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	"Not until the goofy closing credits does the film hit its tonal stride and nail what could have been its saving, salient theme: the absurd lines that fancy people draw (and obey) to make themselves feel special on a Saturday night." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Doorman (2008)	25%
	"The biggest buzzkill that could possibly come of so much raw material." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008	Eight Miles High (2007)	45%
	"The long stretches of dead air that, it can only be assumed, were supposed to be filled by laughter provide ample time for pondering what audience Harold, T. Sean Shannon's strenuously stale comedy, was intended to find." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008	Harold (2008)	25%
	"Unfortunately, Hrebejk settles for unsatisfying allusions to the Czech experience that never break through the thick haze of melodrama to make his case with any conviction." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 11, 2008	Beauty in Trouble (2008)	69%
	"The disappointment here doesn't have much to do with Wong doing America -- he's been doing America for years, even in Chinese -- but with Wong doing Wong, and not up to his own standard." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 2, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
	"The film's destination feels overdetermined despite its sweetness." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	73%
	"Theron and Woody Harrelson (as James's party pal Randall) provide vitality against the film's heavy load, but they aren't around long enough to keep it from collapsing under its own portentous weight." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2008	Sleepwalking (2008)	19%
	"Lior's big moment is an underdog weeper for the ages; I only wish the 80 minutes that preceded it had been as powerful." -- Reeler Posted Jan 31, 2008	Praying with Lior (2008)	72%
	"Farrell's performance is the highlight in this uneven English blend of high drama and afternoon telly." -- Reeler Posted Jan 17, 2008	Cassandra's Dream (2008)	51%
	"Dolefully faithful to its source in the broad strokes, almost none of the book's cultural engagement sneaks through." -- Reeler Posted Dec 15, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	67%
	"In drawing and quartering much of the novel's intent, [Screenwriter/Director] Weitz ends up with a film that feels not just unfinished but undone." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 4, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	41%
	"Newell's adaptation infuses its source material's classic romantic tropes with all the poetry of a dog dish." -- Reeler Posted Nov 15, 2007	Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)	27%
	"The fragments from much of the day-in-the-life footage feel frustratingly devoid of a guiding context." -- Reeler Posted Oct 24, 2007	Lagerfeld Confidential (2007)	41%
	"The film doesn't fully click into the register Affleck seems to be going for -- that of a talky, tense, intricately woven urban opera of greed (both emotional and monetary), ambition and ethical relativism." -- Reeler Posted Oct 19, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	94%
	"*There is a smart, piercing film in here somewhere, but Rendition* never fully connects with its subject.*" -- Reeler* Posted Oct 19, 2007	Rendition (2007)	48%
	"As insistent on its emotional grandiosity as it is completely meaningless." -- Reeler Posted Oct 12, 2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)	34%
	"Director Jake Paltrow's feature debut has all the hallmarks of an earnest young man's feature debut, and while that is not necessarily a bad thing, I can only imagine that it fit Sundance like a fingerless glove when it had its premiere there." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2007	The Good Night (2007)	26%
	"A kill-'em-all action flick that attempts to elevate itself with clumsy, rock 'n roll politics, dropping actual names and articles of political currency like catchphrases." -- Reeler Posted Sep 28, 2007	The Kingdom (2007)	51%
	"Romance & Cigarettes is less a story than a state of mind, and less a musical than a meditation on how we instinctively set our lives to music, if not other musicals; unfortunately, it is just shy of convincing on both counts." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2007	Romance & Cigarettes (2007)	53%
	"Hawke telegraphs the banal, delusional, pretentious aspects of being 21 and in love too well, and without fully transforming them into something of substance." -- Reeler Posted Aug 25, 2007	The Hottest State (2006)	35%
	"*Seeming to cater to the ADD generation even as it tackles a subject of enormous scope, The 11th Hour* doesn't quite get the job done.*" -- Reeler* Posted Aug 18, 2007	The 11th Hour (2007)	66%
	"The reflective sequences veer between stylishly effective and drearily overstated." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 7, 2007	Crossing the Line (2007)	89%
	"*Where Mostly Martha* managed to fold its rather plotty conceit into an organic world of people and problems, in this stubbornly torpid remake, the conceit props up the characters and vice versa.*" -- Reeler* Posted Jul 26, 2007	No Reservations (2007)	39%
