Film Reviews by Star Rating
Masterpiece (**** +)
The Age of Innocence , L'Amour Fou
, L'Argent , The Ballad of Narayama , La Belle Noiseuse , The
Big Lebowski , Blood of a Poet , The Blue Angel , Breaking
the Waves , Breathless , A
Brighter Summer Day , Code Unknown , Cremaster
3 , Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Dancer in the Dark
, The Dark Knight
, Diary of a Country Priest ,
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler , Eyes Wide Shut , Fight
Club , Five Easy Pieces , The General , George
Washington , Gertrud , His
Girl Friday , Husbands
and Wives , The Idiots , Irma
Vep , La Jetée , Joan
the Maid: The Battles & The Prisons , Juno , Lessons
of Darkness , Life
and Nothing More... , Loves of a Blonde
, Magnolia , Le
Million , My Neighbor Totoro , Night
of the Living Dead , Ordet
, Paris, Texas , Punch-Drunk Love , Rose
Hobart , Rosemary's Baby , Safe
, Satantango
, The Scarlet Empress , The
Seventh Seal , Song and Solitude , Sweet
Smell of Success , The Tell-Tale Heart
, There Will Be Blood , Throne of Blood ,
Tropical Malady ,
Twentieth Century , Vagabond , Les Vampires , Waking
Life , Werckmeister Harmonies , The
Wind , The
Woman in the Window , You
Only Live Once
* * * *
25th Hour , 3 Women , Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes)
, Almanac of Fall , Anatomy
of Hell , And
Then There Were None , Autumn
Sonata , À L’aventure , L'Avventura , Baise-Moi
, The Beyond , Bird
, The Black Cat , Blow
Out , Boogie Nights , Brief
Encounter , Candyman , Casualties
of War , Changeling , Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
, Charlotte
Gray , Children of Paradise , Chloe
in the Afternoon , Choose
Me , A Christmas Tale ,
Cigarette Burns , City of Sadness , Close-Up
, Collateral , The
Color of Money , The Company , Counsellor
at Law , Cowards Bend the Knee , Cremaster 1 , Cremaster
2 , Day of Wrath , The
Dead Father , Dead Man , Dead
of Night , Les
Destinees Sentimentales , Diary of the
Dead , Drawing
Restraint 9 , Donnie Brasco , Dr.
T. & the Women , Ed Wood , The
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser ,
Everything Will Be Ok , Eye Myth , Far From Heaven
, Fat Girl , Femme
Fatale , Final
Fantasy : The Spirits Within , Flanders , Flesh , Flirt , Flowers
of Shanghai , Fox
and His Friends , Friday Night , Funny Games
, Germany Year Zero , Ghost
World , Gigli , Girl
With a Pearl Earring , Good Morning , Gosford
Park , The Gospel According to St.
Matthew , The Grapes of Wrath , Heart of Glass , Heaven's Gate
, Hero ,
The Homecoming , The House of Mirth
, Howl's Moving Castle , I ♥ Huckabees , In
Praise of Love , In
the Mood for Love , In This World ,
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret
5tar 5ystem , The Joke ,
Julia , Junior
Bonner , Kandahar
, Kill Bill: Volume 2 , Kiss
Me Deadly , Little Shop of Horrors
, The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings , Love
in the Afternoon , The Lusty Men , Macbeth , Madame
de... , Madame Tutli-Putli , Margot at the Wedding , Marie Antoinette , The
Man Who Knew Too Much , The Mascot , The
Merchant of Four Seasons , Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil , Millennium
Mambo , The
Mirror (1975) , Mississippi Mermaid
, A Moment of Innocence , Moulin Rouge! , Mulholland
Drive , My Name Is Julia Ross ,
Naked Childhood , The Narrow Margin , Night Falls on Manhattan
, Northwest Passage , Nouvelle Vague , Orphans
of the Storm , Orpheus ,
Osaka Elegy ,
Personal Best ,
Phantoms of Nabua , The
Piano Teacher , The Private Life of
Sherlock Holmes , The
Puppetmaster , Rain , Raising Victor
Vargas , Rashomon , Rebels
of the Neon God , The
