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2/4	" *Lacking characters as cartoonishly entertaining as the bee geeks in Spellbound, director Caroline Suh doesn't dig deep enough." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Oct 13, 2008	Frontrunners (2008)	n/a
1.5/4	" Choke makes its source material's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink absurdism broader, less expressive and cheaply reductive." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 21, 2008	Choke (2008)	56%
A-	" Its poetics of insurrection still resonate with any armchair anarchists who�ve even fleetingly wished death to their oppressors. " -- Stylus Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2008	If... (1969)	96%
2.5/4	" *An anti-conspiracy lampoon of conspiracy thrillers, the Coens' Burn After Reading* paints its floundering Washington inhabitants as intractably or even fatally stupid.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 11, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
	" *The slick gospel of Luke* is delivered with star sheen and ensemble luster in this middling package.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 9, 2008	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	100%
3/4	" Newman remains watchable and glamorous throughout, bloody, muddy or coated in torso-flattering sweat, but the film's efforts to sentimentally "humanize" him by psychological revelation are clumsy." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2008	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	100%
2/4	" *Dite's limited awakening is neither tragedy nor the kind of bitter, fatalistic farce seen in Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Aug 25, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	80%
3.5/5	" *An atypical mid-career Archers production, The Small Back Room* should rise from overlooked status with this devotedly attentive release.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Small Back Room (1949)	n/a
3.5/4	" One of the period's most piercing, emotionally anguished romances." -- Slant Magazine Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Small Back Room (1949)	n/a
1/4	" A Shirley Temple movie camouflaged as political Capra-corn." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 30, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	38%
	" *Though Watkins delivered sharper countercultural-themed films later, Privilege* had the jump on Easy Rider in telling a generation that they were going to blow it.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jul 28, 2008	Privilege (1967)	n/a
3/4	" While not primarily intended as prophecy, Watkins's tale of Shorter's reign and fall has resonances of celebrity activism from Bob Geldof to globe-hopping lobbyist Bono." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 28, 2008	Privilege (1967)	n/a
3.5/4	" Beneath the meditative procession of sites, Gianvito layers an anxiety built into most viewers' gaps in 17th-to-20th-century U.S. history." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 27, 2008	Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2008)	89%
2.5/4	" Leesong Hee-il's miserabilist l'amour fou might seem on its surface to lack either the Sirkian glow or Fassbinderesque kick to make its melodrama work--and it does, but Leesong seasons the familiar hokeyness with some flair." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2008	No Regret (2008)	63%
	" *Despite Hulot's inefficiency at getting the show on the road, Trafic* is an essential work from one of the movies' great comedy stylists.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jul 14, 2008	Trafic (1971)	100%
3.5/4	" *Jacques Tati's Trafic* serves as a scaled-down but inescapably fitting companion piece to its predecessor, the monumental Playtime.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jul 14, 2008	Trafic (1971)	100%
2.5/4	" Trumbo is most focused when it lets the man and his peers testify directly." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 22, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	78%
1.5/4	" An unwieldy spoof-thriller of clashing styles that undermine each other like a parade of double agents." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 19, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
3/4	" Operation Filmmaker occasionally verges on damning its subject--one of the most gripping characters seen this year on film--for being a cagey, arrogant, single-minded narcissist, but hey, that's showbiz. " -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
	" *The nine-year-old within you should be uncritically enraptured by Thief of Bagdad, a genre landmark that's retained its thousand and one delights." -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 30, 2008	The Thief of Bagdad (1940)	100%
4/4	" A fable light on condescension but committed enough to the pleasure principle that the audience is served one giddy act of visual sorcery after another." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 30, 2008	The Thief of Bagdad (1940)	100%
1.5/4	" *Even less funny than Southland Tales* and not nearly as adventurous.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 22, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	30%
2.5/4	" *Akin's Head-On* infused its hellish misfit romance with in-your-face violence; here even two violent deaths are rendered discreetly to the point of bloodlessness.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 20, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
3/4	" The directors balance portraying an everyday sense of the adolescents' wartime anxiety with the more commonplace juvenile relief." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	The Boys From Baghdad High (2008)	n/a
.5/4	" Malta's tourism industry will likely survive A Previous Engagement, a mirthless rom-com that sadistically strands once-prime comedic players Juliet Stevenson and Daniel Stern on the sunny Mediterranean spot in a protracted, sub-sitcom scenario." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 4, 2008	A Previous Engagement (2008)	33%
2.5/4	" At its best a winning anecdote of adolescent male awkwardness adapting to the big city." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 1, 2008	Somers Town (2008)	89%
