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	" Streep's 'Mamma Mia!' Is Like Taking a Tiny Vacation" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Sep 16, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
	" SATC Redux: A Lively, Ribald Comedy Has Somehow Morphed into a Shameless, Elephantine Soap Opera" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Jun 4, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	50%
	" Claude Lelouch's 'Roman de gare'('Crossed Tracks'): A seductive, compulsively watchable little cat-and-mouse game" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Jun 4, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	86%
	" 'Forgetting Sarah Foster': Judd Apatow's Latest Dick Flick" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted May 22, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
	" Jon Favreau's 'Iron Man': The $100-Million Iraq War Movie" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted May 9, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
	" 'Baby Mama' Makes Do-Do" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted May 1, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
	" The kind of classically contoured love story that American filmmakers have become (almost willfully) incapable of making anymore." -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Dec 25, 2007	Atonement (2007)	83%
	" Francis Lawrence's 'I Am Legend': The First Half - Its Better Half - Plays Like An Extremely Effective 'Anti-Michael Vick Flick'" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Dec 25, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	69%
	" Tamara Jenkins' 'The Savages': Laura Linney, The Most Overlooked Great Gctress of Her Generation, Soars with Authenticity" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Dec 25, 2007	The Savages (2007)	89%
	" 'Sweeney Todd': Burton has deconstructed and redefined Sondheim's masterwork, creating a film that compliments its stage predecessor. 'Todd' is at once different from the play and yet not different at all. A unique achievement" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Dec 24, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
	" 'Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story': Sadly inert, alleged spoof of the subgenre, the crooner biopic" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Dec 23, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
	" Amy Adams delivers an iconic breakthrough performance in Kevin Lima's sophisticated and subversive Disney film." -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Dec 2, 2007	Enchanted (2007)	93%
	" Craig Gillespie's 'Lars and the Real Girl' Is an Off-Beat, '70s-Like Charmer that Could Have Been the Third Side of a Bud Cort Trilogy" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Dec 1, 2007	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	81%
	" Richard Kelly's 'Southland Tales' Looms as rude, Confrontational Political Black Comedy about a Very Messed-Up, Dystrophian America - a Film with the Vigor and Incorrigible Quality of a Work-In-Progress." -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Dec 1, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	35%
	" Kidman's Toxic Narcissist Drives Bracing 'Margot at the Wedding'" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Nov 30, 2007	Margot at the Wedding (2007)	51%
	" For Better or Worse, Todd Haynes' 'I'm Not There' Reinvents the Biopic Genre" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Nov 30, 2007	I'm Not There (2007)	78%
	" 'The Nanny Diaries': Huh? It's supposed to be a comedy?" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Aug 27, 2007	The Nanny Diaries (2007)	33%
	" '2 Days in Paris' is at once companionable and challenging, and like most worthwhile films these days, also is both derivative and original." -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Aug 25, 2007	2 Days In Paris (2007)	86%
	" 'The Invasion': Oliver Hirschbiegel's take on Jack Finney's classic story is subtly political, commenting ever so slyly on the apathy and indifference - and the lack of empathy and compassion - that have taken over since 9/11, as well as the sense of enti" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Aug 25, 2007	The Invasion (2007)	19%
	" 'Superbad': 'American Graffiti Redux,' only updated with the usual raunch and a major penis fixation" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Aug 24, 2007	Superbad (2007)	87%
	" 'Joshua': More than a 'horror film' - a staunchly unforgiving, thoroughly uncomproming look at how a child systematically ruins the lives of his parents" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Aug 22, 2007	Joshua (2007)	62%
	" 'Hairspray': An unabashed, unapologetic movie musical that nearly jumps off the screen and challenges all of your silly hang-ups about movie musicals" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Aug 22, 2007	Hairspray (2007)	91%
	" "The Break-Up": A brilliantly uncompromising, often harsh but very accurate examination of a relationship unraveling" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Jul 16, 2007	The Break-Up (2006)	34%
	" Would it be redundant - or too premature - to call 'Ratatouille' the best film of the year?" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Jul 12, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	96%