Red and the White , The Red Shoes , Rocco and His Brothers
, Santa Sangre ,
Second Breath , Secret Things
, Shanghai Express ,
Sisters of the Gion , Solaris , Sisters
, Spider , Spirited Away
, Springtime in a Small Town , Streets
of Fire ,
The Student Prince in Old
Heidelberg , A
Summer at Grandpa’s , Superstar:
The Karen Carpenter Story , The Swindle , A
Tale of Cinema , Tape
, Taxidermia
, The Testament of Doctor Cordelier , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? ,
Thieves' Highway , The
Three Caballeros , The Time of the Wolf
, Traffic , Trouble
Every Day , The
Unbelievable Truth , The Untouchables , Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
, Vengeance is Mine , Victor / Victoria , The
Virgin of Lust , Wanda , What Time Is It There? , Whisper
of the Heart , Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? , The
Wild Bunch
* * * ½
36 Fillette , The
47 Ronin, Parts One & Two , 8 Women , About
Schmidt , Alexander , Ali
, Alice , All or
Nothing , All That Heaven Allows , Amores Perros
, Anything Else , Apocalypse
Now Redux , Arabian Nights , Ashes of Time
, Ashes of Time Redux ,
Bad Biology ,
Biker Boyz , The Book of Life
, Blind Mountain , Broken
Blossoms , The Brown Bunny , Cache
, Central Station
, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Chasing Liberty , The
Circle , Coming Home , Coup
de Torchon , Crimson Pig , Conspirators of Pleasure , Days
of Being Wild , A Delicate Balance ,
Demonlover , The
Devil's Circus , A
Dirty Shame , Dracula: Pages From a
Virgin's Diary , The Dreamers , Drunken Angel , East is East
, Edmond , Election 2
[Triad Election] , L'Enfer , Esther Kahn , Eureka
, The Evil Dead , Family
Plot , The Flying Leathernecks , French Cancan , Gandhi ,
General
Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait , Gilda , Gimme
Shelter , The Girl on the Train , Go West , Goodbye South Goodbye
, A Grin Without a Cat , Grizzly
Man , Group
, Hairspray
, Happiness , The
Happiness of the Katakuris , Happy
Together , Harmful
Insect , The Haunted Palace ,
Hausu , Haxan
, Heaven's Heart , The Heroic Trio , The Hole , Hope and Glory ,
H
Story , The
Hudsucker Proxy , Hustle & Flow , Ichi the Killer ,
If... , I
Live in Fear , I'm Going Home , Intimacy
, In the Bedroom , Intolerance
, Irreversible , It's
a Wonderful Life ,
I've Loved You So Long , I Want to Live! , Japanese
Story , Jesus' Son , Joy
Ride , Kikujiro , The
Killers , Klute ,
Lake Tahoe , Last
Days , Leon (The Professional) , The
Letter , Lion's Den ,
Love is the Drug , Lust, Caution , Maid
in Manhattan , Mamma Mia! , The
Man Who Wasn't There , Married to the Mob
, Mary , M. Hulot's Holiday , Metallica:
Some Kind of Monster , Mikey
and Nicky , Moolaade ,
Mother of Tears: The Third Mother ,
My Blueberry Nights , My
Sassy Girl , My
Voyage to Italy , My Wife is a
Gangster , The
Newton Boys , Nobody
Knows , Notre Musique , Open Range , The Pajama Game , Panic Room
, Parents , Places in the Heart ,
Le Plaisir , POLA
X , The Prefab People , Pretty
Persuasion , The Proposal , The Psychotic Odyssey of
Richard Chase , PTU
, Ratcatcher ,
The Raven , Red
Lights , Resident
Evil , Ring
, RoboCop , Russian
Ark , ‘R Xmas
, St. John's Wort , Salesman
, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom , The
Saragossa Manuscript , The
Scent of Green Papaya , Sebastiane , Secret Defense
, Shoah , Show Me
Love , Sidewalks of New York , Songs
From the Second Floor , Spider-Man
, Spirits
of the Dead , Stalker , Standing
By Yourself , The Story of Adele H. , Stray
Dog , Sullivan's
Travels , Summer Hours , Suspiria ,
Synecdoche,
New York , Tears
of the Black Tiger , This So-Called
