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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Mafioso
4.5/5 Control
3.5/4 Right at Your Door
4/5 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
3/4 American Hardcore
3.5/5 Casino Royale
2.5/4 Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
3/5 Turistas
2.5/5 The Prestige
2/4 Fast Food Nation
2/5 Keeping Mum
1.5/4 Drillbit Taylor
1.5/5 Employee of the Month
1/4 First Sunday
1/5 Eragon
0.5/5 Man of the Year
0/5 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Mafioso
4/4 Inside Man
5/5 Ran
5/5 M
4.5/5 Control
4.5/5 Kung Fu Hustle
4.5/5 Star Wars
4.5/5 Apocalypse Now
4.5/5 Princess Mononoke
4.5/5 Bringing Out the Dead
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 The Seeker
0/5 Captivity
0/5 Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
0/5 Happily N'Ever After
0/5 Let's Go to Prison
0/5 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
0/5 See No Evil
0/5 RV
0/5 Scary Movie 4
0/5 Basic Instinct 2
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2/5
 
"It's all over the place, and it will make you laugh when you least expect it, but maybe not so much when you do." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 23, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)54%
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3/5
 
"Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica, the literal bottom of the world." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Encounters at the End of the World (2008)95%
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2.5/5
 
"It's jam-packed with flawlessly designed set-pieces and skullduggery, sure, but it's also shrouded in grim portent, overlaid with a filigree of despair, and, for good measure, covered in a patina of dire consequence." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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3.5/5
 
"It's not perfect -- thank Satan! -- but Hellboy II: The Golden Army is by far the most splendidly imaginative and creatively uncorked piece of fantastic cinema since the director's Pan's Labyrinth netted an Oscar trifecta in 2007." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)87%
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1.5/5
 
"Why on earth anyone would want to waste a summer matinee afternoon with Hancock when they could get wasted with Shakes the Clown in the DVD privacy of their own lair?" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 3, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)38%
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4/5
 
"By turns sad, hilarious, exciting and, ultimately, hopeful, this is a film of Great Truths masquerading as child's play." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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3/4
 
"It's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box of duplicitous people doing mysterious things, men and women." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)88%
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2.5/4
 
"Asano's Khan is a hero in the classic mold, and the portrayal is riveting. Not entirely so the film, however, which concludes with a lengthy endnote as though it were Steppe Wars IV: A New Hope and Equal Plunder for All Men." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Mongol (2008)88%
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1.5/5
 
"This is broad satire spun completely out of control, overloaded with obvious gags and cannonades of yuks where quivers of sleeking wit ought to be." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
War, Inc. (2008)31%
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3.5/5
 
"Five years after Ang Lee attempted a stylistically and narratively daring reimagining of what a comic-book movie could be, the big green gamma-guy returns to the screen in a purer, more unadulterated, vastly more entertaining form." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 12, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)67%
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2/5
 
"My tolerance for the mockumentary form of comedy has curdled somewhat in the wake of the past decade's serious subgenre overkill." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
The Foot Fist Way (2008)58%
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3/5
 
"Remarkably, Gordon has fashioned a moody, minor masterpiece that eloquently speaks to both the bloody body politic and the creeping, creepy American mindset that whispers, 'If we ignore it, maybe it will go away'." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Stuck (2008)71%
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3/5
 
"Happily, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Sandler's first collaboration with co-writer and current Hollywood comedy godhead Judd Apatow, is a crazed, delightfully bizarre return to form for Sandler." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)34%
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3.5/5
 
"...Crystal Skull is a fine, rollicking, lightning-paced return to form for all involved..." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted May 21, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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1.5/5
 
"... has plenty of flesh-and-blood performers milling about, strenuously attempting to advance Speed Racer's minimal plot, but nary an honest emotion in sight. Speed Racer: Color him go, go, gone." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)36%
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3.5/5
 
"Bloodied but unbowed, wounded but walking, Downey Jr.'s sly take on Marvel Comics' cold warrior Iron Man elevates everything about this film." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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3/5
 
"Pairing these two martial arts legends in a story that is essentially one long homage to the great Shaw Brothers films of yore allows The Forbidden Kingdom plenty of leeway for comic moments." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)63%
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3/5
 
"Segel, scripting himself, injects regular bursts of comic genius into the proceedings." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)85%
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3/5
 
"Just like real life but not a damn thing like G.I. Joe." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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3.5/5
 
"Makes for a good anti-war doc, to be sure, but an even finer -- and painfully accurate -- portrait of the former soldier as a young man." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Body of War (2008)71%
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1.5/4
 
"A dispiritingly mediocre tweener comedy from some very talented people who appear to be experiencing a delayed sophomore slump." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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4/5
 
"It's an (arguably) nonexploitive, nightmarish vision of random violence that goes exactly where you don't want it to go and then goes even further." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)50%
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1.5/5
 
