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	" A haunting, fantastic, and eerie robot reverie. Deft little touches add more and more complex, heartfelt circuitry to Wall-E's character. A beautifully wrought film." Posted Jul 10, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
	" The end reveals just how poetic, shifting and dazzling Nichols' touch was all along. That's because Shotgun Stories manages to pull away from a hair-trigger resolution with the same inherent right-ness that loaded the story with such tragic force." Posted Jul 10, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	90%
	" The Muslims here feel bound up in an internal battle (the primary meaning of jihad) as they try to make peace between divine and earthly loves. What's lacking are deeper, more involved ruminations on such feelings, reconciliations and self-recriminations." Posted Jul 1, 2008	A Jihad for Love (2008)	75%
	" Novelistic in its languid twists and turns, this astounding film superimposes images and photographs, or pans across the twins' shimmering hometown lake, only to dive in between the layers, plunging into the murky depths of identity and self-reflection." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Red Without Blue (2007)	n/a
	" Anthropology meets surrealist art in a film about the coldly intellectual, logical Traags and the wild, passionate, heartfelt Oms. Manages to be both of our world and somehow not, shucking off any influences and finding a weird wonder all its own." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Fantastic Planet (1973)	84%
	" Steps into the shoes of youth remembered, a summer when a boy's wide eyes are opened further by disillusion--the final whistle sounds sharp and harsh, echoing long after the game's over. An elegant, reflective film that dekes around coming-of-age cliches." Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2008)	86%
	" Although the film isn't chatty and people are just a little too soap opera-ish photogenic, the film is often understated enough to charm. Small, tender scenes and little details make Caramel a nice, light passing fancy." Posted Jun 5, 2008	Caramel (2008)	92%
	" Always intriguing but not always fully involving, CJ7 still features, as with its resurrecting dog, Chow's enlivening touch. Even when his film isn't completely absorbing, it seems he never met a dying genre clich� he can't reanimate." Posted May 29, 2008	CJ7 (2008)	51%
	" It's with Dilawar that the film begins and ends, and it's with Dilawar that Alex Gibney's documentary can rest its case%u2014his story speaks with the deepest ache. Dilawar's face stares back%u2014a young, bearded man, his eyes wide in fright." Posted May 29, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
	" A brilliantly constructed film about a larger-than-life, passionate visionary who shows that simple change isn't just urgent, but blindly obvious and well within reach. All we have to do is take a second-hand look at what we're dumping out our back doors." Posted May 8, 2008	Garbage Warrior (2008)	80%
	" Rarely has a film set the starkest of basic moral questions in such sharp-edged yet subtle relief. . . . like one of the master forger's brazenly passed-off copies--so bold, unflinching and brilliant that, to any eye, it's flawless." Posted May 8, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
	" If a few scenes are a bit stiff, some of the cast a little too telenovela photogenic, the leads' stubborn, yearning performances build just enough of a melodrama to soften the film's tough realism and earn a hopeful ending." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	72%
	" It's a hard film to watch, especially if you know where it goes--I had to brace myself to see it a second time. But it's an important film, one of great feeling. It even works as a thriller." Posted Mar 20, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	97%
	" The community-produced version of Fats Waller's story leads to a block film party in what may be the most touching ending of Gondry's films." Posted Mar 1, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	67%
	" A lot of beautiful animated sequences that could only come to life in movement . . . We've had this incredible wave of films giving us Iran from an insider's point of view--maybe now it's time for the exile's." Posted Mar 1, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	96%
	" The paintings become colourfully self-deluded distortions of a world where adults project themselves back into childhood, capitalizing on both the adult nostalgia for innocence and our fascination with children who seem somehow adult." Posted Mar 1, 2008	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	93%
	" The film, in the end, as solidly good as it is, rings a bit hollow, feels a little pointlessly bleak. The last sparks of the steel furnace where Robert and Jean-Pierre used to work have faded, and all that's left is for life to grind itself down." Posted Mar 1, 2008	The Right of the Weakest (2006)	67%
	" Most of all about recovering, about picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and plugging on. It also just happens to be, in its small, astutely observed, delicately bittersweet way, one of the best films of the year." Posted Feb 8, 2008	The Savages (2007)	90%
	" The magnificence of Bauby's accomplishment as an author is reflected, shimmering strangely, by a film that awakens a trapped life with the kind of poetry only the camera can write." Posted Jan 10, 2008	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
	" The black-and-white shots are beautiful . . . then there is the closing shot, a fantastic melding of escape and loss." Posted Dec 15, 2007	White Mane (1952)	n/a
	" A cinematic landmark . . . Lamorisse's film floats off, with the breeze of magic-realism, into a feeling of escape and peace." Posted Dec 15, 2007	The Red Balloon (1955)	100%
	" Startlingly de-mythologizing at first, then just plain poignant . . . it's fascinating to reconcile Cobain's slacker howl over chipping guitar chords with a sodden Pacific Northwest of logging trucks and fishing boats." Posted Dec 6, 2007	Kurt Cobain About a Son (2007)	72%
	" The energy is electric, the camerawork crisp and colourful, the editing note-perfect. . . . for the Roma, music sounds the notes of a harsh, maligned cultural history, making them all the more unforgettable while demanding remembrance, even awe." Posted Dec 6, 2007	Gypsy Caravan (2006)	86%
