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3/4	"Full Grown Men is an artistically integrated film that introduces a refreshing new talent to the independent scene, one who combines the visual palette of filmmaker Harmony Korine with an all-important sense of narrative." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 25, 2008	Full Grown Men (2008)	42%
2/4	"The whole movie hangs on the gradual unraveling of the central mystery and is made with the expectation that the audience is fascinated and hanging on every tidbit. But Tornatore overplays his hand." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 25, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	59%
3/4	"In the end it's all about these very full and rewarding lead characters." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 25, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
3.5/4	"[Breillat] is inviting us to really look at sex as it occurs in life, and to engage with it mentally, as a driving mystery of human existence." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
2.5/4	"This isn't a movie. It's a vacation." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
3/4	"Christopher Nolan wanted to make an action movie that was different from other action movies -- darker, more twisted, more despairing, more bleak -- and he has mostly succeeded in this latest Batman installment. He can thank Ledger for a lot of that." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
3/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 15, 2008	Heathers (1989)	94%
3/4	"*When The Wackness* is good, it's good, and when it fails, it's still clear what Levine was trying to do. Someday he'll probably be able to do it.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	63%
3/4	"*Everything in Water Lilies* is more guarded, more complex and far more interesting than it seems.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jul 11, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	73%
3/4	"Journey shows that Brevig knows exactly what visual effects can do -- and more important, what they can't." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
2/4	"As delivered by director Peter Berg, Hancock is never as serious or funny or poignant as it could be. And despite clocking in at a reasonable running time, it has a big sag in the middle that nothing could have fixed." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 2, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
2/4	"Finding Amanda has some of the good and a lot of the bad aspects of a first film written and directed by the same person." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 27, 2008	Finding Amanda (2008)	38%
3/4	"*Rohmer's knack for fable is manifest even in his modern-dress films, and in Astrea and Celadon* a feeling of fable - of more to this story than meets the eye - is ever-present.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 27, 2008	Romance of Astree and Celadon (2008)	75%
2/4	"*Ultimately, watching Wanted* feels like being privy to somebody else's unwholesome fantasy, one you'd rather not know about.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
2.5/4	"*The power of WALL-E* as a character, the poetic figure of the robot drawn to human splendor, remains powerful throughout -- and Pixar's loveliest creation.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
2/4	"*Mike Myers' new comedy, The Love Guru, is a disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something." -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	15%
1/4	"*Remaking Get Smart* for the big screen might have sounded like a bad idea, but the movie shows it to have been something else: a really bad idea.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
2.5/4	"It's an entertaining movie, which is half the game, but it's not scary, which it should be. Neither is it something to be taken seriously, though it's intended to be." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
3/4	"*The result is not as good as Iron Man, but it's an action movie in that style, willing to take its time and take advantage of the fact that it has a first-rate actor at its center." -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
	"Kung Fu Panda gets across important and inevitable plot information in ways that are novel and unexpected. Things simply don't happen the way they usually happen in animated stories." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
1/4	"What might have been an ambitious effort becomes another lousy Sandler movie, endless and tiresome with a handful of funny moments." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
1/4	"Unfortunately the results are limp and diffused -- not sexy, not suspenseful and not involving." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 30, 2008	Six Sex Scenes and a Murder (2008)	n/a
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%
1/4	"Let's give writer-director Bryan Bertino credit. He knows how to frame a shot to make characters seem vulnerable. Now for his next trick, he just needs to turn his talents toward something that isn't repulsive." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 30, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
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%
2/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 27, 2008	Grace is Gone (2007)	57%
2/4	"Like Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, the film has overarching problems yet contains diamonds of clarity and inspiration that you won't find in any dozen movies. You'll have to mine for those diamonds, though." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 23, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	43%
3/4	"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is probably the worst of the Indiana Jones movies, but it's still pretty much a delight, from the beginning almost until the end." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 22, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
1/4	"It's a dragged-out exercise, with no epic scale and no spirit worth talking about." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
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%
1/4	"Plenty happens, but little of it advances the action, until the finale, which is lovely, but would have been a lot lovelier after 35 minutes, not 90." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
3/4	"Morris widens our understanding of the real crimes that took place there. This is where the movie becomes not just a slant on history but also a vehicle for broadening our understanding." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
2/4	"Someday, real artists may come along to use some of the techniques that the Wachowskis are developing. Then things will get interesting." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
1/4	"This is silly stuff, made of cardboard, with one of those Gordian-knot plots that could easily be cut through by one person's simply being honest with another person for 30 whole seconds. There's not much more to say." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 2, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
3.5/4	"Iron Man is an action sci-fi blockbuster extravaganza that provides cartoon thrills for thinking people. It's the best movie of its kind since the second Spider-Man movie four years ago." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 2, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
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%
2/4	"An overwrought and ultimately silly thriller." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
2/4	"It's a movie that deals in emotion and attempts to pass counterfeit goods. There's nothing there... . And yet by the deprived standards of the modern romantic comedy, one would have to say, well, it's not bad." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 25, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
3/4	"Few directors regularly exploit so well film's capacity for capturing the present and the past in the same instant. Wong is plugged into a special zone that feels that joy of experience and the pain of recollection simultaneously." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 18, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
2/4	"Too bad the sober tone only makes for a movie that pretends at seriousness but that can't really be taken seriously." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 18, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
3/4	"*Like its predecessors, Forgetting Sarah Marshall* is a smart comedy that trades on social embarrassment and shows love from the standpoint of male insecurity.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
3/4	"*There's a lot to appreciate in Street Kings,* a tight, propulsive action thriller, but there's one thing to marvel at, and that's James Ellroy's command of story.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
2/4	"*The main thing interesting about Boarding Gate* is the spectacle of Assayas' effort -- the attitude and the international backdrop -- not the story itself.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Boarding Gate (2007)	26%
2/4	"*There's a gulf between what Smart People* should be and what it actually is.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
3/4	"*Stop laughing long enough, and you'll see that it's a picture about compromised lives and love for sale. But no one who watches Priceless* will stop laughing for that long.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 4, 2008	Priceless (2008)	83%
2/4	"Leatherheads is not that good a movie, and yet it would be hard to enjoy saying anything nasty about it." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 4, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
3/4	"Flawless is a fictional tale, but something in director Michael Radford's conscientious, methodical presentation gives it the feeling of true history. Watching it is like watching a historical dramatization of something that never really happened." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 28, 2008	Flawless (2007)	59%
2.5/4	"A movie with an irresistible premise that ultimately collapses around the whole issue of motivation." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 28, 2008	21 (2008)	35%
3/4	"Clearly, Peirce's motives are pure. She's not using the 'stop-loss' issue as a wedge to make the government or the administration look bad. She's using it to dramatize an injustice and to advocate on behalf of the soldiers." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
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)	68%

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