2/4	" Mathieu Amalric's glorified cameo as a thumbsucking baby-behavior fetishist is evidence that Kreuter uses her silly streak to enforce simplistic narrative roles: adolescent and gender-dysphoric cybernauts cool, all others ludicrous." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2008	57,000 Kilometers Between Us (2008)	n/a
3/4	" *For all the use of first takes and jerky camera moves, the John Cassavetes invoked by Baghead* is not the indie pioneer saint but his Faustian thespian-husband character in Rosemary's Baby.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 26, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
3.5/4	" The dominant Maddin is the narrating filmmaker, more palpably present than usual in the sound of his voice, bemoaning a lost golden age of his hometown faced absurdities of the tall tale." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	94%
3.5/4	" Morris's signature touches can occasionally seem studied to the point of annoyance but the cumulative power of his busy, artsy style generally enhances the horror, making it no more palatable than necessary." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
2.5/4	" A diverting but cool suspense puzzler whose payoff proves to be smaller and more mundane than its twisty, fluid setup." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
2.5/4	" Handicapped by an unavoidable postscript that even nonfans are apt to recall: the eventually fatal injury in the Preakness Stakes to Derby winner Barbaro. " -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 16, 2008	The First Saturday in May (2008)	69%
3/4	" Glass's status as one of America's most venerated and mocked highbrows matches gracefully with his peripatetic cultural and spiritual life." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 13, 2008	Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2008)	71%
2/4	" Surely two decades of TV's post-Bochco dirty-cop dramas have removed this kind of potboiler not only from claims of artiness, but from expectations of being taken seriously." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 6, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
1.5/4	" Call it embalmed screwball." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	52%
2/4	" *That Stop-Loss* wears its generally good intentions on its camo sleeve doesn't keep it from being consigned to the missed-opportunity file.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 27, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
2.5/4	" The restless, mini-DV-camera-shot visual style of Lior Shamriz's semi-improvised fiction matches the wanderlust of its twentysomething gay hero." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 26, 2008	Japan Japan (2008)	n/a
.5/4	" How dismally arch and self-satisfied can a Chelseacore sex comedy get?" -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2008	A Four Letter Word (2008)	67%
2/4	" Under the Same Moon aims to get audiences to blubber at the trials of mother and child but doesn't persuasively put convincing flesh on people caught in the immigration firestorm." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 16, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	72%
.5/4	" *The ethical nitwittery of "fight so you don't have to fight again" and invocations of The Iliad* in this context brazenly transform a dumb bone-cruncher into a putridly dissembling one.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 9, 2008	Never Back Down (2008)	24%
1/4	" *The anomic gloom that envelops Frownland, a miserabilist, micro-budgeted 16mm freak show, fatally impedes its seeming aspirations to the mercurial grit of Cassavetes." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 3, 2008	Frownland (2008)	90%
1.5/4	" *The umpteenth film incarnation of Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, The Other Boleyn Girl* races through the events at the Tudor court like a triple-time miniseries.** " -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 28, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	41%
3.5/4	" *A moral tale that isn't saddled with moralism, The Witnesses* is a novelistic film in the best sense.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jan 29, 2008	The Witnesses (2008)	85%
2.5/4	" Crediting his passion for boxing with helping him find God, babyfaced welterweight fighter Dmitriy Salita seriously knits his brow in devotion to the rituals of Orthodox Judaism and professional pugilism in Orthodox Stance." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jan 23, 2008	Orthodox Stance (2008)	50%
1.5/4	" Director and co-writer Joseph Cedar loses all goodwill accumulated by his competent, plausibly close-knit cast with heavy-handed use of clich�s." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jan 9, 2008	Beaufort (2008)	87%
2/4	" *As for the nuts-and-bolts of political strategy, Nichols navigates them as prosaically as he did in his last treatment of a sybaritic pol, the trivial Primary Colors." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Dec 14, 2007	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	83%
2.5/4	" *Among the recent wave of music documentaries on the marginally infamous, this video history gets its juice from a love-hate affair with the vibe of a graying boho remake of The Sunshine Boys." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Dec 5, 2007	The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2006)	100%
1.5/4	" Possibly the feeblest entry yet in the anti-corporate theatre-of-muckraking genre." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2007	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)	62%
B+	" The mythic nuttiness gets under your skin just as these archetypal figures gradually penetrate each other�s subterfuges, skulls, and orifices. " -- Stylus Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2007	Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)	91%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Stylus Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2007	Private Fears in Public Places (2007)	79%

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