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4/4	"Frozen River is one of those rare independent films that knows precisely what it intends, and what the meaning of the story is." -- RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 15, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	78%
4/4	"Constructed like a first-rate thriller." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 8, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
4/4	"Iron Man and even more so The Dark Knight move the genre into deeper waters. They realize, as some comic-book readers instinctively do, that these stories touch on deep fears, traumas, fantasies and hopes." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
4/4	"A poem of oddness and beauty. Herzog is like no other filmmaker, and to return to him is to be welcomed into a world vastly larger and more peculiar than the one around us. The underwater photography alone would make a film, but there is so much more." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	94%
4/4	"If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	97%
4/4	"At the end of the day it's Robert Downey Jr. who powers the lift-off separating this from most other superhero movies." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
4/4	"Akin's purpose, I think, is a simple one: He wants us to meet these people, know them, sympathize with them....I found them fascinating." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	89%
4/4	"*Tarsem's The Fall* is a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms. Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted May 30, 2008	The Fall (2008)	54%
4/4	"Completely unlike anything I was expecting from such a film -- more disturbing, analytical and morose." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted May 2, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
4/4	"Shine a Light combines his foreknowledge with the versatility of great cinematographers so that it essentially seems to have a camera in the right place at the right time for every element of the performance." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	87%
4/4	"Horrifying." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
4/4	"A powerful film and a stark visual accomplishment." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	97%
4/4	"This film debut by the theater writer and director Martin McDonagh is an endlessly surprising, very dark, human comedy, with a plot that cannot be foreseen but only relished." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	80%
4/4	"Few films are so observant about how we relate with one another. Few are as sympathetic." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jun 6, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	89%
4/4	"A quiet, sympathetic film about the loneliness that surrounds us." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Mar 7, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
4/4	"It might seem that her story is too large for one 98-minute film, but Persepolis tells it carefully, lovingly and with great style. It is infinitely more interesting than the witless coming-of-age Western girls we meet in animated films." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 18, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	96%
4/4	"This is one of the year's best films." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	80%
4/4	"Here is the life force at its most insistent, lashing out against fate with stubborn resolve. And also with lust, hunger, humor and all of the other notes that this man once played so easily." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 21, 2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
4/4	"It combines some of Tim Burton's favorite elements: The fantastic, the ghoulish, the bizarre, the unspeakable, the romantic and in Johnny Depp, he has an actor he has worked with since Edward Scissorhands and finds a perfect instrument." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 21, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
4/4	"It honors values that seem obsolete in our trashy popular culture, obsessed with the sex lives of vacuumheads." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 14, 2007	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
4/4	"A darker, deeper fantasy epic than the Rings trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia or the Potter films. It springs from the same world of quasi-philosophical magic, but creates more complex villains and poses more intriguing questions." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	41%
4/4	"This is one of the year's best films, a certain best picture nominee." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	Atonement (2007)	83%
4/4	"A fresh, quirky, unusually intelligent comedy about a 16-year-old girl who wins our hearts in the first scene." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	Juno (2007)	93%
4/4	"No Country for Old Men is as good a film as the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have ever made, and they made Fargo." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Nov 9, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	95%
4/4	"*John Turturro's Romance & Cigarettes* is the real thing, a film that breaks out of Hollywood jail with audacious originality, startling sexuality, heartfelt emotions, and an anarchic liberty.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Nov 9, 2007	Romance & Cigarettes (2007)	53%
4/4	"Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is such a superb crime melodrama that I almost want to leave it at that. To just stop writing right now and advise you to go out and see it as soon as you can." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Nov 2, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
