 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1984) |
|
"First time feature director Roland Joffe shoots the drama with an unforced realism lent a terrible grace by the handsome images and smooth, unobtrusive long takes..."
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1964) |
|
"Mann's direction is strong, and the lavish sets and costumes and massive crowd scenes are truly magnificent..."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1964) |
|
"... surely the most magnificent period piece of its era."
[movie review] |
|
Turner Classic Movies Online |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1923) |
|
"[Abel Gance] is a master conductor who plays scenes like symphonies of feelings..."
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2000) |
|
"... for all the bizarre elements (such as a veteran voyeur who calls himself Captain Banana), it doesn't go anywhere."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1955) |
|
"[Morris] Engel and [Ruth] Orkin capture the range of emotions and the complicated evolution as each member of the triangle adjusts to new situations and relationships..."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1953) |
|
"... a leisurely paced tale less concerned with story than character and the flavor of its locations."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1923) |
|
"One of the great technical innovators and visual artists of his time, [Abel] Gance was a master conductor of the cinematic form."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"Haynes delivers a song-cycle of a movie: vivid, exaggerated, contradictory impressions of a man who confounds a culture looking to peg him with a definition."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"... a tribute to the freewheeling energy and youth of the French New Wave."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(2008) |
|
"In this lively drama of rebellion and revolution, emotion is even more inflammatory than politics."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"I sounds crazy when you say it - David Mamet writes and directs a martial arts drama - but it’s a superb match of sensibility and genre."
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
A- |
|
(2008) |
|
"Writer/director Garth Jennings captures the innocent ecstasy of boys discovering the elemental power of cinema and the unfettered play of imagination with disarming humor."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1931) |
|
"... Ozu fills the film with deft sight gags, many thanks to the antics of the son, yet there's undercurrent of desperation to the comedy."
[movie review] |
|
Turner Classic Movies Online |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1933) |
|
"... utterly contemporary to the times, a stylized snapshot of working class life in 1933 Japan, and Ozu's details of their subsistence existence... creates a rich atmosphere."
[movie review] |
|
Turner Classic Movies Online |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1964) |
|
"It's overripe melodrama with an overtone of camp, a comically lush score, and plenty of heaving décolletage from (Michele) Mercier."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1965) |
|
"... a familiar lesson in the futility of war, but [director Frank] Sinatra has an easy way with the actors and lets them carry the scenes."
[movie review] |
|
Turner Classic Movies Online |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1954) |
|
"Hobson's Choice is a crisply directed comedy of lively and quirky characters in a vivid world of social snobbery and working-class life..."
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1932) |
|
"Behind the deft comedy and spirited performances of the two boys is a rather somber engagement with the compromises adults make to the demands of the social order."
[movie review] |
|
Turner Classic Movies Online |
|
|
|
|
| |
B+ |
|
(2008) |
|
"[Christophe] Honore drops the brightness and joy of the form into the chilly, gray winter of Paris to explore love and loss and intimacy."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Hou's first film made outside of Asia is his most emotionally turbulent, yet he remains, like the balloon, outside looking in, a compassionate but distant observer..."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1955) |
|
"The transfer is so vivid that the balloon seems to pop from the screen, glowing luminous red against the gray of Paris streets and skies."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"... a handsome and grandly realized big-screen adventure."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1937) |
|
"... Jean Arthur (is) a different kind of working class girl elevated into high society by the fickle finger of fate."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1939) |
|
"One of the most deliciously sexy and sweet romantic comedies of the '30s (or any era)..."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"... the film revels in spooky scares and goose-pimply eeriness but is grounded in a human drama of loss and sacrifice."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"The sophomore feature from director Andrew Wagner is a marvelous, nuanced work with rich characters and complicated relationships..."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Director Matt Reeves and screenwriter Drew Goddard have plenty of tricks up their sleeves... but it's all clever flourishes with no story smarts."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"... director Mike Nichols brings a light touch to this breezy take on "the outrageous true story" scripted by Aaron Sorkin."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1961) |
|
"The film plays like an unholy marriage between the realist films noir of the '40s like The Naked City and the early independent dramas of John Cassavetes..."
[movie review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"Director Sidney Lumet digs deep into the tawdry souls, peeling back the layers of arrogance and anger and self-delusion until all that's left is fury and fear and hate."
[movie review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"It's a bundle of joy with heart, charm, intelligence and wit to spare."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1988) |
|
"The celebration of storytelling and the magic of fantasy is not really a kids film... but the whimsical treat does capture the spirit of innocent wonder, even with the nightmare ripples."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"... it's more silly than clever, quoting Ray and Walk the Line (among other biopics) as Dewey morphs through country, R&B, rock, folk and other musical genres."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"... reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as an elemental frontier myth, roughly hewn out of the landscape that is remade in its wake."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1959) |
|
"The last film directed by Hollywood legend King Vidor is a Super Technirama wide-screen spectacle shot in Spain with an international cast."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1982) |
|
"Paolo and Vittorio Taviani won the Grand Prix at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival with their delicate and delirious story of war and survival as seen through the eyes of a 6-year-old girl."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"Burton plays the black comedy as both threepenny opera and Grand Guignol, a revenge melodrama in the squalor of a 19th century London the color of bone and ash and stone."
[dvd review] |
|
MSN.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(2008) |
|
"Writer/director Michael McCullers... pacing is poor and he doesn't know how to showcase the small-screen chemistry of Fey and Poehler on the big screen."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
B+ |
|
(2008) |
|
"My Blueberry Nights captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"This is a kind of storytelling I love, about moments captured in time, about the sensuality of image, about the overwhelming emotional assault of loving and living."
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
C+ |
|
(2008) |
|
"Backseat satisfies itself with small observations and minor breakthroughs of self-awareness."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(2008) |
|
"The Forbidden Kingdom may lack the grace of Crouching Tiger or the grandeur of Hero, but [Rob] Minkoff's affection and respect for the film culture is genuine."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
B |
|
(2008) |
|
"What is revealing here is the heretofore unseen civil-rights movement, small but dedicated, that began in the 1960s behind the Iron Curtain."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
C |
|
(2008) |
|
"... one might expect a little runaway energy or a dash of wild spirit under the antics, but there's little punchy anarchy in this controlled experiment."
[movie review] |
|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1940) |
|
"... another ridiculous story that justifies itself in the historic one-time-only pairing of MGM's Queen of Tap Powell and the cinematic grace incarnate Fred Astaire."
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1936) |
|
"The original songs by Cole Porter aren't all memorable, but they are lively and two of them are among is classics: "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "Easy to Love.""
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1937) |
|
"It's ridiculous and tremendous fun, a veritable evening of entertainment with song and dance and comedy acts and a story that exists only to transition from one act to another."
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1935) |
|
"The original story is credited to Moss Hart... but it was all about the production numbers and the spotlight dances by Powell."
[movie review] |
|
Seanax.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1934) |
|
"... a lightweight programmer with a capricious attitude toward plotting and a script unencumbered by logic."
[movie review] |
|
Turner Classic Movies Online |
|
|
