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#-B
3 Backyards (2010) Eric Mendelsohn ★★★
3 Women (1977) Robert Altman ★★★★½
12 O'Clock Boys (2013) Lotfy Nathan ★★★
22 Jump Street (2014) Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ★★★★½
The 33 (2015) Patricia Riggen ★★★
The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock ★★★★½
45 Years (2015) Andrew Haigh ★★★★½
47 Ronin (2013) Carl Rinsch ★½
300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Noam Murro ★★★
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) Roy Rowland ★★★★
20,000 Days on Earth (2014) Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard ★★★★
Abuse of Weakness (2013) Catherine Breillat ★★★½
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984) W.D. Richter ★★★½
Aftermath (2012) Wladyslaw Pasikowski ★★★½
Alan Partridge (2013) Declan Lowney ★★★
Alive Inside (2014) Michael Rossato-Bennett ★★★½
All Is Lost (2013) J.C. Chandor ★★★★½
All the Light in the Sky (2013) Joe Swanberg ★★★★
Aloha (2015) Cameron Crowe ★★½
Alphaville (1965) Jean-Luc Godard ★★★½
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Marc Webb ★★★★
An American in Paris (1951) Vincente Minnelli ★★★★½
American Jesus (2013) Aram Garriga ★★
American Sniper (2014) Clint Eastwood ★★★★½
American Ultra (2015) Nima Nourizadeh ★★★★
Amy (2015) Asif Kapadia ★★★★
Animal Crackers (1930) Victor Heerman ★★★
Ant-Man (2015) Peyton Reed ★★★
Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013) Anthony Powell ★★½
The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder ★★★★
April and the Extraordinary World (2015) Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci ★★★½
As Above, So Below (2014) John Erick Dowdle ★★★½
The Assassin (2015) Hou Hsiao-Hsien ★★★★½
The Attack (2013) Ziad Doueiri ★★★★
August: Osage County (2013) John Wells ★★
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Joss Whedon ★★★★
L'Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni ★★★★★
The Babadook (2014) Jennifer Kent ★★★★
Baby Face (1933) Alfred E. Green ★★★★
Bad Education (2004) Pedro Almodóvar ★★★★
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Akira Kurosawa ★★★★
Bad Timing (1980) Nicolas Roeg ★★★★
Bad Words (2013) Jason Bateman ½
Ballet 422 (2014) Jody Lee Lipes ★★
Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick ★★★★★
Bastards (2013) Claire Denis ★★★
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Zack Snyder ★★
Berberian Sound Studio (2013) Peter Strickland ★★★½
Bethlehem (2014) Yuval Adler ★★★½
The Better Angels (2014) A.J. Edwards ★★★½
Big Hero 6 (2014) Don Hall, Chris Williams ★★★½
The Big Short (2015) Adam McKay ★★★★
The Big Sleep (1946) Howard Hawks ★★★★
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) John Carpenter ★★★½
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) Alejandro González Iñárritu ★★★½
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) Rainer Werner Fassbinder ★★★★
Bitter Victory (1957) Nicholas Ray ★★★★½
Black Mass (2015) Scott Cooper ★★
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) Stanley Nelson ★★★★★
Blackhat (2015) Michael Mann ★½
Blade Runner (The Final Cut) (1982) Ridley Scott ★★★★★
Blended (2014) Frank Coraci ★½
Blind (2015) Eskil Vogt ★★★★
Blood Ties (2014) Guillaume Canet ★★
Blue Ruin (2013) Jeremy Saulnier ★★★★
Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch ★★★★★
Boiler Room (2000) Ben Younger ★★★★½
Burt's Buzz (2013) Jody Shapiro ★★★½
Brick Mansions (2014) Camille Delamarre ★★
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale ★★★★★
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean ★★★★★
A Brilliant Young Mind (2014) Morgan Matthews ★★★
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Sam Peckinpah ★★★½
Burnt (2015) John Wells ★
Burroughs: The Movie (1983) Howard Brookner ★★★
By the Sea (2015) Angelina Jolie Pitt ★★★

C-E
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) Drew Goddard ★★★½
Caesar Must Die (2013) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani ★★★½
