These are movies that have fewer than 5,000 votes by audience members, but at least 25 votes from critics. These movies are then filtered so that only the ones that have at least 85 percent of critics enjoying the movie are shown.
100% of critics love it, but only 6,300 people have rated it.
Leave No Trace takes an effectively low-key approach to a potentially sensationalistic story -- and further benefits from brilliant work by Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie.
98% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
The Tale handles its extraordinarily challenging subject matter with sensitivity, grace, and the power of some standout performances led by a remarkable Laura Dern.
84% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
The Sisters Brothers rides familiar genre trails in occasionally unexpected ways - a satisfying journey further elevated by its well-matched leading men.
86% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post tells its timely coming-of-age story with wit, compassion, and an affecting overall generosity of spirit.
75% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot avoids inspirational biopic clichés thanks to sensitive work from writer-director Gus Van Sant and the admirable efforts of a well-chosen cast.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
McQueen offers an intimate, well-sourced, and overall moving look at a young life and brilliant career that were tragically cut short.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
A boundless place of exile where all hopes and dreams merge with despair like the coinciding destinies of fathers and sons
72% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Smart, stylish, and packed with solid performances, Bad Times at the El Royale delivers pure popcorn fun with the salty tang of social subtext.
94% of critics love it, but only 500 people have rated it.
Lazzaro is a naive and optimistic twenty-year-old farmer; Tancredi is instead a young man with a fervid imagination.
72% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
Dogman offers a grim character study set apart by Marcello Fonte's performance and director Matteo Garrone's tight grip on the material.
93% of critics love it, but only 2,000 people have rated it.
As timely as it is overall impactful, Blindspotting blends buddy comedy with seething social commentary, and rises on the strength of Daveed Diggs' powerful performance.
100% of critics love it, but only 300 people have rated it.
Minding the Gap draws on more than a decade of documentary footage to assemble a poignant picture of young American lives that resonates far beyond its onscreen subjects.
95% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
Surreal and surprising, Three Identical Strangers effectively questions the nature of reality and identity.
98% of critics love it, but only 6,100 people have rated it.
Won't You Be My Neighbor? takes a fittingly patient and honest look at the life and legacy of a television pioneer whose work has enriched generations.
93% of critics love it, but only 2,200 people have rated it.
RBG might be preaching to the choir of viewers who admire Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but it does so effectively.
95% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind offers a poignant -- albeit tantalizingly incomplete -- peek behind the curtain of a brilliant performer's tragically curtailed life and career.
95% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
Written and directed by Jim Cummings, who also stars alongside Nican Robinson, Jocelyn DeBoer, Macon Blair, Bill Wise, Jordan Fox, and Chelsea Edmundson.
100% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
Weaving emotionally powerful stories of people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed, the film asks: what life-saving technologies may actually be killing us?
83% of critics love it, but only 3,300 people have rated it.
In ACTIVE MEASURES, Bryan exposes a 30-year history of covert political warfare devised by Vladmir Putin to disrupt, influence, and ultimately control world events, democratic nations through cyber attacks, propaganda campaigns, and corruption.
89% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Climax captures writer-director Gaspar Noé working near his technically brilliant and visually distinctive peak.
95% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
One of the most renowned card magicians of all time, Richard Turner astounds audiences around the world with his legendary sleight of hand.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
Journalist Jennifer Brea documents her struggle with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
84% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
The Wife relies on the strength of Glenn Close's performance to drive home the power of its story -- and she proves thoroughly, grippingly up to the task.
91% of critics love it, but only 4,800 people have rated it.
A Prayer Before Dawn is far from an easy watch, but this harrowing prison odyssey delivers rich rewards -- led by an outstanding central performance from Joe Cole.
88% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene takes a look at one of modern cinema's most memorable moments, offering insights of value to cineastes and casual viewers alike.
88% of critics love it, but only 5,400 people have rated it.
First They Killed My Father tackles its subject matter with grace, skill, and empathy, offering a ground-level look at historic atrocities that resonates beyond its story's borders.
85% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
Patrick Bruel resonates as the Jewish family patriarch Roman, while newcomers Dorian Le Clech and Batyste Fleurial register an almost agonizing vulnerability as hapless innocents trying to outrun the barbarous machinery of war.
92% of critics love it, but only 3,700 people have rated it.
Lean on Pete avoids mawkish melodrama, offering an empathetic yet clear-eyed portrayal of a young man at a crossroads that confirms Charley Plummer as a major talent.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
1945 sifts through the aftermath of the Holocaust to offer a sober, well-crafted look at a variety of weighty themes.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
The Work takes a gut-wrenching look at lives all too often written off as lost causes, persuasively arguing that growth and change can be waiting where we least expect it.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993) finds writer-director Carla Simón drawing on personal memories to create a thoughtful drama elevated by outstanding work from its young leads.
98% of critics love it, but only 6,700 people have rated it.
Wonderfully acted and artfully composed, Columbus balances the clean lines of architecture against the messiness of love, with tenderly moving results.
98% of critics love it, but only 5,000 people have rated it.
Moving without resorting to melodrama, BPM offers an engrossing look at a pivotal period in history that lingers long after the closing credits roll.
91% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
When fresh faced social worker, Joanne turns up we see Libby transform.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
The Rider's hard-hitting drama is only made more effective through writer-director Chloé Zhao's use of untrained actors to tell the movie's fact-based tale.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
Informative, enthusiastic and accessible, The Farthest will inspire even the most grounded of viewers to look up in wonder once in a while.
100% of critics love it, but only 400 people have rated it.
As peaceful protests were held, the government retaliated with extreme force, resulting in a full-blown civil war.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
Chasing Coral offers a breathtakingly beautiful look at some of the Earth's most incredible natural wonders while delivering a sobering warning about their uncertain future.
97% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
City of Ghosts takes a hard-hitting, ground-level look at atrocities in a part of the world that may seem foreign to many viewers, but whose impact will be no less devastating.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
Heartbreaking and hopeful, Last Men in Aleppo paints an urgent portrait of war-torn Syria, putting faces on an ongoing and complicated conflict.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
OKLAHOMA CITY traces the events--including the deadly encounters between American citizens and law enforcement at Ruby Ridge and Waco--that led McVeigh to commit the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
As informative as it is entertaining, Get Me Roger Stone offers a close-up look at the right-wing gadfly who helped shape the 2016 presidential election.
95% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
Inspiring and tragic, Bombshell is a bittersweet celebration and reclamation of Hedy Lemarr's journey from Hollywood legend to technology genius.
91% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely seen archival footage.
95% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
A Taxi Driver brings a ground-level perspective and a refreshingly light touch to a fact-based story with sobering implications.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Foxtrot uses topical themes to deliver a bruising sociopolitical statement that's equally effective taken simply as an absorbing, well-acted drama.
100% of critics love it, but only 600 people have rated it.
Always leaving on business trips, the father connects with Sam by teaching him how to pack a suitcase efficiently.
98% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
Jane honors its subject's legacy with an absorbing, beautifully filmed, and overall enlightening look at her decades of invaluable work.
78% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
What Will People Say? argues that institutional sexism starts at home -- and the results can be as powerful as they are difficult to watch.
100% of critics love it, but only 600 people have rated it.
A cast of relative unknowns, a brilliantly disguised low budget and an epic, 37-minute opening single take makes Shin'ichiro Ueda's feature debut a bright, breezy and laugh-out-loud hilarious zombie comedy.
90% of critics love it, but only 2,200 people have rated it.
David Lynch: The Art Life offers a look at the director's life and craft whose unusual approach is in keeping with its subject's singularly strange aesthetic.
94% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
Its infectious enthusiasm for its subjects - and Iggy Pop's ingratiating presence - more than make up for the effortlessly entertaining Gimme Danger's relative lack of context or depth.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Gentle, poignant, and vividly animated, Ethel & Ernest is a warm character study with an evocative sense of time and place.
90% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
Big Fish & Begonia's richly rendered blend of animation styles perfectly complements its bighearted, surprisingly complex cautionary fish tale.
95% of critics love it, but only 8,400 people have rated it.
We love them, yeah, yeah, yeah -- and with archival footage like that, you know The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years can't be bad.
88% of critics love it, but only 8,500 people have rated it.
Maudie's talented cast -- particularly Sally Hawkins in the title role -- breathe much-needed depth into a story that only skims the surface of a fascinating life and talent.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Ted Braun directed this look at a controversial hedge fund manager who is determined to expose the health food giant Herbalife as a pyramid scheme.
93% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
Effectively stirring and bolstered by thrilling visuals, The Eagle Huntress uses its heartwarming message to fill up a feature that might have made for an even more powerful short film.
94% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
Life, Animated offers a heartwarming look at one family's journey, and a fascinating message that's more than enough to outweigh its unanswered questions.
100% of critics love it, but only 7,800 people have rated it.
A union to cherish between a writer-director and star working at peak power, Things to Come offers quietly profound observations on life, love, and the irrevocable passage of time.
93% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
SCORE: A Film Music Documentary offers a long-overdue look at an integral component of cinema whose abbreviated overview of the subject should only leave viewers ready for more.
98% of critics love it, but only 8,100 people have rated it.
Kedi is a cat fancier's dream, but this thoughtful, beautifully filmed look at Istanbul's street feline population offers absorbing viewing for filmgoers of any purr-suasion.
92% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
Endless Poetry extends writer-director Alejandro Jodorowsky's singular filmography with another joyously surreal, visually vibrant viewing experience.
91% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
Sieranevada targets a narrow viewing demographic, but hits its targets with intelligence, humor, and patient craft.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
And the timing seemed right, as the 50th anniversary of Star Trek the original series was not that far away.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Gleason stands out among sports-themed documentaries by offering a clear-eyed look at its subject's physical deterioration -- and an intimate portrait of the family affected by his ordeal.
100% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-and-mouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy.
82% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
In a ghetto near Paris where drugs and religion reign supreme, Dounia is hungry for her share of power and success.
97% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
In This Corner of the World offers a unique ground-level perspective on an oft-dramatized period in history, further distinguished by beautiful hand-drawn animation.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki sidesteps sports biopic clichés with a beautifully filmed, well-acted look at the balance between career fulfillment and personal happiness.
90% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Into the Inferno finds director Werner Herzog observing some of the most beautiful -- and terrifying -- wonders of the natural world with his signature blend of curiosity and insight.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
The Age of Shadows justifies its imposing length with a richly detailed period drama whose sprawling size is matched by strong acting, impressive craft, and narrative depth.
100% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
), the Netflix Original Film showcases the entertainer's final date of his 20/20 Experience World Tour at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
90% of critics love it, but only 6,100 people have rated it.
Frantz finds writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probing the aftermath of World War I through the memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
98% of critics love it, but only 4,500 people have rated it.
