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	" Vaughn and Witherspoon are clearly having a lot of fun snapping each other's synapses, and their sense of play gives the whole easygoing, formulaic enterprise a welcome jolt." Posted Nov 26, 2008	Four Christmases (2008)	26%
A-	" Let the Right One In could be described as a vampire horror romance, but that seems like too easy a label for this beautiful, unnerving little movie." Posted Nov 14, 2008	Let the Right One In (2008)	98%
C	" Levinson keeps the film locked into a sort of low-key middle-age depression." Posted Oct 31, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	53%
C	" Eastwood and [screenwriter] Straczynski also give the story roughly 50 endings, and the director can be too melodramatic or on-the-nose." Posted Oct 31, 2008	Changeling (2008)	59%
C-	" Like We Own the Night before it, Pride and Glory is the most depressing sort of not-that-great movie because it really wants to be an epic drama and a serious actor showcase, but it just can't close the deal." Posted Oct 24, 2008	Pride and Glory (2008)	34%
B-	" Atheists should find it good for an easy laugh." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Religulous (2008)	71%
B-	" The coming-of-age molestation drama Towelhead is beautifully acted and accomplishes exactly what writer/director Alan Ball set out to accomplish." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	48%
B	" Whatever Choke lacks in Fight Club-style slickness and epic-manifesto scope, it makes up for with filthy humor, likable performances and a surprisingly light touch." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
C-	" Lakeview Terrace grabs a fistful of hot-button story elements -- race, sex, politics -- and promptly mixes them into the thriller equivalent of tapioca." Posted Sep 19, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	44%
B+	" The film is exquisite on every level, full of sadness and emotional surprise." Posted Aug 22, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
C-	" Getting worked up over this is like getting worked up over a Saturday-morning cartoon. Unlike its predecessors, this one doesn't even try to aspire to myth. It aspires only to merchandising." Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	19%
D+	" *Every vestige of the first Mummy* movie's wit and charm is buried in an avalanche of noise and motion. It's exhausting.*" Posted Aug 1, 2008*	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	14%
D	" *I can see how Mamma Mia!* might be a fun stage musical. As a movie musical, it's a train wreck.*" Posted Jul 18, 2008*	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
C+	" It's inoffensive and shiny and competent and kids will dig it, and I can already barely remember a single thing that happened." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	61%
B	" A fascinating, beautifully acted study in philosophical tension." Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	69%
C-	" *You know how some movies feel like they were made by a committee? What Happens in Vegas* feels like it was made by checklist.*" Posted May 9, 2008*	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	27%
C+	" I could just hear the producers in the board room, cigar smoke swirling around their fat heads as they barked into their speakerphones: "Those Hong Kong guys are too old! We need an American in here to capture the Western markets" Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	64%
C+	" The humor tends toward the mildly crass -- bare buttocks and inappropriate scratching are Schwimmer's go-to comedy staples -- and the story is ridiculous." Posted Mar 28, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
b	" There is something, well, awesome about watching these vivid young women...get onstage after five days and ferociously sing earnest lyrics they wrote themselves." Posted Mar 7, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	71%
B+	" Best of all, Waters and his team remember to make the movie about human beings; like E.T., this is a story about dealing with absent fathers that happens to be filled with adventure and outlandish critters." Posted Feb 15, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
C	" *Should I immediately watch DVDs of The Departed* and The Shawshank Redemption to cleanse my palate?*" Posted Jan 11, 2008*	The Bucket List (2007)	41%
B	" Debaters is a real crowd-pleaser." Posted Dec 28, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	79%
B	" Doesn't produce belly laughs so much as steady smiles of recognition over how accurately it's nailing its target." Posted Dec 21, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
