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4/4	" I'll keep this simple: Cancel whatever you're doing tonight and go see Slumdog Millionaire instead." -- Boston Globe Posted Nov 21, 2008	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	91%
4/4	" To tweak Tolstoy: All happy families may be alike, but all unhappy-family movies are entertaining in their own ways." -- Boston Globe Posted Nov 21, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	90%
4/4	" A documentary about a towering act of daring proves a spine-tingling memorial to recklessness as art." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 8, 2008	Man On Wire (2008)	100%
4/4	" The best American film of the year to date." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
4/4	" Writer-director Cristian Mungiu confirms the Romanian cinema renaissance while creating a paradoxical marvel: a bleak tale of illegal abortion that powerfully affirms one's faith in people." -- Boston Globe Posted Feb 1, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	97%
4/4	" *In his masterful and haunting documentary Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang shows the old China drowning helplessly under the weight of the new." -- Boston Globe* Posted Jun 6, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2007)	96%
4/4	" I'm Not There feels like the most alive work to hit the screen in ages." -- Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2007	I'm Not There (2007)	78%
4/4	" The Coens understand the stark immediacy of this tale, and they visualize it with brilliantly judged details." -- Boston Globe Posted Nov 9, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
4/4	" There's no larger message other than that greed gives us something to hold on to even as it kills us." -- Boston Globe Posted Nov 9, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
4/4	" There's a gutter pride taken in how aggressively Shaun confronts the world, but there's also a blunt, no-nonsense analysis of where the kid goes wrong." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 10, 2007	This Is England (2007)	93%
4/4	" In its brief running time, writer-director John Carney does something both profound and unexpected: He reinvents the movie musical as a genre of swooning rock 'n' roll realism." -- Boston Globe Posted May 25, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
4/4	" *Have I got a movie for you. Into Great Silence* is a two-hour-and-40-minute documentary about monks, and it is one of the transporting film experiences of this or any other year.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Mar 16, 2007	Into Great Silence (2007)	89%
4/4	" *Eloquent, bloody, and daringly simple, the movie examines notions of wartime glory as closely as Flags of Our Fathers* dissected heroism.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Jan 12, 2007	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	91%
4/4	" *A comic put-on of awe-inspiring crudity and death-defying satire and by a long shot the funniest film of the year. It is Jackass* with a brain and Mark Twain with full frontal male nudity.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Nov 3, 2006	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	91%
4/4	" It is harrowing, heartbreaking, cheering, and unforgettable." -- Boston Globe Posted Oct 27, 2006	So Much So Fast (2006)	96%
4/4	" A subtle, often very funny, ultimately touching tragedy of royal manners and meaning." -- Boston Globe Posted Oct 6, 2006	The Queen (2006)	96%
4/4	" 49 Up marks the latest chapter in one of the most ambitious documentary projects in movie history. Make that the history of any medium, for how often do we get to witness a time-lapse study of human life?" -- Boston Globe Posted Oct 6, 2006	49 Up (2006)	97%
4/4	" The documentary any American with an opinion on our involvement in Iraq owes it to his or her conscience to see." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 15, 2006	The Ground Truth (2006)	87%
4/4	" A heart-render and a hankie-drencher, it's a film of quiet, almost incalculable power." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 2, 2006	A Lion in the House (2006)	100%
4/4	" Duck Season hits every one of its modest marks and then some. It's the kind of movie to send you out looking at strangers on the street with newfound appreciation and something close to love." -- Boston Globe Posted Mar 18, 2006	Duck Season (2006)	90%
4/4	" It's an altogether satisfying drama -- the sort of movie some people complain they don't make anymore." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 2, 2006	Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)	69%
4/4	" Self-indulgent, gorgeous, maddening, grueling, ultimately transcendent, it's a Terrence Malick movie all the way, and possibly the director's most sustained work since 1972's Badlands." -- Boston Globe Posted Jan 20, 2006	The New World (2005)	60%
4/4	" Long, enigmatic, rapturously beautiful meditation on romance and remembrance." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 19, 2005	2046 (2005)	84%
4/4	" A minimalist miracle that transcends comedy and drama to wind up in a bigger and wiser place." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 5, 2005	Broken Flowers (2005)	86%