Disaster , Tigerland , Time
Code , Three… Extremes ,
Tokyo Sonata ,
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , The Truth About Charlie
, Twice-Told Tales , Under
the Sand , The Uninvited , Velvet Goldmine , The Virgin Suicides
, Wendy and Lucy , When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four
Parts , The Wind That Shakes the Barley , The
Winter Guest , Wish You Were Here ,
World Trade Center , Yi Yi , Yojimbo
, Zero Day
* * *
Across
110th Street , The Act of Seeing with
One’s Own Eyes , Aimee & Jaguar
, Alice and Martin , All
About Lily Chou-Chou , An
American in Paris , Auto Focus , Bad
Education , Bandits , Battle
Royale , Billy Elliot , Birthday
Girl , Blissfully Yours , Blood Simple : Director's Cut
, Bodies, Rest and Motion , Bringing Down the House , The
Business of Strangers , California
Dreamin' (Endless) , La Captive ,
Captivity ,
Chacun son Cinema , The Chaser , Che , Christmas Holiday
, The Class
, Cinemania
, Come to the Stable , Container , The Corporation , Crossroads , Cure
, Darling , Devdas
, The
Devonsville Terror , Distance , Domestic
Violence , Donnie Darko , Doppelganger
, Eden Log , The
Eye , Family Nest , Faust
, Focus
, The Fog of War , Forget Baghdad , Frida
, Friday the 13th , Gallipoli ,
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence , Ginger
Snaps , Gomorrah , Grey Gardens
, Happy-Go-Lucky , Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , Heist , House
of Usher , The Hunted ,
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone , The Importance of Being
Earnest , Insomnia (1997) , Jesus,
You Know , Kanal
, The Killing of a
Chinese Bookie , Kissing Jessica
Stein , Koko: A Talking Gorilla , Lagaan , Lantana
, Le Divorce ,
The Limits of Control , Little
Otik , The Long Good Friday ,
Lorna's Silence , The
Man Without A Past , A
Map of the World , Martha... Martha , Medium
Cool , Memories of Murder , Merci Pour le Chocolat , The Mirror (1998) ,
The Missing , Monster's
Ball , Morvern Callar , The Most Dangerous Game
, The Mourning Forest , My
Dinner With Andre , My
First Mister , The Nanny , The Neon Bible , Not
Without My Daughter , Office Space , Pecker
, The
Pervert's Guide to Cinema , The
Philadelphia Story , Phone Booth , Pieces
of April , Polyester ,
The Promotion , Push , Quills , Real
Women Have Curves , Robinson Crusoe
on Mars , The
Royal Tenenbaums , Serendipity ,
Schindler's Houses , Shallow
Hal , Shaolin Soccer , Skin
of Man, Heart of Beast ,
Sleeping Dogs Lie , The Sleepy Time Gal ,
Spellbound , Spun
, Star Trek , Stone Reader , Storytelling
, Sylvia , Tarnation
, Ten , Ten
Minutes Older: The Trumpet , Tetro , Theatre
of Blood , Time Out , Tortilla Soup
, Three Monkeys
, Throw Down , Tom,
Tom, the Piper's Son , Treeless Mountain , The Trouble With Harry , The Turning Gate , The
Umbrellas of Cherbourg , The Uninvited , Unknown
Pleasures , Vanilla Sky , The
Vertical Ray of the Sun , La Vie Nouvelle
, The Wayward Cloud , The Weight of
Water , What's Cooking? , Where
is the Friend's Home? , Wild Reeds ,
Wings of Hope , Woman is the Future of
Man , World Traveler , Wrong
Turn , Xiao
Wu , The Year of Living Dangerously , You
Can Count on Me , You the Living
* * ½
21 Grams , About a Boy ,
The Aerial , Aileen:
Life and Death of a Serial Killer , All
Tomorrow's Parties , AM1200 , American Gangster , American
Splendor , Angel
Eyes , Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner , The 24 Hour Woman ,
Battle Royale II , A
Beautiful Mind , Begotten ,
Beyond the Years ,
The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World , Black
Cadillac , Black Hawk Down
, The Bourne Identity , Breaking
