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4/4	"In the hands of visionary filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, this simple material makes for a haunting drama about war, generational relationships and the human condition." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 30, 2008	Alexandra (2008)	94%
4/4	"*Fans of Sex and the City* will love the movie version.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted May 28, 2008	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
4/4	"It's the smartest and best suspense movie you're likely to see for a while." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
4/4	"Thoroughly thought through and photographed with imagination and psychological penetration, it's the product of a very shrewd directorial hand." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 25, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
4/4	" The movie's satisfactions are subtle, but they run deep, and there are many." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Duchess of Langeais (2008)	67%
4/4	"First, this movie should be enjoyed. Later, marveled at. And then, once the excitement has faded, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days really should be studied, because director Cristian Mungiu creates scenes unlike any ever filmed." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 1, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
4/4	"Atonement takes a familiar movie environment, a setting that we think we know, and uses it for an examination of a host of dark impulses, such as jealousy, lust, cruelty and deceit." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 7, 2007	Atonement (2007)	83%
4/4	" The Coen brothers' screenplay is faithful to McCarthy without being obsequious. In filming it, they play it straight, and the touches of signature humor that are there don't seem like flashes of style, but organic and right." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 9, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	95%
4/4	"An invigorating, refreshing and unusual thing to see one done so expertly." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 2, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
4/4	"Dan in Real Life fires on so many circuits that at times it's actually shocking how good it is. It tells a funny and emotional story without any of the sentimental shorthand found in most romantic comedies." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 26, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	65%
4/4	"This is one of those movies I can imagine deciding is a masterpiece in a month's time. And by any measure, "Into the Wild" is a big leap forward for Penn as a director and deserves to be one of the most talked about films of the season." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 28, 2007	Into the Wild (2007)	83%
4/4	"*In 3:10 to Yuma* director James Mangold has made himself a grand Western.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Sep 7, 2007	3:10 to Yuma (2007)	89%
4/4	"No End in Sight is the most coolheaded of the Iraq war documentaries, the most methodical and the least polemical. Yet it's the one that will leave audiences the most shattered, angry and astounded." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 10, 2007	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
4/4	"*Enjoyable movies are released every week, but movies that have the capacity to delight -- movies like Hairspray* -- are few and far between.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jul 20, 2007	Hairspray (2007)	91%
4/4	"Sicko will scare people, and it probably should." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 29, 2007	Sicko (2007)	93%
4/4	"This time the hype is real. The latest Die Hard film, the first in a dozen years, is the best in the series, an invigorating return to the style of blockbuster that dominated summers back in the early 1990s." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 26, 2007	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	81%
4/4	"Bug goes exactly where it needs to go -- to a place most filmmakers don't dare go -- and gets there brilliantly." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 25, 2007	Bug (2007)	59%
4/4	"Waitress deserves an essay, not just a review. There are perfect moments that stand out, and the reasons for their perfection are interesting." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 11, 2007	Waitress (2007)	89%
4/4	"*There are no guarantees with this sort of thing, but it really is possible that one or two scenes in After the Wedding* will stay with you for the rest of your life.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 20, 2007	After The Wedding (2007)	87%
4/4	"Far and away the richest and most brilliantly acted picture to be released this Oscar season." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 16, 2007	The Lives of Others (2006)	93%
4/4	"Was Potter really the way Ren�e Zellweger plays her here? Let's hope so. Dreamy, exquisitely sensitive and yet oddly focused, it's a beautiful characterization." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 5, 2007	Miss Potter (2006)	65%
4/4	"The Painted Veil does what a romantic drama needs to do. It testifies to love as the great educator." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 29, 2006	The Painted Veil (2006)	74%
4/4	"*...More than any film in recent memory, Le Petit Lieutenant* conveys the relentless toll of big-city police work.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Dec 15, 2006	Le Petit Lieutenant (2006)	79%
4/4	"With one film, Estevez has transformed himself from a middle-aged joke into a youthful auteur who has made something beautiful, something he can be proud of, one of the best films of 2006." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 23, 2006	Bobby (2006)	45%
4/4	"The striking thing about Craig's performance is that he seems to have been able to tune out over 40 years of screen history and approach Bond as just another role." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 16, 2006	Casino Royale (2006)	94%
