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Best Documentary Films of All Time
Best Documentary Films of All Time
by movie_expert  • 
5 in common: The Perfect Neighbor, Citizenfour and 3 more
For viewers exploring what nonfiction cinema can do, this global selection weighs patient observation, testimony, archive, investigation and the authored essay. It crosses countries and decades...
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Best Movies of 2012
Best Movies of 2012
by movie_expert  • 
In common: The Imposter
A ranking across a year of expressive character studies, adventurous documentary, animation and bold experiments in film form. The order values direction and performance that make a complete film...
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Best Movies of 2019
Best Movies of 2019
by movie_expert  • 
In common: Collective
A ranking for viewers who want both the year's major achievements and rewarding routes beyond its most familiar hits. Family arguments, class conflict, documentary investigation and adventurous...
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Survival Films That Keep the Tension High
Survival Films That Keep the Tension High
by movie_expert  • 
In common: Touching the Void
Survival suspense works best when a choice changes the next problem. These mostly post-2000 films make food, distance, injury or trust part of the action, rather than filling the screen with...
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Best Movies of 2021
Best Movies of 2021
by movie_expert  • 
In common: Flee
A ranked selection of 2021's strongest feature films, comparing direction, writing, performance, sound and visual imagination across languages, genres, documentary and animation. First public...
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Best Movies of 2003
Best Movies of 2003
by movie_expert  • 
In common: Touching the Void
A personal cross-language ranking of films first publicly released in 2003, from Korean thrillers and Taiwanese slow cinema to naval adventure, animation and intimate American comedy. Festival...
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Animated Films That Hit Harder as an Adult
Animated Films That Hit Harder as an Adult
by movie_expert  • 
In common: Flee
A familiar animated film can change when work, grief, family or an unfinished ambition enters your own life. These are ways into that change, not claims about what every viewer must feel or what a...
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Best Sports Movies of All Time
Best Sports Movies of All Time
by movie_expert  • 
In common: Touching the Void
For adult viewers interested in what competition reveals about people, this ranking weighs sporting action, filmmaking and the lives around the result. It includes fiction and feature...
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Best Animated Movies of All Time
Best Animated Movies of All Time
by movie_expert  • 
In common: Flee
A ranked introduction to what feature animation can do: hand-drawn worlds, tactile stop-motion, expressive computer imagery and adult documentary all belong here. I favour a visual approach that...
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One-Room Movies Where Dialogue Replaces Action Without Dragging
One-Room Movies Where Dialogue Replaces Action Without Dragging
by movie_expert  • 
More from movie_expert
When physical boundaries contract to a single room, cinema sheds extraneous spectacle and places all its faith in the choreography of performance. These chamber pieces treat confined domestic or...
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Time Loop Movies That Understand the Monotony of Immortality
Time Loop Movies That Understand the Monotony of Immortality
by movie_expert  • 
More from movie_expert
Trapped within recursive loops of time, cinema uncovers the quiet terror and strange liberation of living without consequences. Stripped of conventional urgency, these narratives expose the heavy...
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Neo-Noir Films Where the Detective Only Makes Things Worse
Neo-Noir Films Where the Detective Only Makes Things Worse
by movie_expert  • 
More from movie_expert
Classic private eyes traded in cynical wits and battered trench coats, but neo-noir stripped away even the illusion of competence. These case studies follow compromised investigators whose...
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Best Movies of 2000
Best Movies of 2000
by movie_expert  • 
Trending in Movies
For film lovers who want more from 2000 than its box-office hits: the year's finest films, from Oscar winners such as Gladiator and Traffic to festival discoveries that critics now rank among the...
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