Film Reviews by Star Rating
Masterpiece (**** +)
L'Amour Fou , The Big Lebowski , The Blue Angel , Breaking the Waves , Breathless , Blood of a Poet , Code Unknown , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Dancer in the Dark , Eyes Wide Shut , Fight Club , The General , George Washington , Gertrud , Husbands and Wives , The Idiots , Irma Vep , La Jetée , Life and Nothing More... , Magnolia , Ordet , Rosemary's Baby , Satantango , The Scarlet Empress , Sweet Smell of Success , Les Vampires , Waking Life , Werckmeister Harmonies
****
Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) , Autumn Sonata , Baise-Moi , Blow Out , Boogie Nights , Brief Encounter , Candyman , Charlotte Gray , Children of Paradise , Choose Me , Day of Wrath , The Dead Father , Donnie Brasco , Dr. T. & the Women , Ed Wood , The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser , Fat Girl , Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within , Flirt , Flowers of Shanghai , Funny Games , Ghost World , Good Morning , Gosford Park , The House of Mirth , In Praise of Love , In the Mood for Love , Kandahar , The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings , The Man Who Knew Too Much , The Mascot , The Mirror (1975) , Mississippi Mermaid , Moulin Rogue! , Mulholland Drive , Orpheus , The Puppetmaster , Solaris , Sisters , Tape , Traffic , The Unbelievable Truth , Va Savoir (Who Knows?) , What Time Is It There? , The Wild Bunch
***½
36 Fillette , Ali , Amores Perros , Apocalypse Now Redux , The Book of Life , Broken Blossoms , Central Station , The Circle , Conspirators of Pleasure , Days of Being Wild , The Devil's Backbone , East is East , Eureka , The Evil Dead , Family Plot , Gandhi , Gimme Shelter , Happiness , Haxan , Hope and Glory , The Hudsucker Proxy , I'm Going Home , Intimacy , In the Bedroom , It's a Wonderful Life , Jesus' Son , Joy Ride , Leon (The Professional) , The Man Who Wasn't There , Married to the Mob , M. Hulot's Holiday , The Newton Boys , Places in the Heart , POLA X , Ratcatcher , Salesman , Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom , The Scent of Green Papaya , Secret Defense , Sidewalks of New York , Spirits of the Dead , Stalker , Sullivan's Travels , Tigerland , Time Code , Twice-Told Tales , Under the Sand , The Virgin Suicides , The Winter Guest , Yi Yi
***
Across 110th Street , Aimee & Jaguar , An American in Paris , Bandits , Battle Royale , Billy Elliot , Birthday Girl , Blood Simple : Director's Cut , The Business of Strangers , Domestic Violence , Donnie Darko , Focus , Gallipoli , Ginger Snaps , Grey Gardens , Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , Heist , House of Usher , The Killing of a Chinese Bookie , Lantana , Little Otik , The Long Good Friday , A Map of the World , The Mirror (1998) , Monster's Ball , The Most Dangerous Game , My First Mister , The Neon Bible , Not Without My Daughter , Office Space , The Philadelphia Story , Quills , The Royal Tenenbaums , Serendipity , Shallow Hal , Storytelling , Theatre of Blood , Tortilla Soup , The Umbrellas of Cherbourg , Vanilla Sky , The Vertical Ray of the Sun , What's Cooking? , The Year of Living Dangerously , You Can Count on Me
**½
The 24 Hour Woman , A Beautiful Mind , Black Hawk Down , The Contender , The Count of Monte Cristo , Dial M for Murder , Don's Plum , Fiend Without a Face , I Am Sam , Irma La Douce , Iron Monkey , Italian for Beginners , Jeepers Creepers , MacArthur , The Mothman Prophecies , Novocaine , Riding in Cars With Boys , Some Like it Hot , Sunshine , Training Day , Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
**
Brannigan , Bread and Roses , Cast Away , Crazy/Beautiful , Don't Say a Word , Eisenstein , From Hell , Iris , K-PAX , Lilian's Story , Monsters Inc. , Murder By Death , No Man's Land , The One , Piñero , Requiem for a Dream , Shadow of the Vampire , The Shipping News , Thirteen Ghosts , A Time For Drunken Horses
*½
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai... , Amelie , Duel , Life as a House , Ocean's Eleven , Spy Game , Thirteen Days , Tootsie , Toys , An Unmarried Woman
*
Chocolat , The Hunter , In the Realm of the Senses , Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back , The Son's Room , What Women Want
½*
Cremains , Luck of the Draw , Rat , Unbreakable
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