Calvary (2014) John Michael McDonagh ★★★★
Cannibal (2013) Manuel Martín Cuenca ★★★½
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, and Joss Whedon ★★½
Carol (2015) Todd Haynes ★★★★½
Carrie (1976) Brian De Palma ★★★★½
Cartel Land (2015) Matthew Heineman ★★
Cemetary of Splendor (2015) Apichatpong Weerasethakul ★★★★½
Le Chef (2012) Daniel Cohen ★★★½
Chappie (2015) Neill Blomkamp ★★★½
Charlie Victor Romeo (2013) Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Karlyn Michelson ★★★★
Charlie's Country (2014) Rolf de Heer ★★★★½
Child's Pose (2014) Calin Peter Netzer ★★★
Chinese Puzzle (2013) Cédric Klapisch ★★
Chronicle of a Summer (1965) Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin ★★★
Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles ★★★★★
Citizenfour (2014) Laura Poitras ★★★★
The Club (2015) Pablo Larraín ★★★½
Club Sandwich (2013) Fernando Eimbcke ★★★½
Cold in July (2014) Jim Mickle ★★★½
Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) ★★½
Computer Chess (2013) Andrew Bujalski ★★★★½
The Connection (2014) Cédric Jimenez ★★★
Consuming Spirits (2012) Chris Sullivan ★★★★½
The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola ★★★★½
Creative Control (2015) Benjamin Dickinson ★★½
Crimson Peak (2015) Guillermo del Toro ★★★★
The Cut (2014) Fatih Akin ★★★★
Cutter's Way (1981) Ivan Passer ★★★★★
The Dance of Reality (2013) Alejandro Jodorowsky ★★★★
Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus (2013) Madeleine Sackler ★★★
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) Mark Reeves ★★★
Dead Man (1995) Jim Jarmusch ★★★★★
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) Carl Reiner ★★½
Dear White People (2014) Justin Simien ★★★½
The Deep (2012) Baltasar Kormákur ★★★½
Destry Rides Again (1939) George Marshall ★★★★
Diabolique (1955) Henri-Georges Clouzot ★★★★
Dinosaur 13 (2014) Todd Douglas Miller ★★★
Divergent (2014) Neil Burger ★½
Dope (2015) Rick Famuyiwa ★★★½
The Double (2013) Richard Ayoade ★★★★½
Down by Law (1986) Jim Jarmusch ★★★★★
Draft Day (2014) Ivan Retman ★★½
The Drop (2014) Michaël Roskam ★★★
Drug War (2012) Johnnie To ★★★★
Drunken Angel (1948) Akira Kurosawa ★★★★½
Dune (1984) David Lynch ★★½
Earth to Echo (2014) Dave Green ★★½
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Doug Liman ★★★½
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013) Chiemi Karasawa ★★★
Elysium (2013) Neill Blomkamp ★
Embrace of the Serpent (2015) Ciro Guerra ★★★★★
Endless Love (2014) Shana Feste ★★
Enemy (2013) Denis Villeneuve ★½
Eraserhead (1977) David Lynch ★★★★★
Ernest & Celestine (2012) Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner ★★★★
Escape Plan (2013) Mikael Håfström ★★½
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) Richard Linklater ★★½
Eyes Without a Face (1960) Georges Franju ★★★★½
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) Ridley Scott ★★½

F-H
F for Fake (1973) Orson Welles JC
Fading Gigolo (2013) John Turturro ★★★
Family Plot (1976) Alfred Hitchcock ★★★★
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) Thomas Vinterberg ★★★½
Far from Vietnam (1967) Chris Marker ★★★★½
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Josh Boone ★★★★½
Faust (2011) Aleksandr Sokurov ★★★★½
A Field in England (2013) Ben Wheatley ★★★★
Finding Fela (2014) Alex Gibney ★★★
Finding Vivian Maier (2013) John Maloof, Charlie Siskel ★★★★
Fireworks Wednesday (2006) Asghar Farhadi ★★★★½
Fishing Without Nets (2014) Cutter Hodierne ★★★
Flamenco, Flamenco (2010) Carlos Saura ★★★★
For No Good Reason (2013) Charlie Paul ★★★½
Force majeure (2014) Ruben Östlund ★★★★
The Forgotten Kingdom (2013) Andrew Mudge ★★★★
Foxcatcher (2014) Bennett Miller ★★★★
Frank (2014) Leonard Abrahamson ★★★★
Freehold (2015) Peter Sollett ★½
The French Connection (1971) William Friedkin ★★★★½
French Connection II (1975) John Frankenheimer ★★
Fury (2014) David Ayer ★★
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013) Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine ★★★
