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C+	" Brings up some interesting points, but it's also too eager to shock and too eager to condemn." Posted Oct 12, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	48%
C-	" *Direct Avnet is just plain terrible, and screenwriter Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man) should be ashamed of himself." Posted Oct 12, 2008*	Righteous Kill (2008)	21%
B+	" A funny story with winning performances, and if you look closely, you might even find a surprisingly thoughtful message about grief." Posted Oct 12, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	84%
B	" More absorbing and honest than your typical costume drama. Fiennes's performance of the painfully antisocial Duke is impeccable." Posted Oct 12, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	61%
B-	" *I can't really recommend it, but Igor* provides all the clever puns and non-sequiturs and hipness that you'd expect from a mid-range computer-animated movie.*" Posted Oct 12, 2008*	Igor (2008)	32%
B	" It's a mishmash of a lot of cool scenes that don't really build, but those individual scenes are usually terrific." Posted Oct 12, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
B+	" Little imperfections prevent it from being the classic epic it wants to be, but Lee accomplishes quite a lot here." Posted Oct 12, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	33%
B+	" A big, happily implausible blockbuster action movie, and on that level it totally succeeds." Posted Oct 12, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
B-	" On its simplified terms of one man against the machine, the movie works, thanks almost entirely to Greg Kinnear's performance." Posted Oct 12, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	57%
B+	" Cera and Dennings both play more or less real people, much smarter and more thoughtful than your average movie teenagers." Posted Oct 12, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	71%
C-	" DiCaprio plays a hero with terrible judgment, while Crowe hams up a pointless part to the detriment of the movie." Posted Oct 12, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
B+	" The Express plays it big and safe and conventional, but really, that just means everybody's going to like it." Posted Oct 12, 2008	The Express (2008)	62%
B+	" Smith and Bateman are great, and the first half of the movie is terrific. The second half...well, you'll either go with it or you won't." Posted Sep 5, 2008	Hancock (2008)	39%
B-	" The makeup and costumes are great, but for something so otherwise creative, the story is obvious and predictable." Posted Sep 5, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	88%
B+	" Allen actually lets his characters have conversations with each other." Posted Sep 5, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	81%
B+	" For something that looked as potentially stupid as it did in the trailers, you'll be laughing a heck of a lot." Posted Sep 5, 2008	The House Bunny (2008)	40%
C+	" *I laughed enough while I watched it, but as I write this review, I realize how shabby it really is. And Marschz is annoying." Posted Sep 5, 2008*	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
C+	" There's a version of Henry Poole is Here that I would've liked to see, and the painful thing is that it's not that far off from the real thing." Posted Sep 5, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	35%
B+	" A film that aims to examine Islam in order to separate the true believers from those who have hijacked it for terrorism. (Sound boring? It's also a taut thriller.)" Posted Sep 5, 2008	Traitor (2008)	56%
B+	" It's rare to see a well-made movie that empowers young girls the way this one does. So who am I to complain about the plot being formulaic?" Posted Sep 5, 2008	The Longshots (2008)	38%
A	" It's hilarious, and there are a lot of fun cameos and explosions. Did Stiller just steal comedy back from Apatow?" Posted Sep 5, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
A	" A worthy addition to Holden Caulfield's coming-of-age subgenre of off-kilter teenage boys let loose in big cities. Bell and Myles give terrific performances." Posted Sep 5, 2008	Mister Foe (2008)	72%
D+	" When a 23-year-old male Anchorman fan would rather see a romance with Jenkins and Steenburgen than an R-rated comedy with Ferrell, you know something went horrible wrong." Posted Jul 28, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	54%
A	" Squaring off the best-ever Batman and the best-ever Joker would've been enough, but director Nolan sticks them inside an ensemble crime saga that should make Scorsese proud." Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
A-	" The unique point of view -- from a guy who used to take steroids and has two brothers who still do -- is the reason to see this." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%
