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	"With verve, style and a fine sense of the human side of surf culture, Jeremy Gosch makes a terrific splash with his debut doc." -- Variety Posted Jul 23, 2008	Bustin' Down the Door (2008)	64%
	"*Made with the same quality of immediacy as her debut Half-Price, Charly* is more assured if slightly underdone, but emboldened by Julie-Marie Parmentier's strong sangfroid performance.*" -- Variety* Posted May 1, 2008	Charly (2007)	n/a
	"Exudes observed experience." -- Variety Posted Apr 9, 2008	Chronic Town (2008)	n/a
	"Pic reps a good example of docu filmmaking on the run, where the makers have no idea where their subject will take them, and its best moments are those where events happen in front of the lens." -- Variety Posted Apr 1, 2008	Mario's Story (2007)	n/a
	"Samuels' own enjoyment for midnighters comes through in his funky visual design -- visually spunky for a clips-and-talking-heads film -- and in the energetic editing." -- Variety Posted Feb 26, 2008	Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2007)	88%
	"Plays like a wan workshop pic, but could be the basis for future prospects in a Central American country with little previous moviemaking activity." -- Variety Posted Feb 12, 2008	The Wind and the Water (2008)	n/a
	"Elegantly conceived." -- Variety Posted Feb 12, 2008	Recycle (2008)	n/a
	"A model of non-dogmatic filmmaking on a highly charged topic." -- Variety Posted Feb 1, 2008	Be Like Others (2008)	n/a
	"*The titular rocker-poet gets a suitable portrait in Steven Sebring's Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which runs radically against the grain of American-made pop music docs." -- Variety* Posted Jan 30, 2008	Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)	n/a
	"A doc with the thrust of entertainment, but the content of a thoughtfully researched book." -- Variety Posted Jan 30, 2008	Made in America (2008)	n/a
	"*James Marsh's Man on Wire* erupts onscreen as one of the most wildly entertaining docs of recent years.*" -- Variety* Posted Jan 28, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
	"There's a loose, fluid rhythm that courses through the film like an elixir." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 24, 2008	Santouri (2007)	n/a
	"[Star Brian] Cox calmly registers ranges of steely determination, fatherly care and regret-filled sadness with great authority." -- Variety Posted Jan 24, 2008	The Escapist (2008)	88%
	"[Subject Kimberly] Roberts' vid reps some of the more extensive by any Katrina survivor." -- Variety Posted Jan 22, 2008	Trouble the Water (2008)	n/a
	"Layered with all types of visual decoration to make the torrent of discussion play cinematically, and, though the device is now a familiar one, certain touches such as B&W animation lend a creepy and effective mood." -- Variety Posted Jan 22, 2008	Secrecy (2008)	n/a
	"Unafraid to show herself weathered by the cold, harsh elements and never working to make auds love her, [Star Meliss] Leo builds the kind of perf that invites concentration, and then high respect." -- Variety Posted Jan 22, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	86%
	"An extraordinary debut." -- Variety Posted Jan 22, 2008	Ballast (2008)	60%
	"*Like a wine spread with more samples than any tongue can handle, Bottle Shock* contains too much to manage it all well, including some painfully corny sections, but has a charming aftertaste.*" -- Variety* Posted Jan 22, 2008	Bottle Shock (2008)	60%
	"*As a work capturing the atmosphere of life on Hollywood Boulevard, Johnny 316* offers up a genuine time capsule of the street's seedy, late-'90s condition before recent renovations.** " -- Variety Posted Jan 4, 2008	Johnny 316 (2007)	n/a
	"Touching if by-the-numbers." -- Variety Posted Nov 24, 2007	Man in the Chair (2007)	48%
	"Unexpectedly amusing and inevitably disturbing." -- Variety Posted Nov 17, 2007	Look (2007)	61%
	"Napoleon [Dynamite] fans will never admit to it, but Sasquatch is funnier, hinging on a bogus Bigfoot sighting and some hilariously stupid dudes." -- Variety Posted Nov 13, 2007	The Sasquatch Gang (2007)	46%
A	"*To state it in the bluntest terms, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead* is one of the great American films of the past decade, and the crowning masterpiece of Lumet's long career.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Oct 25, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
	"*...some auds might even momentarily confuse Battle* with a docu, and the actors play a major role in creating this illusion.*" -- Variety* Posted Sep 19, 2007	Battle for Haditha (2008)	63%
	"An assured example of storytelling artistry." -- Variety Posted Sep 17, 2007	The Voyeurs (2007)	n/a
	"Emotionally deeper than Corbijn's pic, [Control] in its portrayal, using fine one-on-one interviews to reveal the terrible regrets and guilt that wracked everyone in and near the band about [leadsinger Ian] Curtis." -- Variety Posted Sep 17, 2007	Joy Division - Under Review (2006)	n/a