Generation War (2014) Philipp Kadelbach ★★
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014) Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz ★★★★½
Gimme Shelter (2014) Ron Krauss ½
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Ana Lily Amirpour ★★
Gloria (2014) Sebastián Lelio ★★★½
Go West (1925) Buster Keaton ★★★★
God's Pocket (2014) John Slattery ★★
Godzilla (1954) Ishiro Honda ★★★★★
Godzilla (2014) Gareth Edwards ★★
The Good Lie (2014) Philippe Falardeau ★★★★
Gone Girl (2014) David Fincher ★★★★★
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013) Nicholas D. Wrathall ★★
The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols ★★★★½
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Wes Anderson ★★★★½
Gravity (2013) Alfonso Cuarón ★★½
Grudge Match (2013) Peter Segal ★
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) James Gunn ★★★★½
Gun Crazy (1950) Joseph H. Lewis ★★★★½
Hail, Caesar! (2016) Joel Coen & Ethan Coen ★★★★
Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists (2013) Leslie Buchbinder ★★★★
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) Biyi Bandele ★★½
Happy Christmas (2014) Joe Swanberg ★★½
Harakiri (1962) Masaki Kobayashi JC
A Hard Day's Night (1964) Richard Lester ★★★★½
Hard to Be a God (2013) Aleksei German ★★★★½
Hangmen Also Die! (1943) Fritz Lang ★★★★
The Hateful Eight (2015) Quentin Tarantino ★½
Hateship Loveship (2013) Liza Johnson ★½
Heart of a Dog (2015) Laurie Anderson ★★★½
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) Peter Chelsom ★
Her (2013) Spike Jonze ★★★½
High and Low (1963) Akira Kurosawa ★★★★½
The Hired Hand (1971) Peter Fonda ★★★★★
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) Kent Jones ★★
Hit Me (1998) Steven Shainberg ★★★★½
The Hitch-Hiker (1953) Ida Lupino ★★★★★
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (2013) Peter Jackson ★★★½
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (2014) Peter Jackson ★½
A Hologram for the King (2016) Tom Twyker ★★½
Homefront (2013) Gary Fleder ★½
Horns (2013) Alexandre Aja ★½
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) Sean Anders ★★½
How I Live Now (2013) Kevin Macdonald ★★★
The Hunger (1983) Tony Scott ★★★
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Francis Lawrence ★★
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) Francis Lawrence ★★★★
The Hunt (2012) Thomas Vinterberg ★★★★½

I-L
I cannibali (The Year of the Cannibals) (1970) Liliana Cavani ★★★
I, Frankenstein (2014) Stuart Beattie ★★½
I Only Want You to Love Me (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder ★★★★½
I Origins (2014) Mike Cahill ★★
I Was Born, But... (1932) Yasujiro Ozu JC
I Used to Be Darker (2013) Matt Porterfield ★★★★
Ida (2013) Pawel Pawlikowski ★★★★½
The Imitation Game (2014) Morten Tyldum ★½
The Immigrant (2013) James Gray ★★★★
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015) Stig Björkman ★★★★½
Inherent Vice (2014) Paul Thomas Anderson ★★★★½
In Secret (2014) Charlie Stratton ★
Inside Out (2015) Pete Docter ★★★★
Insurgent (2015) Robert Schwentke ★★
Interstellar (2014) Christopher Nolan ★★★½
In the Fog (2012) Sergei Loznitsa ★★★★
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Joel and Ethan Coen ★★★★
Into the Woods (2014) Rob Marshall ★★★★
The Invisible Woman (2013) Ralph Fiennes ★★★½
Iris (2014) Alberty Maysles ★★★½
Irrational Man (2015) Woody Allen ★½
It Felt Like Love (2013) Eliza Hittman ★★★½
It Follows (2014) David Robert Mitchell ★★★★½
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) Kenneth Branagh ★★★
Jafar Panahi's Taxi (2015) Jafar Panahi ★★★★
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer (2013) Charlie Ahearn ★★
Jauja (2014) Lisandro Alonso ★★★★½
Jealousy (2013) Philippe Garrel ★★½
Jem and the Holograms (2015) Jon M. Chu ★
The Jerk (1979) Carl Reiner ★★★½
Jersey Boys (2014) Clint Eastwood ★★
Je t'aime je t'aime (1972) Alain Resnais ★★★★
Jimi: All Is by My Side (2014) John Ridley ★★★★