4/4	" Tough, terse, funny, ribald, and heartbreaking." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 22, 2005	Murderball (2005)	98%
4/4	" It gives us a man who could have stopped the carnage -- 800,000 murdered in 100 days -- but whose hands were bound at the highest level. He knows this, it haunts him, and if it doesn't shame you, it should." -- Boston Globe Posted May 13, 2005	Shake Hands With the Devil (2005)	91%
4/4	" relentless, bleakly funny, thoroughly remarkable drama" -- Boston Globe Posted Apr 22, 2005	Turtles Can Fly (2005)	90%
4/4	" This is the kind of film that reminds you of what movies, at their best, are capable of." -- Boston Globe Posted Jan 28, 2005	Born Into Brothels (2004)	96%
4/4	" It is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece." -- Boston Globe Posted Jan 7, 2005	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	91%
4/4	" The director has reached that point in his career where craft disappears behind grace." -- Boston Globe Posted Dec 10, 2004	Moolaade (2004)	99%
4/4	" *I thus heartily recommend the movie to all men between the ages of 30 and 55 -- if they can take it. Sideways* offers few consolations besides the bitter, healing laughter of the morning after.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Oct 29, 2004	Sideways (2004)	96%
4/4	" I don't know that I've seen a film that better captures the tension between authenticity and ambition that bedevils modern rock music -- the sense that a mass audience is something to be desired and detested at one and the same time." -- Boston Globe Posted Oct 22, 2004	DIG! (2004)	89%
4/4	" It's a beautifully simple portrait of a country in ferment and a family struggling to define its soul." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 30, 2004	The Clay Bird (2004)	89%
4/4	" It's a movie to cheer lovers and movie lovers alike -- an enchanting midsummer cocktail for two, served at dusk on the banks of the Seine." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 2, 2004	Before Sunset (2004)	94%
4/4	" This modest yet necessary documentary digs into the tussle between bias and balance in modern journalism and sends you out debating where one side's reporting becomes the other side's distortion." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 11, 2004	Control Room (2004)	96%
4/4	" A film richer in every way than its illustrious, callow predecessor." -- Boston Globe Posted Apr 16, 2004	Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)	85%
4/4	" All you really need to enjoy "Triplets" is a taste for the weird and the wonderful." -- Boston Globe Posted Jan 2, 2004	The Triplets of Belleville (2003)	94%
4/4	" It allows Scarlett Johansson to arrive as an actress at the same time it finally gives Bill Murray the great role that has always eluded him." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 12, 2003	Lost in Translation (2003)	95%
4/4	" It's a beauty: wise, many-layered, and funny as hell." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 22, 2003	American Splendor (2003)	94%
4/4	" Blistering and brilliant work of true-life moral agitprop." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 15, 2003	The Magdalene Sisters (2003)	90%
4/4	" A devastating and tragic tale of one suburban family's meltdown as played out on the 6 o'clock news and in private home videos." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 13, 2003	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)	97%
4/4	" An unpretentious classic of the form." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 6, 2003	Spellbound (2003)	98%
4/4	" It's a unique trip that flirts with hokeyness at the surface but that grows more compelling, awe-inspiring, and tragic the deeper you go." -- Boston Globe Posted Apr 11, 2003	Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)	83%
4/4	" A heart-rending account of people trying to dodge the hurdles that politics puts in front of them." -- Boston Globe Posted Mar 19, 2004	Balseros (2002)	92%
4/4	" *Polanski's achievement here is to avoid the Holocaust porn of post-Schindler's List* cinema and show us the ghetto's daily grind.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Jan 3, 2003	The Pianist (2002)	95%
4/4	" George Lucas should watch this and hang his head in shame." -- Boston Globe Posted Dec 20, 2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	96%
4/4	" Implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most American of businesses, and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest Hollywood document of all." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 9, 2002	The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)	91%
A	" You may not like the terms Tarantino sets, but you have to admit he succeeds on them." -- Entertainment Weekly Posted Feb 27, 2007	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	95%
4/4	" *There are images in Days* that can make your heart stop for no other reason than that they're perfect.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Feb 18, 2005	Days of Being Wild (1990)	90%
4/4	" The film that many consider the finest of its decade." -- Boston Globe Posted Mar 11, 2005	Raging Bull (1980)	98%

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