4/4	"This is an engrossing story, told smoothly and well, and Russell Crowe's contribution is enormous." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Nov 2, 2007	American Gangster (2007)	79%
4/4	"What the film documents is that we have lost faith in due process and the rule of law, and have forfeited the moral high ground." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Rendition (2007)	47%
4/4	"It is just about perfect as an exercise in the genre. I've seen it twice, and the second time, knowing everything that would happen, I found it just as fascinating because of how well it was all shown happening." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 5, 2007	Michael Clayton (2007)	90%
4/4	"How long has it been since you saw a movie that succeeds as pure story? That doesn't depend on stars, effects or genres, but simply fascinates you with how it will turn out?" -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 4, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	66%
4/4	"Sean Penn's spellbinding film adaptation of this book stays close to the source." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 28, 2007	Into the Wild (2007)	83%
4/4	"I don't know if Pete Seeger believes in saints, but I believe he is one. He's the one in the front as they go marching in." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	Pete Seeger - The Power of Song (2007)	95%
4/4	"A researcher for this production spent years screening NASA footage that was still, in many cases, in its original film cans and had never been seen. The film was cleaned up and restored, the color refreshed, and the result is beautiful and moving." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	94%
4/4	"*Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah* is built on Tommy Lee Jones' persona, and that is why it works so well.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Sep 14, 2007	In the Valley of Elah (2007)	72%
4/4	"Vanaja, a beautiful and heart-touching film from India, represents a miracle of casting. Every role, including the challenging central role of a low-caste 14-year-old girl, is cast perfectly and played flawlessly." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	Vanaja (2007)	79%
4/4	"The experience of the movie is joyous." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	Across the Universe (2007)	54%
4/4	"A film that takes us beyond crime and London and the Russian mafia and into the mystifying realms of human nature." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	Eastern Promises (2007)	88%
4/4	"*James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma* restores the wounded heart of the Western and rescues it from the morass of pointless violence.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Sep 7, 2007	3:10 to Yuma (2007)	89%
4/4	"*A lot of animated movies have inspired sequels, notably Shrek, but Brad Bird's Ratatouille* is the first one that made me positively desire one.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Aug 31, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	95%
4/4	"Remember the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex has his eyes clamped open and is forced to watch a movie? I imagine a similar experience for the architects of our catastrophe in Iraq. I would like them to see No End in Sight." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 10, 2007	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
4/4	"... one of the best biopics I've seen ..." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jun 15, 2007	La Vie En Rose (2007)	75%
4/4	"*From that opening sequence to an ending that's satisfying without being overly sentimental, The Lookout* is utterly engrossing. I loved this movie.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Mar 30, 2007	The Lookout (2007)	87%
4/4	"*What makes Zodiac* authentic is the way it avoids chases, shootouts, grandstanding and false climaxes, and just follows the methodical progress of police work.*" -- Chicago Sun-Times* Posted Mar 2, 2007	Zodiac (2007)	89%
4/4	"Eastwood�s two-film project is one of the most visionary of all efforts to depict the reality and meaning of battle." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Nov 30, 2007	Flags of Our Fathers (2006)	73%
4/4	"Cuaron fulfills the promise of futuristic fiction; characters do not wear strange costumes or visit the moon, and the cities are not plastic hallucinations, but look just like today, except tired and shabby." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 5, 2007	Children of Men (2006)	92%
4/4	"The Lives of Others is a powerful but quiet film, constructed of hidden thoughts and secret desires." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Sep 21, 2007	The Lives of Others (2006)	93%
4/4	"Casino Royale has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Aug 17, 2007	Casino Royale (2006)	94%
4/4	"What makes this a Scorsese film, and not merely a retread, is the director's use of actors, locations and energy, and its buried theme. I am fond of saying that a movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jul 6, 2007	The Departed (2006)	92%
4/4	"In both his films, Eastwood empathizes with the 'expendable' soldier on the ground, the 'poor bastard' who is only a pawn in a war conceived by generals and politicians, some of whom have never come anywhere near a battlefield or a combat zone." -- RogerEbert.com Posted Jan 12, 2007	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	91%
4/4	"It ventures so fearlessly down one limited, terrifying, seductive dead end, and finds there a solution both sublime and horrifying. It took imagination to tell it, courage to film it, thought to act it, and from the audience it requires a brave curiosity." -- Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 5, 2007	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)	57%

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