Joe (2013) David Gordon Green ★★★
Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray ★★★★½
Jupiter Ascending (2015) The Wachowskis ★
Jurassic World (2015) Colin Trevorrow ★½
Keanu (2016) Peter Atencio ★★★½
The Keeping Room (2014) Daniel Barber ★★★★
The Kill Team (2013) Dan Kraus ★★★★
Kill the Messenger (2014) Michael Cuesta ★★★½
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Robert Hamer ★★★★★
The King and the Mockingbird (1980) Paul Grimault ★★★★
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) Matthew Vaughn ★★★½
Kon-Tiki (2012) Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg ★★★★
Korengal (2014) Sebastian Junger ★★★½
Krisha (2015) Trey Edward Shults ★★★★½
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter (2014) David Zellner ★★★★
Labor Day (2013) Jason Reitman ★★
Labyrinth (1986) Jim Henson ★★★★
The Lady from Shanghai (1948) Orson Welles ★★★★½
The Lady Vanishes (1938) Alfred Hitchcock ★★★★★
The Last of Robin Hood (2013) Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland ★★
Last Days in Vietnam (2014) Rory Kennedy ★★★★½
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean ★★★★
Le Joli Mai (1963) Chris Marker ★★★★★
The Lego Movie (2014) Phil Lord, Christopher Miller ★★★★
A Letter to Momo (2011) Hiroyuki Okiura ★★★½
Level Five (1997) Chris Marker ★★★★
Li'l Quinquin (2014) Bruno Dumont ★★★½
The Liberator (2014) Alberto Arvelo ★★½
Life After Beth (2014) Jeff Baena ★★½
Life Itself (2014) Steve James ★★★½
Like Father, Like Son (2013) Hirokazu Kore-eda ★★★★
Like Someone in Love (2012) Abbas Kiarostami ★★★½
Listen Up Philip (2014) Alex Ross Perry ★★★★
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013) David Trueba ★★★★
Locke (2013) Steven Knight ★½
Lone Survivor (2013) Peter Berg ★★★½
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer ★★★★
Love at First Fight (2014) Thomas Cailley ★★★½
Lucy (2014) Luc Besson ★½

M-O
Macbeth (2015) Justin Kurzel ★★★½
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) George Miller ★★★½
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Orson Welles ★★★★★
Maidan (2014) Sergei Loznitsa ★★★½
Magic in the Moonlight (2014) Woody Allen ★½
Maleficent (2014) Robert Stromberg ★★★½
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) Guy Ritchie ★★★½
Man of Tai Chi (2013) Keanu Reeves ★★★
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Nicolas Roeg ★★★★½
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) John Ford ★★★★★
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) Justin Chadwick ★★½
Manuscripts Don't Burn (2013) Mohammad Rasoulof ★★★★½
Marshland (2014) Alberto Rodríguez ★★★½
The Martian (2015) Ridley Scott ★★★
A Master Builder (2013) Jonathan Demme ★★★
Mauvais sang (1986) Leos Carax ★★★★★
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Robert Altman ★★★★★
McFarland, USA (2015) Niki Caro ★★½
Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang ★★★★½
Million Dollar Arm (2014) Craig Gillespie ½
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) Christopher McQuarrie ★★★★
A Most Wanted Man (2014) Anton Corbijn ★½
Mother of George (2013) Andrew Dosunmu ★★★★
The Missing Picture (2013) Rithy Panh ★★★★★
The Monuments Men (2014) George Clooney ★★
Mood Indigo (2013) Michel Gondry ★★★
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra ★★★★
Mr. Turner (2014) Mike Leigh ★★★½
Ms. 45 (1981) Abel Ferrara ★★★★½
Mulholland Drive (2001) David Lynch ★★★★★
Murder at the Vanities (1934) ★★★★
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) Kirk Jones ★★
My Golden Days (2015) Arnaud Desplechin ★★★★½
My Old Lady (2014) Israel Horovitz ★★★
My Sweet Pepper Land (2013) Hiner Saleem ★★★★½
Narco Cultura (2013) Shaul Schwartz ★★★★
National Gallery (2014) Frederick Wiseman ★★★★½
Nebraska (2013) Alexander Payne ★★
Need for Speed (2014) Scott Waugh ½
Neighbors (2014) Nicholas Stoller ★★★
The NeverEnding Story (1984) Wolfgang Peterson ★★★
Night Across the Street (2013) Raúl Ruiz ★★★★
Night Moves (2013) Kelly Reichardt ★★★★
