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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Killer of Sheep
3.5/4 Ratatouille
3/4 Knocked Up
2.5/4 Paris, Je T'aime
2/4 The Treatment
1.5/4 Angel-A
1/4 Hostel: Part II
0.5/4 Who's Your Caddy?
.5/4 Saw IV
0/4 P2
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 There Will Be Blood
4/4 Syndromes and A Century
4/4 No End in Sight
4/4 Golden Door
4/4 Killer of Sheep
4/4 Day Night Day Night
4/4 Bamako
4/4 Pan's Labyrinth
4/4 Climates
4/4 Children of Men
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 P2
0/4 The Forsaken
0/4 One Night at McCool's
0/4 Saving Silverman
0/4 Mission to Mars
0.5/4 Prom Night
0.5/4 Over Her Dead Body
.5/4 One Missed Call
0.5/4 The Perfect Holiday
.5/4 Saw IV
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3/4
 
"In its slightly comical, somewhat mordant, and completely ambient way, Mister Lonely wonders about the perils of idol worship, the way people can hand their entire selves over to a religion, be it Catholicism or celebrity." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)48%
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2.5/4
 
"Feels less like a redemptive survivor's story and more like a commercial for some terrific Mediterranean resort." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Fugitive Pieces (2008)59%
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1/4
 
"When it was over I felt vaguely embarrassed. I wasn't just leaving a movie theater. I was taking a walk of shame." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 9, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)29%
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2.5/4
 
"What ought to be a bittersweet movie about a woman's momentary unraveling feels like a workout class: Cardio melodrama." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Then She Found Me (2008)54%
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2.5/4
 
"Downey could have taken a tragic tack. But he has fun just figuring out how to make the armor suit work. His sarcasm and almost drunken Tony Curtis body language transform the scenes of Iron Man." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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3/4
 
"In a sense, the movie is about Accio's appreciation of the practical limits of ideology and the practical uses of rebellion, and it's a poignant realization." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
My Brother is an Only Child (2008)90%
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"Deal could use a touch of the slickness that's making the blackjack drama 21 such a greasy hit." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Deal (2008)0%
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"Calling your terrible crime thriller Deception is like naming your bad cooking movie Food -- an advertisement for laziness." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Deception (2008)12%
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3/4
 
"The movie was written and directed by a man, Michael McCullers. But it cuts out the obligatory middleman and lets two women make us laugh, often very hard." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)60%
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3.5/4
 
"This is a film of our times -- paranoid, heartbroken, disillusioned -- and the rare recent American movie whose characters react the way actual people might." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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"It barely matters that Zombie Strippers is a tediously overextended satire. It's called Zombie Strippers." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Zombie Strippers (2008)36%
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"Spurlock and his team of collaborators never find the movie amid all their material. If he's a questionable journalist and a poor detective, he's an even more woeful filmmaker." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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"The illogical script by Gary Scott Thompson is desperate to keep us guessing but clueless as to how. Every tin of red herring in the store gets ripped open." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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0.5/4
 
"There's no suspense or perversity. You don't care who lives or who dies -- just please make it soon." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Prom Night (2008)9%
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3.5/4
 
"Editor Bernadine Colish weaves together all that C-SPAN footage into a disturbing procedural indictment." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Body of War (2008)73%
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2.5/4
 
"[Director] Ayer appears to like the thrill of violence more than its philosophical underpinnings, so the movie is caught between the silly and the profound." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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2/4
 
"None of the characters' or the filmmakers' knowledge illuminates, deepens, or complicates this movie in a way that keeps you from thinking longingly of Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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3/4
 
"A surprisingly effective little horror nightmare." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 7, 2008
 
The Ruins (2008)42%
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3/4
 
"The battles in Benson Lee's documentary Planet B-Boy are exceptional. The movie's not bad, either." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Planet B-Boy (2008)90%
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2.5/4
 
"This is an unmade bed of a movie -- and ambiguous to a fault." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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2.5/4
 
"Couldn't the film have told the story of a single season or explored what it means for a team of genius scientists and math whizzes not to crack the code of their failure? We get glimpses and glosses but never a story." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Quantum Hoops (2007)86%
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2.5/4
 
