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C+	" There's a good movie here, but we get it in pieces that are sometimes hard to decipher." -- Onion AV Club Posted Oct 2, 2008	Blindness (2008)	39%
A	" It may be painful at times, but Rachel Getting Married sure is one heck of a party." -- Onion AV Club Posted Oct 2, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	83%
F	" In the history of marital discord in the movies, has there ever been a blander conflict than the one between firefighter Kirk Cameron and his goodly wife Erin Bethea in the dismal Christian-themed melodrama Fireproof?" -- Onion AV Club Posted Sep 29, 2008	Fireproof (2008)	42%
D+	" Whatever its intent, this interminable 96-minute highlight reel plays like Moore's homage to himself." -- Onion AV Club Posted Sep 26, 2008	Slacker Uprising (2008)	22%
D+	" *In order for My Best Friend's Girl* to work at all, it needs a leading man with the charisma to suggest the soulful, lovelorn gentleman behind the crude serial womanizer.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Sep 22, 2008	My Best Friend's Girl (2008)	14%
C-	" *When [director] LaBute pulls the grenade pin on racism and interracial relationships in Lakeview Terrace, viewers should know to duck and cover." -- Onion AV Club* Posted Sep 18, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	42%
B-	" In the early going, Appaloosa does an efficient job of establishing the tense standoff between lawmen-for-hire Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, and a tyrannical rancher (an extravagantly sinister Jeremy Irons)." -- Onion AV Club Posted Sep 18, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	76%
C	" Towelhead is like a great melting pot of writerly self-importance." -- Onion AV Club Posted Sep 11, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	47%
B+	" The film has a refreshing sense of proportion without seeming as determinedly minor or mannered as other indies. It's a vivid piece of sketchwork." -- Onion AV Club Posted Sep 4, 2008	The Pool (2008)	95%
B+	" *Forty years after his breakthrough, Menzel has returned with I Served The King Of England, and it's like he never left." -- Onion AV Club* Posted Aug 28, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	81%
c+	" It's a slave to formula, and it hits its marks satisfyingly enough to make for a pleasant time-passer, but Wilson and a loaded supporting cast are never as funny as they should be." -- Onion AV Club Posted Aug 22, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	36%
C	" 100 percent of the laughs come courtesy of Faris, who's particularly good in the early going, when her babe-in-the-woods act reaches Homer Simpson-like heights of comic obliviousness. As usual, the movie eventually lets her down." -- Onion AV Club Posted Aug 22, 2008	The House Bunny (2008)	38%
D+	" [Aja's] pedal-to-the-metal intensity only serves to heighten the film's fundamental ridiculousness." -- Onion AV Club Posted Aug 18, 2008	Mirrors (2008)	15%
B	" *Chabrol has made a career out of savage class warfare, and A Girl Cut In Two* fires off another bitter salvo.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Aug 15, 2008	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	85%
B+	" *Through it all, Vicky Cristina Barcelona* remains unaccountably romantic, a confirmation that love, elusive and painful as it can be, is still worth pursuing.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
A-	" *There are many things to like about Pineapple Express, an old-school action-comedy retooled as a stoner goof, but Franco's return to humor is a cause for celebration." -- Onion AV Club* Posted Aug 6, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
C	" It's hard to believe that two people could reach middle age acting like grade-schoolers, and not in a funny way, either." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
B+	" It's easy for anyone who survived (or is surviving) high school to feel twinges of identification." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
B+	" Much of the fun of Baghead is that it's unclassifiable, by turns a movie-movie lark, an Eric Rohmer-like relationship comedy, and a surprisingly effective Friday The 13th kids-in-the-woods slasher film." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
C	" Much like the album it's promoting, it's both urgent and regrettably cacophonous." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	64%
C	" Most of the time, Peck is cast adrift in an uncertain world, and Levine too often conflates his lack of purpose with the movie's." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	67%
C	" Constructing a play -- and now a clumsily staged film -- around ABBA songs is the definition of a frivolous enterprise, and little has been done to temper the ecstatic mood with other shadings of human emotion." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 17, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
D+	" It's a production in search of a movie." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 10, 2008	Garden Party (2008)	11%
B+	" Though Argento's full-barreled performance hits some bum notes, her utter lack of reserve stands out as both reckless and courageous against the social rigors of Parisian high society." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 26, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
B-	" The film covers the game's highlights with great flair." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 26, 2008	Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008)	89%
C-	" It's all message, no tension." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 19, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	79%