"There are, after all, only so many interesting ways to kill a character, and in the end, it's just plain boring." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
Fist of the North Star - Animated Feature (1986)17%
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2.5/5
 
"Less a shocking discovery than the starting-off point for a swell stage play or, as here, a novel from the prefeminist trenches." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)78%
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3/5
 
"The Other Boleyn Girl works both as an engagingly sordid meditation on protofeminism and contemporized sisterhood set in a time and a place where either/or were grounds for, at the very least, defenestration." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)42%
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3.5/5
 
"An outright horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy, The Signal takes Marshall McLuhan's famous statement 'the medium is the message' to extremes not explored since David Cronenberg's Videodrome in 1983." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
The Signal (2007)55%
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1/5
 
"If you can work your way past Vantage Point's goofy casting that places a bland, blank-eyed Hurt in the White House, then I suppose you can manage to forgive this Rashomon rip-off's other glaring idiosyncrasies, of which there are many." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)35%
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"Jumper is pretty slick, entertaining stuff, well-crafted by Liman, edited into a tight, action-packed bundle of nerviness." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 13, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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3/5
 
"Wagner's film is an elegy of sorts for that once-mighty beast known as the New York Writer, a creature that now finds itself increasingly marginalized in a world in which readers are getting scarcer and shelf space for serious fiction is dwindling daily." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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2.5/4
 
"Teeth's whirling moral compass actually provides the perfect metaphor for the teenage sexual urge in postpubescent overdrive." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)81%
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2.5/4
 
"Stewart, a Toronto-based marine biologist and underwater photographer, makes up for in passion what he lacks in narrative subtlety." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Sharkwater (2007)81%
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2/4
 
"Bad Santa! No cookie!" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
The Perfect Holiday (2007)17%
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1/4
 
" Do yourself a favor and go rent any Miike film other than this one. You've got somewhere in the vicinity of 75 from which to choose." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
One Missed Call (2008)0%
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1/4
 
"Ice Cube is now Public Enemy Number Fun, although First Sunday is only fun if you're in dire need of a modernist urban take on the strain of comedy Abbott and Costello used to practice, which, let's be honest, wasn't that funny to begin with." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)14%
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1/5
 
"This tepid, borderline offensive cyber-serial killer thriller takes what feels like ages to rehash both better and worse examples of the current, vapid clamor for so-called 'torture porn.'" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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4/5
 
"Cloverfield is the most intense and original creature feature I've seen in my adult moviegoing life, and that's coming from a guy who knows his Gojira from his Gamera and his Harryhausen from his Honda." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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2.5/5
 
"It all ends with what should be the bang of your heart pounding clean out of your chest but feels more like the fidgety whimper of restless kids with nowhere else to go." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
The Orphanage (2007)86%
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3.5/5
 
"One of the most compelling documentary portraits of a musician yet made." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)88%
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3/5
 
"Despite the title, this is Etel's film all the way. His expressive, peaches-and-cream face, overhung by a frequently furrowed brow, is simply a bang-on depiction of childhood anxiety." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 25, 2007
 
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)73%
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1.5/5
 
"LaGravenese is usually a terrific screenwriter, but this adaptation (with Steve Rogers) of Cecelia Ahern's novel is almost insufferably sufferable." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
P.S. I Love You (2007)20%
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1/5
 
"Will true love prevail? Will Dave grow a backbone (and some real songwriting talent)? And most important, will Alvin, Simon, and Theodore survive this bland new form of chipmunk mania? They shoot rodents, don't they?" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)25%
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3.5/5
 
"The King of Kong is as winning, sweet, and occasionally disturbing a documentary about people for whom time has stopped somewhere around 1982 as you'd ever want to see." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)97%
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1/5
 
"One of those rare, so-bad-it's-good shoot-’em-ups." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 1, 2007
 
Hitman (2007)14%
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3/5
 
"There's so much going on in this animated Hungarian feature that if you don't have attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder going in, you may well develop it by the time you exit the theatre, and I mean that as a compliment." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 24, 2007
 
The District (2007)88%
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2/5
 
"Despite an enormously creepy turn from Bentley, the story has nowhere else to go but into the standard (albeit judiciously used) stalk-and-slash territory." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 24, 2007
 
P2 (2007)35%
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2/5
 
"Will his parents, through a magical, utterly unlikely yet strangely compelling of fate, come running once they hear the longing in their little maestro's edgily hip, borderline Ani DiFrancoid slap-strumming? Far be it from me to state the obvious." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
August Rush (2007)38%
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4.5/5
 
"Control is easily one of the finest films ever made about the collision of music, madness, and the human heart." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
Control (2007)88%
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2.5/5
 
"Torture, you may recall, used to be an unparsable, unpardonable sin. Now it's porn." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
Saw IV (2007)19%
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4/5
 
"Classic Lumet." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)88%
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3/5
 
Click here to read article -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)60%

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