Film Reviews by Year
1915
Les Vampires
1916
Intolerance
1919
Broken Blossoms
1921
Orphans of the Storm
1922
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler ,
Haxan
1925
Go West
1926
The Devil's Circus , The General
1927
The Student Prince in Old
Heidelberg
1928
Show
People , The Wind
1930
The Blue Angel
1931
Le Million
1932
The Most Dangerous Game ,
Murders in the Rue Morgue , Rain
, Shanghai Express ,
Vampyr
1933
Blood of a Poet , Counsellor
at Law , The
Mascot
1934
The Black Cat ,
Happiness , The Scarlet Empress , Twentieth
Century
1935
The Wedding Night
1936
Osaka Elegy , Rose Hobart
, Sisters of the Gion
1937
You Only Live Once
1939
The Devil�s Daughter ,
Drums Along the Mohawk ,
La Jour Se L�ve
1940
The Grapes of Wrath , His Girl Friday
, Northwest Passage , The
Letter , The Philadelphia Story
, Thieves' Highway
1941
The 47 Ronin, Part One
1942
The 47 Ronin, Part Two ,
Gentleman Jim ,
Men on the Mountain , Sullivan's Travels
1943
Day of Wrath , The
Raven
1944
Christmas Holiday ,
The Uninvited
1945
And Then There Were None , Brief Encounter , Children
of Paradise , Dead of Night ,
The Great Flamarion ,
My Name Is Julia Ross , Spellbound
, The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry , The
Three Caballeros , A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
, The Woman in the
Window
1946
Gilda , It's a Wonderful Life
, The Killers
1947
Driftwood ,
Germany Year Zero
1948
Drunken Angel ,
Pitfall , The Red Shoes
1949
Come to the Stable ,
Late Spring , Orpheus
, The Small Back Room , Stray
Dog
1950
Rashomon
1951
An American in Paris , Diary of a Country Priest
, The Flying Leathernecks ,
The Prowler
1952
Le Plaisir , The
Lusty Men , The Narrow Margin
1953
Madame de... , M. Hulot's Holiday
, The Tell-Tale Heart
1954
Chained for Life , Dial M for Murder
1955
All That Heaven Allows , French
Cancan , I Live in Fear , Kiss Me Deadly , Ordet
, The Trouble With Harry
1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1957
Kanal , Love
in the Afternoon , The Pajama Game , The
Seventh Seal , The Steamroller and the Violin
, Sweet Smell of Success
1958
Fiend Without a Face , Gigi
, I
Want to Live!
1959
Good Morning , Some
Like it Hot , The Testament of Doctor
Cordelier
1960
L'Avventura , Breathless , House
of Usher , Rocco and His Brothers
, Throne of Blood
1961
Yojimbo
1962
La Jet�e
1963
55 Days at Peking ,
The Haunted Palace , High and Low , Irma
La Douce , Twice-Told Tales
1964
Black God, White Devil , Une Femme Mari�e ,
The Gospel According to St. Matthew ,
Robinson Crusoe on Mars , The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1965
Darling , Gertrud
, A High Wind in Jamaica , Loves
of a Blonde , The Nanny , The Saragossa
Manuscript
1966
Second Breath , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Eye Myth , The Fireman's Ball , Spirits of the Dead
1968
L'Amour Fou , The
Color of Pomegranates , The Devil Rides Out , Flesh
, If...