F+	" The actors barely comprehend their lines. The pop-culture references are lame. Nearly every moment falls flat. And it's boring." Posted Nov 16, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	35%
B	" Surprisingly touching and humane, thanks to its restrained direction and strong performances and sweet-hearted script." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	81%
D	" Imagine what it would take to make an audience prefer Dane Cook over Steve Carell, then double it." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	66%
C	" *...About as silly as a Curb Your Enthusiasm* episode.*" Posted Oct 19, 2007*	Reservation Road (2007)	36%
B-	" ...it's hard to argue with the movie's general good spirits." Posted Sep 28, 2007	December Boys (2007)	42%
C-	" It looks like Billy Bob Thornton has gotten to this lucrative W.C. Fields place in his career where he fills his coffers by playing endless variations on the same character." Posted Sep 14, 2007	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	13%
C-	" An ugly, stupid and meaningless thriller." Posted Aug 31, 2007	Death Sentence (2007)	19%
B+	" *It's Over the Top* via Nintendo, and it is stunning to behold.*" Posted Aug 24, 2007*	The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)	97%
A-	" A dry, vicious and deeply moving little comedy that sort of takes the structure of a teen sports movie, then undermines that structure at every turn." Posted Aug 17, 2007	Rocket Science (2007)	84%
C	" *Sporadically funny, but for the most part, Death* is just thoroughly modest.*" Posted Aug 17, 2007*	Death at a Funeral (2007)	63%
B	" A really solid horror comedy: beautifully shot, decently acted, fast moving and creative with the disembowelments. And it manages the weird feat of making a flock of sheep bounding across a meadow seem vaguely menacing." Posted Jul 20, 2007	Black Sheep (2007)	71%
C+	" Overdramatizes Albert's 24-year career." Posted Jul 13, 2007	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007)	78%
B	" *A strangely relaxed and frequently funny installment. To my thinking, it stands right behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* as the best in the movie series.*" Posted Jul 12, 2007*	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	77%
C-	" The uneven filmmaking renders Minot's ideas impossibly trite. ...Ugh." Posted Jun 29, 2007	Evening (2007)	27%
B	" *If you're willing to do the work, Triad Election* pays you in tragedy.*" Posted Jun 15, 2007*	Triad Election (2007)	96%
B	" *What makes Surf's Up* stand out is its look and texture.*" Posted Jun 8, 2007*	Surf's Up (2007)	78%
B+	" Despite dancing between a story and a story within a story, something seems simple and effortless about Ten Canoes. Director Rolf de Heer and his all-Yolngu cast offer a take on tribal life that's warm, funny and powerfully alive." Posted Jun 1, 2007	Ten Canoes (2007)	98%
C	" *What pushes Mr. Brooks* into 'silly' territory is the way co-writer/director Bruce A. Evans piles on way too many subplots that seem to set up future stories.*" Posted Jun 1, 2007*	Mr. Brooks (2007)	56%
	" *What a pleasant surprise that Shrek the Third* mostly connects with a fairly tight story -- even if it feels less like a movie and more like a really good episode of a Shrek TV series.*" Posted May 18, 2007*	Shrek the Third (2007)	42%
B+	" It's weird to write that a movie chock-full of adultery, stalking, spousal abuse and hatred of the unborn is the feel-good comedy of the summer." Posted May 11, 2007	Waitress (2007)	88%
A-	" Savage little morality tale." Posted May 4, 2007	The TV Set (2007)	65%
B+	" Fracture sneaks up on you. At first, it plays like it might be another in a long line of dullish legal thrillers. But then, in its modest, grown-up way, it keeps getting better and better." Posted Apr 20, 2007	Fracture (2007)	71%
A	" *If you enjoyed any of [writer-director Scott] Frank's previous work, or thought Brick* was the bomb, you'll love this.*" Posted Mar 30, 2007*	The Lookout (2007)	87%
A	" The Namesake doesn't reduce itself to simple ethnic politics and easy critiques." Posted Mar 23, 2007	The Namesake (2007)	85%
B+	" O'Toole just keeps turning up the volume, and it's thrilling to watch." Posted Mar 23, 2007	Becket (1964)	73%
A	" Black Snake Moan is a gorgeous, life-affirming movie. On paper, it sounds lurid bordering on ridiculous." Posted Mar 2, 2007	Black Snake Moan (2007)	66%
B+	" A low-key personal portrait that helps you understand an illegal immigrant's desperate psychology. But mostly, it fills you with an aching empathy for this profoundly decent man, who numbly (even heroically) soldiers on." Posted Feb 2, 2007	Rom�ntico (2006)	96%

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