	" Drips with a thick, Stygian darkness, but also offers violence that's too explicit and willfully perverse to be thoughtfully disturbing. . . . a little too overwrought, too operatic after its regal predecessor." Posted Nov 19, 2007	Triad Election (2007)	96%
	" Some real genius and understated power . . . transcends its genre and turns the venally criminal into the profoundly human." Posted Nov 19, 2007	Election (2005)	86%
	" A strange sort of map of the city [is] spread across these fragmented cubes of visual information. And there's also the metaphorical map of the characters' lives, where they're coming from and where they're going." Posted Sep 20, 2007	Red Road (2007)	89%
	" As the story spirals tragically away--all the more powerfully because of Dvir's part in his mother's fate--it avoids the sacrificing-mother-redeemed-by-love cliche and gains a remarkable dramatic weight and urgency." Posted Sep 20, 2007	Sweet Mud (2006)	82%
	" Its visual collision of mindscapes, films within films and dreams within dreams cascade into a dizzying rush that easily washes away the humdrum dialogue and somewhat sketchy plot." Posted Sep 13, 2007	Paprika (2007)	82%
	" A haunting autopsy of how the personal can obliterate the political, as the oppressors rationalize, repress and then casually repeat the day-to-day injustices they're paid to commit for a society eager to forget its sins." Posted Sep 3, 2007	Close to Home (2007)	67%
	" A remarkably dense and powerful picture of people's yearning and struggling. . . . about how 'things just happen'%u2014that's the sadness and beauty of life." Posted Aug 20, 2007	Look Both Ways (2006)	77%
	" The film rides the teenagers' churning anger, despair and elation throughout. . . . The heartbreaking ending is neither naive about how white culture is destroying a millennia-old way of life nor too hopeful about the power of ancient traditions and belie" Posted Aug 20, 2007	Yolngu Boy (2001)	n/a
	" While Becoming Jane is too much of a prologue to the writing Austen, it is an impeccably crafted imagining of a young woman seeking love at a time when women were so often 'better than their circumstances.'" Posted Aug 14, 2007	Becoming Jane (2007)	57%
	" The pace is brisk, the jokes are sharp, and there are sight-gags and zingers that rank up there with some great cartoon moments." Posted Aug 6, 2007	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	90%
	" A film of masks . . . Droll comedy and wry ironies artfully disguise Panahi's poignant questioning of national pride, governing the public good, and even the sadness mixed in with past victories." Posted Jul 18, 2007	Offside (2006)	95%
	" Moore mostly lets the sufferers speak, their stories revealing the deep, oozing wounds of a broken healthcare system. . . . deliver[s] an adrenal shot, a strangely enervating mix of anger, shame and hope." Posted Jul 2, 2007	Sicko (2007)	93%
	" Here is magic-realism filtered through an oddball sensibility, chilled in the snowdrifts of Winnipeg and bottled in amber-hued frames of celluloid." Posted Jul 2, 2007	The Saddest Music in the World (2004)	78%
	" Best when it maintains the documentary conceit . . . brilliant tones and shades of lighting . . . the board scenes unfurl in the best surfing movie tradition." Posted Jun 25, 2007	Surf's Up (2007)	78%
	" Dercourt washes the film in a chillingly remorseless suspense. . . . the story, as taut as a razor-sharp piano string, offers a few sly, subtle sexual knots before the final bloody note is struck." Posted May 31, 2007	The Page Turner (2007)	77%
	" A throwback to neo-realist filmmaking . . . snowballs in emotion until later scenes are stomach-knotting in their tension. The film largely avoids sentiment with its muted score and shadowed close-ups." Posted May 9, 2007	The Italian (2007)	91%
	" As the puzzle interlocks, the composite truth is terrifying. A second horseman of social collapse is pounding towards us--peak oil." Posted Apr 27, 2007	A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006)	79%
	" A scathing attack on the show of feeling by a murderously superficial elite . . . the more you watch it, the more Renoir's masterwork reflects the cold, hard truth%u2014The Rules of the Game still apply." Posted Mar 25, 2007	The Rules of the Game (1939)	97%
	" Sinks us into the muddied moral line between cops and criminals, beaten down by a callous, bottom-line system . . . holds a mirror up to the Hong Kong action thriller and asks us to look beyond the flash of violence." Posted Mar 15, 2007	One Night in Mongkok (2004)	n/a
	" It's the depth and weight of Freeman Jr's or Michael Wright's or Phyllis Leblanc's words, the anger and sadness behind them, that surge forth here, sinking the political elite's murderously empty promises." Posted Mar 9, 2007	When the Levees Broke (2006)	96%
	" More documentary than drama even as lyric images whisper past . . . slowly burns itself into the memory." Posted Mar 1, 2007	Pavee Lackeen (2005)	67%
	" A simmering borscht of a Soviet scientific romance . . . Most intriguing are the film's choppy political undercurrents." Posted Feb 22, 2007	The Amphibian Man (1961)	n/a
	" In families, especially, perceptions are relative . . . reminds us that the seemingly mundane, right at our dinner tables, can offer its own special, bittersweet poetry." Posted Feb 11, 2007	51 Birch Street (2006)	95%
	" Bristling with existential doubt and ennui . . . Carr�re's half-nightmare, half-dream vision of one man's imprisonment in his own life remains satisfyingly unresolved and stubbornly unique." Posted Feb 11, 2007	La Moustache (2005)	85%
	" Startlingly powerful, slightly loopy take on the revenge flick . . . offers a wry authenticity that the too-stylish, tough guys and gals in Tarantino's wanna-be-epics of retribution can't exude." Posted Feb 1, 2007	Dead Man's Shoes (2006)	55%
	" This deathly film is crafted with such ease that it comes appallingly alive. A slowly suffocating, masterly work of social realism that shrouds you in a melancholy look at mortality." Posted Dec 21, 2006	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)	93%
	" *The spectre of Kieslowski flutters through the film, but his eye and touch aren't there%u2014it's hard to watch L'Enfer* without wondering, what would he have done?*" Posted Dec 1, 2006*	L'Enfer (2005)	75%

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