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ALONSO DURALDE
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5/5 Persepolis
4/5 The Savages
3/5 What Happens in Vegas
2/5 Speed Racer
1/5 Made of Honor
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 The Golden Compass
5/5 I'm Not There
5/5 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
5/5 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
5/5 There Will Be Blood
5/5 Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
5/5 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5/5 In Bruges
5/5 Cloverfield
5/5 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5 Untraceable
1/5 88 Minutes
1/5 Shoot 'Em Up
1/5 Funny Games
1/5 Mad Money
1/5 Feast of Love
1/5 27 Dresses
1/5 The Life Before Her Eyes
1/5 August Rush
1/5 Made of Honor
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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4/5
 
"[I]f you can work your way around the film's subtext, it's an exhilarating adventure piece." -- MSNBC
Posted May 13, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)69%
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3/5
 
"While Diaz and Kutcher work through their stock repertoire of winsomeness, the second bananas steal the show." -- MSNBC
Posted May 7, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)29%
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2/5
 
"Imagine someone pouring hot, melted Starburst candies into your corneas, and you just begin to approximate the experience of Speed Racer, an ice-cream headache of a movie ..." -- MSNBC
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)35%
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4/5
 
"[A]ctually scores more points off the nation's paranoid and repressive post-9/11 mindset than all of Hollywood's hand-wringing war-on-terror dramas put together." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)56%
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3/5
 
"[T]he film's intricate plot begins to collapse the moment the lights come up and you begin thinking about the story." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)72%
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2/5
 
"Leatherheads shoots for the Frank Capra/Howard Hawks goal posts but instead winds up getting bogged down midfield." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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2/5
 
"And since, like 99 percent of all other Sundance-type indies, Smart People is shot in the dreariest grays possible ... the movie's not much to look at, either." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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2/5
 
"[A]nyone who's seen, say, Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo or even one of those late-night "Save the Children" TV spots has seen much more gut-punching stuff." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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2/5
 
"[The] 2007 remake delivers a lot of laughs despite the fact we're clearly supposed to root for and feel sorry for the cad ... no matter how squirmy or awful his actions." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)29%
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2/5
 
"[I]t fails in its attempt to be a serious drama with important things to say about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Kingdom (2007)51%
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4/5
 
"Hot Rod emerges as a daffy, dorky summer surprise, a silly comedy of non sequiturs that feels like a cockeyed collaboration between Will Ferrell and Mel Brooks." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Hot Rod (2007)39%
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2/5
 
"... plays like Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, reimagined as an uninspired sitcom and travelogue." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Bucket List (2007)40%
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5/5
 
"This plot may sound somewhat ludicrous on paper, but Pullman has created a logical, well-thought-out world that Weitz has brilliantly translated to the big screen." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Golden Compass (2007)42%
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1/5
 
"[T]he honkingly stupid script is the kind that inspires Mystery Science Theater call-and-response." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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2/5
 
"The film does for the Myanmar genocide what I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry did for same-sex marriage..." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)33%
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3/5
 
"It's not eccentric enough to be as otherworldly as it wants to be, but it's too self-consciously quirky to perform on its own merits." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Penelope (2008)53%
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5/5
 
"Haynes is brilliant at tearing off the top of his own head and giving audiences a peek into his pop obsessions." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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4/5
 
"[T]hink of it as The Purple Rose of Cairo for kids." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Enchanted (2007)94%
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2/5
 
"No more can filmmakers get instant laughs with Pong, ascots, eight-tracks and lava lamps. It's just no longer funny. And for 95 percent of its running time, neither is Semi-Pro." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Semi-Pro (2008)21%
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4/5
 
"Spiderwick Chronicles provides lots of thrills and chills -- so much so that it may be too scary for younger viewers -- but it works best when it implies instead of showing." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)79%
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"[F]eels like little more than an amalgam of great moments from the John Hughes oeuvre as well as from Thumbsucker, Pump Up the Volume and Over the Edge, among others." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)53%
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2/5
 
"[T]he frequency with which people are shot or drowned wears away at any attempts the film makes to be frothy or screwball." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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2/5
 