, The Joke ,
Naked Childhood , Night
of the Living Dead , The Red and the White , Rosemary's
Baby
1969
The House That Screamed , Medium
Cool , Mississippi Mermaid , Salesman
, They Shoot Horses, Don�t They? , Tom,
Tom, the Piper's Son , The Wild Bunch
1970
Five Easy Pieces , Gimme Shelter
, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1971
The Act of Seeing with One�s Own Eyes , Duel , Fiddler
on the Roof , Klute , Macbeth
, Wake in Fright
, Wanda
1972
Across
110th Street , Boxcar Bertha , Chloe
in the Afternoon , Junior Bonner ,
Letter to Jane , The
Merchant of Four Seasons , Solaris
1973
The Baby , A Delicate Balance , The Homecoming , Sisters , Theatre
of Blood
1974
Arabian Nights , The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
, General
Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait , Swept
Away... , The Terminal Man
1975
Brannigan
, Fox
and His Friends , Grey Gardens , The
Mirror , Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom ,
Someone I Touched , The
Story of Adele H. , Trilogy of Terror
1976
Family Plot , Heart
of Glass , In
the Realm of the Senses , The Killing
of a Chinese Bookie , Mikey and Nicky , Murder By Death
, Sebastiane
1977
3 Women , Family
Nest , A Grin Without a Cat ,
Hausu , MacArthur
, The Possessed
, Suspiria , Wizards
1978
Autumn Sonata , Coming
Home , Koko: A Talking Gorilla ,
Prey , An
Unmarried Woman
1979
Breaking Away ,
Dracula , Real
Life , Stalker
, The Tin Drum , Vengeance
is Mine
1980
Heaven's Gate , Hopscotch
, The
Hunter , Manila By Night , The
Ninth Configuration , The Silent
Scream , Used Cars
1981
American Pop , The Appointment ,
The Beyond , Blow Out , Coup
de Torchon , Gallipoli
, My Dinner With Andre , The
Outsider , Polyester
1982
The Evil Dead , Gandhi
, The Long Good Friday ,
Personal Best , The
Prefab People , Tootsie
, Victor / Victoria
1983
L'Argent , The Ballad of Narayama
, The Boys From Fengkuei
, Dark Habits
, The
Devonsville Terror , The Year of Living Dangerously
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai... ,
Almanac of Fall ,
Body Double , Choose
Me , Footloose , Paris,
Texas , Places in the Heart
, Streets of Fire , A Summer at Grandpa�s
1985
Boggy Creek II: ... And the Legend Continues
, Contact
, Shoah , Vagabond
1986
The Color of Money , The Dead Father
, Extremities ,
My Friend Ivan Lapshin , Little
Shop of Horrors
1987
High Tide , Hope and Glory , Road , RoboCop
, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story , The
Untouchables , Where
is the Friend's Home? , Wish
You Were Here
1988
36 Fillette , Alice
, Bird , Cinema
Paradiso , Hairspray , The
Last of England , Married
to the Mob , Miracle Mile , My Neighbor Totoro , Parents
1989
Casualties of War , City
of Sadness , Santa Sangre
1990
Close-Up , Nouvelle
Vague , Paris is Burning , The Unbelievable Truth
1991
Begotten , La
Belle Noiseuse , A Brighter Summer
Day , Days of Being Wild , Life
and Nothing More... , Not
Without My Daughter , Truly Madly Deeply
1992
Candyman , Crimson
Pig , The Heroic Trio , Husbands
and Wives , Lessons of Darkness
, Rebels of the Neon God ,
The Resurrected
, Toys
, Visions of Light
1993
The Age of Innocence , Bodies,
Rest and Motion , The Puppetmaster ,
Schindler�s List
1994
Ashes of Time , Ed Wood
, L'Enfer , Faust , The
Hudsucker Proxy , Joan the Maid: The Battles
& The Prisons , Leon (The Professional) , Satantango
, The Scent of Green Papaya , Through
the Olive Trees , Wild
Reeds
1995
Cremaster 1 , Dead Man , Flirt ,
Safe , Whisper
of the Heart
1996
Breaking the Waves , Goodbye
South Goodbye , A Moment of Innocence
, The
Neon Bible , Thesis
1997
Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) , Boogie
Nights , Conspirators of Pleasure , Cure
, Donnie
Brasco , Flowers of Shanghai , Happy
Together , Insomnia
