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>>Jay-sus, like I'm gonna read that long list. up2u No need for sarcasm. I was just trying to be helpful. The internet is full of such "recommended by experts" lists. This one you won't find anywhere else on the net apart from thai360. I believe the Academy Awards work on the same premise. My time is limited. I use such lists to help me begin my search for good viewing material. Makes sense to me. Notice the list is in descending order. I suggest that if you're looking for a good film, search in the first 20 only.

I have been keeping a database on a spreadsheet of recommended films from Australia's ABC TV's regular film critique programme "At The Movies" with Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton. Well worth visiting the site for the actual transcripts of their discussions on the relative merits of a film. Of course tastes will vary but I tend to agree with most of their picks... yes and strongly disagree with the odd one too. As always YMMV but it gives you a starting place to compare critiques on other sites such as Rotten Tomatoes and Imdb, before you view the film. I have been keeping the database for about 6 years but selfishly deleted many that I had already seen. Then a couple of years ago decided to keep my already-seens on the database too. In other words, the database is not complete. This is not a copy and paste job. You won't find this anywhere else on the net. They display their findings in a star system out of 5. I have translated those icons into a numerical average and sometimes incorporated an Imdb rating too. Bright Star 4.75 There Will Be Blood 4.52 The New World 4.50 A Prairie Home Companion 4.50 The Passenger 4.50 Beautiful Kate 4.50 Up 4.50 Animal Kingdom 4.50 aus Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 4.49 Grizzly Man 4.48 Lost In Translation 4.44 Army of Shadows 4.44 french Atonement 4.42 The Assasination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford 4.40 No Country For Old Men 4.39 Into The Wild 4.38 The Lives Of Others 4.35 Donnie Darko Director's Cut 4.33 Downfall 4.32 Mystic River 4.31 Away From Her 4.30 Mysterious Skin 4.29 This Is England 4.27 Hidden 4.25 Jindabyne 4.25 aus Live and Become 4.25 Sketches of Frank Gehry 4.25 Ten Canoes 4.25 The Squid And The Whale 4.25 Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story 4.25 Tsotsi 4.25 The Last King of Scotland, 4.25 The Darjeeling Limited 4.25 The Diving Bell And The Butterfly 4.25 Burn After Reading 4.25 Watchmen 4.25 State Of Play 4.25 Wake In Fright 4.25 Last Ride 4.25 Inglourious Basterds 4.25 Blessed 4.25 aus Up In The Air 4.25 Green Zone 4.25 Mic Macs 4.25 french Robin Hood 4.25 Food Inc 4.25 US doco I Am Love (Io Sono L'amore) 4.25 Italian American Splendor 4.23 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 4.20 Look Both Ways 4.17 aus Letters from IIwo Jima 4.15 Before The Devil Knows You're Dead 4.13 Murderball 4.12 The Queen 4.10 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 4.10 Offside 4.08 Eastern Promises 4.08 In The Shadow Of The Moon 4.07 Lust, Caution 4.05 Pride and Prejudice 4.03 Gone Baby Gone 4.03 Darwin's Nightmare 4.00 doco Friends With Money 4.00 Children of Men 4.00 The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada 4.00 Wah Wah 4.00 Flags Of Our Fathers 4.00 Little Miss Sunshine 4.00 Separate Lies 4.00 The Book of Revelation 4.00 Walk 4.00 Water 4.00 Venus 4.00 Notes On A Scandal 4.00 Hot Fuzz 4.00 Reign Over Me 4.00 Sunshine 4.00 Sicko 4.00 Black Book 4.00 Shut Up & Sing 4.00 Deep Water 4.00 Control 4.00 Enchanted 4.00 Flight Of The Red Balloon 4.00 french Shine A Light 4.00 doco Un Secret 4.00 french The Savages 4.00 Standard Operating Procedure 4.00 doc Stop Loss 4.00 The Dark Knight 4.00 The Visitor 4.00 Waltz With Bashir 4.00 Lemon Tree 4.00 israeli American Teen 4.00 doco Frozen River 4.00 Elegy 4.00 The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas 