XXX

"...I dare say this is some sort of backwards masterpiece, a loud, proud, in-your-face example of rote actioneering and..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beijing Bicycle

A newcomer to Beijing has his bicycle (and livelihood) stolen by a teen desperate to impress his pals in this Chinese variation on The Bicycle Thieves.

"...simple drama, which alludes aggressively to De Sica's neorealist masterpiece The Bicycle Thief in that it likewise ties a..."

March 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Apocalypse Now Redux

"...rotors is the first sound you hear in Coppola's masterpiece. For filmgoers of a certain age it's a thrilling,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Others

"...uniformly excellent performances, and you have a quiet little masterpiece of dark and chilling beauty. Shudders all around, and..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The General

The General is one of Keaton's best films. In this Civil War comedy, Keaton does battle with the General – only thing is the General is a stolen train, not a soldier. There's a girl and some Union spies ­ but, mostly it's Keaton, the Great Stone Face, all the way.

"...Keaton aficionados consider The General to be Keaton's absolute masterpiece. Although it's too sentimental for my personal taste, I..."

Feb. 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Snatch

Ritchie's second feature is part broad comic farce and part grisly charnel house humor.

"...cartoon, and for that reason alone it's a minor masterpiece. Never have so many characters done so much damage..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dancer in the Dark

Björk goes goes to the death chamber in musical interludes.

"...is Peter Stormare's (Mr. Woodchipper in Fargo) bumpkin beau. Masterpiece or masturbation? With von Trier it's getting harder and..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Once Upon a Time in the West

"...Jason Robards, Jack Elam and Woody Strode. Leone’s elegiac masterpiece is a classic Western tale about railroads, land grabs,..."

Aug. 30, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Stendahl Syndrome

"...of artful cinematic violence not seen since Argento's 1987 masterpiece Opera. Like that film, The Stendahl Syndrome is at..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Detroit 9000

Blaxploitation classic re-released in 1999 by Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder distribution company.

"...Ray Moore's Avenging Disco Godfather look like an auteur-driven masterpiece by comparison. When a fundraising ball held by black..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ravenous

"...but that doesn't stop it from being a minor masterpiece of suspense and, you should pardon the pun, a..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Day of the Beast

De la Iglesia builds this original horror film around a priest who belives the Antichrist will be born on Christmas Day. The director's unique visions blend ultra-violence and satiric touches make this a stunning example of his work screening in this four-part Alamo series.

"...horror film is nothing short of a hangman's slapstick masterpiece. Day of the Beast (1995) garnered rave reviews in..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Redboy Thirteen

"...and Ian Flemming-style Cold War theatrics is a minor masterpiece of the surreal, taking viewers to places they may..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Taste of Cherry

"...by the esteemed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, is a “masterpiece.” The film was the co-winner of the Palme d'Or..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Touch of Evil

"...58-page memo from Welles himself) of the great director's masterpiece of bad juju is as close as we're ever..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marie Baie Des Anges

"...homage. Senseless symbolism, guns, and gams do not a masterpiece make, but taken together they can still at least..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saving Private Ryan

"...All Quiet on the Western Front. A bitter, bloody masterpiece with adrenalized emotions and hyper-realized images, this is perhaps..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tokyo Fist

"...viewed as such it approaches the level of a masterpiece, albeit a distinctly surreal one. Tsukamoto's ongoing fascination with..."

April 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kiss Or Kill

"...to mind nothing so much as Jean-Luc Godard's early masterpiece Breathless, itself a nouvelle-noir touchstone. With an eclectic supporting..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Irma Vep

Assayas' camerawork and editing recall the glory days of the French New Wave, while Cheung holds the center as an actress caught up in the behind-the-scenes mayhem on a creative film set.

"...director with the semi-salable idea of remaking Louis Feuillade's masterpiece of French silent cinema, the fantasy serial Les Vampires...."

Aug. 1, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Le Samourai

Fedoras and trench coats. Film noir in cool blues and greens. Melville's 1967 film is the real deal.

"...the 1930s. Le Samourai is often regarded as Melville's masterpiece (although Bob le Flambeur and Le Doulos) are strong..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boot: The Director's Cut, Das

"...Das Boot is instead the definitive version of a masterpiece. One of the most suspenseful films of all time,..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Liar Liar

"...much a one-man vehicle to rate as a true masterpiece. But God strike me dead if I'm lying, this..."

March 21, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Institute Benjamenta

"...to say the Brothers Quay have created an eerie masterpiece in which living actors very adequately take the place..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Days of Being Wild

One of Wong's first international hits, this stylish film is an atmospheric drama about a playboy who's stringing along two women while also learning that the prostitute who raised him is not his biological mother.

"...beautifully realized picture – in many ways, really, a masterpiece – that finds gifted Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wei..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba was actually shot as an elaborate pro-Castro piece of Soviet propaganda, but instead it's as if everyone in question just went gaga, drunk on the sheer beauty of Cuba and making up new film techniques as they went along. The film is a stylistically brilliant quartet of vignettes set during the waning years of the Batista regime. The interconnecting stories that propel the film along were written by Russian poet laureate Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

"...languages, no less), I Am Cuba is a lost masterpiece of filmmaking finally seeing the light of day 30..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mamma Roma

In this early Pasolini film marked by the director's sumptuous neo-realism, Magnani plays a middle-aged prostitute who retires from the trade to become a full-time mother to her 16-year-old son.

"...the continent as one of the eccentric director's early masterpieces, Mamma Roma has been curiously overlooked in America. No..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

"...Hunt is also his best since his absurd 1993 masterpiece Eagle Shooting Heroes. And while this two-part epic (Pandora's..."

May 19, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Wild Bunch

"...and loyalty the moral rule, makes for a controversial masterpiece. The grounds for objection to Peckinpah's third film are..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

Century

"...BBC Films feature suggests one more refined refugee from Masterpiece Theatre, word has it that writer/director Poliakoff explores the..."

March 3, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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