Nightcrawler (2014) Dan Gilroy ★★★★
Nine to Five (1980) Colin Higgins ★★★★
Noah (2014) Darren Aronofsky ★★★★½
Norte, the End of History (2013) Lav Diaz ★★★★★
Nothing But a Man (1964) Michael Roemer ★★★★★
The Notebook (2013) János Szász ★★★½
Northern Lights (1978) John Hanson, Rob Nilsson ★★★★
Nosferatu (1922) F.W. Murnau ★★★★★
The November Man (2014) Roger Donaldson ★★★
The Nut Job (2014) Peter Lepeniotis ★½
Nymphomaniac Uncut (2014) Lars von Trier ★★★★½
Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1 (2013) Lars von Trier ★★★½
Obvious Child (2014) Gillian Robespierre ★★★★
Oldboy (2013) Spike Lee ★½
On Dangerous Ground (1951) Nicholas Ray ★★★★½
On My Way (2013) Emanuelle Bercot ★★
The One I Love (2014) Charlie McDowell ★★★½
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Jim Jarmusch ★★★½
The Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation (2014) ★★★½
The Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action (2014) ★★★
The Other Woman (2014) Nick Cassavettes ★½
Our Man in Havana (1959) Carol Reed ★★★★
Out of the Past (1947) Jacques Tourneur ★★★★½
The Overnighters (2014) Jesse Moss ★★★★
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2013) Terence Nance ★★★½

P-S
Palo Alto (2014) Gia Coppola ★★★
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) Christopher Landon ★½
Particle Fever (2013) Mark Levinson ★★★★
The Past (2013) Asghar Farhadi ★★★★
People Places Things (2015) James C. Strouse ★★
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) Roy Andersson ★★★★
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) Elizabeth Banks ★★★½
Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) Roberts Gannaway ★★
Porcelain Horse (2012) Javier Andrade ★★★
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Tay Garnett ★★★★
Prefontaine (1997) Steve James ★★★
Princess Mononoke (1997) Hayao Miyazaki ★★★★
Project A (1983) Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung ★★★★
Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock ★★★★★
Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino ★★★★
Queen and Country (2014) John Boorman ★★★½
Queen of Earth (2015) Alex Ross Perry ★★★★★
The Quiet Ones (2014) John Pogue ★★
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Nicholas Ray ★★★★
Return to Homs (2013) Talal Derki ★★★★½
Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014) Lau Wai-keung, Andrew Loo ★★½
Revenge of the Mekons (2013) Joe Angio ★★★½
Rich Hill (2014) Tracy Droz Tragos, Andrew Droz Palermo ★★★★
Ride Along (2014) Tim Story ★★
Rigor Mortis (2013) Juno Mak ★★½
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Jim Sharman ★★★
Roman Holiday (1953) William Wyler ★★★★½
Robocop (2014) José Padilha ★★
The Rocket (2012) Kim Mordaunt ★★★★
Room (2015) Lenny Abrahamson ★★★★½
Rosemary's Baby (1968) Roman Polanski ★★★★★
Rosewater (2014) Jon Stewart ★★★½
Run Lola Run (1999) Tom Twyker ★★★★★
Safe (1995) Todd Haynes ★★★★★
San Andreas (2015) Brad Peyton ★
Sans Soleil (1983) Chris Marker ★★★★★
Scarecrow (1973) Jerry Schatzberg ★★★★★
Scream (1996) Wes Craven ★★
Search for Beauty (1934) Erle C. Kenton ★★★½
The Searchers (1956) John Ford ★★★★★
The Second Mother (2015) Anna Muylaert ★★★½
Selma (2014) Ava DuVernay ★★★★½
Seventh Son (2014) Sergey Bodrov ½
Seymour: An Introduction (2014) Ethan Hawke ★★★★
She Done Him Wrong (1933) Lowell Sherman ★★★
The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick ★★★½
Sicario (2015) Denis Villeneuve ★★★★
Sick Birds Die Easy (2014) Nik Fackler ★★★½
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez ★★½
Sisters (2015) Jason Moore ★★★★
The Skeleton Twins (2014) Craig Johnson ★★★
Slow West (2015) John Maclean ★★★★
Smithereens (1982) Susan Seidelman ★★★★
Snowpiercer (2013) Joon-ho Bong ★★★★½
Spectre (2015) Sam Mendes ★½
Speed Racer (2008) Andy and Lana Wachowski ★★★½
Spring (2014) Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead ★★½
Spotlight (2015) Tom McCarthy ★★★
The Square (2013) Jehane Noujaim ★★★★½
Stage Fright (2014) Jerome Sable ★★★
