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	" *[S]tands as an act of comedic alchemy -- a slick, occasionally inspired Dangerous Minds* satire that Coogan forcibly drags to a state of near brilliance.*" -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA)* Posted Aug 20, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
	" The combination of Sutherland's beyond-the-call gravitas, director Alexandre (High Tension) Aja's demento visual sense, and a spookily lyrical ending earns it at least a short-term stay in the Halls of Yick." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Aug 15, 2008	Mirrors (2008)	15%
	" A bit toothless -- it's difficult to cut too deeply when your satirical take on studio blockbusters and crazy actors is produced by a major studio with Tom Cruise in a supporting role -- but offers a number of genuine laughs between the self-congratulator" -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
	" Takes an ingenious -- and perhaps necessary -- shift into more accessible filmmaking. Okay, it's less of a shift than a sort of yawning amiable slouch, but you get my drift." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Aug 6, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
	" The comin'-at-ya effects are certainly state of the art ... but any hopes that the film might blaze new trails are squashed the first time someone picks up a paddleball. Kids should lap it up; for anyone else, Dramamine is advised." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jul 9, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	62%
	" Chalk it up to either a newfound maturity or [Dreamworks] management being asleep at the wheel, but, somehow, someway, it achieves a low-impact playfulness that actually feels kind of... charming. " -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jun 5, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	89%
	" Yeah, it's a dopey kid's movie, but -- significant detail -- one that feels like it was actually written for kids ... Also, whenever things threaten to get too schlocky, this amazing villainess with a magic bullwhip shows up." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted May 15, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	64%
	" The action scenes lack the fizz of the character moments ... still, there's enough good stuff here to place this in the upper tier of movies about guys in long underwear." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
	" Never aims for transcendence, settling instead for really, really good ... the overriding impression is of a bunch of legendary deviants content to remain in showman mode. " -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Apr 3, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
	" In this era of the slick, soundtrack-propelled high-school movie, it's refreshing to see one that tries to chew too much." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Feb 20, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
	" An extremely entertaining conversation starter of a movie, of the sort earmarked for a better-than-average night out with the folks. Depending, of course, on their tolerance for scenes involving talky naked strippers in hot tubs." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Dec 19, 2007	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	83%
	" A largely terrific, meanly gripping movie ... nearly upended by the use of some noticeably lousy CGI effects. Ditch the computers, slather some greasepaint on some extras, and we'd be talking a minor classic." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Dec 12, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	69%
	" Children in dire situations can be a tricky, quasi-exploitive subject for filmmakers ... but it's handled here in a responsible, occasionally joyous fashion. You can still feel your heartstrings being pulled, but when it's done this well, it's tough to be" -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Nov 30, 2007	War Dance (2007)	86%
	" Rooted firmly on the positive side of good and dumb ... Whether you go for it or not may ultimately depend on your feelings about a movie that helpfully explains its locations with onscreen captions like "London: England" and "Moscow: Russia."" -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Nov 21, 2007	Hitman (2007)	15%
	" Brilliantly astringent ... To watch it is to see a filmmaker at the absolute top of his game, even if this particular game probably shouldn't be topped." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Nov 21, 2007	Margot at the Wedding (2007)	52%
	" Call it terrifying, stunningly bleak, humane, epic, intimate, darkly funny, deadly serious, or what have you: Whatever laudatory adjectives you throw its way are going to stick." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Nov 14, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
	" Doesn't exactly advance the genre -- think Red Eye with twice the gore and triple the dumb -- but some above-the-call performances and a nifty use of its setting make this two-hander a genuinely creepy diversion." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Nov 7, 2007	P2 (2007)	35%
	" Really a fairly amazing achievement: an engrossing, witty cultural document that doesn't feel staid in the least. All this, plus spear fights." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Oct 31, 2007	Ten Canoes (2007)	98%
	" Enjoyably oddball without falling into molar-decaying twee ... favorably recalls the all-too-brief post-Repo Man era, when the possibilities of indie film seemed head-bustingly limitless." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Oct 31, 2007	Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)	65%
	" The kind of glorious sensory rush that you can only get when a supremely confident director fully kicks out the jams. Submerged within the flash, however, is a nihilistic worldview that may be even more curdled than its predecessors." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Oct 21, 2007	Lady Vengeance (2005)	75%
	" Extremely well acted, admirably evenhanded, and wholly respectful of a subject that could easily devolve into Lifetime-channel schmaltz. It just fails to make much of an impression." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Oct 17, 2007	Reservation Road (2007)	37%
	" *Rises above its source material, both in plot and gut-rumbling tone. Even accounting for a few logy sequences, it's the most relentless, sustained freak-out since The Descent." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA)* Posted Oct 17, 2007	30 Days of Night (2007)	50%
	" Highlighted by a performance by Benicio Del Toro at his most magnetically bedraggled, this is a welcome rarity: a full-on heartstring yanker that doesn't leave the viewer feeling ill-used afterward." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Oct 17, 2007	Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)	65%
