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35/4	"Freedom Writers takes plenty of shots at the system, too, and makes the quite righteous statement that only through individual effort does anything wrong ever really get changed." -- Newsday Posted Jan 4, 2007	Freedom Writers (2007)	69%
4/4	"A movie that is as happily warped and enthusiastically disturbed as the rest of [director Guy] Maddin's eccentric cinema." -- Newsday Posted Jun 13, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	97%
4/4	"Hou Hsiao-hsien's first French-language film shows why the Taiwanese master is considered one of the world's great filmmakers." -- Newsday Posted Apr 11, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	78%
4/4	"*Although a first-rate investigative documentary on its own, Andrei Nekrasov's Poisoned by Polonium* also serves as a sequel to 2004's Disbelief.*" -- Newsday* Posted Mar 20, 2008	Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File (2008)	50%
4/4	"The results are exhilarating, expertly choreographed and a movie to change one's view of both cinema and life." -- Newsday Posted Jan 17, 2008	Still Life (2008)	91%
4/4	"I'm Not There takes its audience across a Rubicon of moviegoing disillusionment, apathy and sloth: If you are, as you say, so tired of the old, then here is the new. Embrace it, or please shut up." -- Newsday Posted Nov 20, 2007	I'm Not There (2007)	78%
4/4	"Jacques Verg�s had defended a lot of people, and it's his Zelig-like journey through the politics of the postwar 20th century that is the contentious subject of Barbet Schroeder's unwieldy, unforgettable film." -- Newsday Posted Oct 11, 2007	Terror's Advocate (2007)	84%
4/4	"I Don't Want to Sleep Alone is emotional in what it says about the need for connections, religious in what it asks about the universe." -- Newsday Posted May 10, 2007	I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2007)	88%
4/4	"The men portrayed by Juan Carlos Rulfo in his colossally intimate film work under such precarious conditions that death must be as common as lunch pails." -- Newsday Posted Feb 1, 2007	In The Pit (2007)	71%
4/4	"Rhythmically, narratively and emotionally propulsive, this Joachim Lafosse film finds the almost predictably magnificent Isabelle Huppert as a woman of a certain age, trying to swim to the surface with a weight around her leg -- make that two weights." -- Newsday Posted May 17, 2007	Private Property (2006)	69%
4/4	"*For all its implicit politics, Offside* is a pure joy; the young women are feisty and lovable. One can even imagine a few imams chuckling through their beards.*" -- Newsday* Posted Mar 22, 2007	Offside (2006)	95%
4/4	"The script by Hanif Kureishi is smart, witty, understated and fits O'Toole to a T." -- Newsday Posted Dec 19, 2006	Venus (2006)	89%
4/4	"The dog is a cheese-stealing reprobate, but its other-worldly qualities prove very important to a film that informs as it entertains." -- Newsday Posted Nov 9, 2006	Cave of the Yellow Dog (2006)	88%
4/4	"... a portrait of the group that is angry, indignant, musical and inspiring." -- Newsday Posted Oct 26, 2006	Shut Up & Sing (2006)	90%
4/4	"Amid all the might-have-been cliches, director Ryan Fleck and his co-screenwriter, Anna Boden, give us a movie about history and destiny." -- Newsday Posted Aug 12, 2006	Half Nelson (2006)	91%
4/4	"Summing up Duck Season is a simple enough affair, but hardly does justice to this ironic, carefully crafted comedy, the latest indication that Mexican cinema is going through one of its spasmodic periods of renaissance." -- Newsday Posted Mar 11, 2006	Duck Season (2006)	90%
4/4	"Block Party makes for a transcendent experience." -- Newsday Posted Mar 3, 2006	Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)	92%
4/4	"Araki has put a protective, shimmering patina on a story of abuse and emotional dissonance and the result is an otherworldly, painfully honest movie." -- Newsday Posted May 5, 2005	Mysterious Skin (2005)	83%
4/4	"A rough-cut wonder, a movie that evolves from Teutonic inertia into a deadpan polka, a bouquet of edelweiss tossed into the melting pot." -- Newsday Posted Feb 17, 2005	Schultze Gets the Blues (2005)	73%
4/4	"In writer-director Richard Ledes dreamy, '50s-era film, the lobotomy is touted as a way of controlling the uncontrollable and pacifying the anxious." -- Newsday Posted May 5, 2005	A Hole In One (2004)	17%
4/4	"Sexy, inspiring and exhilarating, but perhaps more importantly, it's a generous portrait of a brave man, perhaps an artist, certainly a fractured genius." -- Newsday Posted Dec 16, 2004	The Aviator (2004)	88%
4/4	"A perfect, and perfectly calculated, documentary." -- Newsday Posted Dec 9, 2004	Born Into Brothels (2004)	96%
4/4	"Sideways may fetch Paul Giamatti that best actor Oscar of which he was robbed (or so many thought) for American Splendor." -- Newsday Posted Oct 21, 2004	Sideways (2004)	96%
4/4	"Vera is given a thoroughly devastating portrayal by Imelda Staunton, in the kind of role that elevates an actress into a lofty realm where those who never knew her suddenly knew it all along." -- Newsday Posted Oct 8, 2004	Vera Drake (2004)	92%