4.00 Star Trek 4.00 Katyn 4.00 Disgrace 4.00 Coraline 4.00 Accident 4.00 china Moon 4.00 A Christmas Carol 4.00 The Road 4.00 Broken Embraces 4.00 Bran Nue Dae 4.00 The Hurt Locker 4.00 Brothers 4.00 Welcome 4.00 french The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 4.00 swedish Love Lust & Lies 4.00 aus doco City Island 4.00 Toy Story 3 4.00 Soul Kitchen 3.98 german Fateless 3.98 hungarian The Return 3.98 The Corporation 3.97 Iron Man 3.97 Vera Drake 3.96 Broadway: The Golden Age 3.96 A Mighty Heart 3.96 Little Fish 3.95 The Man Who Wasn't There 3.95 The Road to Guantanamo 3.95 Zelary 3.94 American Gangster 3.93 The Weeping Camel 3.93 Neil Young: Heart of Gold 3.92 Half Nelson 3.92 Death At A Funeral 3.91 Travellers & Magicians 3.91 InThe Bedroom 3.88 m catch a fire 3.86 Just like Heaven 3.85 Ae Fond Kiss 3.84 The Painted Veil 3.82 The Edukators 3.81 Mickybo and Me 3.80 Michael Clayton 3.79 the prestige 3.78 City of God 3.78 Dreamgirls 3.77 Bobby 3.77 Match Point 3.75 Transamerica 3.75 Bhorat 3.75 Junebug 3.75 Oliver Twist 3.75 The Libertine 3.75 The Wind That Shakes The Barley 3.75 Casino Royale 3.75 Thank You For Smoking 3.75 3 Iron 3.75 Korean Brothers 3.75 Colour Me Kubrick 3.75 Factotum 3.75 Hustle & Flow 3.75 Kokoda 3.75 Shopgirl 3.75 Shortbus 3.75 Solo 3.75 The Manual of Love 3.75 Thumbsucker 3.75 A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints 3.75 Death Of A President 3.75 Bubble 3.75 Shooter 3.75 The Dead Girl 3.75 Mr. Brooks 3.75 Fracture 3.75 The Simpsons Movie 3.75 Hairspray 3.75 Red Road 3.75 The Real Dirt On Farmer John 3.75 doc Meet Dave 3.75 Married Life 3.75 The Bank Job 3.75 The Duchess 3.75 Corpse of a Bride 3.75 Easy Virtue 3.75 Knowing 3.75 The Baader-Meinhof Complex 3.75 My Year Without Sex 3.75 Adventureland 3.75 District 9 3.75 The Young Victoria 3.75 An Education 3.75 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 3.75 The Brothers Bloom 3.75 The Boys Are Back 3.75 Where The Wilds Things Are 3.75 Precious 3.75 Alice in Wonderland 3.75 The Last Station 3.75 The Burning Plain 3.75 The Secret in Their Eyes 3.75 spanish Mademoiselle Chambon 3.75 french Rocket Science 3.75 Mother and Child 3.75 Rescue Dawn 3.73 Secrets and Lies 3.72 In My Father's Den 3.69 21 grams 3.69 walter can get DIG 3.69 doc Millions 3.66 Once 3.63 Dirty Pretty Things 3.61 walter can get The Door in the Floor 3.60 Dan In Real Life 3.58 Old Joy 3.57 Being Julia 3.56 Saved 3.54 My Flesh and Blood 3.53 The Mother 3.52 V For Vendetta 3.50 Inside Man 3.50 Monster House 3.50 Mrs Henderson Presents 3.50 The Ax 3.50 The Devil Wears Prada 3.50 Brick 3.50 Candy 3.50 Happy Endings 3.50 Hard Candy 3.50 Sophie Scholl - The Final Days 3.50 The Chumscrubber 3.50 Where The Truth Lies 3.50 Rampage guess score 3.50 Stranger Than Fiction guess score 3.50 Babel 3.50 Man Of The Year 3.50 The Good Shepherd 3.50 The Good German 3.50 Copying Beethoven 3.50 Infamous 3.50 In The Land Of Women 3.50 Stardust 3.50 The War On Democracy 3.50 doc Waitress 3.50 Rendition 3.50 Leatherheads 3.50 Happy-Go-Lucky 3.50 Traitor 3.50 Tenderness 3.50 Black Dahlia 3.50 Avatar 3.50 The Hangover 3.50 Cheri 3.50 Charlie & Boots 3.50 Capitalism: A Love Story 3.50 2012 3.50 Genova 3.50 Amelia 3.50 Nowhere Boy (Lennon) 3.50 Crazy Heart 3.50 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.50 Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang 3.50 The Eclipse 3.50 Amos Oz: The Nature Of Dreams 3.50 Iron Man 2 3.50 Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism 3.50 The Departed 3.49

Had a bad reputation a few years ago. My mate (a regular patron there) got money stolen from his safety deposit box... obviously an inside job, and they tried to sweep it under the carpet until he got the police involved. Their attached gogo bar was a notorious rip off joint for LDs.... see archives. That was 6 years ago. Of course, may be under new management now.

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