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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       6/10      Bubble Boy (2001)      "The film is only sporadically funny, and it's frequently in poor taste, but it's got energy to spare, and Gyllenhaal's performance gives it a soul." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Spin (1995)      "[The] film's real service is in explicating how the media's inability to inform audiences and reflect the political spectrum of our culture is a systemic problem." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003)      "A near-perfect time capsule of a specific moment in our culture, and a telling analysis of instant celebrity and the fickleness of youth culture." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)      "There's such a wealth of genuine anger and sadness underlying the film that it transcends [its] flaws." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Pups (1999)      "If Stevie didn't seem like such a real and basically ordinary teen, the film wouldn't be so compelling." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002)      "A moving and troubling documentary." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      The Loveless (1983)      "A strange, but compelling amalgam of art film and homage to the American International Pictures biker flicks of the 1960s." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)      "A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      My Best Fiend (1999)      "A thoughtful and clever examination by the director of his longstanding friendship and creative partnership with the late Klaus Kinski." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Sunshine Hotel (2001)      "Dominic has made a film of heart and intelligence about those subsisting on the margins of society." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Cinemania (2003)      "Cinemania might have been a more edifying experience if it really delved into the roots of this obsession." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      The Kill-Off (1990)      "An ugly, low budget noir that...somehow manages to capture the spirit of Jim Thompson's writing." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Laws of Gravity (1992)      "...A sustained level of tension that few street dramas can match." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)      "A fast-paced documentary that entertains as it informs." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       9/10      Burden of Dreams (1982)      "A fascinating portrait of a filmmaker pushed to the outer edge of sanity..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Masters of Horror - Stuart Gordon: Dreams in the Witch House (2005)      "...Gordon again demonstrates his unique talent for mixing quirky, uneasy laughs with genuine horror." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Isolation (2005)      "Fans of good old-fashioned creature features should be very pleased..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       3/10      Kinetta (2005)      "...doesn't add up to much, aside from an enervating moviegoing experience." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Cavite (2006)      "...there's...a certain unseemliness to the endeavor that is difficult to dismiss." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      Keuk Jang Jeon (2005)      "...richly inventive and consistently fascinating filmmaking..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Le Petit Lieutenant (2006)      "...an exemplary genre piece, melding a down-and-dirty 1970s vibe with a very modern perspective on the globalized nature of contemporary Paris." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      I'm Reed Fish (2007)      "...demonstrates a lot of talent, but it's another case of a neophyte filmmaker not recognizing where his true strengths lie" [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Brothers of the Head (2006)      "...despite outlandish subject matter that might lend itself to something more lurid or camp, it treats its characters and their story with refreshing restraint and seriousness." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       10/10      Old Joy (2006)      "...the landscape it maps is as much spiritual as it is physical, and the personal story it tells is inescapably political..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Color Me Kubrick (2007)      "put forth with...an unapologetic sense of depraved fun..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Duelist (2005)      "...its most salient feature is its spectacular visuals." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Ek Hasina Thi (2004)      "Ek Hasina Thi is not quite the revelation that its champions would like to think it is, but for the most part, it hits its marks." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)      "...offers some valuable insight into Korean culture." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       9/10      The Squid and the Whale (2005)      "...Baumbach's most emotionally potent and visually coherent film to date." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Paradise Now (2005)      "A tragedy regardless of its conclusion, Paradise Now is an important and powerful effort to explicate the inexplicable." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Spider Forest (2004)      "...a twisted journey that lingers in the memory." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       4/10      Ab-Normal Beauty (2004)      "...the film...devolves...into...standard slasher movie fare." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      The Motel (2006)      "...specific and detailed enough to separate itself from the pack." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      The Aristocrats (2005)      "...the brilliant Sarah Silverman transcends the mean-spirited nature of the joke..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Princess Raccoon (2005)      "For those prepared to engage the movie's playfulness, it's a unique treat." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Demi-Tarif (2003)      "...a uniquely unmediated look into the world of childhood." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Public Enemy (2002)      "Despite its amusing outrageousness and well-choreographed mayhem, the film never transcends the genre the way Dirty Harry did." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       4/10      Palindromes (2005)      "Aviva...in all her permutations, may as well be a bug under the director's microscope." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Maria Full of Grace (2004)      "the filmmaker's eye and ear for authentic detail and believable characterization...make the film an unusually tough and gritty slice of underworld life." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       5/10      Hotel Rwanda (2004)      "...disappointingly conventional [but] an important film nevertheless..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      The Holy Girl (2005)      "...at once humane, encompassing every shade of gray, and bracingly cold-eyed in its assessment of human endeavor." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       7/10      Girlhood (2003)      "Girlhood thoughtfully questions not just the system itself, but our unfair assumptions about the young people caught within it." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      Divine Intervention (2003)      "A mordantly amusing black comedy about life among the Arab citizens of Israel." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      Distant (2004)      "The tale has a deceptive, emotional complexity that builds to a surprisingly heartrending impact." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       9/10      Crimson Gold (2004)      "The film's sociopolitical themes are all the more powerful for being subtly expressed through a starkly realistic tale." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       9/10      Blissfully Yours (2004)      "Weerasethakul films the lost couple with such aching tenderness that the effect is not titillating, but profoundly moving." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       10/10      Memories of Murder (2003)      "...merits mention alongside Silence of the Lambs and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer...offers an incisive analysis of the culture that produced the crime." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       8/10      Kamikaze Girls (2005)      "...a super-stylized, fast-paced romp. Sharp-wittedly reflexive, culturally specific, and unabashedly fun..." [movie review]      All Movie Guide       6/10      My Brother Nikhil (2005)      "...when the entire production is clearly infused with such goodwill, it does add to its emotional impact." [movie review]      Twitch       9/10      Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol (2006)      "[It's] austere, unsentimental, morally complex, and grimly realistic..." [movie review]      Twitch

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