The Starfish Throwers (2014) Jesse Roesler ★★★★½
Still Alice (2014) Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland ★★★½
Stranger by the Lake (2013) Alain Guiraudie ★★★★½
Straight Outta Compton (2015) F. Gary Gray ★★
Stray Dog (1949) Akira Kurosawa ★★★★½
The Stuart Hall Project (2014) John Akomfrah ★★★★
Suffragette (2015) Sarah Gavron ★★½
Summer Stock (1950) Charles Walters ★★★★
A Summer's Tale (1996) Eric Rohmer ★★★★★
Supercop (1993) Stanley Tong ★★★★
Suspicion (1941) Alfred Hitchcock ★★★★

T-Z
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013) Isao Takahata ★★★★
Talk to Her (2002) Pedro Almodóvar ★★★★
Tammy (2014) Ben Falcone ★½
Tangerine (2015) Sean Baker ★★★★½
Tangerines (2014) Zaza Urushadze ★★★½
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) Jonathan Liebesman ★★
Terminator Genisys (2015) ★
Test (2013) Chris Mason Johnson ★★
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Tobe Hooper ★
The Theory of Everything (2014) James Marsh ★★★½
They Live (1988) John Carpenter ★★★½
This Is Where I Leave You (2014) Shawn Levy ★★
Three Days of the Condor (1975) Sydney Pollack ★★★
Timbuktu (2014) Abderrahmane Sissako ★★★★½
Tim's Vermeer (2013) Teller ★★★½
Tired Moonlight (2015) Britni West ★★★★½
To Have and Have Not (1945) Howard Hawks ★★★★
Tom at the Farm (2013) Xavier Dolan ★★★
Tomorrowland (2015) Brad Bird ★★★½
Top Five (2014) Chris Rock ★★★½
Touki Bouki (1973) Djibril Diop Mambéty ★★★★
Trans-Europ-Express (1967) Alain Robbe-Grillet ★★★★★
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) Michael Bay ★
Treasures of the Scopitones (1999) Michéle Collery, Anaïs Prosaic ★★★½
The Tribe (2014) Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy ★★½
The Trip to Italy (2014) Michael Winterbottom ★★★★
The Trouble with Harry (1955) Alfred Hitchcock ★★★★½
Trumbo (2015) Jay Roach ★★½
Two Days, One Night (2014) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne ★★★★½
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil (2011) Eli Craig ★★★
Twixt (2013) Francis Ford Coppola ★★½
The Two Faces of January (2014) Hossein Amini ★★★½
Two Lives (2012) Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann ★★★
Unbroken (2014) Angelina Jolie ★★★
Under the Skin (2013) Jonathan Glazer ★★★★★
The Unknown Known (2013) Errol Morris ★★★
The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014) Jessica Oreck ★★★★
Venus in Fur (2013) Roman Polanski ★★½
Very Good Girls (2013) Naomi Foner ★½
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2014) Denis Côté ★★★★
Videodrome (1983) David Cronenberg JC
Violette (2013) Martin Provost ★★★
The Visitor (1979) Michael J. Paradise ★★★½
Visitors (2014) Godfrey Reggio ★★★½
Wadjda (2013) Haifaa Al Mansour ★★★½
Wasteland (2013) Rowan Athale ★★★
Watermark (2013) Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky ★★
The We and the I (2012) Michel Gondry ★★
We Are the Best! (2013) Lukas Moodysson ★★★★½
We Are Still Here (2015) Ted Geoghegan ★★★
What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement ★★★½
When Marnie Was There (2014) Hiromasa Yonebayashi ★★★½
While We're Young (2014) Noah Baumbach ★★
Whiplash (2014) Damien Chazelle ★★★★
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) Gregg Araki ★★★½
Wild (2014) Jean-Marc Vallée ★★★★
Wild at Heart (1990) David Lynch ★½
Wild Tales (2014) Damián Szifron ★★★★
The Wind Rises (2013) Hayao Miyazaki ★★★★
Winter Sleep (2014) Nuri Bilge Ceylan ★★★★½
The Witch (2015) Robert Eggers ★★★★
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming ★★★★½
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Martin Scorsese ★★★
The Wonders (2014) Alice Rohrwacher ★★★★
World War Z (2013) Marc Forster ★
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) Bryan Singer ★★★★
Young & Beautiful (2013) François Ozon ★★½
Youth (2015) Paolo Sorrentino ★★★★
Zero Motivation (2014) Talya Lavie ★★★½
The Zero Theorem (2013) Terry Gilliam ★★★½
Zoolander 2 (2016) Ben Stiller ★★★

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