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2011 Ten Best Movies
Oldman's Smiley: TTSS And we wrap up 2011 with another list, this one for the Herald. Read the story here. The actual lists of best (and worst!) are arranged as a slideshow, so you have to do a l… more →
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2011 Ten Best Movies
wrote 5 months ago: Oldman's Smiley: TTSS And we wrap up 2011 with another list, this one for the Herald. Read the … more →
Best of 2010 (Weekly Links)
wrote 1 year ago: Tahar Rahim, A Prophet As always, a slow week for new openings; but I wrote these for the Herald: Be … more →
1946 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: James Stewart, on the possibility of shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet. I bega … more →
1920 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: The #1 this year was not difficult for me; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is not a musty old film class … more →
2001 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Jeanne Balibar, Va Savoir 2001 was the only year I ever went to the Cannes Film Festival, and lookin … more →
1931 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Movie restorations are good and admirable and the people who do them are to be commended. On the oth … more →
1979 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Much of 1979 is clearer to me than stuff that happened last week, so sorting through the movies of t … more →
1999 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Blue Christmas, in Eyes Wide Shut Looking at the movies of 1999 and searching for some kind of end-o … more →
1921 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Chaplin and Coogan, The Kid The Kid is Chaplin’s first feature, and a devastating example of a … more →
1959 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: This is no good. We're on top of the monument. Ranking movies within years is compulsive behavi … more →
1968 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Although 2001: A Space Odyssey is regularly included in that group of films that should be seen in p … more →
1945 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Les Enfants du Paradis is one of the great large movie-watching experiences – a spectacle of l … more →
1987 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Anjelica Huston, The Dead It doesn’t stick in the mind as a notable year, and I have a difficu … more →
1936 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Figuring out that movies had authors – that many movies bore the mark of a single guiding pers … more →
1925 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Can anybody still show Battleship Potemkin to a college class these days, or is this frowned upon as … more →
2008 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Nurgul Yesilcay and Patrycia Ziolkowska: The Edge of Heaven When someone in a movie steps on the sam … more →
1976 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 1 year ago: Zischler and Vogler, Kings of the Road Despite the much-vaunted excellence of Seventies U.S. cinema, … more →
1996 Ten Best Movies
wrote 1 year ago: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos: Comment je me suis dispute...(ma vie sexualle) (That's the F … more →
1954 Ten Best Movies
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wrote 2 years ago: Toshiro Mifune, Seven Samurai This is another year where one of the greatest movies ever made comes … more →