4/4	"The results, Cuisinarted but coherent, are an entrancing, egocentric trip into a life so unfavored by fortune its owner would be forgiven for believing in past-life crimes and karmic retribution." -- Newsday Posted Oct 6, 2004	Tarnation (2004)	92%
4/4	"*I have seen Barbara Albert's Free Radicals* three times now and could surely watch it 10 times more, finding something else on each visit to salve the soul.*" -- Newsday* Posted Jul 23, 2004	Free Radicals (2004)	63%
4/4	"The unalloyed earnestness with which Marston tells his story, the frankness of that story and the insistently powerful performance of Catalina Sandino Moreno make Maria one of the more noteworthy debuts in recent filmmaking." -- Newsday Posted Jul 15, 2004	Maria Full of Grace (2004)	97%
4/4	"Spider- Man 2 is that rare thing, a thoroughly successful sequel." -- Newsday Posted Jun 28, 2004	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	93%
4/4	"Leth leaves the viewer both exhilarated and maybe even optimistic about the capacity of human intelligence and creativity." -- Newsday Posted May 27, 2004	The Five Obstructions (2004)	89%
4/4	"A powerhouse movie." -- Newsday Posted Apr 15, 2004	Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)	85%
4/4	"Ingenious, eccentric and very moving." -- Newsday Posted Mar 18, 2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	94%
4/4	"A stunning debut, a haunting film." -- Newsday Posted Feb 5, 2004	The Return (2004)	96%
4/4	"One of the best Dogma films yet." -- Newsday Posted Jun 25, 2004	Time of the Wolf (2003)	65%
4/4	"That the film Cold Mountain is so much better than the best-selling Charles Frazier novel makes it quite the rare thing -- only The Godfather comes immediately to mind as an example of a major movie that so surpasses its source material." -- Newsday Posted Dec 23, 2003	Cold Mountain (2003)	72%
4/4	"Jackson closes his trilogy with a movie far more humorous, good-natured and emotionally engaging than its predecessors." -- Newsday Posted Dec 15, 2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	94%
4/4	"What resonates in the end are the forces behind it, what it says about its time, and how, in fact, it ever happened at all." -- Newsday Posted Nov 6, 2003	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)	98%
4/4	"Padilha is onto so many issues sparked by one relatively simple act of crime." -- Newsday Posted Oct 9, 2003	Bus 174 (2003)	100%
4/4	"Easily the funniest film of the year and one of those 'movies for all ages' (seriously)." -- Newsday Posted Oct 2, 2003	School of Rock (2003)	91%
4/4	"Remarkably sophisticated, honest, consistently hilarious and very real." -- Newsday Posted Sep 11, 2003	Lost in Translation (2003)	95%
4/4	"Funny, clever, tender and wry, while always holding true to its ongoing identity crisis." -- Newsday Posted Aug 14, 2003	American Splendor (2003)	94%
4/4	"Jarecki has taken an impossible subject, and subjects, and made a movie that works as crime thriller, social document and, occasionally, surrealist comedy." -- Newsday Posted May 29, 2003	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)	97%
4/4	"A velvet-swaddled, iron-fisted documentary that will set standards of v�rit� filmmaking for years to come." -- Newsday Posted May 28, 2003	Love and Diane (2003)	97%
4/4	"Maddin, whose gift for gothic ornamentation couldn't have a better showcase, takes a hysterical tale and just makes it more so." -- Newsday Posted May 14, 2003	Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003)	86%
4/4	"*Technically astounding, the emotional equivalent of a raft on high seas, Balseros* ultimately feels perfectly true, precisely because it ended up the opposite of what it started out to be.*" -- Newsday* Posted Jul 24, 2003	Balseros (2002)	92%
4/4	"The fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on B�ttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable, irreversible flow of history." -- Newsday Posted Dec 13, 2002	Russian Ark (2002)	88%
4/4	"A return to what sci-fi was meant to be: Not a way to titillate teenage boys, but a means of finding a context for complex human issues." -- Newsday Posted Nov 27, 2002	Solaris (2002)	64%
4/4	"Its core is a nugget of emotional truth and longing that's irresistible, and inextricably tied to a power so purely cinematic you wonder why so many other directors even bother." -- Newsday Posted Nov 8, 2002	Far From Heaven (2002)	91%
4/4	"Fierce, glaring and unforgettable." -- Newsday Posted May 1, 2002	A Grin Without A Cat (2002)	100%
4/4	"What [Hartley] wants, and gets, is a fablish mood." -- Newsday Posted Mar 29, 2002	No Such Thing (2002)	29%
4/4	"Remains as risk-taking as ever, challenging assumptions about cinema, storytelling and the gossamer boundaries between fiction and fact." -- Newsday Posted Oct 26, 2005	Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968)	88%

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