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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
3.5/4 Catch a Fire
3/4 The Bridge
2.5/4 Flicka
2/4 Running with Scissors
1/4 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
0.5/4 Bratz: The Movie
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 The Visitor
4/4 Lars And The Real Girl
4/4 No Country for Old Men
4/4 My Winnipeg
4/4 No End in Sight
4/4 Ratatouille
4/4 Live Free or Die Hard
4/4 Hot Fuzz
4/4 Air Guitar Nation
4/4 The Cats of Mirikitani
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 Little Man
0/4 She's The Man
0/4 Elizabethtown
0/4 Never Again
0.5/4 I Know Who Killed Me
0.5/4 Bratz: The Movie
.5/4 Blade: Trinity
0.5/4 An Everlasting Piece
1/4 August Rush
1/4 Illegal Tender
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Scott Hicks: "[It was] a pathetic camera. He didn't think anyone making a real movie would use such a camera."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2008)64%
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"Actor Interview - John Cho says he knows whether a film project is worth pursing by page five of the script." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)56%
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"Filmmaker Interview: Says Thom McCarthy: "I felt such a weird kinship to the Lebanese and the city of Beirut, I thought, 'Wow! I could come live here.'"" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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4/4
 
"[Director Thomas McCarthy] demonstrates a delicate, irresistible touch when it comes to lonely, eccentric characters, but he widens his canvas with a small, resonant story that could be ripped from today's headlines." -- Reel.com
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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"Filmmaker Interview: Says director David Schwimmer: "The company that had it at the time wasn't willing to make it with Philip Seymour Hoffman."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Gene Wilder with regards to the idea of a Young Frankenstein musical: "I told Mel, 'Over my dead body.'"" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Young Frankenstein (1974)93%
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3/4
 
"It's an uneven affair, but with the delightful Garrel at the center, it's also unexpectedly charming and occasionally even moving." -- Reel.com
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Love Songs (2008)66%
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"Actor Interview - Says James McAvoy: "It's probably the most pure piece of acting I've done."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Atonement (2007)82%
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"Filmmaker Interviews - Says Brendan Fraser, confidently: "Your mind is about to be blown!"" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 18, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008)n/a
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"Actor Interview - Says L.Q. Jones: "I don't think I've worked with a director who said, 'Rewrite my material.' That's a big man."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Casino (1995)83%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Peter Bogdanovich of his leading lady Cybill Shepherd: "She had the right smile for the role."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
The Last Picture Show (1971)100%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director-producer Roland Emmerich: "I think I'm just fascinated with Egypt and the origins of Egypt."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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"Actor Interview - Says Steve Carell: "If I could work with Alan Arkin (The Chief) in every movie, I would."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)n/a
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"Filmmaker Interviews - Says co-writer-director Dan Bush: "The bigger the challenge you overcome, the more exhilarated you feel."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Signal (2007)55%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says director Jon Poll: "No one would make this film. It's an R-rated movie where kids are giving each other drugs."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)53%
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"Charlie's more unsavory activities spring from the same source tapped in Rock 'n' Roll High School by Clint Howard's Eaglebauer character." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)53%
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"Gondry is the first director since School of Rock's Richard Linklater to fully capture Black's truculent charm and actually make it - charming." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)65%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Martin McDonagh: "My mom keeps saying, 'When are you going to write a romantic comedy?'"" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Feb 13, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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3.5/4
 
"Eran Kolirin's fish-out-of-water comedy-drama is a real treat, often funny and genuinely moving." -- Reel.com
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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"More passive than aggressive as Dana, Coogan plays against type here and delivers a brilliant, often hysterical performance." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Hamlet 2 (2008)100%
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"After losing his way in things like Alexander, Ask the Dust and Miami Vice, Farrell has never been better." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jan 19, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Julian Schnabel: "I don't like to talk about Jesus Christ, but I think in a sense Jean-Dominique Bauby died for our sins somehow."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)94%
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"Actor Interview - Says Sam Elliott: "What a shame that people are going to miss this movie, because somebody convinced them that the book is anti-Christian..."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)42%
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"Actor Interview - Says actress Jennifer Jason Leigh: "Noah always shows me all the drafts. That's just so much a part of our marriage really..."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 3, 2007
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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1/4
 