Away , The
Cat's Meow , Charlie Wilson's War , Charlotte Sometimes ,
Cherry Falls ,
Chicago , Chihwaseon ,
Chocolate , City of God , The
Contender , The Count of Monte Cristo
, Dark Water , The Devil's Backbone , Dial M for Murder , Don's
Plum , Fiddler on the Roof , Fiend Without a Face
, The Fighting Temptations , The
Fireman's Ball , Flash Point , Gigi
, Happiness , I
Am Sam , Il Divo , In the City , Irma
La Douce , Iron Monkey , Italian
for Beginners , Jeepers Creepers ,
Joshua , Killing
Me Softly , Lan
Yu , Lilo
& Stitch , Lost in Translation
, MacArthur
, Moon , Monrak Transistor , Mother and Son , The Mothman Prophecies
, My Bloody Valentine , Novocaine
, O'Horten , Old Boy
, Otto; or, Up With Dead People
, Please Vote for Me , The Quiet American , Real
Life , Reign of Fire ,
Religulous , Riding in Cars With Boys
, Roger Dodger , Seabiscuit
, Some
Like it Hot , Stanley Kubrick: A Life
in Pictures , The Steamroller and the Violin
, Sunshine , Them , Through
the Olive Trees , Torque , Training
Day , The Tuxedo , Visions of Light ,
Waltz With Bashir , Warm Water Under a Red
Bridge , When Will I Be Loved , White Oleander , Y Tu Mama Tambien
* *
28 Days Later , 55 Days at Peking , 8 Mile , Adaptation
, Bad Boys II , Big
Fish , Body Double , Boxcar Bertha , Brannigan
, Bread and Roses , Capturing
the Friedmans , Cast
Away , The City of Lost Souls ,
Cloverfield ,
Coraline , CQ , Crazy/Beautiful
, Cypher , El Crimen del Padre Amaro , Dahmer ,
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys ,
Delta , Departures , Don't
Say a Word , Eisenstein , Factotum
, Family
Ties , Footloose
, From
Hell , Full
Frontal , Half Nelson , High and Low , Insomnia (2002) , Investigating Sex , Iris , K-PAX
, The Last of England , Late Marriage , Lilian's
Story , Linha de Passe , Love and Other Disasters , The Magdalene Sisters ,
The Magic Flute , Maryam
, Mercano the Martian , Millennium
Actress ,
Monday Morning , Monsters Inc. , Murder
By Death , No End in Sight , No Man's Land
, Of Time and the City , The
One , The Outsider ,
Persepolis , Piñero , Pulse
, Rabbit-Proof Fence , Red Dragon , Requiem
for a Dream , Road to Perdition , The
Rules of Attraction , Schindler’s List
, Secretary
, Shadow of the Vampire
, The Shipping News , Silver
City , Sin City , Sweet
Home Alabama , Swept
Away... , Thirteen
Ghosts , A Time For Drunken Horses
, The Tin Drum ,
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , Truly Madly Deeply
, Waiting for Happiness ,
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
* ½
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai... , Amelie
, Away We Go
, The Banishment , Barren Illusion , Bloody
Sunday , Boggy Creek II: ... And the Legend
Continues , Bronson , The
Color of Pomegranates , Duel
, Hopscotch , I Stand Alone , Life as a
House , Minority Report , Moonlight
Mile , Not Forgotten , Ocean's Eleven
, One Hour Photo ,
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman , Personal
Velocity , Pumpkin , Signs , Spy
Game , Thirteen Days , Tootsie
, Toys
, Thesis , An Unmarried Woman
, Whale Rider
*
Alexandra's Project , Bowling for Columbine , Chocolat , Cinema
Paradiso , Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya
Sisterhood , The
Hunter , The Incredibles , In the Realm of the Senses , Jay
and Silent Bob Strike Back , Men in Black
II , The
Ninth Configuration , Paris , The Son , The Son of
the Bride , The Son's Room
, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over , Used Cars , What Women Want
½*
Cremains
, Luck
of the Draw , Rat
, Unbreakable
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The
Night Divides the Day
