The Past

Another masterstroke from Asghar Farhadi, The Past begins as a domestic drama and stealthily evolves into a kind of thriller.

"...communication were over with. His latest film – another masterpiece – picks up the conversation, so to speak, with..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Prometheus

In his return to science fiction, Ridley Scott's stunning, ambitious visuals are waylaid by his quasi-metaphysics.

"...without its messy pleasures, but it's also not the masterpiece fans had hoped for. Such is life...."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Headhunters

This Norwegian crime thriller is anchored by a schemer who brings on his own ruin.

"...tech entrepreneur with a paramilitary background and a Flemish masterpiece stashed in his grandmother's closet. What Roger doesn't grasp..."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The FP

This potential cult-movie masterpiece is likely the most original dance film you'll see this year.

"...and makes this crazed film into a potential cult-movie masterpiece...."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Skin I Live In

Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's maestro of madness and desire, reunites with Antonio Banderas for this dark and frazzled tale of l'amour fou.

"...confounds expectations in the grandest of ways, this tricky masterpiece from Spain's maestro of madness and desire attracts and..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fast Five

Those renegade street racers reassemble for the fifth installment in the franchise, this time in scenic Rio de Janeiro.

"...come to blows (or bullets, really), it's a genuine masterpiece of surrealist cinema: two gigantic, bald, beveined, excessively phallic..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Last Train Home

This small masterpiece of documentary filmmaking offers an intimate look at the impact of China’s industrial growth.

"...Directed by: Lixin Fan. This small masterpiece of documentary filmmaking offers a human-scale look at the..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

A kidnapping caper with only three characters and one basic location, this masterful British film ratchets up the suspense to mind-frying proportions.

"...characters and hardly more than one location, Blakeson's genre masterpiece ratchets up the emotional suspense to mind-frying proportions. Of..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger is back to disturb everyone's sleep.

"...skewed, anxious unreality of a bad dream. Watching Craven's masterpiece today, you're struck by just how fluidly surreal it..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Antichrist

Lars von Trier lives to affront again. Chaos, indeed, reigns.

"...to be trusted. That said, Antichrist is a flawed masterpiece and an example of highly personal auteurism that will..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Burma VJ

This documentary about the 2007 Myanmar uprising is an airtight argument for the absolute necessity of a free press.

"...pulse racing, eyes tearing – Burma VJ is a masterpiece. You simply cannot tear your eyes from the events..."

June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Uninvited

A generic creeper that does nothing to improve upon the South Korean original.

"...of South Korean director Kim Jee-woon's lush and unnerving masterpiece A Tale of Two Sisters. UK siblings the Guard..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...review, this movie’s title translates as only one thing: masterpiece. Screenwriter Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious,..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

W.

Oliver Stone’s Bush portrait is a tale of two movies: one a humanizing portrait of a failure as a young man, the other a damning but unsurprising look inside an administration gone loopy on ideological zealotry.

"...just be sitting here telling you about a new masterpiece from the man who brought us JFK and Nixon...."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Stuck

Stuart Gordon tells his own creepy version of the story about the Fort Worth woman who locked her car in the garage for days with the mangled-but-still-living body of a human victim stuck in her windshield.

"...alive victim. Remarkably, Gordon has fashioned a moody, minor masterpiece that eloquently speaks to both the bloody body politic..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paranoid Park

Gus Van Sant's new film about young male skateboarders is breathtaking, heartbreaking, tragic, gorgeous, and psychically true all at the same time.

"...(Nevins), the troubled protagonist of Van Sant's new melancholy masterpiece. "Something besides teachers, breakups, girlfriends. Like different levels. Right..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love in the Time of Cholera

Funny when it’s supposed to be serious and awkward when it’s supposed to be romantic, every twist in this Gabriel García Márquez adaptation is a near miss, except for the performance of Javier Bardem.

"...otherwise a painful mess. Adapted from Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, the film stays true to the novel’s story. Set..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach paints a grim realist portrait that captures the solemnity of an Ireland turning on itself and the tragedy of two brothers spiraling away from each other.

"...rehearsed dialogue to contain. Paul Laverty’s script is a masterpiece of ambivalent populism, showing with a subtle touch just..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Mafioso

This genius Italian comedy from 1962 has been plucked from obscurity and given a sparkling new cleanup job.

"...I will say that this is the sort of masterpiece that will obliterate memories of lesser, later efforts in..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Army of Shadows

Although made in 1969, this French masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville is receiving its first stateside release.

"...and Christian Barbier. Although made in 1969, this French masterpiece is receiving its first stateside release with a new..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sarkar

Bollywood gangster film honors The Godfather.

"...he offers this new film in tribute to Coppola's masterpiece. Although Sarkar is an original story, its saga of..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

High Tension

A gripping piece of splatterpunk, despite the fact that there's not much to it and the plot crumbles in the third act.

"...perhaps because of it, Aja's film is a minor masterpiece of cutting, edited within an inch of its life..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Academy Award-Nominated Short Films 2004

A program of eight short films nominated for live-action and animated Academy Awards in 2004.

"...small assist from Larkin) is something of an artistic masterpiece. Finally, American Alexander Woo’s 2004 Student Academy Award winner..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Incredibles

Animated take on the superhero genre overflows with wonderfully silly shenanigans and knowing insight into modern parenting.

"...and family. The Incredibles is more than just another masterpiece of computer-generated animation (although Pixar’s skill with the form..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twilight Samurai

A near masterpiece, this atypical samurai movie is more an epic of the heart than the battlefield.

"...out. But then, of course, you’d be missing a near-masterpiece of cinematic subtlety and that rarest of exports: a..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Envy

Director Barry Levinson tackles the human vice of envy in this comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black.

"...member Poehler makes Death to Smoochy look like a masterpiece of comic nuance. Stiller plays Tim Dingman, a suburban..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Passion of the Christ

So the difference between this and a snuff film is … ?

"...The Passion of the Christ is something of a masterpiece, terrible to behold, unfit for children, certainly, but very..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Magdalene Sisters

A grim and unmistakable masterpiece of bleak, black sorrow.

"...of the year, it is a grim and unmistakable masterpiece of bleak, black sorrow...."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

"...one iota. Sinbad, the studio’s big follow-up to their masterpiece Shrek, feels like the little animated adventure nobody loved,..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Friday After Next

"...as its direct ancestor (Michael Schultz's great 1976 hood masterpiece Car Wash) nor as clever as the original Friday,..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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