"The absence of activists in the streets protesting the war in Iraq continues to confound; the empty seats at theaters showing Lions for Lambs will be somewhat easier to explain." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Lions for Lambs (2007)28%
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1/5
 
"Given that 88 Minutes actually runs 108 minutes, it's tempting to make the joke that the movie is 20 minutes too long. In actuality, it's 108 minutes too long." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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5/5
 
"[D]eftly mixes raunchy, R-rated comedy with an intelligent, humane look at the foibles of the heart that's almost like something out of an Eric Rohmer movie." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)84%
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2/5
 
"The only element in 21 that saves the film from being a dreary coming-of-age story grafted onto a two-hour commercial for the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Bureau is Spacey." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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2/5
 
"Run, Fatboy, Run winds up being as immature and exhausting as its protagonist." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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2/5
 
"Telling a true story doesn't excuse a filmmaker from making his movie stand out from the many others that have traversed similar ground." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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1/5
 
"Say what you will about Bugs Bunny, at least he never needed a backstory." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)67%
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5/5
 
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead won't do much for anyone's feelings about human nature, but it will definitely restore your faith in gritty crime movies." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)88%
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5/5
 
"[I]t's a movie that people who love movies will discuss, argue over, and rewatch for years to come." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)91%
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1/5
 
"What's terrible and irritating about the film is that Haneke isn't doing it to tell a story. He just wants to punish us for wanting to see this movie in the first place." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)49%
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2/5
 
"Would-be screenwriters are advised to catch Reservation Road on cable as it provides an object lesson of three awful script clichés that are to be avoided at all costs." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Reservation Road (2007)36%
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4/5
 
"[I]f you're looking for an Unforgiven-style reinvention of the Western, prepare for disappointment." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
3:10 to Yuma (2007)89%
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3/5
 
"If the late Aaron Spelling had lived long enough to produce Showtime's The Tudors, the result might have been something like The Other Boleyn Girl..." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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5/5
 
"The trailers make the movie look like the ickiest kind of whimsy, accompanied by obstreperous special effects, but the film itself is gasp-worthy." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)36%
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4/5
 
"Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf is so rousingly entertaining that you'll feel guilty for not reading the epic poem all the way through when you were in ninth grade." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Beowulf (2007)70%
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2/5
 
"Alas, [Hedges'] forays behind the camera with Pieces of April and now Dan in Real Life indicate he's got Sundance intentions but a Hallmark Channel soul." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Dan in Real Life (2007)64%
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2/5
 
"Pinter's pauses, and the dour air of so much of the interplay, just don't fit on a story that's this slight." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Sleuth (2007)35%
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1/5
 
"[T]he gap between [Thelma & Louise] and Mad Money resembles the abyss that Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis drove into in Khouri's earlier hit." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Mad Money (2008)21%
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1/5
 
"Feast of Love is the kind of movie that gets conveniently omitted from résumés." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Feast of Love (2007)41%
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2/5
 
"The missing-church-funds subplot will be easily figured out by any four year old, but it winds up being a McGuffin anyway." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)15%
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5/5
 
"Sweeney Todd ranks among this year's most intense, haunting, and startling films; the fact that it also features great songs by Stephen Sondheim is just gravy on the meat pie." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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3/5
 
"Eastern Promises has a lot going for it, which makes it all the more disappointing when the story takes a fatal turn towards the end." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Eastern Promises (2007)88%
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3/5
 
"No Country for Old Men is the kind of film that will only cement the opinion you already have about its uniquely eccentric makers. Approach the ticket booth accordingly." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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2/5
 
"While Allen's Match Point was an interesting switching of gears ... his new mantle of Patricia Highsmith-esque crime chronicler is wearing thin as well." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)50%
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2/5
 
"[T]his comedy provides sporadic chuckles but, you'll pardon the expression, drones on for much of its running time." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Bee Movie (2007)53%
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3/5
 
"Where the film's ambitions crumble is in its avowed refusal to make its audience too uncomfortable." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)65%
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5/5
 
"There's a Mametian rat-a-tat to McDonagh's dialogue, but the offbeat humor and the characters' genuine pain and regret feels unique." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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2/5
 
"[A] dopey action movie featuring the contributions of people too talented to waste their time on something this risible." -- MSNBC
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Brave One (2007)43%

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