B+	" A collision of Black's signature humor with a succession of surprisingly awesome fight scenes." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	89%
B	" There are a handful of legitimately funny jokes, even though -- though it frightens me to say so -- I don't get as excited as I got when I was fifteen." Posted Jul 1, 2008	You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)	35%
B	" I'm still not too enthusiastic about the character, but the film is fast-paced, well-acted, and captures that elusive 'comic book feel.'" Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
C-	" Usually Shyamalan can hide his limitations as a screenwriter behind his skill as a director. Here, that skill fails him as well, and the whole movie falls apart." Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
C	" Myers has a borderline-pathological need to mock Verne Troyer's height. It stops being funny quickly." Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
B-	" Even if you've never watched the TV show in your life, you'll have the nagging feeling that you've seen it all before." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
B	" It's fun, but it's sillier than The Love Guru." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
B	" *The let's-take-a-road-trip method of character healing has been done to death, but unlike Little Miss Sunshine, James & Tara are made up of more than just cute quirks." Posted Jun 4, 2008*	Sleepwalking (2008)	19%
B	" It's a mishmash of homages to writer/director Neil Marshall's favorite B movies. That doesn't make it bad at all, though; it ends up being quite entertaining." Posted Jun 4, 2008	Doomsday (2008)	48%
B-	" There are only three types of [legal] U.S. citizens in the film: cartoonish rich elitists, drug addicts, and whiny young Chicanos who've shunned their Mexican heritage." Posted Jun 4, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	72%
B+	" The vast majority of 21 is pure fun; I would've loved to give it an unqualified rave, so its flaws are especially annoying." Posted Jun 4, 2008	21 (2008)	35%
C	" [The protagonist is] a petty, unlikable loser." Posted Jun 4, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
B+	" Shine a Light is at once an ode to [Scorsese's] longtime muses, a look at the arc of their career, and a rollicking concert film." Posted Jun 4, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
B-	" My Blueberry Nights plays much like a dream; different vignettes fade into each other ... [but] nothing ever quite adds up." Posted Jun 4, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
A-	" The lack of ego and relatively little self-pity [wheelchair-bound Tomas] Young has is astounding." Posted Jun 4, 2008	Body of War (2008)	73%
B+	" This is yet another indie populated by quirky characters %u2013 it's no surprise that it came out of Sundance %u2013 but for once, it doesn't overdo the quirk, minus a few exceptions." Posted Jun 3, 2008	Smart People (2008)	48%
B	" An unapologetically old-fashioned fantasy ... solid enough entertainment for grown-ups, but something that many kids will absolutely adore." Posted Jun 3, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	64%
C+	" On one level, it's unfair to penalize a pretty decent movie for not being a great movie, but then again, Fey has proved time and time again that she can do better than this." Posted Jun 3, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
B	" A surprisingly 'post-9/11' movie, it combines typical stoner humor with a plot about ethnic profiling, torture, and War on Terror paranoia. But, like, in a funny way." Posted Jun 3, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
B-	" A number of young boys attended the screening I went to, and none of them seemed to be quite sure when they were supposed to laugh." Posted Jun 3, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	74%
A-	" *Jon Favreau is the real deal. The actor-turned-director shows us, with Iron Man, that he has a major talent in exploiting what fundamentally pumps audiences up." Posted Jun 3, 2008*	Iron Man (2008)	93%
A-	" In the novel, all the back story is clumsily dumped in the first few chapters ... in the movie, it's structured a lot more logically, and cinematically." Posted Jun 3, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
C+	" [Rhys-Meyers's performance is] the perfect microcosm for the entire film: capable but bland." Posted Jun 3, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	28%
B+	" *It's a lot more dystopian than I thought it would be, at times reminiscent of something as nutty as Brazil." Posted Jun 3, 2008*	War, Inc. (2008)	30%
B	" With at least eight screenwriters hired to work on different drafts over the years ... it's a minor miracle that the finished film works as well as it does." Posted Jun 3, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%

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