Tower probes into a painful chapter of American history with sensitivity and grace -- and revisits its events from a valuable new perspective.
82% of critics love it, but only 5,000 people have rated it.
Oasis: Supersonic foregoes a comprehensive approach to its multi-platinum subjects in favor of an appreciative -- and stirring -- look at their heady early years.
100% of critics love it, but only 600 people have rated it.
Dawson City: Frozen Time takes a patient look at the past through long-lost film footage that reveals much more than glimpses at life through the camera's lens.
93% of critics love it, but only 7,900 people have rated it.
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World finds Werner Herzog bringing his distinctive documentarian gifts to bear on a timely topic with typically thought-provoking results.
90% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
A look at the life of journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012 and became the first American citizen to be killed by the terrorist group ISIS.
96% of critics love it, but only 8,200 people have rated it.
Weiner uses sharp insight and untrammeled access to offer a portrait of a political and personal collapse that's as queasy as it is undeniably compelling.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,000 people have rated it.
She must soon choose between new academic opportunities or staying true to her cultural identity, all while weathering the storms of adolescence.
99% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
Fresh and inventive yet immediately accessible, Cameraperson distills its subject's life and career into an experience that should prove immediately absorbing even for those unfamiliar with her work.
89% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
Hank Aaron and Derek Jeter, with Kevin Costner narrating, lead a cast of baseball legends & scientists who explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever.
91% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
Factors beyond Gibney's control prevent Zero Days from offering a comprehensive look at its subject, but the partial picture that emerges remains as frightening as it is impossible to ignore.
100% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
Tickling Giants offers a powerful demonstration of how satire can influence government policy -- and a sobering warning regarding the double-edged effects of regime change.
81% of critics love it, but only 4,700 people have rated it.
His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young cop, keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face-to-face.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
That day, he says, he took the first plane to New York, and thus begun his crusade.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
A unique one night only cinema event directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly), One More Time With Feeling will be the first ever opportunity anyone will have to hear Skeleton Tree, the sixteenth studio album from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
93% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of leva on the train tracks.
80% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
Hard-hitting and ambitious to a fault, The Ivory Game serves as a fittingly urgent call to action against a looming threat against vulnerable wildlife and a fragile ecosystem.
93% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail transcends its less-than-dramatic trappings to present a gripping real-life legal thriller with far-reaching implications.
98% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
In Between takes a light yet nuanced approach to dramatizing complex, timely themes, further enriched by outstanding cinematography and powerful performances.
87% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
Tab Hunter Confidential offers clear-eyed perspective on a less-examined chapter from Hollywood's past -- and an enjoyable look at the life of a retired former heartthrob.
81% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
The Oceanic Preservation Society, the group behind the Academy Award (R) winning film THE COVE, is back for "6".
95% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
De Palma may not make believers out of the director's detractors, but they'll likely share longtime fans' fascination with his career's worth of entertaining stories.
88% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
From scandalous headlines to little white lies, (Dis)Honesty - The Truth About Lies explores the complex impact dishonesty has on our lives and everyday society.
91% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
The film explores the ideas of family, adoption, nature vs. nurture and the power of social media.
90% of critics love it, but only 2,000 people have rated it.
Parched world premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
92% of critics love it, but only 5,200 people have rated it.
In a series of interviews spanning four years, leftist social critic Noam Chomsky discusses how the concentration of wealth and power among a small elite has polarized American society and brought about the decline of the middle class.
93% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
In 1999, Tower Records made $1 billion.
96% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Bursting with a colorful imagination befitting its promise-packed title, April and the Extraordinary World offers spectacular delights for animation fans willing to venture off the beaten path.
91% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
The Witness can't hope to truly untangle the true crime case at its center, but offers a series of fascinating -- and troubling -- insights in the attempt.
79% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
Heart-wrenching performances center Holding the Man, an achingly beautiful portrayal of love and death that may be too real for some.
91% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
In LAST CAB TO DARWIN, Rex (Michael Caton), a cab driver in the mining town Broken Hill, has spent his life avoiding getting close to people - even his best friend and occasional lover Polly (Ningali Lawford-Wolf), who lives across the road.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
Respectful without veering into hagiography and inquisitive without being intrusive, Janis: Little Girl Blue offers an insightful glimpse into the life of a rock 'n' roll legend.
95% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
Essential viewing for cineastes while still offering rich rewards for neophytes, Hitchcock/Truffaut offers an affectionate -- and well-crafted -- tribute to a legend.
98% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
Well-written, well-acted, and patiently crafted, Truman takes an affecting look at a long friendship separated by distance but undimmed by time.
93% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
Our Little Sister uses the story of one fractured family to offer universal -- and deeply moving -- observations on the human condition.
84% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
Barry Crimmins was a volatile but brilliant bar comic who became an honored peace activist and influential political satirist.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
Ixcanul opens a window into a little-seen corner of the world -- and finds universal truths about the human condition that should resonate with patient viewers.
95% of critics love it, but only 600 people have rated it.
In 1971 a brave group of young activists set sail from Vancouver in an old fishing boat.
95% of critics love it, but only 4,500 people have rated it.
Listen to Me Marlon offers a fascinating look at the inner life of a Hollywood icon, told in his own words.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
The Hunting Ground isn't director Kirby Dick's strongest work as a filmmaker, but the movie's powerful message more than trumps any technical weaknesses.
86% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann.
97% of critics love it, but only 3,700 people have rated it.
Raw, bracingly honest, and refreshingly unconventional, Krisha wrings fresh -- and occasionally uncomfortable -- truths from a seemingly familiar premise.
88% of critics love it, but only 5,600 people have rated it.
What Happened, Miss Simone? is a compelling -- albeit necessarily incomplete -- overview of its complex subject's singular artistic legacy and fascinating life.
91% of critics love it, but only 4,700 people have rated it.
Led by powerfully complementary performances from Christopher Abbott and Cynthia Nixon, James White offers an affecting calling card for debuting writer-director Josh Mond.
82% of critics love it, but only 3,400 people have rated it.
Sweet Bean's deliberate pace demands patience, but the satisfying simplicity of its story -- and Kirin Kiki's absorbing performance -- yield an array of riches well worth the wait.
97% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
Smart, visually arresting, and scathingly funny, Aferim! depicts a world that many American filmgoers have never seen -- but will still, in many respects, find utterly familiar.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Touching, funny, and thoughtful, Marguerite honors its real-life inspiration with a well-acted and ultimately inspirational look at the nature of art and the value of a dream.
98% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words distills its subject's legendary charm while offering viewers a new personal perspective on the life of one of Hollywood's more celebrated stars.
92% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
Right Now, Wrong Then offers diverging perspectives on a chance meeting -- and thought-provoking observations on human interactions in general.
87% of critics love it, but only 5,400 people have rated it.
What started as peaceful student demonstrations supporting European integration morphed into a full-fledged violent revolution calling for the resignation of the nation's president.
87% of critics love it, but only 7,100 people have rated it.
A bleak, haunting drama whose wordless dialogue speaks volumes, The Tribe is a bold, innovative take on silent films for a contemporary audience.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
The heartrendingly honest Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me offers a window into Alzheimer's that should prove powerful viewing for Campbell fans and novices alike.
90% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films pays tribute to the titular studio with an affectionate look back that's arguably more entertaining than much of Cannon's own B-movie product.
96% of critics love it, but only 5,400 people have rated it.
Led by an outstanding performance from Cliff Curtis, The Dark Horse tackles complex themes with a richly layered, unpredictable, and deeply affecting story.
97% of critics love it, but only 4,900 people have rated it.
A thoughtful and surprisingly layered documentary enlivened by its subject, An Honest Liar serves as a well-deserved tribute to a fascinating life.
78% of critics love it, but only 2,000 people have rated it.
The Green Prince doesn't answer all the questions it raises, but it's still timely, gripping -- and ultimately uplifting -- viewing.
86% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
Meet the Patels works on multiple levels, offering an affably entertaining documentary about one man looking for love while posing thoughtful questions about cultural assimilation and modern romance.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
AGAINST THIS BACKDROP OF SERIAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT, THE TEAM FACE THE DAUNTING PROSPECT OF A QUALIFICATION CAMPAIGN FOR THE UPCOMING 2014 WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL.
84% of critics love it, but only 1,800 people have rated it.
As compassionate as it is infuriating, Rich Hill offers a sobering glimpse of American poverty.
100% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
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83% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
Skillfully weaving multiple delicate tonal strands into a quietly affecting whole, Lilting serves as a thoroughly compelling calling card for writer-director Hong Khaou.
73% of critics love it, but only 1,800 people have rated it.
It's somewhat clumsily expressed, but Alive Inside offers such an uplifting message that it's ultimately hard to resist.
97% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Offering keen observations and infectious warmth, Keep On Keepin' On is a joy for jazz buffs and novices alike.
95% of critics love it, but only 7,100 people have rated it.
Revealing yet respectful, 20,000 Days on Earth is essential viewing for any Nick Cave fan.
82% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Undeterred by cerebral palsy, she embarks on a journey of sexual discovery.
76% of critics love it, but only 5,200 people have rated it.
The Connection doesn't do itself any favors by forcing comparisons to The French Connection, but it's a reasonably entertaining thriller in its own right.
83% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
Pursued by horsemen seeking summary justice and vengeful settlers, the two men decide to confront the unknown.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
Brothers Tas and Ben Pappas, two boys from Melbourne who took the skateboarding world by storm, defeated Tony Hawk and crowned International World Champions within a year.
100% of critics love it, but only 5,000 people have rated it.
On paper, GETT: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem might seem less than thrilling, but on the screen, it delivers two hours of nonstop, tightly wound, brilliantly acted drama.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
For filmgoers who value character development and smart dialogue over plot, Diplomacy yields rich, powerfully acted rewards.
69% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
Based on true events, Marie's Story recounts the courageous journey of a young nun and the lives she would change forever, confronting failures and discouragement with joyous faith and love.
97% of critics love it, but only 7,000 people have rated it.
Led by an outstanding performance from Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat in the title role, Theeb is a startlingly assured first effort from director/co-writer Naji Abu Nowar.
93% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
The Last Man on the Moon takes a justifiably reverent look at a largely unexplored chapter in the history of American space exploration -- and a side of astronaut's lives that's rarely considered.
98% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
Hard-hitting, absorbing, and painfully relevant, The Overnighters offers an urgent and compassionate picture of life in 21st century America.
93% of critics love it, but only 6,300 people have rated it.
Fun and fascinating, Red Army delivers absorbing documentary drama for hockey fans and sports novices alike.
95% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
As gripping as it is inspiring, Last Days in Vietnam offers a surprisingly fresh -- and heart-wrenching -- perspective on the end of the Vietnam War.
94% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL takes us from the founding of NOW, when ladies wore hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women's liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of WITCH (Women's International Conspiracy from Hell!).
100% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
What did Deputy Clem from Bonanza know about baseball?
100% of critics love it, but only 5,100 people have rated it.
Virunga offers a heart-rending glimpse of natural wonders vulnerable to the atrocities of greed -- and the people devoting their lives to defending them.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
Documentary that includes archive footage of a documentary made by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein about concentration camps.
91% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
A drama of thought-provoking depth as well as a showcase for newcomer Lea van Acken, Stations of the Cross hits hard and leaves a lingering impact.
92% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
A striking effort that synthesizes disparate influences with inventive flair, Güeros marks a bold step forward for modern Mexican cinema.
96% of critics love it, but only 7,400 people have rated it.
The Look of Silence delivers a less shocking -- yet just as terribly compelling -- companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing.
83% of critics love it, but only 3,900 people have rated it.
Dior and I will obviously appeal to fashion fans, but this beautifully tailored documentary may draw in even the least sartorially inclined.
86% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
Darkly funny and understatedly absurd, Zero Motivation is a refreshing addition to the canon of irreverent war comedies -- and an intriguing calling card for writer-director Talya Lavie.
100% of critics love it, but only 6,100 people have rated it.
Kilo Two Bravo honors its fact-based story with an almost unbearably tense drama that captures the horrors -- and the human cost -- of modern warfare.
83% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
Merchants of Doubt is a thought-provoking documentary assembled with energy and style, even if it doesn't dig as deep as it could.
79% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Making matters worse, a witness steps forward, a detective named Park.
98% of critics love it, but only 1,800 people have rated it.
Court takes a penetrating, timely look at issues facing Indian society while serving as an excellent calling card for debuting writer-director Chaitanya Tamhane.
82% of critics love it, but only 5,500 people have rated it.
Labyrinth of Lies artfully blends fact with well-intentioned fiction to offer a thought-provoking look at how the lessons of history can be easily lost or forgotten.
85% of critics love it, but only 2,700 people have rated it.
Meet the dirtiest cop in New York City history.
96% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
With warmth and affection, I Am Divine offers an engaging portrait of the complex personality behind a trailblazing cinematic figure.
82% of critics love it, but only 6,200 people have rated it.
Smartly constructed and scathingly sharp, The Armstrong Lie presents an effective indictment of its unscrupulous subject -- as well as the sports culture that spawned him.
80% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
Gore Vidal's professional life spans more than 50 years of American politics and letters.
90% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
It verges on hagiography, but given the deeply compelling nature of its subject's story, The Punk Singer can be forgiven its lack of objectivity.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
Infusing thriller tropes with a searing glimpse of modern-day corruption, Metro Manila is just as gripping as any action blockbuster -- and twice as thought-provoking.
84% of critics love it, but only 600 people have rated it.
Spectacular landscapes and an ultra-high definition shooting format elevate Edgar Reitz's Home Away From Home from an unforgettable story to a breathtaking cinematic experience.
85% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
Admit it: you don't really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download.
89% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete uses its compelling streetwise setting -- and powerful performances from its young leads -- to offer a refreshing twist on the coming-of-age formula.
97% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Smartly edited and heartbreakingly compelling, Let the Fire Burn uses archival footage to uncover a troubling -- and still deeply resonant -- chapter in American history.
75% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
In 2012, a resurrection no one thought possible took place when legendary band, The Stone Roses reformed after 16 years.
96% of critics love it, but only 4,800 people have rated it.
A feel-good success crafted with care, Kim Mordaunt's story of two young kids in Laos is a heartfelt audience pleaser while remaining sensitive toward its subjects.
91% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
It isn't necessarily an easy watch, but thanks to Netzer's interesting direction and a riveting performance from Gheorghiu, Child's Pose is rewarding.
90% of critics love it, but only 7,400 people have rated it.
While it arrives in a glut of similarly themed documentaries, Inequality for All distinguishes itself with a compelling presentation of an important message, as well as much-needed splashes of wit.
72% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
Every day he encounters the bitter reality of HIV infection.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
This long-overdue return from Alejandro Jodorowsky finds him just as overflowing with imagination -- and heart -- as fans have come to expect.
94% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
A beautifully-made documentary that explores the challenges and richness of both marriage and art through the lens of a fascinating and complex couple.
96% of critics love it, but only 7,500 people have rated it.
Sweet, empathetic, and shot through with a palpable joy, We Are the Best! offers a tender tribute to the bittersweet tumult of adolescence.
81% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
Viewers hoping to see Donald Rumsfeld admit making mistakes in public office (or hoping Errol Morris will force him to give straight answers) may find The Unknown Known frustrating -- but no less fascinating.
79% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
Deliriously manic and gleefully tasteless, Why Don't You Play in Hell? delivers infectious genre fun.
81% of critics love it, but only 6,600 people have rated it.
Part character study, part socioeconomic fable, Human Capital offers trenchant commentary as well as absorbing drama.
96% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Essential for soul fans and entertaining for novices, Muscle Shoals offers a compelling, warts-and-all glimpse at one of the most fascinating stories in modern American music.
95% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
Smart, compassionate, and moving, The Crash Reel uses the familiar sport-doc formula to subvert expectations and ask challenging questions about ambition and achievement.
88% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Disturbing, thought-provoking, and timely, Narco Cultura sheds some crucial light on an important -- and underserved -- subject.
84% of critics love it, but only 6,100 people have rated it.
Some viewers may find fault with director Rick Rowley's filmmaking methods, but they aren't distracting enough to keep Dirty Wars from serving as a terribly compelling argument against elements of American foreign policy.
81% of critics love it, but only 2,000 people have rated it.
14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out-camera in hand-on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.
91% of critics love it, but only 3,400 people have rated it.
A suitably complicated look at fraternal bonds, Mistaken for Strangers offers more depth and insight than the usual tour documentary.
93% of critics love it, but only 6,200 people have rated it.
Its screenplay isn't as graceful as the choreography of its action sequences, but A Touch of Sin offers enough stylishly satisfying violence to muscle past its rough spots.
91% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
Its four-hour length is undeniably imposing, but Norte, the End of History rewards patient viewers with an absorbing, visually expansive viewing experience.
98% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
Thrillingly unorthodox and emotionally searing without being didactic, The Missing Picture is a uniquely poignant documentary -- and so much more.
84% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
Inspired by real events, Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Coimbra's debut feature captures the heightened anxiety of every parent's worst nightmare, casting a light upon the cruelties of which humans are capable.
93% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
This unlikely trio form a bond and decide to follow their dreams in hopes of finding their freedom.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
Quietly compassionate and rich in detail, Ilo Ilo is a strikingly mature debut from writer-director Anthony Chen.
77% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
Its unabashedly positive tone may strike some viewers as disingenuous, but even if Supermensch doesn't tell the whole story, it's an undeniably entertaining one.
89% of critics love it, but only 7,800 people have rated it.
Entertaining and profound in equal measure, Tim's Vermeer uses its seemingly esoteric subject to pose fascinating questions about art and obsession.
92% of critics love it, but only 500 people have rated it.
When revolution breaks out the charismatic young man becomes an iconic protest leader and singer.
91% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
About Hayao Miyazaki's life and Studio Ghibli.
95% of critics love it, but only 1,800 people have rated it.
Jafar Panahi's Taxi offers another round of trenchant societal commentary from a director whose entire filmography stands as a daring act of dissent.
86% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
Tense and suspenseful while remaining smart and understated, The Attack honors its complex subject with an intelligent script and captivating performances.
76% of critics love it, but only 7,100 people have rated it.
A shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease, How to Make Money Selling Drugs is an insider's guide to the violent but extremely lucrative drug industry.
93% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
"Outstanding" - Leonard Maltin; Combining over 240 interviews, extensive archival footage, animated stills & documents with a moving original score, Director Tom Donahue has meticulously crafted the untold tale of the Hollywood casting director.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
Led by the unique skills of Sarunas Marciulionis and Arvydas Sabonis, the 1992 Lithuanian Olympic basketball team helped their country break free from the shackles of Communism.
86% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
It may prove frustratingly slow for some viewers, but more contemplative filmgoers will find themselves rewarded by The Patience Stone's quietly fierce storytelling, as well as a searing starring turn from Golshifteh Farahani.
88% of critics love it, but only 6,200 people have rated it.
Led by a powerful performance from Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Arendt does a commendable job of dramatizing the life of a complex public figure.
93% of critics love it, but only 5,800 people have rated it.
War Witch is a mature, intense drama that embraces the bruatlity of its subject and invites the audience to sympathize with its protagonist's nightmarish circumstances.
82% of critics love it, but only 6,200 people have rated it.
In his second film outside his native Iran, director Abbas Kiarostami maintains the mysterious, reflective mood of previous triumphs.
97% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
From 2008 to 2010, Beijing-based journalist and filmmaker Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai Weiwei.
94% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
Directors Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn team to tell the true story of Terri Hooley, the rebellious Belfast music lover who launched his own record label, dubbed "Good Vibrations," in the 1970s, and quickly emerged as a key figure in the Irish capitol's thriving underground punk scene.
98% of critics love it, but only 3,300 people have rated it.
Free of the hagiographic overtones that dog many documentary profiles, Beware of Mr. Baker presents a clear-eyed, thoroughly gripping look at one of rock's greatest -- and most personally problematic -- musicians.
90% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
The film chronicles the vaulted highs and the crushing lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art.
95% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his older sister (Lea Seydoux) in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort.
85% of critics love it, but only 4,900 people have rated it.
Ice-T takes us on an intimate journey into the heart and soul of hip-hop with the legends of rap music.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
A Band Called Death is not only a fascinating portrait of a pioneering rock group, but also a tribute to family ties and perseverance in the face of hardship.
79% of critics love it, but only 5,500 people have rated it.
However, when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by the authorities, Rudy and Paul must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child they have come to love as their own.
80% of critics love it, but only 5,100 people have rated it.
"The Other Son" is the moving and provocative tale of two young men -- one Israeli, the other Palestinian -- who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions facing them and their respective families.
95% of critics love it, but only 3,900 people have rated it.
Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years.
93% of critics love it, but only 5,800 people have rated it.
James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold are outstanding in this tender, affecting, insightful drama about the bonds and sacrifices of marriage.
97% of critics love it, but only 2,700 people have rated it.
In MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, Oscar (R)-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney examines the abuse of power in the Catholic Church through the story of four courageous deaf men, who in the first known case of public protest, set out to expose the priest who abused them.
82% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he would never make music again and that he wouldn't live to see his 25th birthday.
98% of critics love it, but only 4,700 people have rated it.
Angry, powerful, and stirring, How to Survive a Plague is a brilliantly constructed documentary about the activists who pushed for action to combat the AIDS epidemic.
84% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
On April 2nd, 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden.
