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	"With delectable-looking home movies of the couple's travels in California and Europe, Chris and Don offers an intimate portrayal of a passionate, enduring association, as well as a social history of postwar life." -- Washington Post Posted Jul 24, 2008	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)	96%
	"One of the great strengths of CSNY is how skillfully it deflects criticism of 'four balding hippie millionaires' taking to the stage to criticize American politics; the film is peppered with excerpts from some of the tour's earliest and nastiest critics." -- Washington Post Posted Jul 24, 2008	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	59%
	"**Journey to the Center of the Earth is terrific family entertainment, an action comedy on a par with Night at the Museum and National Treasure.*" -- Washington Post* Posted Jul 10, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
	"As he has done in all his movies, from creature features such as Mimic to serious dramas such as Pan's Labyrinth, del Toro creates unforgettable images, filled with color, texture, lyricism and horror." -- Washington Post Posted Jul 10, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
	"Finding Amanda has its wispy charms, including a funny scene when the ecstasy Taylor pops begins to kick in, and later when he encounters a pimp with showbiz aspirations." -- Washington Post Posted Jun 26, 2008	Finding Amanda (2008)	38%
	"Jolie, thin as a wraith and as still as alabaster, reigns supreme as the queen of great screen objects, and Freeman has one of the film's funniest (if profane) lines." -- Washington Post Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
	"*For critics of the war with an appetite for red meat, War, Inc.* will prove filling, if not quite completely nourishing.*" -- Washington Post* Posted Jun 26, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
	"A vivid, nuanced and sweetly forgiving study in moral ambiguity." -- Washington Post Posted Jun 19, 2008	Beauty in Trouble (2008)	69%
	"The Edge of Heaven is the movie Babel so badly wanted to be." -- Washington Post Posted Jun 19, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
	""Everybody touch somebody," he says as he opens the band prayer. He does. They do. Amen." -- Washington Post Posted Jun 12, 2008	Ballou (2008)	n/a
	"A classic comic-book hero quest that, while not entirely novel, hews to its own rules and conventions with dignity and artfulness." -- Washington Post Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
	"Judged by the standards of its original medium, the movie version succeeds just as well, cramming what used to take a whole season into a nearly 2 1/2 -hour marathon of men, misery and Manolos." -- Washington Post Posted May 29, 2008	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
	"Provides a diverting portrait of modern-day Israel, as the filmmakers eschew history, politics and religion to focus instead on more intimate and universal issues of fate, loss and the longing to connect." -- Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008	Jellyfish (2008)	86%
	"Prince Caspian, like its predecessor, delivers sweeping, swashbuckling action in a handsome production, albeit one that leaves viewers feeling quite pummeled by the end of its nearly 2 1/2 -hour running time." -- Washington Post Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
	"*Uma Thurman delivers a mesmerizing performance in The Life Before Her Eyes, a film that, once seen and fully digested, exerts the same haunting pull as the shattering events it chronicles." -- Washington Post* Posted Apr 24, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
	"Audiences alive to the modest charms of its take on female friendship will be rewarded with at least a few quiet chuckles." -- Washington Post Posted Apr 24, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	62%
	"The Visitor gives viewers a perceptive, deeply personal take on the timeless immigrant narrative, in which the most epic journey is finally one of self-discovery." -- Washington Post Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
	"Even as the derivative roots of "Nim's Island" are clearly visible, kids will no doubt vicariously enjoy Nim's adventures and Edenic existence." -- Washington Post Posted Apr 3, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	49%
	"[Director] Lee makes a spirited and persuasive case for break dancing, not only as an art form of strength, beauty, discipline and instinct, but as a means of transcending caste and culture." -- Washington Post Posted Mar 27, 2008	Planet B-Boy (2008)	91%
	"Even something as modest as Paranoid Park manages to reflect Van Sant's greatest strengths as an artist: his seemingly limitless fluency with his chosen medium and his willingness to tell even the oldest stories in bold new ways." -- Washington Post Posted Mar 20, 2008	Paranoid Park (2008)	74%
	"Thanks to the uncommonly shrewd judgment of screenwriter Ligiah Villalobos and director Patricia Riggen, both newcomers, Under the Same Moon never feels like rank exploitation, even as it steadily aims for the emotional jugular." -- Washington Post Posted Mar 20, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	73%
	"Fighting for Life is essential viewing at a time when, five years on, the war's human cost is still too often mired in partisan rhetoric and administration spin." -- Washington Post Posted Mar 13, 2008	Fighting for Life (2008)	88%
	"*After a particularly dour Oscar season, the jolly romantic romp Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day* sparkles like a rhinestone in the muck.*" -- Washington Post* Posted Mar 6, 2008	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	78%
	"Chicago 10 not only brings to life one of the sorriest chapters in American cultural and political history, but breathes new life into a film genre that usually has all the imagination and verve of a visit to Madame Tussauds." -- Washington Post Posted Feb 28, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	76%
