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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
5/5
Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) Daniel Barnes All the ambiguities and contradictions of life, the small and the large, the universal and the specific, all contained within this seemingly simple story of a young boy trying to protect his classmate.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Rip (2026) Daniel Barnes It all sits on the most medium level of meat and potatoes genre fare without ever doing anything good, bad or weird enough to risk that watchable yet forgettable status.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Send Help (2026) Daniel Barnes This self-conscious return to form for Raimi offers two excellent performances and plenty of sick fun, although a little more grounding in reality and a little less ripping out chunks of brain might have made it feel less one-dimensional.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Pierrot le Fou (1965) Daniel Barnes Violent rejection of societal and aesthetic norms guided by a Looney Tunes logic, as Godard distracts himself from the familiar lovers-on-the-run story with experiments in color, composition, exuberance and incoherence.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Metropolis (1927) Daniel Barnes Directly or indirectly influencing a century of pop culture from Blade Runner to Diamond Dogs, Lang’s masterpiece continues to amaze and inspire.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Paisan (1946) Daniel Barnes Rather than simple tales of heroes at war, Rossellini offers bitterness-tinged stories of tenuous brotherhood forged along the Allied path to victory.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Mercy (2026) Daniel Barnes Not a great idea to put an omnipresent countdown clock in the corner of the screen when the film is this tiresome. It’s a stark reminder of all the time you’re wasting.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Atropia (2025) Daniel Barnes While a thematically ambitious effort, the disparate pieces never form a compelling whole, and it often comes off as glib.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Vagabond (1985) Daniel Barnes A film of purest empathy driven by Sandrine Bonnaire's stunning performance as a drive-less drifter. Bonnaire offers no ego, no sentiment and no holds barred.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Daniel Barnes An unwelcome dose of YA pap aside, Trachtenberg makes another solid entry into the Predator-verse.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Die My Love (2025) Daniel Barnes This is Lawrence’s show, and she’s stunning, fearless, exposed, raw, real, unreal, supernatural. It’s powerful and potent stuff in an otherwise empty exercise.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
News From Home (1977) Daniel Barnes A deeply personal movie about real time and real space that makes you consider how frequently movie time and movie space are fudged.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Wanda (1970) Daniel Barnes I Wanda, Wanda who...who-oo-ooh, who...who wrote the book of love? Probably not Barbara Loden, who struck the mother Loden of bleakly pathetic romances with her groundbreaking and brilliant 1970 film.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
In the Mood for Love (2000) Daniel Barnes Never not in the mood for this sumptuously beautiful yet melancholy and mysterious masterpiece.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Singin' in the Rain (1952) Daniel Barnes Unbelievable the level of suffering that these people went through to create the most exuberantly joyful movie ever made.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Headless Woman (2008) Daniel Barnes A mesmerizing and haunting slow sink into evocative depravity.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Vampyr (1932) Daniel Barnes Dreyer never tried to articulate anyone's vision but his own, and his moody horror movie confounded the expectations of audiences that had recently made Dracula (1931) a monster hit.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Come and See (1985) Daniel Barnes An emotionally shattering waking nightmare of war.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) Daniel Barnes Stone-cold beautiful bravura, a singular work inspired by the life of poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
India Song (1974) Daniel Barnes Everything has a musty, decaying quality, with characters who haunt their spaces more than they live in them.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
To Be or Not to Be (1942) Daniel Barnes A funny, gutsy piss-take that deftly navigates a tonal minefield.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Mouchette (1967) Daniel Barnes A soul-scouring sojourn to the French countryside, which is apparently not as idyllic as those Expedia ads would have you believe.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Sambizanga (1973) Daniel Barnes Set during the early days of the Angolan War for Independence, Sambizanga is a gripping political statement in the style of The Battle of Algiers.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) Daniel Barnes Alea's movie exudes vitality from the opening frames, with a hero notable mainly for his wishy-washy lack of commitment to any belief, not a good look in 1960s Cuba.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Happy Together (1997) Daniel Barnes No filmmaker can knock the wind out of you with a single edit like Wong Kar-Wai.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Charulata (1964) Daniel Barnes Simplicity and complexity in equal measure and perfect harmony in Charulata, which expertly intertwines the title character's various awakenings.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Vertigo (1958) Daniel Barnes A film about doppelgängers that's a total doppel-banger. Alright, that's terrible, but what's left to say about Hitchcock's spellbinding masterpiece at this point?