93% of critics love it, but only 6,500 people have rated it.
Why We Fight director Eugene Jarecki shifts his focus from the military industrial complex to the War on Drugs in this documentary exploring the risks that prohibition poses to freedom, and the tragedy of addicts being treated as criminals.
95% of critics love it, but only 8,800 people have rated it.
Both a sobering look at a true crime story and a scathing indictment of the American justice system, West of Memphis is a real-life horror story told with fury and compassion.
92% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj iek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy.
87% of critics love it, but only 3,700 people have rated it.
Acclaimed director Miguel Gomes returns with a sumptuous, eccentric two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly woman in present-day Lisbon.
94% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
A taut, solidly constructed action thriller with uncommon intelligence, Drug War delivers exhilarating set pieces without skimping on sophisticated filmmaking.
91% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-within-a-drama.
91% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
A history of violence and oppression threatens to engulf the residents of an affluent seaside community in Neighboring Sounds, a thrilling debut from filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
High on quirky smarts and low on splashy special effects, The History of Future Folk is an unusual -- and unusually fun -- slice of sci-fi.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,000 people have rated it.
MORE THAN HONEY, a new documentary by the Swiss filmmaker Marcus Imhoof, is looking into the fascinating world of bees, showing small family beekeepers (including the beekeeper of ERSTE Foundation beehive, Heidrun Singer) and industrialized honey farms.
75% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
One fateful night in Tel Aviv, he meets Roy (Aloni), an Israeli lawyer, and the two fall in love.
92% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
This film is a love story - encompassing the 42-years and 12-films long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
Crossing the eight blocks of the market seemed easy but things get complicated along the way.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
The made-for-cinema documentary shows how Don McCullin created some of the latter twentieth-century's most iconic images of man's inhumanity to man.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
Everything or Nothing takes advantage of archival access to offer a look at the making of the Bond franchise that's just as gripping as the best installments in the series.
88% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
This history of the Rolling Stones features archival footage of the British rock-and-roll giant's 1960s performances, interviews with the group's members, and clips of other documentaries about the band, including Gimme Shelter (1970) and Shine a Light (2008).
93% of critics love it, but only 6,900 people have rated it.
With THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, this story of injustice finally gets the telling it deserves.
100% of critics love it, but only 4,900 people have rated it.
A collection of three shorts by Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day is an impossibly dense and affecting piece of animated art.
93% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
Winner of Cannes' Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, Elena is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller.
86% of critics love it, but only 5,200 people have rated it.
HBO and Martin Scorsese present GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD.
92% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
But stalking the depths of its post-nuclear bliss, mass paranoia became fuel for Joseph McCarthy's brand of Red Scare terror propaganda.
93% of critics love it, but only 6,900 people have rated it.
Pulsing with authenticity and led by a stirring lead performance from Adepero Oduye, Pariah is a powerful coming out/coming-of-age film that signals the arrival of a fresh new talent in writer/director Dee Rees.
98% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
Impeccably crafted and edited, The Interrupters is a tough and honest documentary about street violence that truly has the power to inspire change.
85% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
Whores' Glory, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following Megacities, Workingman's Death), is an explicit and unflinching expose of global prostitution.
93% of critics love it, but only 2,000 people have rated it.
Rich with the colors, textures, flavors and music of Mediterranean Africa, the film embarks on a cross continent adventure from the tiled terraces, fountains, quays and cafes of colonial Algiers to Maghrebi tent camps, dusty trading outposts, and deep blue Saharan nights in search of a lost Ethiopian city.
75% of critics love it, but only 2,200 people have rated it.
But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse?
91% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution.
89% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
This documentary focuses less on the music and more on the personality clashes and in-group tensions to great, compelling effect.
81% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
Strong direction and delicate performances save Noordzee, Texas from its narrative cliches.
74% of critics love it, but only 5,000 people have rated it.
Whimsical and melancholy, Chicken with Plums is visually striking and dreamily compelling despite its occasional narrative missteps.
96% of critics love it, but only 6,600 people have rated it.
Through simple means and filming, This is Not a Film presents a vital political statement and a snapshot of life in Iran as enemy of the state.
86% of critics love it, but only 2,700 people have rated it.
A resilient lioness in Botswana's Okavango Delta embarks on an epic journey of survival in this nature documentary from National Geographic and award-winning filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,900 people have rated it.
By vividly recounting the TT's legendary rivalries and the Isle of Man's unique road racing history, this 3D feature documentary will discover why modern TT riders still risk their lives to win the world's most dangerous race.
85% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Various acts of self-destruction, multiple band break-ups, and botched record deals have condemned his music to obscurity.
89% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems.
86% of critics love it, but only 4,000 people have rated it.
His trajectory propelled him from child prodigy to US champion at age 15 and world champion at 29.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who was brought up on terrorism charges for his involvement with the radical group.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
We Were Here revisits the crises facing the gay community in the early 1980s -- and offers a powerful tribute to the inspiring resolve shown at a time of turmoil.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
Despite losing his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire.
96% of critics love it, but only 6,000 people have rated it.
It covers familiar sports documentary territory, but Undefeated proves there are still powerful stories to be told on the high school gridiron.
86% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
The opening night film at this year's Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, this exuberant and deeply moving film follows a new couple, Romeo (Jeremie Elkaim) and Juliette (Valerie Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover their new born child is very ill.
84% of critics love it, but only 1,800 people have rated it.
In this David and Goliath tale for the 21st Century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on Donald Trump, as the tycoon prepares to destroy one of Britain's last stretches of coastal wilderness by building a luxury golf resort.
92% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
One day Roger comes home from work to find that Ah Tao has suffered a stroke.
100% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
This final version chronicles the last years in prison and eventual release of the three men accused of brutally murdering three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993.
75% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
As he immerses himself in the life-threatening underworld of nefarious bureaucrats, Brugger encounters blood diamond smuggling, bribery, and even murder -- while somehow managing to crack amazing razor-sharp barbs at every step along the way.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
An affectionate portrait created with visual flair, Diana Vreeland is entertaining, informative, and stylish, due in large part to its charismatic subject.
95% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements.
86% of critics love it, but only 6,600 people have rated it.
With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist and five-time Grammy-winning composer Bebo Valdes, Chico & Rita captures a defining moment in the evolution of history and jazz, and features the music of (and animated cameos by) Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Tito Puente, Chano Pozo, and others.
85% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel (by Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens.
100% of critics love it, but only 7,900 people have rated it.
Waste Land begins with an eco-friendly premise, but quickly transforms into an uplifting portrait of the power of art and the dignity of the human spirit.
87% of critics love it, but only 5,100 people have rated it.
Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians.
100% of critics love it, but only 7,300 people have rated it.
Poetry is an absorbing, poignant drama because it offers no easy answers to its complex central conflict.
98% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
Inspiring and fascinating, Marwencol depicts its subject with heartfelt tenderness, raising poignant questions about art and personal tragedy along the way.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,700 people have rated it.
Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey..--(c) Icarus
93% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
John McGill is a promising student at a tough Glasgow school who, despite a family background of alcoholism and abuse, looks set to sail into university and a bright future beyond.
93% of critics love it, but only 3,900 people have rated it.
Passionate, angry, and insightful, The Tillman Story offers a revealing portrait of its subject's inspiring life and untimely death.
85% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
A heartbreaking, haunting historical document, A Film Unfinished excavates particularly horrible chapter of Holocaust history, and in doing so, the film provides a glimpse into the Nazi propaganda machine.
84% of critics love it, but only 3,300 people have rated it.
Yusuf sees his mother becoming sadder everyday.
98% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
Suffused with happiness and modest charm, Bill Cunningham New York offers a touching, gently humorous portrait of its subject without invading his jealously guarded privacy.
96% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
Craig McCall's passionate film about the legendary cinematographer reveals a unique figure in British and international cinema.
91% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
This documentary feature takes an in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.
90% of critics love it, but only 6,300 people have rated it.
Director Janus Metz follows Danish soldiers fighting the Taliban in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan with sophisticated visual artistry rarely achieved under such raw conditions.
87% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
Andrei Ujica During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to, Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989.
92% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
Birth, death, and transformation are examined in Le Quattro Volte, a profound and often funny mediation on the cycles of life on earth.
82% of critics love it, but only 7,900 people have rated it.
A Cat in Paris depicts a stylish, imaginative world with a wonderful soundtrack and Hitchcockian overtones.
91% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
In a turbulent era of apartheid in South Africa; race riots in England and civil unrest in the Caribbean, the West Indian cricketers, led by the enigmatic Viv Richards, struck a defiant blow at the forces of white prejudice worldwide.
90% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues featuring Fran Lebowitz with archival footage.The effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.
89% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
"The Boys" documents the extraordinary lives of two radically diverse siblings: the multi-award-winning songwriting team-- the Sherman Brothers (Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman).
78% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Outrage walks a difficult moral and ethical line -- and not always successfully -- but despite its flaws, it's a fascinating, provocative look at homosexuality in American politics.
97% of critics love it, but only 6,300 people have rated it.
This multi-character drama balances intimate portrayals and broad political implications to paint a bracing and moving portrait of the Middle East conflict.
92% of critics love it, but only 6,500 people have rated it.
Director Lu Chuan directs this black-and-white docudrama account of that horrifying six-week period, with the benefit of an ensemble cast that includes Hideo Nakaizumi as a conscience-stricken Japanese soldier, Fan Wei as the aid to a German humanitarian worker, and Gao Yuanyuan as the head of a refugee camp.
95% of critics love it, but only 5,100 people have rated it.
In 1989, unwitting Utah actors starred in the undisputed worst movie in history: "Troll 2" decades later, the legendarily inept film's child star unravels the improbable, heartfelt story of an Alabama dentist-turned-cult movie icon and an Italian filmmaker who come to terms with this genuine, internationally revered cinematic failure.
70% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
It doesn't probe as deep -- or tell as many hard truths -- as it could have, but Don Hahn's look at Disney's rebirth offers a fascinating and surprisingly candorous glimpse into the studio's past.
82% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
A treasure trove of archival material and interviews, American: The Bill Hicks Story is an exuberant celebration about a unique, sorely missed voice in comedy.
87% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
A dramedy that's got a taste for the tragic as well as the poignantly comic, Amreeka adds a new sweetness to the hope and distress of the immigrant experience.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world.
85% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
Deeply esoteric and unapologetically one-sided, The Art of the Steal proves a documentary doesn't have to make an objective argument as long as it argues well.
78% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
(aka Police, Adjective) was an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
77% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
The Yes Men aim their barbs at the capitalist fat-cats with gutsy and hilarious performance pranks.
87% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
Undertow (aka Contracorriente) was an official selection in World Cinema program the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award for Best World Dramatic Feature.
85% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust?
90% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history.
95% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
Bringing a dose of humor and a fresh perspective to a very serious subject, No One Knows About Persian Cats is an exhilarating, quietly powerful tribute to the courage of Iran's underground musicians.
97% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
As much legal thriller as objective documentary, this account of a farmer's battle with Zimbabwe's regime serves as a powerful and emotional attack upon President Mugabe.
87% of critics love it, but only 6,500 people have rated it.
As the unlikely friendship deepens, Paloma's own coming of age becomes a much less pessimistic prospect.
100% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
Last Train Home is a haunting, vivid documentary exploring the human toll of China's economic boom in intimate, unforgettable detail.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
Kazakh sheep herders get their cinematic due in this lovely, unsentimental debut from director Sergei Dvortsevoy.
87% of critics love it, but only 6,300 people have rated it.
A tender and witty portrayal of a family coping with autism, The Black Balloon is heartfelt without being schmaltzy or moralizing.
78% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
Well researched and finely crafted, Standard Operating Procedure is another gem from master documentarian Errol Morris.
87% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
A potent and lithely constructed documentary about America's financial crisis, I.O.U.S.A grabs you with figures but holds you with irreverent wit.
84% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Although admittedly sleight, this gritty but tender coming-of-age Irish drama features some impressive work both in front, and behind the camera.
91% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Fascinating and insightful, Every Little Step is a thoroughly engrossing behind the scenes look at Broadway performers.
93% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
A raucous, fast-paced celebration of the Ozploitation films that came out of Australia in the 1970s and 1980s.
97% of critics love it, but only 5,000 people have rated it.
A heartfelt, affecting parable, The Song of Sparrows is another gem from Iranian director Majid Majidi.
93% of critics love it, but only 1,800 people have rated it.
Angels And Idiots tells its story without dialogue but does include songs from such artists as Tom Waits, Moby, Pink Martini and Nicole Renaud.
94% of critics love it, but only 5,100 people have rated it.
An original and thoughtful human drama, Goodbye Solo looks at relationships and loneliness while proving director Ramin Bahrani's is an important American voice.
96% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
This slow-moving French family drama is rich, complex, subtle and emotionally eloquent.
95% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
An enchanting self-portrait by a veteran director, Beach of Agnes is equal parts playful and profound.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
This incredible documentary displays the tragedy and mismanagement of Katrina along with the heroism of strangers and survivors.
81% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
Flow is an informative, disturbing and enthralling film that highlights a criminally underreported problem.
85% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
A courtroom drama and an exploration of celebrity and responsibility.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,400 people have rated it.
A tour de force for filmmaker Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues gives the Ramayana its animated due with a visually vibrant, dazzlingly imaginative triumph.
85% of critics love it, but only 6,100 people have rated it.
Subtle and emotionally bleak, this gripping thriller features the Dardenne brothers' recognizable penchant for realism and very strong performances.
80% of critics love it, but only 700 people have rated it.
A scathing indictment of the American medical system, Under Our Skin is timely, frightening stuff.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,800 people have rated it.
Terrence Davies' heartfelt, sometimes funny new feature documentary is part scrapbook, part confessional.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
A powerfully visceral docu-drama highlighting the evils of censorship and the essential need for freedom of speech.
84% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
A grim and disturbing vision from Ulrich Seidl, makes for an uncomfortable and uncompromising picture of life, that is anything but comfy and pedestrian.
80% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman narrates.
82% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Lee's dazzling documentary makes a compelling argument for breakdancing as an art form.
89% of critics love it, but only 5,500 people have rated it.
Displaying Joe Strummer warts and all, The Future is Unwritten succeeds as both an engrossing documentary and a comprehensive examination of one of music's most legendary figures.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
Sweet natured and gentle French drama, that is bittersweet but never maudlin, with impressive performances from the leads.
85% of critics love it, but only 4,700 people have rated it.
Luchetti takes advantage of the storyline's historical context without sacrificing his cast's fine performances or the script's light wit.
88% of critics love it, but only 6,500 people have rated it.
In 2005 a number of provocative, award-winning ads appeared that touted the Helvetica font; Gary Hustwit explores the subject protractedly with his feature-length essay film Helvetica.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
Claude Lelouch has crafted an engaging thriller about murder and romance with plenty of stylistic panache.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
3D transports the viewer to an intimate seat at a U2 performance, for an exhilarating musical experience at the price of a movie ticket.
95% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
This powerful and horrific documentary brings the atrocities committed at Nanking to light without sugarcoating any of the brutality.
98% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
The Devil Came on Horseback is both a strong primer on the complexities of the situation in Darfur and a harrowing first-person doc.
98% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
A timely and poignant examination of gays, their families and religion.
94% of critics love it, but only 4,000 people have rated it.
Director Amir Bar-Lev grapples with exposing the authenticity of four-year-old Marla's paintings at the sake of burdening her publicly shamed family to transfixing results.
95% of critics love it, but only 7,900 people have rated it.
Charles Ferguson's documentary provides a good summary of the decisions that led to the mess in post-war Iraq, and offers politically interested audiences something they'd been looking for: a lowdown on the decision making.
85% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
War/Dance is beautifully filmed, and effectively captures the heartbreaking and uplifting experiences of its subjects.
94% of critics love it, but only 6,000 people have rated it.
Director David Sington poetically interwove 20th Century's cosmonautic history with its effect on the public's view of their country, their heroes and their future.
89% of critics love it, but only 6,800 people have rated it.
Thanks to a talented cast and its uncommon depth, Nichols' debut manages to rise above its overly familiar plot.
85% of critics love it, but only 5,800 people have rated it.
Funny, quirky, and bittersweet, In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a romantic comedy with a heart and a brain -- and stands as a sharp debut for director Alex Holdridge.
96% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
Filled with excellent performances, Ramin Bahrani's deft sophomore effort is a heartfelt, hopeful neorealist look at the people who live in the gritty underbelly of New York City.
95% of critics love it, but only 400 people have rated it.
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is both a tribute to a legendary singer and an informative account of the birth of American counterculture.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
Now far from her former days as a Midwest beauty queen, Jennifer Gehrt walks the city streets dressed as whip-wielding do-gooder Wonder Woman.
87% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Li's characters are imperfectly drawn, and the film follows a somewhat problematic arc, but Blind Mountain is nonetheless deeply compelling viewing.
88% of critics love it, but only 4,500 people have rated it.
Full of endearing characters, this doc about a choir of "seniors behaving badly" is uplifting and delightful.
94% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
My Winnipeg is a charmingly irreverent 'docu-fantasy' from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin.
96% of critics love it, but only 2,000 people have rated it.
Up the Yangtze is a visually stunning meditation about the changes confronting modern China.
91% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
Stranded is a thoroughly uplifting account of the well-known tragedy, with touching testimony from remaining survivors.
88% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
On a trip to Kiev to give a lecture in 1992, Marsh was shocked to witness the plight of those with severe neurological problems there -- a ghastly world of primitive clinics, Kafkaesque bureaucracy, and medieval surgery - and began making regular trips back to diagnose patients and perform operations whenever possible.
79% of critics love it, but only 7,800 people have rated it.
With charm and an eye for life's bittersweet moments, Czech New Wave master Jiri Menzel paints a picaresque story with whimsy and intellect.
91% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
Not just a powerful telling of the journey of exiled Sudanese boys, God Grew Tired of Us is also a poignant account of the determination of the human spirit.
91% of critics love it, but only 5,600 people have rated it.
Viewers will welcome being whisked away to this magical world of exotic sea life.
80% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Azur and Asmar received its world premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
91% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
A bizarre, compelling spectacle that invests its absurd plot with heartfelt sincerety, Brand Upon the Brain! is a unique cinematic experience.
100% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
In 1994, DNA testing cleared Hunt, yet he would spend another 10 years behind bars.
85% of critics love it, but only 4,900 people have rated it.
This harrowing, naturalistic drama holds you in its grip through Huller's intense performance.
96% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
Equal parts mystery and biography, Deep Water is both an engrossing documentary and an affecting treatise on human folly and obsession.
98% of critics love it, but only 5,400 people have rated it.
Ten Canoes combines adventure, comedy, and anthropology to explore an Aborigine folk tale both fallibly human and legendary. Helmer Rolf de Heer depicts a barely represented oral tradition with a clean style.
91% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
A compelling documentary that humanizes the controversial, polarizing politician.
94% of critics love it, but only 6,200 people have rated it.
A spirited film that explores gender politics with comedy, intelligence, and a variety of interesting characters.
85% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
Filmmakers Jason Bourque and Nick Bicanic explore the trend of private militaries around the world in this documentary examining the increasingly blurred distinction between soldier and mercenary.
98% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Candid, eye-opening footage gives viewers a close-up -- and educational -- look at the experiences of American soldiers in Iraq, a viewpoint not normally seen.
73% of critics love it, but only 3,300 people have rated it.
With a constant voiceover of his own words, About A Son is a deeply personal look into Cobain's life that is sure to please his many fans.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,800 people have rated it.
Blame it on Fidel is a charming comedy of manners, class, and politics, elevated by a remarkable performance from lead child actor Nina Kervel.
96% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
The Cats of Mirikitani is a look at an elderly street artist that turns into a sincere and deeply moving account of human compassion and healing.
94% of critics love it, but only 3,700 people have rated it.
A sublimely directed thriller, Jar City combines murder mystery, family drama and ample bits of Icelandic culture into a fascinating cinematic experience.
95% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
With a witty script full of satirical overtones and dry humor, 12:08 East of Bucharest is a thoroughly enjoyable Romanian comedy.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,200 people have rated it.
Join documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed) in assessing the damage done to average Americans when corporations decide to wage war.
100% of critics love it, but only 7,400 people have rated it.
Kenny uses its seemingly lowbrow mockumentary premise as the foundation for a well-acted and surprisingly thoughtful character study.
87% of critics love it, but only 6,700 people have rated it.
With Reprise, first-time director Joachim Trier effectively captures the spirit of young adulthood, and announces his arrival as a filmmaker to be watched.
87% of critics love it, but only 4,000 people have rated it.
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek forgoes the textbook stuff for a fun, probing look at cinema and the human emotional response to it.
83% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
Jennifer Baichwal follows the much acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky while he travels the globe shooting landscapes transformed through commercial recycling, manufacturing and industrial production.
84% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
The film co-stars Karl Urban; Graeme Tetley co-authored the script with Sarkies.
94% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
Lake of Fire's engaging interviews and powerful black-and-white visuals make for a riveting and honest documentary about a very controversial topic.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon is a beautiful and often humorous look into the lives of Kurdish wanderers.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Lilting and meditative, Reha Erdem's story of three adolescents in rural Turkey captivates with intimate details and long takes of the endless countryside.
83% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
Hamburger deftly refracts the sociopolitical tumult of early '70s Brazil through the lens of a young boy's coming of age, and Joelsas' performance is wise beyond his years.
92% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
The breathtaking landscapes of Inner Mongolia are a powerful backdrop for this quietly intense, dryly comical film.
83% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history.
78% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
Beautifully filmed with wonderful performances, this Brazilian tale deftly explores the passage of time and prolonged isolation in several decades of a mother and daughter relationship.
75% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
With animated sequences adding imaginative quirkiness to the mix, this movie about death and disaster is insightful, empathic, and more uplifting than one would think.
84% of critics love it, but only 5,000 people have rated it.
Finding the right balance between subtle and sentimental, Sweet Land moves beyond other similarly-themed dramas with evocative cinematography that plays an equal role to the talented cast.
88% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
A sparse, hauntingly beautiful journey across continents and cultures.
91% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
This understated yet emotionally devastating documentary lets the stories of its subjects speak for themselves.
91% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
Even if you know little about ballet, there is much to love about this documentary's captivating archival footage and its interviews with elderly former dancers who have much to share.
90% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
Arthur Kane is a fascinating subject in what ultimately proves to be a touching, bittersweet documentary.
83% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
The dances in Rize are electric even if the documentary doesn't go that deeply into the performers' lives.
84% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
This heartwarming documentary will win audiences over, as the sheer charm of precocious, enthusiastic children learning to dance resonates from the screen.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
"Street Fight" chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad, and Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of New Jersey politics.
86% of critics love it, but only 4,800 people have rated it.
Infused with cultural and political concerns, this film weaves together a rich tapestry of musical styles that celebrate the diversity that makes up contemporary Turkish life.
77% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Director Adrian Shergold doesn't shy away from the darker elements of the movie's subject, and Timothy Spall is mesmerizing as the title character.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
This compassionate portrait of a New York City street vendor is as beautiful as it is melancholy.
87% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
A meditative, deliberately paced doc capable of absorbing patient viewers into a whole different world.
77% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
The plight of Asian refugees is sensitively rendered, and the movie builds, with the help of Nolte, to a wrenchingly poignant conclusion.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
When his competitive brother Herman comes to visit, Jacobo enlists his co-worker Marta to pretend to be his wife.
80% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
Favoring subtlety over cheap sentimentality, The Keys to the House is emotionally honest, compassionate, and a genuine tear-jerker.
72% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
Politically complex and ambitious, Walk on Water delivers a memorable story of guilt, revenge, and human connectivity.
85% of critics love it, but only 3,400 people have rated it.
Intimate Strangers is Hitchcockian noir with a Gallic twist: Rather than simply imitating the genre's form, director/screenwriter Patrice Leconte delves into the underlying psychological drama.
89% of critics love it, but only 8,200 people have rated it.
Machuca is a touchingly bittersweet story of childhood friendship and a demonstration of how the political affects the personal.
88% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
Casim Khan (Atta Yaqub) lives with his Punjabi-born Muslim family in Scotland.
77% of critics love it, but only 3,000 people have rated it.
Sud Pralad ( aka Tropical Malady) was screened in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
85% of critics love it, but only 8,600 people have rated it.
A charming tale of a love affair that overcomes cultural taboos.
98% of critics love it, but only 4,000 people have rated it.
In a setting both visually stunning and cruel, this Eastern film evokes the epic spirit of old-fashioned Westerns.
71% of critics love it, but only 6,700 people have rated it.
Innocent Voices is a passionately told dramatization of an ugly issue of war -- its impact on children.
89% of critics love it, but only 6,700 people have rated it.
 Dig! compellingly chronicles the ups and downs of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, two ambitious bands whose love/hate relationship embodies many of the potential pratfalls of the music business.
92% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
A great addition to the existing surfing documentaries.
69% of critics love it, but only 2,700 people have rated it.
A fascinating treatment on the life of a reclusive man.
96% of critics love it, but only 5,600 people have rated it.
A fascinating, enlightening behind-the-scenes look at the Al Jazeera network.
80% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
Beautiful Boxer blends boxing and identity politics to create a striking, if overdrawn, portrait of self discovery.
89% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
Interesting and revealing footage of both Kerry and the Vietnam era in general.
98% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
A vibrant, powerful, and poignant glimpse into the struggles of women in modern Africa.
85% of critics love it, but only 6,000 people have rated it.
Neither fair nor balanced itself, Outfoxed offers an often entertaining indictment of the Fox News Channel.
88% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Despite its deceptive wispiness, this delicately lovely and melancholy film about loneliness has a haunting power.
70% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Though perhaps too slowly paced and long, The World offers an intriguing glimpse into China's modernization and the growing ennui of some of its people.
93% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
In concert, Lucinda Williams often dedicates "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten" to him.
90% of critics love it, but only 5,200 people have rated it.
This eye-opening documentary brings some of the shocking effects of globalization to light.
87% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
A gut-wrenching documentary about the man in charge of the UN peace keeping force during the 1994 Rwanda genocide of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus.
93% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
Ushpizin offers a rare and warmly intimate look into ultra-Orthodox Jewish culture.
80% of critics love it, but only 1,700 people have rated it.
The Future of Food is a one-sided, but revelatory documentary about the dangers of genetically modified food.
89% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
Two young gymnasts prepare for the Mass Games, one of North Korea's most important and elaborate events.
72% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
Zelary is a satisfyingly old-fashioned romance with an epic sweep.
71% of critics love it, but only 9,400 people have rated it.
Has enough honest moments to warrant a look.
79% of critics love it, but only 7,000 people have rated it.
A handsome and charming adaptation of the novel.
82% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
A perfect companion piece to The Endless Summer.
91% of critics love it, but only 3,300 people have rated it.
This tale of culture clash is by turns downbeat and hilarious.
89% of critics love it, but only 6,200 people have rated it.
By turns touching and funny, this Norwegian import offers quietly absorbing commentary on modern life and friendship.
73% of critics love it, but only 6,600 people have rated it.
An unsatisfying account of Stander's life.
75% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Arven (aka The Inheritance) is the second part of a trilogy by director Per Fly on the three primary social classes, following his 2000 debut Baenken.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog turns his attention to one of the largest Buddhist gatherings in the world in this documentary.
69% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
Excellent performances mark this leisurely paced film.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
A drama that's both funny and moving.
83% of critics love it, but only 3,000 people have rated it.
A thoroughly engrossing documentary examining the life of talented but troubled writer Charles Bukowski.
76% of critics love it, but only 3,000 people have rated it.
An expanded version of A Decade Under the Influence was seen as a three-part, three-hour TV miniseries, telecast on cable's Independent Film Channel beginning August 20, 2003.
90% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Disturbing and heart-wrenching documentary about a 53-years-old woman raising 11 children.
90% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
Independent filmmaker Mark Moormann directs the feature-length documentary Tom Dowd and the Language of Music.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
A taut, biting critique on the new economic conditions in China.
86% of critics love it, but only 7,400 people have rated it.
A darkly humorous, quirky coming-of-age film, enhanced by its Icelandic setting.
88% of critics love it, but only 6,800 people have rated it.
Both an intriguing intellectual exercise and an amusing look at the contrasts between the two filmmakers.
87% of critics love it, but only 7,100 people have rated it.
A funny and wildly inventive hybrid of various genres, Save the Green Planet! is definitely a unique viewing experience.
86% of critics love it, but only 6,400 people have rated it.
This chilling, unsettling documentary provides an eye-opening look at both Wuornos and the American justice system.
67% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
This comprehensive presentation of images from the world's oceans, gathered over years of filming, plunges the audience into the spectacle of the seas.
78% of critics love it, but only 6,100 people have rated it.
Guy Maddin perfectly recreates the look and feel of a 1930s in this bizarre picture.
90% of critics love it, but only 4,700 people have rated it.
An entertaining and intriguing tribute to a father from his son.
96% of critics love it, but only 7,700 people have rated it.
Osama is bitterly honest, deeply disturbing, and utterly worth watching.
86% of critics love it, but only 2,700 people have rated it.
A slow-burning, riveting film about Iranian class differences.
96% of critics love it, but only 3,000 people have rated it.
Festival Express is a spellbinding documentary that nostalgically chronicles five days in the summer of 1970, when a train full of now- legendary rock perfomers jammed its way across Canada.
93% of critics love it, but only 3,300 people have rated it.
A moving and enlightening documentary about architect Louis Kahn.
94% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
Delightful and strangely moving.
83% of critics love it, but only 6,300 people have rated it.
Even though The Memory of a Killer is standard genre fare, it is also engaging and stylish.
80% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
In a cavernous movie palace, King Hu's classic 1968 film Dragon Inn plays for a sparse crowd.
93% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Interwined tales of spiritual discovery are set against a gorgeous, evocative landscape in this pleasant, engaging import.
95% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
A treat for cinephiles, this documentary is a comprehensive, academic, and enlightening film essay concerning Los Angeles and its depiction in the movies.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin.
77% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
This absorbing but wince-inducing documentary is a cautionary tale about the costs of hubris in the world of indie film.
92% of critics love it, but only 6,700 people have rated it.
Using music and home video footage to great effect, Jonathan Caouette has made a very personal and moving film.
79% of critics love it, but only 1,100 people have rated it.
Directed by Robert Kane Pappas, Orwell Rolls in His Grave questions whether the bleak, feverishly regulated world of author George Orwell's 1984 is no longer a dire fictional account of government power gone wrong but a creeping reality of recent American media trends.
94% of critics love it, but only 4,000 people have rated it.
Interesting and appealing as both a study of man and nature.
87% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
DeHeer takes a unique approach in the direction of this film; opting to show graphic paintings by artist Peter Coad during violent moments in lieu of filming bloody scenes among the actors.
81% of critics love it, but only 8,300 people have rated it.
A promising work by Lin, the energetic Better Luck Tomorrow is disturbing and thought-provoking.
81% of critics love it, but only 7,000 people have rated it.
All or Nothing's depiction of the working-class can be depressingly bleak, but the performances are wonderfully true to life.
76% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
A sweet, but slight picture filled with beautiful people and locations.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
Understated, unconventional and observant.
86% of critics love it, but only 5,100 people have rated it.
Ten turns a conversational car ride into a gritty and compelling character study full of real emotion while providing an intriguing look into the lives of women in contemporary Iranian culture.
91% of critics love it, but only 5,500 people have rated it.
Though not objective by any means, The Kid Stays in the Picture is irresistibly entertaining.
87% of critics love it, but only 5,000 people have rated it.
As Finland's withdrawal from World War II draws ever closer, a tentative relationship between an abandoned Finnish soldier, a Lapp woman, and a Russian captain accused of anti-Soviet correspondence offers momentary solace to a trio of lost souls.
88% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
Using documentary-style filmmaking to blur the lines between fact and fiction. In This World tells a harrowing but important story about the plight of refugees.
85% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
The testimony of Junge is more than enough to make this bare-bones documentary fascinating.
91% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
A toe-tapping tribute to the band that gave Motown its sound.
96% of critics love it, but only 5,400 people have rated it.
A coming-of-age tale marked by its authenticity.
92% of critics love it, but only 800 people have rated it.
Marooned in Iraq was screened as part of the "Un Certain Regard" series at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
96% of critics love it, but only 6,500 people have rated it.
A small, sensitive, and moving portrait of a teacher and his students.
89% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
Lead actress Moon So-ri's stand out performance gives this harrowing film much of its power.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
This compelling unauthorized biography takes a muckraker's view of the controversial diplomat.
88% of critics love it, but only 3,200 people have rated it.
Besides being a treat for Wilco fans, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart also exposes the workings of a profit-driven music industry.
77% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Each filmmaker's entry takes a different approach: French director Claude Lelouch tells the tale of a World Trade Center tour guide who is on the verge of a breakup with his deaf girlfriend when the terrorist attacks hit; similarly, Hollywood actor-director Sean Penn chronicles the lonely existence of an old man living not far from the Twin Towers.
76% of critics love it, but only 6,200 people have rated it.
Comedian is an insightful look at the hard work of creating comedy.
90% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
Poignant documentary that's hard to forget.
86% of critics love it, but only 4,800 people have rated it.
A tersely told yet deeply felt romance.
97% of critics love it, but only 7,100 people have rated it.
Regardless, a police officer then decided to fire at Nascimento anyway, accidentally killing one of the female passengers instead.
91% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
Fascinating documentary about the militant Weathermen.
93% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
Whether you know anything about turntablism or not, Scratch makes for fun and informative viewing.
88% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
The lyrical Baran is a moving film, both for its love story and political underpinnings.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
While seemingly improvised, La Cienaga was actually carefully scripted by Lucrecia Martel, who won a screenwriting award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival prior to making her directorial debut with this feature.
83% of critics love it, but only 8,200 people have rated it.
L.I.E. is a well-acted and unsettling look at a boy's relationship with a pedophile.
91% of critics love it, but only 7,600 people have rated it.
Mostly Martha may have a predictable plot, but it still feels charming and fresh, and the food will make you hungry.
86% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.
69% of critics love it, but only 8,100 people have rated it.
A grim and devastating tale of the Holocaust.
78% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
With a cast that includes some of the best acting talent in Britain, Last Orders is a rewarding character-driven ensemble piece.
92% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
Startup.com is more than just a look at the rise and fall of the new economy. At its center is a friendship being tested to the limit, and that's what makes it worth viewing.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
The first feature from documentarian Edet Belzberg, Children Underground received an enthusiastic reception and many positive reviews after its screenings at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
83% of critics love it, but only 8,700 people have rated it.
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is an intelligent and poignant look at lives intersecting.
84% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
Though it requires patience to view, What Time Is It There?'s exploration of loneliness is both elegant and haunting.
85% of critics love it, but only 8,600 people have rated it.
Among those who share their thoughts in Stanley Kubrick -- A Life In Pictures are actors Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Malcolm McDowell, Peter Ustinov, and Keir Dullea; writers Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Herr; special effects artist Douglas Trumbull; composers Wendy Carlos and Gyorgy Ligeti; filmmakers Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Paul Mazursky, and Sydney Pollack; and Kubrick's spouse Christiane Kubrick.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,500 people have rated it.
A heartbreaking and illuminating look at the Israeli and Palestinian conflict through the eyes of children.
90% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
The program represents the views of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government officials and policy experts.
90% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
Compelling human drama and stunning cinematography make The Fast Runner an absorbing experience.
97% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
Fanda (Vlastimil Brodsky of Larks on a String), an elderly former actor, can't resist playing practical jokes on everyone around him.
87% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
An observant black comedy about arranged marriages and tradition.
73% of critics love it, but only 5,200 people have rated it.
Visually poetic, Behind the Sun is a powerful statement about cycles of violence.
81% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
Feeling most rejected, shy Ji-yeong finds comfort in her new friendship with rebel Tae-hee.
68% of critics love it, but only 7,500 people have rated it.
As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms.
98% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
Andy Goldsworthy and his art are beautifully captured in this engaging documentary.
80% of critics love it, but only 3,000 people have rated it.
War Photographer was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
85% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
This brooding, measured look at adultery is ultimately emotionally riveting, thanks to its script and performances.
86% of critics love it, but only 2,200 people have rated it.
Though the characters are difficult to watch at times, Aberdeen burns with ferocious honesty and strong performances.
81% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
Despite being a period piece, The House of Mirth's depiction of social cruelty still feels chilling and relevant for today.
88% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
In 1956, factory worker and frustrated singer Buddy Visalo, who realizes his dream to buy a two family house in Staten Island for himself and his wife Estelle and convert the ground floor into a neighborhood bar where he can perform, encounters unexpected problems and romantic complications when attempting to evict tenants.
80% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
A beautifully acted, quietly moving little film.
100% of critics love it, but only 7,400 people have rated it.
The Taste of Others is a fresh, witty comedy about the attraction of opposites. The characters are well-drawn and engaging and their social interactions believable.
95% of critics love it, but only 6,700 people have rated it.
A darkly funny thriller that's reminiscent of Hitchcock.
80% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
During one rainy summer night, 25-year-old Bibiane Champagne hits a man with her car.
81% of critics love it, but only 3,100 people have rated it.
The Vertical Ray of the Sun is gorgeously, poetically composed, lulling the viewer into its story of everyday life.
91% of critics love it, but only 4,300 people have rated it.
With the aid of a witty script and a well-acted ensemble, Dinner Rush is a tasty dish.
90% of critics love it, but only 3,400 people have rated it.
Divided We Fall takes a complex look at World War II, skillfully balancing humor and gravity.
90% of critics love it, but only 3,000 people have rated it.
Recalling both Vertigo (1958) and Chungking Express (1994), Chinese director Lou Ye spins this riveting tale of obsession and love.
94% of critics love it, but only 6,100 people have rated it.
Marc Singer's documentary about a group of homeless people living beneath the streets of New York City is haunting and uplifting in equal measure.
95% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
The Filth and the Fury is a complete and completely unabashed look at The Sex Pistols, shot in suitably propulsive punk fashion.
93% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
Paragraph 175 interviews the few surviving homosexuals who endured unspeakable horrors under the Nazi regime.
89% of critics love it, but only 8,000 people have rated it.
A funny, offbeat romantic comedy about an unlikely tryst with the beautiful Icelandic landscape as a backdrop.
96% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
This documentary presents its opposing views in an even-handed yet emotionally engaging manner. Critics say it will provoke much thought, as well as emotions, in the audience.
90% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
With its subtitles and a running time nearing four hours, Eureka certainly places demands upon its viewers. For those with the patience, however, this visually lovely film builds to an emotionally resonant vision of transcendence.
85% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
Chunhyang made its North American Premiere at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival.
92% of critics love it, but only 3,500 people have rated it.
Both a diary and a kind of extended essay on poverty, thrift and the curious place of scavenging in French history and culture--a documentary capturing the world of French gleaners who collect and make use of what others have discarded.
91% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
Although it appears to be nothing more than a "talking heads" documentary you may see on TV, Into the Arms of Strangers, nonetheless, tells a heart-wrenching story.
81% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
Not only does it break ground in presenting a rarely examined age group, Innocence is a well-acted, powerful story about love.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Critics are raving about Last Resort, saying it's a convincing, touching tale. Particularly impressive is the lack of script during the film's shoot.
83% of critics love it, but only 6,600 people have rated it.
Tragedy strikes when one of George's friends is accidentally killed and the group, fearing punishment, decides to hide the body.
95% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
The Endurance presents exciting footage of an amazing real-life story of survival.
71% of critics love it, but only 3,900 people have rated it.
One of Zhang's smaller films, Happy Times is nevertheless moving and bittersweet.
89% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
A gripping examination of sexual taboos, set against the backdrop of Nazi Germany, bolstered by a subtly shaded script and a strong cast.
78% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
With sweeping directorial vision and a powerful poetic narrative, Tony Bui has created an enormously impressive feature debut about the "new" Vietnam.
83% of critics love it, but only 6,900 people have rated it.
The molten emotional power that flows from Tim Roth's directorial debut carries multiple messages that sear one's soul.
97% of critics love it, but only 5,200 people have rated it.
Just after the family toasts, Arthur discovers that his youngest son, Ronnie, is back early from the Naval College at Osbourne--dismissed for stealing a five shilling postal note.
87% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Shot in sequence over a one-year period, Spring Forward received a third-place mention for best first feature at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival.
77% of critics love it, but only 3,700 people have rated it.
In this film, conjoined twins Blake and Francis Falls share many vital organs.
71% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
When Joe meets Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), however, he starts to come out of his shell.
87% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Felicia's Journey, writer/director Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel.
87% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
A moving film with moments of humor, Liberty Heights succeeds in capturing the feel of the '50s with great performances and sensitive direction.
84% of critics love it, but only 6,200 people have rated it.
Critics find Ratcatcher to be hauntingly beautiful, though its story is somewhat hard to stomach.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,800 people have rated it.
Included: Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni.
81% of critics love it, but only 6,700 people have rated it.
(He certainly fails with Michelle).
81% of critics love it, but only 1,300 people have rated it.
Set in a forlorn mining town in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once-prosperous village.
100% of critics love it, but only 4,500 people have rated it.
Mr. Death outlines its subject's controversial life's work with the deeply fascinating and thought-provoking élan film fans have come to expect from director Errol Morris.
95% of critics love it, but only 6,600 people have rated it.
When he is called away to tend to his dying mother for a month, the Mayor calls in an inexperienced 13 year-old replacement, Wei Minzhi; much to Teacher Gao's dismay.
80% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
When Sentain (Gregoire Colin), a new recruit, joins the troops, Galoup believes that it upsets the delicate balance between the C.O.
81% of critics love it, but only 7,900 people have rated it.
Even if you aren't a fan, Beyond the Mat provides a riveting, perceptive look into the world of professional wrestling by taking a closer look at the people beneath the personas.
96% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
When Franck's efforts to better the company lead to the firing of many employees, including his father, a furious confrontation ensues, forcing father and son to ponder their relationship while realizing their individual lives.
96% of critics love it, but only 4,600 people have rated it.
Produced by two-time Oscar winner Arthur Cohn,One Day in September earned Cohn another trophy when it received an Academy Award as Best Documentary Feature.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
Actress Joan Chen makes her directorial debut with this bleak tale, adapted from the award-winning novella "Tian Yu" by Shanghai writer Yan Geling, about the loss of innocence during Mao Zedong's brutal Cultural Revolution.
78% of critics love it, but only 7,000 people have rated it.
