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5/5 Away From Her
4.5/5 Atonement
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2.5/5 Partition
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5/5 There Will Be Blood
5/5 Away From Her
5/5 Children of Men
5/5 Casino Royale
5/5 Thank You For Smoking
5/5 Layer Cake
5/5 The Sea Inside
5/5 Collateral
5/5 Dogma
5/5 The Day After Tomorrow
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0/5 Meet the Spartans
0/5 Mama's Boy
0/5 Hostel
0/5 Raise Your Voice
0/5 The Order
0/5 Freddy vs. Jason
0/5 Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
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2/5
 
"While it has a good cast and what might have been a reasonable story, it's a movie that lacks courage." -- Jam! Movies
Posted May 9, 2008
 
A Previous Engagement (2008)35%
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4/5
 
"The Unknown Woman is a thriller and a love story, and those elements are mixed together in unexpected ways. It's a stunning film." -- Jam! Movies
Posted May 9, 2008
 
The Unknown Woman (2008)67%
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2/5
 
"You can see the potential in this off-kilter coming-of-age story, and it's a pity it never quite adds up." -- Jam! Movies
Posted May 9, 2008
 
The Babysitters (2008)28%
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4/5
 
"Made Of Honor is a pleasant surprise, funnier and smarter than one would expect." -- Jam! Movies
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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3/5
 
"The Singing Revolution is the sort of film that should be shown to North American school children or anyone else who takes his freedom for granted." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
The Singing Revolution (2007)86%
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3.5/5
 
"Loach is offering commentary, not solutions, so this one could be the feel-bad film of the week. In the best way, of course." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
It's a Free World (2007)93%
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3/5
 
"Then She Found Me is uneven, but entirely watchable, and Hunt gets terrific performances from both Bette Midler and Colin Firth." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Then She Found Me (2008)54%
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4/5
 
"At the London Critics Circle film awards last year, Lorraine Stanley was nominated for British Actress of the Year, and if you see London to Brighton, you'll easily understand why." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
London to Brighton (2008)76%
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2.5/5
 
"An interesting story, but the storytelling doesn't add up." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Emotional Arithmetic (2007)14%
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1/5
 
"The flaws in 88 Minutes can be found in several areas (writing, directing, editing, acting, continuity, makeup and cinematography, for starters) and are fairly extensive." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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2/5
 
"Do the math: X + Y = lousy." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Chaos Theory (2008)30%
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2.5/5
 
"Bella is mostly harmless, feel-good fare, and not unlike a TV movie of the week in depth. And you could take your old granny with you to see it, without fear." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Bella (2007)45%
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3.5/5
 
"The performances carry Smart People." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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2/5
 
"The film works hard to be a dark, grown up, romantic comedy (plenty of sex, nudity, bad language and philosophy) and yet it winds up being every bit as childish as most other pictures in the genre." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Sex and Death 101 (2008)26%
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4/5
 
"This one is a must-see for fans of the band and for anyone interested in the general phenom of rock 'n' roll." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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3.5/5
 
"After 20 minutes, you're welded to the characters emotionally. Their loss is your loss." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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3/5
 
"Paranoid Park will be catnip for Van Sant fans (the music and cinematography are complicated and chewy) but potentially tough sledding for everybody else." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%
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2/5
 
"Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns is another opportunity for Perry to hector his fans about leading good lives." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)30%
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3/5
 
"Both Jeanne Balibar and Guillaume Depardieu are quite compelling in their roles, and after about an hour, you fall into this film as completely as you'd fall into a book." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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3/5
 
"The acting is better than adequate, and Rhona Mitra is very good as the jaded heroine. As loud, relentless, chaotic, brutally violent and gory B-movies go, this one is a keeper." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Doomsday (2008)41%
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3.5/5
 
"CJ7 is small and sweet." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)45%
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2/5
 
"Everything in the movie (Whoville in particular) seems hyperactive, noisy and shrill -- and yet, for all the manufactured carry-on, there isn't enough story for a feature film." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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3.5/5
 
"It's based on the 1938 novel by Winifred Watson, and it's quick, witty and charming throughout." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)76%
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4/5
 