	"Filmgoers expecting My Big Fat Lebanese Waxing are in for a bigger treat: Nadine Labaki, who wrote and directed the film, possesses an astute instinct for restraint that makes Caramel smarter ans more poignantthan the average chick flick." -- Washington Post Posted Feb 28, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
	"With luck, filmgoers who discover this gem about an Egyptian police band stranded in a small Israeli town will make it the must-see movie of the season." -- Washington Post Posted Feb 28, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
	"Such a far-fetched shaggy-dog yarn borders on the patronizing. But Gondry's belief in community-based, handmade, DIY culture is infectious, and his cry against big-box homogenization (fewer choices, more copies) is a noble one." -- Washington Post Posted Feb 21, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	68%
	"For film connoisseurs who are interested in how far the medium can go in depicting human stories with realism at its most confrontational and even discomfiting, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days will provide a bracing breath of fresh cinematic air." -- Washington Post Posted Jan 31, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
	"As tired as First Sunday is, and as shamelessly as it grovels for laughs, there's a hint of sweetness, and [director] Talbert clearly has a feel for Baltimore, where most of it was affectionately shot." -- Washington Post Posted Jan 10, 2008	First Sunday (2008)	14%
	"*Paul Thomas Anderson becomes California's certified cinematic poet laureate with There Will Be Blood." -- Washington Post* Posted Jan 4, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
	"A rich, mostly tender fairy tale." -- Washington Post Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)	73%
	"Thanks to Bauby's courageous and honest writing, and Schnabel's poetic interpretation, what could have been a portrait of impotence and suffering becomes a lively exploration of consciousness and a soaring ode to liberation." -- Washington Post Posted Dec 20, 2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
	"One of those genre-defying hybrids that are sometimes called dramedies, The Savages tiptoes along a particularly fraught emotional tightrope, balancing observant humor and deep sadness with uncommon grace." -- Washington Post Posted Dec 20, 2007	The Savages (2007)	91%
	"A film of exhilarating, redemptive humanity, conveying an enduring sense of hope." -- Washington Post Posted Dec 13, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	67%
	"What Would Jesus Buy? is must-see viewing for anyone who thinks of Christmas as just a mall and its night visitors." -- Washington Post Posted Dec 6, 2007	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)	63%
	"*In the almost spookily capable hands of 34-year-old director Joe Wright, the film version of Atonement* has achieved that to which every literary adaptation should aspire.*" -- Washington Post* Posted Dec 6, 2007	Atonement (2007)	83%
	"**The Life of Reilly pays fitting homage to a man who deserves to be remembered for much more than just trading double-entendres with Brett Somers on The Match Game.*" -- Washington Post* Posted Nov 29, 2007	Life of Reilly (2007)	100%
	"An absorbing, occasionally hallucinatory disquisition on how Dylan has brilliantly eluded his audience's projections." -- Washington Post Posted Nov 20, 2007	I'm Not There (2007)	78%
	"That rare comedy that will appeal to the whole family, as it indulges in all the dreams of fairy-tale romance while making a few 21st-century adjustments." -- Washington Post Posted Nov 20, 2007	Enchanted (2007)	93%
	"This is documentary-making at its best, not pretending to be journalism, but still playing a crucial role in telling stories that otherwise wouldn't make the front page." -- Washington Post Posted Nov 15, 2007	War Dance (2007)	86%
	"Price of Sugar is designed to educate, outrage and finally spur viewers to action. That it does so with vibrant visual style and an engaging narrative makes it that rare consciousness-raising film that's not only good for you, but a joy to watch." -- Washington Post Posted Nov 15, 2007	The Price of Sugar (2007)	72%
	"Provides context and an invaluable human face to a story that too many Westerners perceive as distant or irrelevant, if they perceive it at all. See Darfur Now, and you won't read the daily news the same way again." -- Washington Post Posted Nov 8, 2007	Darfur Now (2007)	69%
	"For the uninitiated, Demme's film provides an absorbing, if largely hagiographic, portrait of a man who has redefined the idea of post-presidential retirement." -- Washington Post Posted Nov 1, 2007	Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)	79%
	"In addition to being a study in great acting, this is a study in great directing. Filming with high-definition digital video cameras, Lumet weaves in and out of the action, proving to be as adroit with new technology as he was with old-school celluloid." -- Washington Post Posted Nov 1, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
	"As important for what it reveals about a seminal and grievously misunderstood artist as for how it rejuvenates a moribund documentary form." -- Washington Post Posted Oct 25, 2007	Kurt Cobain About a Son (2007)	72%
	"Gosling's performance is a small miracle, not only because he's so completely open as a man who's essentially shut off, but because he changes and grows so imperceptibly before our eyes." -- Washington Post Posted Oct 19, 2007	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	81%
	"It should be required viewing before going into a supermarket, McDonald's or your very own refrigerator." -- Washington Post Posted Oct 19, 2007	King Corn (2007)	95%
	"This uncommonly intelligent thriller evokes the great films of the 1970s (All the President's Men, Klute, Three Days of the Condor) that managed to elicit gritty urban realism while maintaining a suave sense of style and moral complexity." -- Washington Post Posted Oct 4, 2007	Michael Clayton (2007)	91%
	"The Darjeeling Limited has its charms, chief of which is watching three terrific actors evince with unforced ease the rewards and resentments of brotherhood." -- Washington Post Posted Oct 4, 2007	The Darjeeling Limited (2007)	67%

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