	"*Sprawling its intriguing capital in all directions, Interview* falls short even in reaching that commonest of denominators: the cinematic puff piece.*" -- Reeler* Posted Jul 12, 2007	Interview (2007)	57%
	"All emotion registers as melodrama, though the flushed and flustered parts do not cohere into a melodramatic (i.e. generic) whole." -- Reeler Posted Jun 29, 2007	Evening (2007)	27%
	"The film devolves into stilted-foreigner scenarios and self-help platitudes." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2007	Broken English (2007)	64%
	"*Much like last year's Jesus Camp, Fell and Thompson let the Christian fanatics hold the floor." -- Reeler* Posted Jun 15, 2007	Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion (2006)	79%
	"La Vie En Rose operates in a mode of excellence that ultimately becomes more concerned with exploring itself than the subject at hand." -- Reeler Posted Jun 8, 2007	La Vie En Rose (2007)	75%
	"Falls too often into didactic post-game analysis for its delicate mysteries to retain their luster." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2007	Belle Toujours (2006)	67%
	"*Firing on all formulaic cylinders, Gracie* is heavy with tidy meaning and mealy morality.*" -- Village Voice* Posted May 29, 2007	Gracie (2007)	59%
	"*Shot at the same time as its predecessor, At World's End* bears the same hallmarks of being hacked, horned and hemmed together as they went along.*" -- Reeler* Posted May 24, 2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)	45%
	"The problem with ensemble films, and this one in particular, is that they often flit instead of float between story arcs." -- Village Voice Posted May 15, 2007	Even Money (2007)	23%
	"There is formidable dramatic force behind many of the interchanges, but the balance between them is too tenuous, with Marshall tending toward glib mishandling of the gravely serious aspects of his story." -- Reeler Posted May 11, 2007	Georgia Rule (2007)	18%
	"Jindabyne musters all the emotional momentum of a reflecting pool despite a solid cast and fertile premise." -- Reeler Posted Apr 27, 2007	Jindabyne (2007)	66%
	"*The idea of what is and isn't plausible gets a lot of chiding play in The Hoax, and it's one that could have used more consideration in the formulation of its swell-talking centerpiece." -- Reeler* Posted Apr 6, 2007	The Hoax (2007)	85%
	"The decision to execute the story as a kind of extended meta-sitcom -- a series of set-ups without the tidy resolution -- feels like a cheat." -- Reeler Posted Mar 23, 2007	Color Me Kubrick (2007)	52%
	"A very straightforward, if absurdly executed, argument in favor of not just the director's innocence, but the essential hysterical whorishness lying dormant in the modern female." -- Reeler Posted Mar 7, 2007	Exterminating Angels (2007)	47%
	"At over two-and-a-half hours of dead-ends and bedevilment, there isn't enough intrigue to justify the empirical extents Fincher is intent on mapping." -- Reeler Posted Mar 2, 2007	Zodiac (2007)	89%
	"You want better for this film, but the discomfort it causes is not a matter of it being too soon for the audience, but rather, it seems, for the filmmakers." -- Reeler Posted Feb 21, 2007	The Situation (2007)	37%
	"*Trying too hard is the death of cool in any genre -- especially a dead one -- and Smokin' Aces* has all the sophisticated plotting of a splatter-happy video game.*" -- Reeler* Posted Feb 21, 2007	Smokin' Aces (2007)	27%
	"A script so larded up with consciousness-raising claptrap and milky, synthesized epiphanies, there's no way you can stomach it." -- Reeler Posted Feb 21, 2007	Breaking and Entering (2007)	34%
	"Watching it is like being trapped at the biggest boneheaded gathering of snowballing stupidity you can imagine" -- Reeler Posted Feb 21, 2007	Alpha Dog (2007)	55%
	"Heather Graham seems resigned to mugging and shrugging out the remainder of her thirties through a series of undercooked romantic comedies." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 20, 2007	Gray Matters (2007)	10%
	"Meyers gives it an honest shot, but she can't distract from a paint-by-numbers plot just by having us watch it dry." -- Reeler Posted Feb 14, 2007	The Holiday (2006)	47%
	"Gibson has grown increasingly bald-faced with his thematic (if you can call them that) preoccupations, dropping the markers in his path like bloody footprints." -- Reeler Posted Feb 14, 2007	Apocalypto (2006)	65%
	"It is frustrating to watch the film blow some respectable capital on indulgence in narrative frippery." -- Reeler Posted Feb 9, 2007	The Architect (2006)	11%
	"It's a shame that film is as priggish, poorly constructed and plug earnest as it is." -- Reeler Posted Feb 9, 2007	Fast Food Nation (2006)	51%
	"The idea of growth as metaphor truly runs wild in Fur, until the thicketry of meaning and subtext becomes more dense than meaningful, and your attention is stopped, finally, at the surface of Nicole Kidman's placid full moon of a face." -- Reeler Posted Feb 9, 2007	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	30%
	"A better title for this film would have been "Murphy's Law," as Inarritu has a relentless grip on the banality of its tenets." -- Reeler Posted Feb 9, 2007	Babel (2006)	68%
	"In its attempt to capture Burroughs' wacky, often wrenching teen years, the film is unified mainly by an impulse toward overstatement." -- Reeler Posted Jan 31, 2007	Running with Scissors (2006)	29%

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