Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen - Maltin, Leonard [0]
Leonard Maltin
Contents
Preface
1 American Dreamz
2 The Animal Factory
3 Aurora Borealis
4 Baadasssss!
5 The Ballad of Little Jo
6 Better Than Sex
7 The Big Hit
8 Blood and Wine
9 Brick
10 Brothers
11 Bubba Ho-Tep
12 Career Girls
13 Casanova
14 Chop Shop
15 Citizen Ruth
16 Connie and Carla
17 C.R.A.Z.Y.
18 Criminal
19 Crush
20 Dark Days
21 The Dead Girl
22 The Devil’s Backbone
23 Diamond Men
24 Dick
25 The Dinner Game
26 Dinner Rush
27 The Dish
28 Disney’s Teacher’s Pet
29 The Door in the Floor
30 Driving Lessons
31 Duck Season
32 East is East
33 Everything Put Together
34 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
35 15 Minutes
36 Find Me Guilty
37 Firelight
38 Following
39 Gilles’ Wife
40 Gloomy Sunday
41 Go Tigers!
42 Going in Style
43 The Great Buck Howard
44 The Greatest Game Ever Played
45 The Hard Word
46 The Harmonists
47 Hedwig and the Angry Inch
48 Hidalgo
49 A Home at the End of the World
50 The House of Sand
51 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
52 I Served the King of England
53 Idiocracy
54 In the Shadow of the Moon
55 Indigènes (Days of Glory)
56 Innocent Blood
57 Intermission
58 Island in the Sky
59 Julia
60 Keeping Mum
61 Kill Me Later
62 King of California
63 The King of Masks
64 King of the Hill
65 Kontroll
66 La Ciudad/The City
67 La Petite Lili
68 La Promesse
69 Lady for a Day
70 The Last Shot
71 Lawless Heart
72 Levity
73 Look Both Ways
74 The Lookout
75 Love and Death on Long Island
76 Mad Money
77 The Maltese Falcon (1931)
78 The Man from Elysian Fields
79 Man Push Cart
80 Marvin’s Room
81 The Matador
82 Matchstick Men
83 Matewan
84 Maybe Baby
85 The Merry Gentleman
86 Metroland
87 A Midnight Clear
88 The Mighty
89 Millions
90 Mirrormask
91 Moonlighting
92 Mountains of the Moon
93 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
94 My First Mister
95 The Mystery of Picasso
96 Nine Lives
97 Nothing but the Truth
98 October Sky
99 Off the Map
100 Once Were Warriors
101 One Fine Day
102 Owning Mahowny
103 The Painted Veil
104 Paradise Now
105 Peter’s Friends
106 Phoebe in Wonderland
107 The Pledge
108 Priceless
109 Prisoner of Paradise
110 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
111 Queen of Hearts
112 Quinceañera
113 Raising Victor Vargas
114 Resurrecting the Champ
115 Resurrection
116 Safe Men
117 Scarecrow
118 Seven Men from Now
119 Shadowboxer
120 Something New
121 Son of Rambow
122 Songcatcher
123 Spring Forward
124 Starting Out in the Evening
125 Startup.Com
126 State of the Union
127 The Steel Helmet
128 Still Crazy
129 Stone Reader
130 Sweet Land
131 The Tao of Steve
132 Taste of Cherry
133 The Third Miracle
134 Thumbsucker
135 Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
136 Tumbleweeds
137 Tuvalu
138 The TV Set
139 Two Family House
140 Two Lovers
141 Waking the Dead
142 The Weather Man
143 Welcome to Sarajevo
144 Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God…Be Back by Five
145 What Doesn’t Kill You
146 The Whole Wide World
147 The Wide Blue Road
148 Winter Solstice
149 Word Wars
150 The World’s Fastest Indian
151 Zathura: A Space Adventure
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PREFACE
As our media culture continues to evolve, with seismic changes affecting the journalistic landscape, a number of film critics have lost their jobs. Some people have questioned their relevance. After all, it’s easy to find opinions about anything, including movies, on the Internet.
But wait—as they say on those TV infomercials. Check out a movie ad, be it on the Internet, on television, or in a newspaper. What do you see? Review quotes. If critics are irrelevant, why do studios and distributors rely on them to promote their movies?
The answer is simple: people want recommendations, preferably from someone they know and trust. Let’s call that the human factor. Years ago, Blockbuster Video spent a lot of money developing a computer kiosk to help customers find their ideal video selections, only