big Red One (1980)	91%
4/4	"A tangled knot of memories, fears, fantasies, nightmares, paradoxical impulses, and a yearning for something that's simultaneously beyond our reach and yet intrinsic to every one of us." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2006	Stalker (1979)	100%
4/4	"*To hell with equivocation or beating around the bush: Terrence Malick's 1978 Days of Heaven* is the greatest film ever made.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Oct 22, 2007	Days of Heaven (1978)	91%
A	"A tale so smoothly and effortlessly constructed that the boundaries between the staged and the authentic seemingly cease to exist." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Apr 12, 2007	Killer of Sheep (1977)	97%
4/4	"A fatalistic tale of identity, destiny, coincidence, existential malaise, and the boundaries between the real and the imagined." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2005	The Passenger (1975)	91%
A	"A deeply terrifying portrait of child-parent relationships and intolerant fears of "otherness" defined as much by its sociological sharpness as its gore." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jan 26, 2006	It's Alive (1974)	67%
4/4	"A saga of adventurers driven headlong into annihilation by their own hubris and desire for immortality." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 3, 2006	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973)	97%
A	"Droll, cunning and magnificently woozy." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jun 30, 2005	The Long Goodbye (1973)	95%
A	"Speaks volumes about the intrinsic human desire for empathetic communion." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Feb 12, 2006	Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)	83%
4/4	"Straw Dogs serves as the director�s blistering treatise on man�s inherent animalistic impulses." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 28, 2003	Straw Dogs (1971)	93%
4/4	"*Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows* finally emerges from anonymity this April to assume its rightful canonical place alongside the French master's peerless Parisian noirs.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Feb 13, 2006	Army of Shadows (1969)	97%
4/4	"*Sergio Leone made a fistful of great films, but none better than 1968's ode to the fading American frontier, Once Upon a Time in the West." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Dec 2, 2003	Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)	97%
4/4	"Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty and grace." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 24, 2005	Le Samourai (1967)	100%
A	"One of noir's most soulful and poetic expressions of hope and redemption." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Aug 16, 2006	On Dangerous Ground (1951)	100%
A	"Starkly beautiful [and] diligently economical." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 4, 2005	Los Olvidados (1950)	93%
4/4	"The archetypal film noir." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 15, 2005	Night and the City (1950)	75%
4/4	"A masterfully complex -- and frequently campy -- portrait of all-consuming romantic self-delusion." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2005	Laura (1944)	100%
A-	"Thrilling and touching in equal measure, it's on the short list of great superhero films." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
A-	"More impressive than its ecologically minded message is its modestly profound portrait of loneliness, obligation and the desire for reciprocated affection." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jul 1, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
A-	"That rare debut in which self-conscious formal daring proves exhilarating rather than excruciating." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 15, 2008	Reprise (2008)	88%
A-	"Rescue Dawn's baseline narrative is stirring but its offhand touches are what elevate it to near-greatness." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 22, 2007	Rescue Dawn (2007)	90%
A-	"There's ultimately something exhilarating -- and, dare I say, liberating? -- about the film's chaotic avant-garde energy." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Apr 19, 2007	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)	48%
A-	"Becomes far more enthralling ... the more one simply surrenders to the awe-inspiring beauty of Kon's images of flesh, metal and unhinged mental delusions." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Oct 10, 2006	Paprika (2007)	82%
A-	"Stands at the very top of the 2006 animated kid's film class." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Apr 10, 2007	Happy Feet (2006)	74%
A-	"Lynch's epic about the movie biz and identity seems less a depiction of the dark recesses of the human mind than an actual product of it." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Oct 19, 2006	Inland Empire (2006)	70%
A-	"Thrums with a raw, fierce, jazzy soul." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Aug 4, 2006	Miami Vice (2006)	48%
A-	"Possesses a raw, focused outrage that�s difficult to shake." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Sep 26, 2005	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)	93%
A-	"As stylistically striking as it is adventurous." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Dec 20, 2005	Tropical Malady (2005)	78%
A-	"Gordon-Levitt's performance is nothing short of astonishing." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Nov 28, 2005	Mysterious Skin (2005)	83%
4.5/5	"The all-encompassing atmosphere of gloom and doom creeps under one�s skin with sinister subtlety." -- MovieWeb Posted Nov 9, 2005	Pulse (2005)	73%
4.5/5	"embraces an avant-garde aesthetic concerned with finding truth through non-linear storytelling and a focus on environmental tone and texture" -- Filmcritic.com Posted Jul 21, 2005	Last Days (2005)	60%
A-	"Both leisurely and breathtakingly immediate." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted Jul 5, 2005	Kings and Queen (2005)	87%
A-	"Exhibits a gentle unaffected beauty and austere humanism." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 4, 2005	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	91%
A-	"The year�s foremost animation showstopper." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 4, 2005	The Incredibles (2004)	97%
A-	"A unique deconstruction of man�s innate desire to avert heartache." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 3, 2005	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	94%
A-	"An incisive portrait of one man�s quiet rage at, and heartbreakingly violent response to, social inequality." -- Lessons of Darkness Posted May 3, 2005	Crimson Gold (2004)	87%

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