	" [Keeps] the book's thorny sense of morality while adding a living, breathing Boston atmosphere that most veteran directors would be proud of. It's a great movie." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Oct 17, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	94%
	" Sustained passages of eerie, Malickian beauty (an early sequence involving a train robbery feels like one of the reasons that film was invented), mixed with increasing stretches of self-conscious artiness ... It casts a spell, but only intermittently." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Oct 3, 2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)	75%
	" At a time when our space program is mostly distinguished by its tragedies, we may need this more than we know. For 90 minutes, at least, the gee-whiz pioneer spirit proves alive and well." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Sep 25, 2007	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	94%
	" A brilliant reminder of the glory days of Heroic Bloodshed ... call it a flashback, a comeback, or the end of an era; all I know is that I want to see it again." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Sep 13, 2007	Exiled (2007)	81%
	" An honestly charming, witty confection, with nary a martyred female or uncomfortable money shot to be found. [Von Trier's] gotta be up to something." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Aug 15, 2007	The Boss of it All (2007)	73%
	" Moves relentlessly, intelligently forward, as everything extraneous gets chucked over the side ... the picture thrums with an unbelievable amount of energy." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Aug 2, 2007	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	93%
	" Manages to feel like a pretty good extended episode from somewhere around the show's golden era ... I'm not booing, I'm saying Boo-urns." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jul 26, 2007	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	90%
	" The term "visionary" gets batted around a lot when it comes to the sci-fi genre, but in its final, blazing moments, Boyle's dazzling, triphoppy space opera comes closer than most." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jul 25, 2007	Sunshine (2007)	76%
	" Despite an occasional tendency to ramble on and hold forth, it stands as a worthwhile tale of down-home alternative Americana." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jul 20, 2007	The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007)	88%
	" Everywhere you look, there's something delightfully weird going on ... Altman and company fashion a state of slouching, freeform Zen that no one else has ever really duplicated." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jul 11, 2007	The Long Goodbye (1973)	95%
	" Supremely assured ... a creepily black comedy that eschews huge campy shocks in favor of a bunch of little nonchalant stings that add up to something fierce." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jul 11, 2007	Joshua (2007)	62%
	" Plays quite a bit broader than [Dahl's] earlier work, but the director's sly tone and talent with character actors remains intact. It already feels old, in a good way." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jul 4, 2007	You Kill Me (2007)	79%
	" *An agreeably retro kick ... the main virtue is Willis, who continues to refine his grumpy, balding, blessedly un-Matrix-y mojo. He's still not too old for this $%&#, thank god." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA)* Posted Jun 27, 2007	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	81%
	" Finds some ingenious methods of visualizing the story's literary whim-whams. Before it finally succumbs to CGI bloat in the last act, it offers up one of the creepiest hours in recent memory." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jun 20, 2007	1408 (2007)	78%
	" Chockablock with neat ideas - so many, in fact, that they ultimately end up crowding each other out ... goofy, monumental fun, until it sort of isn't." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jun 20, 2007	Day Watch (2007)	63%
	" Shameless pulp it may be, but to watch it is to see a master craftsman continuing to refine his talent." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jun 13, 2007	Triad Election (2007)	96%
	" Not one of the director's tightest contraptions. Still, even if the belly laughs aren't there, there's just something about the old-fashioned construction that makes you grin." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted May 2, 2007	The Valet (2007)	69%
	" Doesn't win any points in the originality department (television executives suck, apparently), but an unusually game, most likely overqualified cast manages to give it a fair amount of bite." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Apr 18, 2007	The TV Set (2007)	65%
	" A bit of a disappointment ... if only in the sense that it should have been even better. Chop out 20 minutes or so, and this thing would be blinding." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Apr 18, 2007	Hot Fuzz (2007)	90%
	" A lean, to-the-bone, expertly acted small-town noir that takes unusual care to cast the moral compass of its characters in various shades of gray. There's just no fat on it." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Mar 28, 2007	The Lookout (2007)	87%
	" Feels fresh as a daisy ... a consistently entertaining satire where the huffing and puffing comedic bluster hides a surprisingly bitter sucker punch." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Mar 7, 2007	Mafioso (1962)	96%
	" An absolutely corking giant monster movie, told with more panache and verve than anything since the lean and hungry glory days of Spielberg." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Mar 7, 2007	The Host (2007)	92%
	" Inspires the same happy, incredulous feeling as when Jackie Chan first bent the laws of nature or Chow Yun-Fat introduced the two-gun two-step." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Feb 28, 2007	Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)	76%
	" [Fincher's] most impressive monolith to date, a sprawling, three-decade-spanning infodump that, for all its virtuosity, occasionally feels like being locked in the file cabinet of a conspiracy junkie." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Feb 28, 2007	Zodiac (2007)	89%
	" Never rises above the level of a promising calling card, but there's something refreshing about its innate sense of its own B-movieness." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Feb 4, 2007	Unknown (2006)	36%
	" *For devotees of gonad cinema, there may not be a better time to be had at the movies right now than the first 20-ish minutes of Seraphim Falls." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA)* Posted Jan 25, 2007	Seraphim Falls (2007)	54%
	" The sum feels significantly less than its parts ... It's hard to think of a decent payoff to the glorious chaos Carnahan whips up in the first two acts, short of the earth itself exploding." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Posted Jan 25, 2007	Smokin' Aces (2007)	27%

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