"[An] inane musical melodrama." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
August Rush (2007)37%
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"Actor Interview - Says Cate Blanchett: "My husband found me quite unappealing. He wouldn't kiss me at all when I was in costume."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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"Actor Interview - Says Josh Brolin: "The Coens were worried I was going to look like a Village People person. 'I go, 'I'm not... I'm telling you, it's the attitude.'"" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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"Saddled with the drama's most laughable bit of dialogue, Bratt sounds exactly like Pepe LePew (an evocation shared by the critic sitting next to me at the screening)." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)27%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Robert Redford: "I've never seen my country in as bad as shape as it is now, and I've lived through a lot of events."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Lions for Lambs (2007)28%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Sidney Lumet: "For somebody who has worked as much as I have, it's going to sound ridiculous for me to say - I'm lazy."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 6, 2007
 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)88%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Jerry Seinfeld: "Even though you have test screenings, pretty much we're going to put this lemur in people's living rooms and just bang!"" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Bee Movie (2007)53%
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"Filmmaker Interview - Says Anton Corbijn: "In a sense, I hope it marks the ending of an era for me, where your work is dominated by influences from your teenage years."" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Oct 22, 2007
 
Control (2007)87%
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4/4
 
" Comic and moving (without being overly sentimental) and completely unique, Lars and the Real Girl is one of the best times anyone will have at the movies this year." -- Reel.com
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Lars And The Real Girl (2007)80%
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3.5/4
 
"Control is a haunting, evocative drama that stands as a fitting homage to the performer, his music, and his era." -- Reel.com
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Control (2007)87%
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3/4
 
"Greco takes his biggest risk, perhaps, when he puts that boat in water with father and son manning the sails. It could be a mawkish scene that sinks everything that came before it, but like the watercraft that symbolizes so much, the movie remains afloat." -- Reel.com
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Canvas (2007)75%
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3/4
 
"To say the film is disconcerting is an understatement." -- Reel.com
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
The Girl Next Door (2007)62%
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3.5/4
 
"Michael Clayton is a riveting, suspenseful, rip-roaring entertainment." -- Reel.com
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Michael Clayton (2007)91%
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3/4
 
"The special effects are not spectacular, but they are certainly adequate and Cunningham keeps the action moving so that the pace never flags." -- Reel.com
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
The Seeker (2007)13%
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2.5/4
 
"It is evident that Berg may someday make a truly great movie. The simplistic, jingoistic The Kingdom is not it." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
The Kingdom (2007)51%
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3/4
 
"This is not a movie designed to surprise, but as comfort food, it goes down pleasantly enough until the final credits roll." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
The Game Plan (2007)27%
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4/4
 
"Reality or just another Maddin fever dream, whichever, the images are striking." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
My Winnipeg (2008)88%
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4/4
 
"This is one of [the Coens'] best films, yet, its indelible images resonating long after the final credits roll." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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3/4
 
"Sleuth is worth the price of admission just to watch the old pro Caine put Law through his paces. Law may have youth and beauty on his side, but Caine has sheer charisma and a towering talent." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Sleuth (2007)35%
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2.5/4
 
"It is a pleasant enough way to while away 90 minutes, but lacks the consistency of the weight to make it more than a genial diversion." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
Ira & Abby (2007)66%
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3/4
 
"An engrossing, unforgettable film, if more than a little incendiary." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
Towelhead (2008)78%
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2/4
 
"Hirsch is excellent as the woefully ill-informed and too arrogant for his own good McCandless, but Christopher is ultimately such an unsympathetic character that it is hard to feel anything for him. That makes it very hard to stick with the film." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Into the Wild (2007)83%
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2.5/4
 
"It is beautiful, but ultimately empty and a little bit boring." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
The Man of My Life (2007)59%
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2/4
 
"The movie is merely a long, empty exercise in style." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)75%
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3/4
 
"Completely undemanding and entirely predictable, this Amanda Bynes vehicle, nevertheless, offers plenty of charm, a lot of laughs, and that rarest of commodities, a smart, independent, can-do heroine." -- Reel.com
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Sydney White (2007)37%

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