The Matrix (1999)
83%
“It's not just that The Matrix is to overblown silliness as Mount Rushmore is to big stone heads. To demonstrate their power, the makers of this trailer/video game/theatrical come-on have taken something precious to me... and tossed it onto the fire.” –
The Nation
Jul 12, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
77%
“As transparent as its title artifact, and just as obviously made from plastic, Crystal Skull conforms to type by offering a new version of old trash pleasures, only without the novelty.” –
The Nation
Apr 12, 2023
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Girlfight (2000)
87%
“The liveliest moments that follow are those in which you see Diana training. Kusama has a sure instinct in these scenes for camera placement and editing... and she knows she's got two great subjects in the craft of boxing and Rodriguez.” –
The Nation
Mar 24, 2021
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Atlantis (2019)
97%
“This is male cinema, in capital letters-but as written, directed, photographed, and edited by Valentyn Vasyanovych, it's also real cinema, made by an artist who has thought about why and how he's showing whatever you see.” –
The Nation
Feb 27, 2021
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Sin (2019)
94%
“This is how you make a film about artistic heroism without a hero.” –
The Nation
Feb 27, 2021
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Dear Comrades! (2020)
93%
“It's a fascinating subject for Konchalovsky to take up late in life...” –
The Nation
Feb 27, 2021
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A Glitch in the Matrix (2020)
66%
“Horrifying, but also funny...” –
The Nation
Feb 27, 2021
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Minari (2020)
98%
“Out of an experience that's as alien for his characters as it is for you, [director Lee Isaac Chung] quietly builds something that can serve as home.” –
The Nation
Dec 30, 2020
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Mank (2020)
83%
“Why was this vaporous stuff pulled out of the ether in the first place, and which movie brat's interests does it really serve?” –
The Nation
Dec 30, 2020
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Let Them All Talk (2020)
87%
“I held on through thick but mostly thin for the fun of watching Streep and Hedges play busily off each other and for Dianne Wiest's imperturbable performance as the surer, more simmering friend.” –
The Nation
Dec 30, 2020
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
97%
“Boseman's got the tragic lead and is running with it for all his magnificent skills are worth, though it's Viola Davis who plays the formidable title role... using enough of her own awe-inspiring gravity to bend the passing light of stars.” –
The Nation
Dec 30, 2020
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Collective (2019)
99%
“Bad spirals down toward a seemingly bottomless worse, while you, appalled moviegoer, get to watch this helix of death from a front-row seat.” –
The Nation
Dec 30, 2020
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Gunda (2020)
98%
“In Gunda, a remarkably fine meat-is-murder documentary, director Victor Kossakovsky studiously avoids color, music, and quick editing and so pulls you into a world that seems found rather than made.” –
The Nation
Dec 30, 2020
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Attack the Block (2011)
91%
“Attack the Block makes the most of its budget while creating a near-exemplary study in pace, humor, and spurts of gore.” –
The Nation
Sep 19, 2020
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Tesla (2020)
58%
“Hawke gives an inward-looking performance that emphasizes the alliance in Tesla of spiritual delicacy with globe-spanning ambition -- an uneasy combination, which led to what might be called, at a minimum, eccentricity and isolation.” –
The Nation
Sep 19, 2020
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On the Record (2020)
99%
“It gives you more than enough intense portraiture, narrative drive, and thoughtful commentary to justify the decisions the filmmakers made.” –
The Nation
May 27, 2020
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Beanpole (2019)
93%
“Moral judgments are possible in Beanpole-you make them in every scene -- but are as slippery as the lies the characters continually tell one another and as disorienting as Balagov's occasionally dizzying shots.” –
The Nation
Feb 7, 2020
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The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)
94%
“The Cordillera of Dreams is ultimately a movie about the path not taken and the history that cannot be undone.” –
The Nation
Feb 7, 2020
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
95%
“Flimsiness betrays flimsiness; the gaps in direction read almost like Heller's confession of the falsehood of the scene's emotional breakthrough, its essence as wish fulfillment.” –
The Nation
Dec 6, 2019
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Ford v Ferrari (2019)
92%
“Ford v Ferrari features Christian Bale doing wonders as race-car driver Ken Miles. You get the lean, hollow-cheeked Bale this time, who just by tilting his head one way or the other can seem amused, curious, satirical, or royally pissed off.” –
The Nation
Dec 6, 2019
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The Report (2019)
82%
“More is needed. Burns really grabs you only when the horror becomes vivid...” –
The Nation
Dec 6, 2019
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Dark Waters (2019)
89%
“Dark Waters [is] a direct, compelling, and damning procedural drama, one that respects the emotional ordeal of Rob Bilott as much as it builds the case against the managers of DuPont.” –
The Nation
Dec 6, 2019
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Wasp Network (2019)
40%
“[Assayas] gives you impeccably crisp direction, a wide scope of action, an exceptional cast -- Edgar Ramírez, Wagner Moura, Penélope Cruz, Gael García Bernal --and some enjoyable misdirection. This is, after all, a tale about liars.” –
The Nation
Nov 8, 2019
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Synonymes (2018)
87%
“Challenging and unpredictable, when not outright daring you to punch it in the face, Nadav Lapid's extraordinary Synonyms offers an alarming new take on the themes of drifting youth and soured identity.” –
The Nation
Nov 8, 2019
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Pain and Glory (2019)
96%
“After too long a fallow period, Pedro Almodóvar has returned to form, or even improved on it, with Pain and Glory, the most candidly autobiographical film he's ever ventured.” –
The Nation
Nov 8, 2019
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