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District 9 is the most original, innovative and entertaining science - fiction film in years and contains the best mix of politics and spectacle since Starship Troopers.
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One thing's for certain, Po is the perfect role for Jack Black, who I'd argue hasn't made a good live - action film in years, but nails it when made into a CGI panda.
One of four films in this year's Sundance lineup to deal explicitly with mass shootings, «Gun» acknowledges the solutions to this ongoing problem are neither easy nor obvious, while persuasively arguing that more, surely, can be done.
Spike Lee has made one of the few films in the year 2000 that is actually about something, and for that he deserves great credit.
Drawing a parade of colorful performances from a constantly surprising cast, the curiously titled «John Grisham's «The Rainmaker»» is Mr. Coppola's best and sharpest film in years.
Vulture's Emily Yoshida believes it's one of Lee's «most flat - out entertaining films in years, and also one of his most uncompromising.»
Coco, with its Mexican and indeed universal themes revolving around the importance of la familia, reverence for those who have shuffled — well, danced — their way off this mortal coil, and Mexic - culturally specific traditions and attitudes, is one of Pixar's best films in years.
One of the most beautiful animated films in years, with each poem given a separate interpretation by a different master animator.
If, in the end, De Palma could have kept the explosive climax from going the James Bond route, perhaps it would have been the best spy film in years.
... for those who warm to [director Jérȏme] Reybaud's cinematic rhythm will find «Four Days in France» to be one of the best gay films in years.
I have not seen a French film in years that I liked.
When in doubt, turn to the greats for some film poster inspiration — this creative riff on the Hitchcockian silhouette of Vertigo does justice to Shyamalan's best film in years.
It's Soderbergh's weakest film in years and one his least characteristic.
When: December 25th Why: It's a good thing that Martin Scorsese's fifth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio didn't get pushed back to 2014 like originally suggested, because I don't think I could've waited any longer for what is shaping up to be one of the director's most purely entertaining films in years.
One of the only other outright sci - fi films in this year's Sundance line - up, Robot and Frank stars Frank Langella as a curmudgeonly old man who receives a caretaker robot (seen above).
It's Woody Allen's most blatantly funny film in years — we loved it.
Organizers say that 43 % of the competition films in this year's festival were directed by women and that 38 % were directed by people of color.
«Lawless» by John Hillcoat, the first of four American films in the year's competition, premiered this morning.
Description: The Trip was one of the funniest films in years.
Finally, it closes with the best finale of any film this year, the most heart - wrenching ending I've seen in a studio film in years, that for once shows us the emotional toll that a taut thrill - ride would have on a person in real life.
With my theater loaded with laughter, and with Tatum and Foxx running around like Gibson and Glover, or Nolte and Murphy, I'd say the director's actually made the funniest biracial buddy - cop film in years.
Actor of the Year (multiple roles) Editor's note — each year voters select an actor from all of his films in that year.
The Scorecard Review Movie Awards: Best of the Decade (Almost) CLICK HERE to vote Actor of the Year (multiple roles) Editor's note — each year voters select an actor from all of his films in that year.
To be nominated, an actor must have more than one film in that year.
She has starred in a number of French - language films in the years since, but this is the first to be released in the United States.
One of the most anticipated horror films in years is Robert Eggers» The Witch (read our review), which will be opening...
One of the best Sci - Fi films in years, in fact.
David Robert Mitchell serves up the best American horror film in years.
And «Lincoln» is quite an achievement — his best film in years, and perhaps his most performance - driven ever.
Tim Burton will be in attendance for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, his most intriguing film in years.
Right along side «Argo» the whole time was «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg's best film in years and a powerhouse vehicle for great actors like Daniel Day - Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, and Sally Field.
Verdict: The vampire movie might feel played out for most of us, but if anyone was going to find something new in it, it was Jim Jarmusch, who delivers with «Only Lovers Left Alive» his best, and most purely enjoyable, film in years.
He hasn't made a decent film in years but the veteran director, best known for Bonnie and Clyde, is honoured at the Berlin Film Festival this month.
The first Troma film in years to get a theatrical run is an aggressively absurd, outrageously gory and comically grotesque horror farce: part Poltergeist, part Alien, part Dead Alive, all zombie chicken musical, with more excruciating puns that you thought was humanly possible.
Lol Rupaul probably knows the names of more films in this year's Oscar lineup than he does queens on his own show
This is Martin Scorsese's most enjoyable film in years, and his first in 15 years that isn't a failed attempt at a masterpiece, but rather a fabulously successful attempt at a good movie.
«Mad Max: Fury Road»: Oscar winner John Seale («The English Patient») came out of retirement to tackle George Miller's acclaimed return to his post-apocalyptic universe, which turned out to be the best action film in years.
But nonetheless, I enjoyed Snowden as I think it's Stone's best film in years.
Or it could be that, for all its weirdness, Phantom Thread is Anderson's most accessible, most easily lovable film in years.
Meryl Streep portrays Katharine Graham in «The Post,» the only political film in this years batch of nominees.
Burton's most tastefully designed film in years ultimately falls flat because Adams and Waltz can't get on the same page.
Timbuktu is also perhaps the least divisive film in this year's Competition.
«One of his best films in years.»
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Few films in this year's still - developing Oscar race could go from «dark horse» to «frontrunner» in the blink of an eye.
Still, it's far and away the most visionary film in this year's Competition, if only for the way it re-imagines 3 - D, and it wouldn't shock me if the jury chose to acknowledge that in some fashion.
Featuring a powerful performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor and what I consider the best performance of the year (by Lupita Nyong» o), this epic is a must - see and will surely be judged a classic American film in the years to come.
Even if it wasn't the most groundbreaking animated film in years, the simple story of a lonely robot packed an emotional wallop that I didn't see coming.
The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.
Something that is becoming apparent is that the truly great horror films do not come from the major Hollywood studios; they haven't bankrolled a truly great horror film in years, instead just churning out one turd after another.
Our own Jacob Hall called Everybody Wants Some «Linklater's funniest film in years,» and most reviews have echoed that sentiment.