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Cries and Whispers (1972) Daniel Barnes Working in off-brand ivory-white and blood-red, Bergman delivers a blistering chamber drama that lives on a knife's edge of chilling contradictions.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Amarcord (1973) Daniel Barnes It's a collection of memories, some of them lovely and heartfelt, some of them quite bitter and ugly, alongside lies, dreams and fantasies, all done in Fellini's inimitably vibrant, pulsating style.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Videodrome (1983) Daniel Barnes We may not consume media by sticking a thing in a slot anymore, but in many ways, Videodrome is more relevant than ever. Especially in the idea of screens being more real to us than reality, and the way that devices mutate our humanity.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Army of Shadows (1969) Daniel Barnes Nothing glamorous, nothing thrilling, nothing nostalgic or exotic about what's depicted in Army of Shadows. It's a war fought in the shadows by shadowy people with shadowy morals to a shadowy, but almost certainly bitter, end.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
La ciénaga (2001) Daniel Barnes Martel wants you to be uncomfortable from the very beginning, and you are.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Daniel Barnes A romantic fantasy of a roughneck South American port city created on a Hollywood soundstage, yet it's teeming with sensual atmosphere and a hyper-real sort of authenticity.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The 400 Blows (1959) Daniel Barnes Instantly recognizable to anyone who was ever a child, this debut film from Francois Truffaut helped launch a cinematic revolution.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Mirror (1975) Daniel Barnes Andrei Tarkovsky's semi-auto-bio-tour-de-force is so densely layered and deeply personal a reflection that you may not see yourself in his Mirror, but the beauty and audacity of the film are undeniably compelling.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A Canterbury Tale (1944) Daniel Barnes A star-studless small-town mystery that still has all the magic, splendor and heart you expect from Powell and Pressburger.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
My Darling Clementine (1946) Daniel Barnes Arguably the least factual yet most definitive take on the Wyatt Earp/OK Corral legend, Ford's masterful western about men becoming legend gets an additional, almost supernatural layer of mystery and mythos from its Monument Valley setting.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Daniel Barnes The rare absurdist-realist intimate epic, Aguirre is an impossible-to-recreate fever dream of power-mad colonial gold-lust run amok.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Yi Yi (2000) Daniel Barnes It opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral, and there are enough love triangles, outstanding coincidences and bizarre twists of fate in between to fill several seasons of any show, yet it's a serene character study with a bottomless well of empathy.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Daniel Barnes It's not noir-ish in any stylistic sense, and Panahi has no interest in genre conventions, but the theme of score-settling revenge in the absence of moral certitude breaks It Was Just an Accident out of his recent meta-movie mold.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Blue Moon (2025) Daniel Barnes Despite a tour-de-force performance from Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon fits in well with the nice, good, unspectacular films that make up most of Linklater's oeuvre.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Relay (2024) Daniel Barnes Ahmed delivers a predictably nuanced performance, even when the script and direction keep painting him into an emotional corner. But he also has to pick up a lot of slack for the supporting cast.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Eden (2024) Daniel Barnes The sort of lean, simple, classic Hollywood-style narrative filmmaking that has been misattributed to Howard in the past and now is being curiously dismissed.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Daniel Barnes This Reckoning feels about as final as a KISS farewell tour.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Sullivan's Travels (1941) Daniel Barnes Sullivan’s Travels offers itself up as a meta-resolution to its own conundrum, deftly blending madcap comedy, non-didactic social commentary, and even "a little sex" in the form of Veronica Lake.
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Limit (1931) Daniel Barnes Mário Peixoto's eerie and experimental silent movie was long thought lost, but a relatively recent restoration has exposed it to a new generation of cinephiles.
Posted Sep 22, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
In a Lonely Place (1950) Daniel Barnes The jaded and cynical flipside to the lovingly ecstatic portrait of Hollywood mythmaking offered by Singin’ in the Rain, Nicholas Ray’s is a bleak yet sensual film noir that refuses to indulge in any cliched genre trappings.
Posted Sep 22, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Rashomon (1950) Daniel Barnes The fourth story is seemingly the most objective of them all, and it's probably the closest to the truth. But even in that story, there are big holes. Everyone has something to hide.
Posted Nov 14, 2023  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) Daniel Barnes Despite the beautiful locale and an impressive cast, we’re never given a compelling reason to care about any element of this tedious and soulless awards-grubber. Even the mandolin doesn’t matter!
Posted Oct 03, 2023  Edit critic review
1/5
Jiu Jitsu (2020) Daniel Barnes Cage goes Obi-Yawn Kenobi as a neo-hippie martial arts mentor, but cedes the lead to Canadian stuntman, martial artist and charisma black hole Alain Moussi. Jiu Jitsu comes up short on every level, especially in the omnipresent fight scenes.
Posted Sep 19, 2023  Edit critic review
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