	"... a cogent, almost intuitive study of female self-identity and body perception, and would be inconceivable without star Silvia Perez." -- Variety Posted Sep 10, 2007	Encarnaci�n (2007)	n/a
A	"Deep Water's account of a modern Icarus is frighteningly clear in its perceptions and aftershocks." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 30, 2007	Deep Water (2007)	96%
	"A monumental if cheeky culmination of the French New Wave." -- Variety Posted Aug 11, 2007	Out 1, Noli Me Tangere (1971)	100%
	"Helmer Ratner knows the Rush Hour routine by heart, and production values, even with several new contributors to the franchise (including solid lenser J. Michael Muro), maintain the franchise's sharp, shiny look." -- Variety Posted Aug 2, 2007	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	20%
	"*Patrice Leconte is in a light but thoughtful mood in My Best Friend, a buddy movie that actually ponders the nature of what it is to be a buddy." -- Variety* Posted Jul 11, 2007	My Best Friend (2007)	75%
	"Smartly and seamlessly blending a cast of talented Argentine and Spanish thesps, Pineyro seems to be testing how much cinema he can derive from a restricted space." -- Variety Posted Jul 6, 2007	The Method (2005)	71%
	"Pic [has a] marvelous sense of time and space, seemingly empty of purpose yet steadily building tension." -- Variety Posted Jun 30, 2007	Trigger Man (2007)	88%
	"Unexpected events in the scenario suddenly reposition the film as a humanist-pastoral epic in the tradition of Pudovkin." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 21, 2007	Times and Winds (2008)	76%
	"With virtually a single-camera set-up and absolute attention paid to a woman who survived the horrors of Mao's China, Wang Bing continues his run as one of the world's supreme doc filmmakers." -- Variety Posted May 25, 2007	He Fengming (2007)	n/a
	"Ferrara is in a wonderfully loose and comedic mood." -- Variety Posted May 23, 2007	Go Go Tales ()	50%
	"A gently and genuinely observed film whose subject is a garish, artificial display of mayhem." -- Variety Posted Mar 23, 2007	Beyond the Mat (1999)	82%
	"Pitch-perfect central perf (by scribe and co-producer Damian Lahey), total lack of dramatic artifice and surreally situational humor make for a minor-key vignette of unmistakable, if unstable, authenticity." -- Variety Posted Feb 21, 2007	Cocaine Angel (2006)	60%
	"The rare film equally influenced by Quentin Tarantino, Jean Renoir and William Saroyan, this time-winding triptych has a deep humanist sense and a feel for working-class folk whiling away the hours." -- Variety Posted Feb 16, 2007	Cafe Setareh (2007)	n/a
	"Thesps get seriously into the roles, rendering the situation that much funnier." -- Variety Posted Feb 8, 2007	The Signal (2007)	55%
	"An essential if incomplete look at the triumphant grassroots campaign of Bolivian president Evo Morales." -- Variety Posted Feb 8, 2007	Cocalero (2007)	n/a
	"Amiable and arch comedy." -- Variety Posted Feb 5, 2007	From Other Worlds (2006)	38%
	"[Director] Torres benefits from an outsider-insider's perspective on the country's myriad issues and pop culture." -- Variety Posted Feb 2, 2007	Super Amigos (2007)	n/a
	"A heady brew of daring sexuality and ancient rituals that broadens [director] Solito's reach as a developing film artist." -- Variety Posted Feb 2, 2007	Tuli (2005)	n/a
	"The kind of transformative viewing experience that has made the current period a golden age for nonfiction film." -- Variety Posted Jan 31, 2007	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%
	"[Jesus] Ochoa is such a masterful actor that he makes things fairly interesting despite the script, with Hernandez and Espindola well-cast as two young men operating by different moral compasses." -- Variety Posted Jan 30, 2007	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	83%
	"One of the many pleasures of The Pool is watching how these culturally opposite people find common ground, and become involved with each other through such simple acts as home gardening and conversation." -- Variety Posted Jan 30, 2007	The Pool (2007)	n/a
	"Bright and witty physical and optical visual touches spill off the screen, though the use of effects is scaled to the tale." -- Variety Posted Jan 25, 2007	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
	"*[Director] Ferguson delivers the calm, meticulous survey of U.S. policy that legions of critics of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11* have been waiting for.*" -- Variety* Posted Jan 25, 2007	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
	"*Stanley Kubrick's confident statement -- 'If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed' -- receives stunning confirmation in Nina Menkes' Phantom Love." -- Variety* Posted Jan 24, 2007	Phantom Love (2007)	n/a

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