, In the Gloaming
, Irma
Vep , Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil , Mother and Son , Night
Falls on Manhattan , The
Swindle , The Winter Guest , Xiao
Wu
1998
Alice and Martin , The Big Lebowski , The
Book of Life , Central Station , Funny
Games , Happiness , I
Stand Alone , Lilian's
Story , The Mirror , The
Newton Boys , Pecker , Ring , Secret Defense
, Show Me Love , Velvet Goldmine
1999
The 24 Hour Woman , Barren
Illusion , Cremaster 2 , Eyes
Wide Shut , Fight Club , The
Hole , Magnolia
, A Map of the World , Office
Space , The Psychotic Odyssey of
Richard Chase , Skin of Man, Heart of Beast
2000
Aimee & Jaguar , Billy
Elliot , Blood Simple : Director's Cut
, La Captive , Cast Away
, Cherry Falls , Chocolat
, The City of Lost Souls , The Contender , Cremains
, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Dancer
in the Dark , Distance , Dr. T. & the Women ,
East is East , Esther
Kahn , George
Washington , The House of Mirth , The
Idiots , Jesus' Son , Kikujiro, Luck
of the Draw , Merci Pour le Chocolat
, POLA X , Quills
, Rat
, Ratcatcher , Requiem
for a Dream , Shadow of the Vampire
, Songs From the Second Floor , Tears
of the Black Tiger , Thirteen Days , Time
Code , A Time For Drunken Horses
, Tigerland , Traffic
, Unbreakable , The
Virgin Suicides , The Weight of Water , What Women Want , What's
Cooking? , Wings of Hope , Yi Yi , You
Can Count on Me
2001
Ali , All About
Lily Chou-Chou , Amelie , Amores
Perros , Angel Eyes , Apocalypse Now Redux , Baise-Moi
, Bandits , Battle
Royale , A Beautiful Mind , Black
Hawk Down , Blissfully Yours , Bread and Roses , The
Business of Strangers , Carl Theodor
Dreyer Boxed Set (Criterion) , Charlotte
Gray , The Circle , Code
Unknown , CQ , Crazy/Beautiful , The
Devil's Backbone , Donnie Darko , Don's
Plum , Don't Say a Word , Eureka
, Fat Girl , Final
Fantasy : The Spirits Within , Focus , From
Hell , Ghost World , Ginger
Snaps , Gosford Park , The
Happiness of the Katakuris , Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , Heist , I
Am Sam , Intimacy , In
the Bedroom , In
the Mood for Love , Iris , Iron
Monkey , Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
, Jeepers Creepers , Joy
Ride , Kandahar , K-PAX
, Lagaan , Lantana
, Lan Yu , Life
as a House , Little Otik , The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings , The
Man Who Wasn't There , Millennium
Actress , Millennium Mambo
, Monster's Ball , Monsters
Inc. , Moulin Rogue! , Mulholland
Drive , My First Mister , My
Sassy Girl , My
Voyage to Italy , My Wife is a
Gangster , The
Night Divides the Day , No Man's Land
, Novocaine , Ocean's
Eleven , The One , Pi�ero
, Riding in Cars With Boys , The
Royal Tenenbaums , �R Xmas , Serendipity , Shallow
Hal , The Shipping News , Sidewalks
of New York , Spirited Away , Spy Game , Stanley
Kubrick: A Life in Pictures , Tape
, Thirteen Ghosts , Tortilla
Soup , Training Day , Under
the Sand , Vanilla Sky , Va
Savoir (Who Knows?) , The Vertical
Ray of the Sun , Waking Life , Werckmeister
Harmonies , World Traveler
2002
25th Hour , 28
Days Later , 8 Mile , 8 Women , About a Boy
, About Schmidt , Adaptation
, All or Nothing , Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner
, Auto Focus , Birthday Girl
, Black Cadillac ,
Bloody Sunday ,
The Bourne Identity , Bowling
for Columbine , Brotherhood
of the Wolf , The Cat's Meow , Charlotte
Sometimes , Chicago
, Chihwaseon
, Cinemania , City
of God , The Count of Monte
Cristo , Cremaster 3 , El
Crimen del Padre Amaro , Crossroads , Cypher
, Dahmer
, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
, Demonlover , Devdas , Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood , Domestic Violence
, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary , Eisenstein