"Shelter is a gay movie like other American gay movies. Boy meets boy. Boy comes out. Boys fight opposition. Opposition caves. If there's life beyond the closet, too few movies know it exists." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Shelter (2008)53%
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1/4
 
"Run Fat Boy Run might as well have been written by a rushed piece of software. The program calls for a surprise engagement, a street fight complete with crotch punches, an apartment eviction, and a runaway child -- all in about five minutes." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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3/4
 
"CJ7 is precisely the 80-something minutes of delirium and cheesy special-effects you'd expect from the man responsible for the chaos of Shaolin Soccer and the lunacy of Kung Fu Hustle." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)44%
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2/4
 
"Enough with these meek, banal exercises, David Gordon Green. Hit me with the sledgehammer in your heart." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Snow Angels (2008)68%
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1.5/4
 
"The makers of Drillbit Taylor aren't so much interested in a movie about the tyranny of bullies as they are completely turned on by the violence they inflict." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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3/4
 
"Marshall reveals himself to be a terrific showman of chaos and comic savagery. This is Baz Luhrmann's Mad Max." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 16, 2008
 
Doomsday (2008)41%
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3/4
 
"Paranoid Park, the new Gus Van Sant movie, is slight but fascinating." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%
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2/4
 
"The movie seems terrified of true psychological complexity or perversity. It's less a family tragedy than a lousy country dirge." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Sleepwalking (2008)16%
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2.5/4
 
"The movie is just a cheesy, preposterous, semi-eroticized way of yelling, 'Fight! Fight!,' when two people go at it in the school cafeteria." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Never Back Down (2008)25%
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2/4
 
"If dour Miss Pettigrew does indeed live for a day, good for her. That's 24 hours longer than this movie seems to." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)76%
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2/4
 
"It's something new for heist pictures: a movie that can't even rip off its predecessor with any panache." -- Boston Globe
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)77%
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2/4
 
"Where City of God was ferocious, grandiose, and glamorous, this movie is modest and intimate, acoustic where the other was desperate to electrify." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
City of Men (2008)77%
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1.5/4
 
"The message in Leslie Caveny's script is ultimately too dispiriting a cop-out. This story could have gone in a number of more inspiring allegorical directions but winds up your average bedtime story instead." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Penelope (2008)53%
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2.5/4
 
"None of the rabbit holes in The Signal go that deep. But you do leave persuaded that you've discovered some talented people." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
The Signal (2007)55%
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3/4
 
"An exuberant, unexpectedly smart comedy about the fraught give-and-take between kids and grown-ups." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)52%
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3.5/4
 
"Rousingly bad moviemaking brings out some of Gondry's most blissful." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)65%
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2/4
 
"Only any good when people are dancing." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Step Up 2 the Streets (2008)27%
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2/4
 
"This movie should be playing on the CW between episodes of Reaper and One Tree Hill." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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3.5/4
 
"One of the most powerful, carefully researched investigations of the moral-legal side effects of current American military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)100%
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1/4
 
"When I was bored watching it (which is to say often) I thought about admiring the hard work McConaughey did for this picture and how all that work appears to have gone into his abs." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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1.5/4
 
"The movie hurts." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)25%
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2/4
 
"The movie is watchable -- never more gratuitously so than when Alba is filmed showering and slipping into a tank top. But we've been here before, no?" -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 4, 2008
 
The Eye (2008)21%
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0.5/4
 
"Over Her Dead Body is to romantic comedy what Spam is to meat. But at least with Spam, you get cool packaging." -- Boston Globe
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Over Her Dead Body (2008)13%
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3/4
 
"Allen's storytelling is crisper here than it has been all decade, even if he's making shadow puppets out of the forewarnings." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)50%
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2.5/4
 
"This movie scared me. What is it saying about us? This is basically a bunch of rich people celebrating pathological greed. There's nothing satirical about the film." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Mad Money (2008)20%
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2.5/4
 
"There's a decent movie in here somewhere. But the director and screenwriter have made a ditsy single-chick movie with the alluring geometry of a screwball comedy." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)39%
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1/4
 
"The director, Uwe Boll, remains committed to long, dull, mediocre action films. His tenacity is a virtue." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jan 14, 2008
 
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)5%
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1.5/4
 
"A sorry excuse for a ghetto SOS." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)15%
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3/4
 
"Remarkable for its beauty and its violence." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
Bodysong (2005)89%

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