Films Reviews tagged with 10/10
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
The symbolic film documented the Italian resistance to the Nazi regime during Rome's occupation in WWII, and it also proposed a sacred unifying bond, an originality and catharsis that other cinematic outlets could not equal at the time.
Grant Phipps celebrates...Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
The film is an immensely successful genre experiment as a liberal political allegory that can also be enjoyed as a purely entertaining duel between the inexorable forces of good and evil.
Grant Phipps watches...Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
A transcendent collaboration between revolutionary artists, the film is a stunning meditation on the essence and power of form and burgeoning sentimentalities of a transforming world of cinema.
Grant Phipps spends...Up (Pete Docter)
The most fun you'll have crying your eyes out like a little girl all year.
George Smith sez: Pixar puts you other sucka animation houses on noticeAfter Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Probably the most neglected and eccentric entry in Martin Scorsese's vaunted filmography, After Hours is one the 1980's uncherished masterpieces.
Gary Collins avoids the dark....Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Michelangelo Antonioni's English language debut Blow-Up is possibly far more a revelation today for its critical and frank depiction of Swinging London than its hypnotic narrative.
Gary Collins re-evaluates...The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
Getting ready for The Wrestler.
George Booker comes in it...Sweetie (Jane Campion)
Meet the sibling from Hell.
Gary Collins becomes fascinated by...The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Synecdoche blowback has me excavating other uncommented-upon-here masterpieces such as Atom Egoyan's terribly sad poem, one of the best of the '90s.
George Booker recalls...Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Charlie Kaufman's pain becomes clear in the most confusing fashion possible. This is a masterpiece.
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