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 1629  8.6  8.9 Arguably one of the greatest directional debuts ever made, Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men is a true masterpiece of American cinema. The film takes place practically only in one room and it captures the sweatiness of that hot afternoon brilliantly with a screenplay that could really be one of the best ones I've ever bumped into. Fully entertaining through it's length and really impressive one.
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3171 8 8.4 An example of Kubrick's perfectionism at it's greatest, 2001 is visually, audiovisually and philosophically one of the most stunning films I've ever seen. Acting and dialogue are both very minimal without any idiotic boasting yet the special effects couldn't actually be any better than this, and they all lead to the beautiful ending.
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605 8.3 8 Hypnotic disquisition of madness, greed and the blackest holes of human mind, the first of collaboration of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski remains as a very, very impressive film. Simple yet powerful score by Popol Vuh, Kinski's incredible performance and Herzog's stunning direction with the amazing pictures of green jungle accomplish each other perfectly making this a film that really stucks into it's viewers mind.
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5554 7.8 8.5 Definitive top of the 90's, Sam Mendes' debut is one of the most touching films I've seen so far. The movie shows us the beauty of life in very unique way with its incredible script and characters (written by Alan Ball, the creator of Six Feet Under) and meanwhile manages to be a really funny one, mainly because of Kevin Spacey's superb performance as Lester Burnham, a frustrated father suffering from a bad middle-age crisis. From start to finish a truly compelling film, I really can't think up even one bad thing about this.
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826 8.3 8.4 Maybe even more touching than funny, perhaps the greatest movie of Billy Wilder remains as a timeless masterpiece. The screenplay and its dialogue is once again superb with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine doing their career-best performances. This is one of the films that everyone should see at least for once in their lives.
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585 8 7.9 I absolutely adore Terrence Malick. Visuality of his films approaches pure perfection and the way he tells his compelling stories is unique. I've truly enjoyed all of his four films and Badlands could very well be the best of them. A story of a serial killer and his girl alienated from society, a couple who just don't have anything to do but run and meanwhile have some fun is stunning in every possible way. Even though the main characters Holly (superb Sissy Spacek) and Kit (if possible, even better Martin Sheen) commit brutal murders they aren't exactly evil (unlike the real-life asshole Starkweather, whom the story is based upon), and that kinda makes you watch their endless runaway in a good mood. In a way, the whole movie can be sealed into Kit's line "I can't deny we've had fun... and that's more than some can say".
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1747 7.8 8 Gilliam depicts desperate dystopian future filled with forms, laws and different kind of weird machines by black comedy arguably in his greatest work. Story of Sam Lowry getting stuck into the System with Michael Kamen's brilliant title tune on the background is a poignant satire about future and also a deeply funny film in many ways. One of the most memorable films of the 80's.
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2089 7.7 7.8 Audrey Hepburn, one of the most beautiful women ever lived doing perhaps her most memorable performance as Holly Golightly, a fantastic person with admirable attitude of life is just one of many brilliant details of this amazing film. Atmosphere, which differs from happy to extremely moving backed up with Henry Mancini's absolutely superb Moon River lasts from the very start to finish, making this a magnificent and unique experience.
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350 8.1 8 Contains same kind of trampbumbling you've seen in other Chaplin's films, although this one has a few of the funniest gags the man ever made, for example messing around in the house of mirrors at the beginning and the tightrope walking at the end. Charlie himself is in his excellent 20's condition down by the amazing score, acting and everything, and once again, there's some really touching drama along.
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723 8.1 8 Made and released between Coppola's first and second Godfather, the Conversation is just as good as you should expect, perhaps even more. Hackman is in incredible shape and the depiction of his character is superb with dialogue, that manages to sound very natural. There are also horror-like elements, i.a. blood is used unbelievable well, especially the you-know-what scene near the ending lifted my heart to the throat and at the very end the movie increases as totally paranoia leaving truly dumbfounding feeling.
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452 7.9 7.9 Especially visually, Terrence Malick's second feature is very close to the Ultimate Perfection of beauty in cinema. Particularly the field scenes at the beginning with their magnificent general views and small details cause me a huge perverse enjoying just after a quick glance, not to mention Ennio Morricone's score and the soundscape at overall. Performances, photography and, well, everything works brilliantly and it's a pity that the film lasts only one and a half hour.
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153 7.8 7.4 One of the greatest noirs ever made, Detour really beams this magnificent B film spirit down to the script and amateur actors. Perhaps the best thing in the whole film is that it isn't trying to hide the cheapness of it and maybe because of that the movie manages to entertain fully through the short length of it.
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826 8.2 8 One of the films that manage to capture the time and place perfectly, La dolce vita is Federico Fellini at his greatest (along with 8 1/2). The movie shows the man's affection to Rome by filming magnificently it's day- and nightlife and several others rarer incidents, like taking a bath at Fontana di Trevi for example. A compelling experience through its length with very cool Mastroianni.
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476 8 7.7 Jim Jarmusch is the definition of "cool" in cinema and this Down by Law here kinda confirms that claim. B&W-outlook, breathtaking camera work, acting, music and the dialogue all make this one a masterpiece of American independent film.
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7492 8.4 8.9 Fight Club, one of the most striking films of the 90's is brilliant for many, many things, with one of them being the fact that it works as a teenage-oriented mainstream flick (partly because of its music video-like production) but it also goes for a deeper thing with real thoughts and criticism of today's materialism, society and stuff. It's also honorable, that on the second viewing when you know the twist (which is, by the way, most likely the wittiest one I've ever seen), the movie still remains as fucking entertaining one and you can actually find a whole lot of new dimensions you didn't spot at the first time, and this really doesn't go for most of the films with a bigger twist in them. With every viewing this just keeps getting better.
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727 7.8 7.9 Surely one of the best cop films produced in the 70's, William Friedkin's French Connection remains intensive as hell with its brilliant editing and the superb car chase -scene. The movie includes the most convincing cityscape of the seventies and it doesn't have To Live and Die in L.A.'s occasional problems with storytelling, the thing just goes on as fast as it oughta go. Doyle's character is brilliantly written and Genie acts the lead admirably, and I've also got to give credit to writers for the fact that the main character didn't have any cliched problems with his family, unlike in almost every other cop movie, and consequently all the potential there is could be focused on the thriller section.
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