4/4	"It's so inventive, so rich with comic moments, so outrageous, so shocking and unexpected, and so willing to be offensive that it consistently leaves viewers off balance -- and howling. This is a film by an original and significant comic intelligence." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 3, 2006	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	91%
4/4	"Filled with moments of painful revelation, real comedy and emotional insight." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 20, 2006	Little Children (2006)	81%
4/4	"An absolute delight, combining the cheap thrills of a biopic with the gentler, but more lasting, pleasures of a brilliant character study." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 13, 2006	The Queen (2006)	97%
4/4	"*At its best, The War Tapes* serves as an exploration of the soldier mentality -- or at least of the mentality of the folks who'd volunteer to go to Iraq.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 30, 2006	The War Tapes (2006)	98%
4/4	"One of the best American films of the year so far. The filmmakers take what might have been just a gimmicky premise and pursue it meticulously, following wherever it leads. Along the way, they create a shrewd and moving metaphor for the way people live." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 23, 2006	Click (2006)	31%
4/4	"Brings a feeling of history: Virtually everyone who sees this movie will be galvanized to do something about global warming -- and everyone should see this movie." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 2, 2006	An Inconvenient Truth (2006)	93%
4/4	"Toback is not a household name, but he tends to be a favorite among people who have seen his pictures, which are unlike anyone else's." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 7, 2006	The Outsider (2006)	69%
4/4	"Running Scared is for people who like movies, who don't need to have a movie mean something in order to enjoy it and who can delight at the sheer craft of a story designed only to shock, amuse and hold an audience." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 24, 2006	Running Scared (2006)	40%
4/4	"A brilliant and irresistible counterfactual overview of American history." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 24, 2006	CSA: The Confederate States of America (2006)	78%
4/4	"It just might be the truest film about addiction, of any kind, that has ever been made." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 7, 2006	I am a Sex Addict (2005)	65%
4/4	"Through elliptical and seemingly oblique methods, he [Malick] forges moments of staggering emotional power." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 20, 2006	The New World (2005)	60%
4/4	"*It's a work of profound ambition, and, in adapting it for the screen, the makers of The Chronicles of Narnia* don't shy away from its demands.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Dec 9, 2005	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)	75%
4/4	"[The film] is directed by Ang Lee in a style that pays attention to the nuances of expression, to the thoughts and emotions being articulated between the words and in the pauses." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 8, 2005	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	87%
4/4	"A film of wisdom, emotional subtlety and power." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 28, 2005	Shopgirl (2005)	62%
4/4	"Capote is a surprisingly effective and satisfying effort. Hoffman's success in the role goes way beyond the rightness of his casting, just as the movie's triumph goes well beyond Hoffman's tour de force performance." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 7, 2005	Capote (2005)	91%
4/4	"A grounded and unusually matter-of-fact adaptation." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 30, 2005	Oliver Twist (2005)	58%
4/4	"The Constant Gardener is beautifully structured, an artful mix of forward motion and flashbacks." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 31, 2005	The Constant Gardener (2005)	84%
4/4	"Meticulously detailed and expertly paced and photographed, with sights so spectacular and terrible that viewers will have to consciously remind themselves to close their mouths when their jaws drop open." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 29, 2005	War of the Worlds (2005)	73%
4/4	"Easily the best American film so far this year." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 3, 2005	Cinderella Man (2005)	80%
4/4	"So in-depth, so appealing, so easy to sit through and so anomalously grand scale that few who see it will ever forget it." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 1, 2005	The Best of Youth (2005)	95%
4/4	"*To remember Sin City* hours later is to remember from a different part of the brain that remembers conventional movies.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 1, 2005	Sin City (2005)	77%
4/4	"There are many lessons to be gleaned from Downfall. Perhaps the most important is that absolute faith in one's own virtue is not a commitment to virtuous behavior but a commitment to one's own will. It's a license to commit atrocities." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 11, 2005	Downfall (2005)	91%
4/4	"An exceptional example of Shakespeare on film, one that will leave audiences moved but also unsettled, in that strange way characteristic of Shakespeare's comedies." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 14, 2005	William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004)	70%
4/4	"What makes the film not just harrowing but transcendent is Cheadle. He does nothing traditionally heroic. He just presents a picture of basic decency, showing how, when combined with courage, decency can result in an awe- inspiring moral steadfastness." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 7, 2005	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	92%
4/4	"It has the gloom and transcendence of an old man's wisdom." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 27, 2004	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	91%

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