"The Bank Job is both an adrenalin-fuelled heist tale, a hit of history and a background glance at a world that no longer exists." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)77%
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1/5
 
"10,000 B.C. is a true disaster on every level, a derivative and sometimes incomprehensible mess." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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4.5/5
 
"The honesty with which the film looks at the inmates' differing choices is really killing." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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4/5
 
"A droll little take on loneliness that manages to be simultaneously depressing and oddly hopeful." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Continental - A Film without Guns (2008)n/a
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4/5
 
"The movie makes history downright thrilling, and it may very well prompt viewers to pick up a book and learn more." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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4/5
 
"A charming picture about filmmaking all dressed up as a comedy. Exaggerated and wonderfully silly, the movie concerns hilarious amateur movie-making -- but sneaks in a message about community and the transformative power of art." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)65%
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3.5/5
 
"Carried by sheer force of [subject Waichai] Okumura's character and courage." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
The Ants (2006)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"Garbage Warrior was filmed over three years in the U.S., India and Mexico, and it's a terrific introduction not only to Reynolds' work, but to the extraordinary political and economic hurdles facing anyone who hopes to make positive change." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
Garbage Warrior (2008)n/a
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2/5
 
"The movie isn't horrible, but it is pedestrian, and bound to disappoint fans of Stephen Gould's novel and of science fiction in general." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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2/5
 
"It's actually kind of depressing to watch good actors wasted in this fashion." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Normal (2007)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"For all its tranquil pace, Up The Yangtze captures perfectly a sense of frenzy and discontent that permeates everything." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Up The Yangtze (2008)89%
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2.5/5
 
"One of those heartfelt but dubious films about the importance of family." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)25%
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2/5
 
"Plays just like an over-long TV movie of the week, and has not nearly enough material to warrant feature-film status." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
Baby Blues (2008)n/a
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2/5
 
"Hint: Get up and leave, unless you're watching on a plane." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Love and Other Dilemmas (2008)n/a
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2/5
 
"Sometimes a movie is so richly, gloriously, flamboyantly stupid that it starts to become fun to watch." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Over Her Dead Body (2008)13%
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0/5
 
"If you part ways with $12 for a ticket to see this thing -- that's before parking and popcorn -- you're barking mad." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
Meet the Spartans (2008)2%
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3/5
 
"The story leans into cliché at times and at other times doesn't quite make sense, but there's an energy about How She Move that makes it work regardless." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
How She Move (2008)68%
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2.5/5
 
"This serial killer mystery has a good cast and a reasonable story and it could have been solid, but the plot thickens via acts of such abject stupidity that the movie is eventually ruined." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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3/5
 
"Most of the material has never been made public before, so the movie is a must-see for Cobain fans. Even for non-fans, it is quite an astonishing document. Up to a point." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Kurt Cobain About a Son (2007)72%
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3.5/5
 
"The filmmakers wisely avoid showing you everything, instead showing only bits and hints of what's going on, a technique that really fuels fear in a viewer." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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5/5
 
"Performances, cinematography, writing, the amazing score from Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood -- we could go on. There Will Be Blood is odd, unsettling and completely engrossing, and just the thing to restore your faith in the movies." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)91%
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2/5
 
"You should know that the film's incomprehensible bits are complemented by much incomprehensible blather." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Youth Without Youth (2007)29%
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4/5
 
"This psychological thriller is a superb tale of haunting and secrets, and it's intelligent from start to finish." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
The Orphanage (2007)85%
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3/5
 
"In the end, we were bored. In the end, it all seemed pretty trite." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
The Savages (2007)90%
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0/5
 
"Mama's Boy is the ultimate, definitive, supremo bad movie, the universal black hole of suckage bad movie, the celluloid anti-Christ bad movie of bad movies -- not to put too fine a point on it or anything." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Mama's Boy (2007)0%
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2.5/5
 
"The movie never connects emotionally. There's something false about the storytelling; much seems black and white, morally, and there's a hole where the heart of this thing should be." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)66%
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3/5
 
"The film does not pull its punches, and though uneven, is compelling." -- Jam! Movies
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Poor Boy's Game (2007)100%

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