C-	" In updating a beloved TV show, the filmmakers have gone out of their way to excise everything that was fun about it." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 19, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
B	" The film plays a little like an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, except with scientists instead of cooks, though the low-stakes travelogue format allows for plenty of surprises and fun along the way." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 12, 2008	Encounters At the End of the World (2007)	94%
B+	" The whole film could be seen a metaphor for America's misadventures in Iraq: Schreiber and company came in expecting flowers and sweets from a grateful native, and wound up in a quagmire." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 6, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
C-	" Mother Of Tears at least has some of the go-for-broke gothic spirit of [Argento's] earlier work. He's just lost the ability to shape it into something artful." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 6, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	48%
A-	" As an exercise in controlled mayhem, horror movies don't get much scarier." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 29, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	43%
A-	" *It's a righteously nasty piece of work, and a rare example of a movie that traffics in B-movie grime without a trace of Grindhouse-style self-consciousness." -- Onion AV Club* Posted May 29, 2008	Stuck (2007)	71%
B-	" When in the presence of a woman like Barbara Baekeland -- and an actress like Moore -- lesser souls are doomed to wither." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 29, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
B-	" Nobody can orchestrate this robust silliness better than Steven Spielberg, who brings effortless visual panache to the proceedings, even when he can't entirely hide its mercenary nature." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 22, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
B+	" The vibrant Norwegian debut feature Reprise is one of those rare films about writers where form matches content, with fresh insights about the literary world coming via a complex, liberating series of flashbacks, ellipses, and other bold flourishes." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 15, 2008	Reprise (2008)	86%
C	" *With all these volatile emotions at play, Before The Rains* should percolate like The Postman Always Rings Twice, but� well� it's a Merchant-Ivory production, after all.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted May 15, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	47%
C	" Complain all you want about the affable slobs in Judd Apatow comedies; at least they're not tools." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 8, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	27%
C	" A relentlessly ugly and derivative reworking of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 8, 2008	Frontier(s) (2008)	65%
C	" In the early going, the whiz-bang editing and searing primary colors in Speed Racer work like a sugar rush, but the crash from all that overstimulation is enough to reduce grown men into sobbing infants." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	37%
B	" *Any comedy zany enough to include a veiled, left-field reference to Clara's Heart* has something going for it.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
C	" *From the nondescript title on down, Deception* is a movie made to be forgotten.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
A	" Working from interviews with many of the key players, Morris investigates the Abu Ghraib case with all the rigor of his film The Thin Blue Line, and comes away with an equally convincing argument for miscarried justice." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 24, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
B-	" *Much like Crank, it's the guiltiest of guilty pleasures." -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 21, 2008	Pathology (2008)	47%
	" Surprisingly dreary and lifeless." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 21, 2008	The Pride of the Yankees (1942)	90%
D	" *In the not-so-grand tradition of other straight-to-video/late-night-cable T&A-fests, the trouble with Zombie Strippers* is that it doesn't come about its exploitation honestly.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 17, 2008	Zombie Strippers (2008)	41%
B	" Forgetting Sarah Marshall gives another Apatow player a much-deserved day in the sun. Maybe Jay Baruchel or Martin Starr will soon get turns in the rotation." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 17, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
C	" *At best, The Forbidden Kingdom* counts as an amiable time-waster for kids, but much more should be expected from the momentous union of two kung-fu titans.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	64%
D-	" There's really nothing much to Prom Night: No twists, no atmosphere, no big Grand Guignol setpieces, not a single moment when it tries to do something novel with the event, the killings, the villain, or the victims." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 11, 2008	Prom Night (2008)	8%
C-	" *Of the many facile ironies at play in Chaos Theory, the title may be the biggest: How can a movie so stuffed with writerly contrivances call itself Chaos Theory?" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 10, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	28%

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