This drama about American track star and hero Steve Prefontaine intelligently looks at the character of this oft mythologized athlete and features a fantastic performance by Donald Sutherland as Prefontaine's trainer.
92% of critics love it, but only 5,600 people have rated it.
Showcasing excellent lead performances, The Dreamlife of Angels is an intelligent, absorbing character study of two women.
92% of critics love it, but only 3,300 people have rated it.
This is the story of the 1996 Everest Film Expedition, a MacGillivray Freeman production in association with Arcturus Motion Pictures.
81% of critics love it, but only 5,300 people have rated it.
Throughout his adult life, Martin Carhillderived satisfaction from making fools out of authority figures.
75% of critics love it, but only 3,900 people have rated it.
Disenchanted with her country, Shandurai surfaces in Rome at the home of an eccentric English musician, Mr. Kinsky (David Thewlis).
85% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
Director Bennett Miller's documentary portrait of tour bus guide/street philosopher Timothy (Speed) Levitch is an unsummarizable comedy, tragedy, love letter to the city and the anatomy of innocence.
85% of critics love it, but only 6,000 people have rated it.
Deepa Mehta directs this tale about the 1947 Partition of India.
86% of critics love it, but only 7,800 people have rated it.
Brilliant performances, lush cinematography, and complex storytelling deserve audience's attention.
94% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
One day he happens upon a bruised and battered Dutch soldier (Jacques Gamblin) who escaped from the local POW camp.
83% of critics love it, but only 8,200 people have rated it.
An engrossing, poignant film, Last Night examines the end of the world through humorous and thought-provoking dialogue.
95% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
Theo Angelopoulos (Reconstruction) directed this 1998 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner about a famed author nearing the end of his life.
80% of critics love it, but only 1,500 people have rated it.
A documentary of an Iranian, impoverished and religious father who kept his twin daughters locked up at home for the first 12 years of their lives.
93% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
This French-Lebanese-Belgian co-production is an autobiographical drama.
80% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
Produced on a lavish budget by Chinese standards ($15 million), Jing Ke Ci Qin Wang/The Emperor and the Assassin was directed by Chen Kaige, best known to Western audiences for the international success Farewell My Concubine.
78% of critics love it, but only 2,300 people have rated it.
Nikola Ristanovski, Nebojsa Glogovac, Miki Manojlovic, Marko Urosevic, Bogdan Diklic, Dragan Nikolic.
90% of critics love it, but only 1,400 people have rated it.
Shown at the 1998 Mill Valley Film Festival.
96% of critics love it, but only 5,800 people have rated it.
Kirikou and the Sorceress is a beautifully uplifting throwback to a simpler animated era, with refreshingly unique art and a timeless soundtrack.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,700 people have rated it.
4 Little Girls finds Spike Lee moving into documentary filmmaking with his signature style intact -- and all the palpable fury the subject requires.
77% of critics love it, but only 7,200 people have rated it.
Neil Jordan's superb adaptation of Pat McCabe's disturbing 1992 novel about a 12-year-old Irish boy's descent into madness.
87% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Two seemingly self-assured and successful friends reminisce about their college days only to unpack the emotional baggage they have both been carrying for six long years.
81% of critics love it, but only 7,900 people have rated it.
Finding her beliefs in family loyalty crumbling, the young girl visits voodoo priestess Elzora (Diahann Carroll).
90% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
In this film, four eccentrics talk about their seemingly diverse lives, interests, and offbeat occupations: Lion tamer Dave Hoover offers theories about wild animal thought processes; topiary gardener George Mendo clips hedges to various creatures; mole-rat specialist Ray Mendez researches the animals' behavior; robotics scientist Rodney Brooks assembles autonomous robots.
86% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
John Hurt gives a career performance in this wry, offbeat comedy about a stodgy British novelist whose sudden infatuation with an American pop star (Jason Priestley) gives his life a dangerous and exhilarating twist.
85% of critics love it, but only 7,300 people have rated it.
In early January 1923, a tiny Florida town primarily inhabited by prosperous African American families was burned to the ground by angry whites from a neighboring town.
91% of critics love it, but only 1,600 people have rated it.
The film includes explicit scenes of genital self-mutilation.
85% of critics love it, but only 5,700 people have rated it.
Why this particular show?
94% of critics love it, but only 4,500 people have rated it.
Ulee retrieves her but runs into Jimmy's former partners who demand money from him.
87% of critics love it, but only 2,100 people have rated it.
To build his case, filmmaker William Gazecki edited together interviews, news footage, home movies and television coverage on the Senate hearings.
83% of critics love it, but only 7,600 people have rated it.
British director Ian Softley's take on this lesser-known Henry James novel offers a tightly-woven, witty look at clashing social classes in turn-of-the-century Europe as it tells the tale of a strong-willed aristocratic girl who takes drastic measures to marry her lower-class lover.
76% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
This stylish effort is the second film of German director Tom Tykwer, whose debut film Deadly Maria earned him favorable reviews.
89% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
A comic pageant of ironic gestures.
91% of critics love it, but only 6,700 people have rated it.
Mesmerizing and psychologically intriguing.
92% of critics love it, but only 7,200 people have rated it.
Cameo appearances include Garrison Keillor and Studs Terkel.
80% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
This fact-based German musical drama chronicles the lives of a popular barbershop sextet in Nazi Germany during the '30s.
92% of critics love it, but only 4,400 people have rated it.
The film is divided into four chapters, each representing a period from Dengler's life; the story is recounted via interviews with the Navy pilot, archival footage and new footage seamlessly spliced together.
80% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
Yet Ruth soon finds her new friends are also only interested in her value as a media icon.
92% of critics love it, but only 1,900 people have rated it.
It also features a technically shaky but historically priceless clip of Nirvana's first public performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
91% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
A has-been French filmmaker makes a desperate comeback attempt with an homage to "Les Vampires."
80% of critics love it, but only 8,000 people have rated it.
Remaining quite true to the tone and narrative style of Thomas Hardy's ultimate tragic novel Jude the Obscure, this British period drama follows the hopeless attempts of a bright country boy to realize his dream of attending a university.
88% of critics love it, but only 2,400 people have rated it.
In this unsettling Russian film, two captured Russian soldiers are engaged in a waiting game with their captors in a remote Caucasian village.
81% of critics love it, but only 6,900 people have rated it.
Looking for Richard is a smart, fascinating behind-the-scenes look at adapting Shakespeare.
90% of critics love it, but only 4,100 people have rated it.
Writer and director Jacques Doillon carefully coached Victoire Thivisol (who was too young to read the screenplay) through her performance; the results earned the child Best Actress honors at the 1996 Venice Film Festival.
77% of critics love it, but only 5,400 people have rated it.
Set in late 18th-century France during the reign of Louis XVI, this costumer provides a fascinating glance into a time where a cruel rapier wit would take one further up the social ladder than gold, land, or birthright and where ridicule could drive a man to suicide.
88% of critics love it, but only 3,800 people have rated it.
A family birthday party collapses into trauma and in-fighting in this ironic French comedy-drama.
76% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Renee Zellweger and Vincent D'Onofrio both deliver fine performances and are a believable (if unconventional) romantic couple; D'Onofrio also co-produced.
96% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
This moving documentary tells the story of Anne Frank, the teenage Holocaust victim whose diary has been read by millions.
67% of critics love it, but only 6,800 people have rated it.
Magical and morbid, Antonia picturesque landscapes and proficient performances elevate a somewhat pedestrian parable.
95% of critics love it, but only 4,800 people have rated it.
The Celluloid Closet takes a thought-provoking look at the decades of omission and misrepresentation endured by the gay community in mainstream cinema.
83% of critics love it, but only 7,600 people have rated it.
One bright point is a new friendship with Angel, cultural editor of the daily paper El Pais, who unknowingly hires her to write an attack on her nom de plume, Amanda Gris.
84% of critics love it, but only 4,900 people have rated it.
Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles.
95% of critics love it, but only 2,200 people have rated it.
Arnaud enlists her help with transcribing his memoirs and, as their unconventional relationship blossoms, barely-contained emotions threaten to break free.
76% of critics love it, but only 7,100 people have rated it.
The internecine conflicts and heated passions of the Spanish Civil War, brought to glorious life by soft-smoldering firebrand Ken Loach.
100% of critics love it, but only 3,600 people have rated it.
This gripping Indian-British film relates the true story of Phoolan Devi, an Indian woman arrested in the state of Uttar Pradesh in January 1983 for kidnapping and murder.
90% of critics love it, but only 1,200 people have rated it.
Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and his partner in crime Fiore (Michele Placido) come to Albania with a money-making scheme designed to capitalize on the surrounding political chaos.
69% of critics love it, but only 6,900 people have rated it.
A deft directorial debut from Antonia Bird, Priest handles its sensitive subject with care -- despite certain sanctimonious sentiments.
95% of critics love it, but only 6,800 people have rated it.
The Secret of Roan Inish is a gentle fairy tale filled with optimism that's suitable for the whole family.
88% of critics love it, but only 2,600 people have rated it.
Beautiful performances and the subtle hand of master Louis Malle make this adaptation of Chekov's Uncle Vanya an eccentric presentation of an enduring classic.
85% of critics love it, but only 4,200 people have rated it.
Writer/director Rusty Cundieff's satire of gangsta rappers, focusing on a hiphop trio who release a Christmas album called "Ho Ho 'Hos."
96% of critics love it, but only 5,900 people have rated it.
A subtle, affecting, character-driven coming-of-age story, King of the Hill is one of Steven Soderbergh's best and most criminally overlooked films.
95% of critics love it, but only 1,000 people have rated it.
Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl was released in the United States under the title The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.
100% of critics love it, but only 6,400 people have rated it.
Moving, engrossing tale of a Vietnamese country girl who goes to work for a merchant family in Saigon in the years prior to the war.
100% of critics love it, but only 2,900 people have rated it.
Jim Allen wrote this comedy/drama about a poor British family struggling to raise the money for their daughter's first Communion dress.
89% of critics love it, but only 3,700 people have rated it.
The highly acclaimed and famously eccentric classical pianist Glenn Gould is the subject of this idiosyncratic film portrait.
95% of critics love it, but only 3,000 people have rated it.
A look inside the 1992 presidential race, D.A.
86% of critics love it, but only 5,600 people have rated it.
Beautifully filmed and wonderfully acted, A Midnight Clear is a holiday war film in search of a wider audience.
84% of critics love it, but only 900 people have rated it.
Meanwhile, he must overcome his brooding, adolescent sister's jealousy and doubts about his identity and reconcile his sleazy street life with his picturesque new surroundings.
98% of critics love it, but only 6,600 people have rated it.
Carl Franklin made his directorial bow with the story of three LA drug dealers who, after committing a rather messy murder, hide out in a rural Arkansas town.