	" 'A Mighty Heart': Where's Daniel?" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Jul 8, 2007	A Mighty Heart (2007)	77%
	" Mike White's 'Year of the Dog': Smart, witty film about the consequences of single-minded committment." -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Apr 7, 2007	Year of the Dog (2007)	69%
	" 'The Host': A sneaky, spellbinding celebration of what movies are supposed to be all about." -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Mar 14, 2007	The Host (2007)	92%
	" 'The Apartment': The Film That Defines Me" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Feb 13, 2007	The Apartment (1960)	90%
	" 'Half Nelson': A Magnetic Ryan Gosling" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Feb 1, 2007	Half Nelson (2006)	91%
	" 'Talladega Nights': Deliciously Subversive Political Satire" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Jan 31, 2007	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)	73%
	" 'Tarnation': A Filmic Diary of a Chaotic Life, Consisting of Mosaic-Like Bits and Pieces of Memorabilia" -- Passionate Moviegoer Posted Jan 30, 2007	Tarnation (2004)	92%
3/4	" You have to hand it to Spacey. He gets by on sheer willfulness. He believes so much in his cockeyed dream that we come to believe in it, too." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 30, 2004	Beyond the Sea (2004)	42%
3/4	" A film that's extremely well-made but tantalizingly or clumsily (take your pick) oblique." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 24, 2004	The Aviator (2004)	88%
3/4	" This movie is so odd, so uncommercial and so unformulaic, particularly for something produced by a major studio (Disney, in this case), that I can't imagine how Anderson got his idea for it past the front office and in front of cameras." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 24, 2004	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)	52%
2.5/4	" Meet the Fockers is not much of a movie -- just a lot of comic situations barely held together by the semblance of a plot -- but it is genuinely funny in a crass way." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 22, 2004	Meet the Fockers (2004)	39%
3.5/4	" War, it says, is what separates love from hate, life from death and the beautiful from the ugly -- and Jeunet's film says it with great invention and artistry." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 22, 2004	A Very Long Engagement (2004)	77%
3/4	" Given the overall weakness of the material, director Joel Schumacher works beyond the call of duty to pull us into his musical fable." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 22, 2004	Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)	33%
3/4	" The film is anchored in particular by the dual performances of Schade as the 90-year-old Lena and the magnificent Riemann as her younger counterpart." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 17, 2004	Rosenstrasse (2004)	57%
2/4	" Loud, noisy, chaotic and overall unpleasant." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 17, 2004	Flight of the Phoenix (2004)	29%
4/4	" An unusually observant film marked by dry, acerbic humor." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 17, 2004	Spanglish (2004)	52%
3.5/4	" Rarely has crime seemed so glamorous, what with these mostly well-dressed, largely attractive, immature scamps languishing in posh surroundings." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 10, 2004	Ocean's Twelve (2004)	55%
4/4	" A superior soap opera not unlike what Douglas Sirk might have churned out in the 1950s." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 3, 2004	Gloomy Sunday (2003)	84%
3/4	" It would be easy to accuse Bale of a warped kind of egomania if his performance wasn't so mesmerizing." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 29, 2004	The Machinist (2004)	73%
4/4	" The remarkable Liam Neeson does an affectingly self-effacing turn in the title role." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 24, 2004	Kinsey (2004)	90%
1/4	" This one is a veritable celebration of intolerance, disguised as a joyous holiday film." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 24, 2004	Christmas with the Kranks (2004)	5%
2.5/4	" Ultimately stumbles and falls, much like the horses in the battle scenes. But it is an interesting failure, always brimming with life." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 24, 2004	Alexander (2004)	16%
4/4	" *Guided by Depp's gentle performance, Winslet's wistfulness and Macdonald's intense Pan, Finding Neverland* will send you out of the theater crying and saying, 'I do believe!'*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Nov 19, 2004	Finding Neverland (2004)	83%
3/4	" This is a choice role, and Bening tears into it with the broadest smile and widest eyes you ever saw." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 19, 2004	Being Julia (2004)	76%
3.5/4	" Plays a lot better than it sounds. Trust me." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 19, 2004	National Treasure (2004)	43%
4/4	" *The film's Cassavetes-style aimlessness (think of it as a West Coast Husbands) gets a jolt when each of the guys pairs up with a willing woman." -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Nov 12, 2004	Sideways (2004)	96%

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