, The Eye , Far
From Heaven , Femme Fatale , Forget
Baghdad , Frida , Friday
Night , Full Frontal , Group , Harmful Insect , H Story , Ichi the Killer , I'm Going Home
, The Importance of Being Earnest , In
Praise of Love , In This World , Insomnia , Investigating Sex ,
Irreversible ,
Italian for
Beginners , Killing Me Softly , Kissing Jessica Stein
, Late Marriage , Les Destinees Sentimentales
, Lilo & Stitch , The
Magdalene Sisters , Maid in Manhattan
, The Man Without A
Past , Martha... Martha , Maryam
, Mercano the Martian ,
Men in Black II ,
Minority Report , Monday
Morning , Monrak Transistor , Moonlight
Mile , Morvern
Callar , The Mothman Prophecies
, Not Forgotten , One
Hour Photo , Panic
Room , Personal Velocity , Phone Booth , The Piano Teacher ,
Pulse , Pumpkin ,
Punch-Drunk Love , The
Quiet American , Rabbit-Proof Fence , Raising
Victor Vargas , Real
Women Have Curves , Red Dragon , Reign of Fire , Resident
Evil , Road
to Perdition , Roger Dodger , The
Rules of Attraction , Russian Ark , Saint
John's Wort , Secretary , Secret
Things , Shaolin Soccer , Signs
, The Sleepy Time Gal , The
Son , The Son of the Bride , The Son's Room
, Spider ,
Spider-Man , Springtime
in a Small Town , Spun
, Standing
By Yourself , Stone Reader , Storytelling
, Sweet Home Alabama , Ten
, Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet , Time Out , Trouble Every Day
, The Truth About Charlie , The Turning Gate , The Tuxedo , Unknown
Pleasures , La Vie Nouvelle , The
Virgin of Lust , Waiting for Happiness
, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
, Whale Rider , What Time Is It There? , White
Oleander , Y
Tu Mama Tambien
2003
21 Grams , Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
, Alexandra's Project , All Tomorrow's Parties , American Splendor , Anything Else , Bad Boys II
, Battle Royale II , Big Fish , Biker Boyz , Bringing Down the House
, The Brown Bunny , Capturing
the Friedmans , Charlie's Angels: Full
Throttle , The Company , The
Corporation , Cowards
Bend the Knee , Doppelganger , The Dreamers , The Fighting
Temptations , The Fog of War , Gigli , Girl
With a Pearl Earring , Hero
, The Hunted , Japanese
Story , Jesus,
You Know , In
the City , Interstella 5555: The 5tory
of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem , Le
Divorce , Lost in Translation , Memories
of Murder , The Missing , Old
Boy , Open
Range , Paris
, Pieces of April , PTU
, Seabiscuit , Tarnation
, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , This So-Called Disaster
, Sylvia , The Time of the Wolf , Spy
Kids 3-D: Game Over , Wrong
Turn , Zero Day
2004
Alexander , Anatomy of Hell
, Bad Education , Chasing Liberty , Collateral
, A Dirty Shame , Ghost
in the Shell 2: Innocence , Howl's
Moving Castle , The Incredibles
, I ♥ Huckabees , Kill
Bill: Volume 2 , Metallica:
Some Kind of Monster , Moolaade , Nobody
Knows , Notre Musique , Red Lights , Silver
City , Three� Extremes , Throw Down , Torque ,
Tropical Malady , When
Will I Be Loved , Woman
is the Future of Man
2005
Cache , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
, Cigarette Burns , Dark
Water , Drawing Restraint 9 , Edmond
, Factotum , Grizzly Man , Hustle & Flow , Last
Days , Mary , Pretty Persuasion , Sin City
, A Tale of Cinema , The Wayward Cloud
2006
Beyond the Years , Container
, Easter Bunny Kill! Kill! , Election 2 [Triad Election]
, Everything Will Be Ok , Family Ties ,
Flanders , Half
Nelson , Header , I Don't Want to Sleep
Alone , Love and Other Disasters ,
Love is the Drug , The Magic Flute , Marie Antoinette , The
Pervert's Guide to Cinema , Sleeping Dogs
Lie , Song
and Solitude , Taxidermia , Them , The
Wind That Shakes the Barley , When the
Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts , World
Trade Center
2007
The Aerial , American Gangster ,
The Banishment ,
Blind Mountain ,
California Dreamin' (Endless) ,
Captivity ,
Chacun son Cinema ,
Charlie Wilson's War ,
Diary of the Dead ,
Eden Log ,
Flash Point ,
Freeheld ,
Happiness , Joshua , Juno ,
Lust, Caution ,
Madame Tutli-Putli ,
Margot at the Wedding ,
Mother of Tears: The Third Mother ,
The Mourning Forest ,
My Blueberry Nights ,
No End in Sight ,
O'Horten ,
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman ,
Persepolis ,
Please Vote for Me ,
Schindler's Houses ,
There Will Be Blood ,
You the Living
2008
AM1200 ,
Ashes of Time Redux ,
Bad Biology ,
Los Bastardos ,
The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World ,
Changeling , The
Chaser , Che ,
Chocolate , A
Christmas Tale ,
The Class
,
Cloverfield ,
The Dark Knight ,
Delta , Departures , Gomorrah ,
Happy-Go-Lucky ,
Heaven's Heart ,
Il Divo , Ip Man ,
I've Loved You So Long , Julia ,
Lake Tahoe , Linha de
Passe ,
Lion's Den ,
Lorna's Silence ,
Mamma Mia! , Martyrs , Mum &
Dad , Nothing But the Truth ,
Of Time and the City , Ong-Bak 2 , Otto; or, Up With Dead People , The Promotion , Religulous
,
Shirin ,
Summer Hours , Synecdoche,
New York , Three
Monkeys , Tokyo Sonata ,
Treeless Mountain ,
Waltz With Bashir ,
Wendy and Lucy ,
Who Does She Think She Is? , The X-Files: I Want to Believe
2009
2081 ,
(500) Days of Summer ,
� L�aventure , Amer ,
Antichrist ,
Away We Go , Bronson ,
Coraline , The
Damned United , Dread ,
An Education ,
Friday the 13th ,
Get Low ,
The Girl on the Train ,
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ,
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) ,
I Love You Phillip Morris ,
Last Ride ,
The Limits of Control ,
Looking for Eric ,
Lourdes ,
Mammoth ,
Moon ,
My Bloody Valentine ,
Nowhere Boy ,
Phantoms of Nabua ,
A Prophet ,
The Proposal ,
Public Enemies ,
Push , Racing Dreams , Shinjuku
Incident , Soul Kitchen ,
Star Trek , Tetro ,
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ,
The Uninvited , The
Unloved , World's Greatest Dad ,
The Young Victoria
2010
The American ,
The Anniversary at Shallow Creek , Bad
Faith ,
Beginners ,
Bestseller , The
Borrower Arrietty , Brownian Movement ,
Carlos ,
Catfish ,
Country Strong , Cyrus ,
Film Socialism ,
Grown Ups ,
Inside Job ,
Ip Man 2 ,
Iron Man 2 ,
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work ,
The Karate Kid ,
Kidnapped ,
The Kids Are All Right ,
The Killer Inside Me ,
The King's Speech ,
Knight and Day ,
The Last Circus ,
The Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen
Zhen ,
MacGruber , Machete
,
Mother�s Day ,
The Myth of the American Sleepover , On
Tour ,
Passion Play ,
Poetry ,
Predators ,
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ,
Public Speaking ,
Senna ,
A Serbian Film ,
Super , These Hammers Don�t Hurt
Us ,
Toy Story 3 , The Trip ,
Tuesday, After Christmas ,
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ,
Vampires Suck ,
We Are What We Are ,Winter's Bone
, YellowBrickRoad ,
The Yellow Sea
2011
Bad Teacher ,
Bernie , The Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel ,
A Better Life , Bridesmaids
, A Dangerous Method
, Detention
, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
, Horrible Bosses
,
Husk , The Innkeepers
, The Interrupters ,
Just Go With It ,
Larry Crowne ,
Mama Africa ,
Megan Is Missing ,
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger
Tides , Polisse , Quarantine 2: Terminal
, The Raid: Redemption ,
The Roommate ,
Scalene , Super 8 ,
Tomboy , The Tunnel
2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ,
Cell Count ,
Hemingway & Gellhorn ,
Indie Game: The Movie ,
Madagascar 3: Europe�s Most Wanted ,
Men in Black III ,
Moonrise Kingdom ,
The Pact , Piggy ,
[Rec]�: Genesis ,
Rock of Ages , The
Tall Man , Ted ,
V/H/S