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4/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	Canary (2008)	n/a
4/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	Late Bloomer (2004)	n/a
4/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	The Order of Myths (2008)	100%
5/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
4/6	"It’s [star Tatsuya] Nakadai who makes this impressive yet flawed screed worth your time commitment." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008	Human Condition, The - Pt. 1 - No Greater Love (1958)	80%
2/6	"Pearce�s boys-adventure take on the vaudeville legend is a hoot, though not nearly as laughable as the dialogue or Zeta-Jones�s pitiful attempts at basic emoting." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008	Death Defying Acts (2008)	44%
4/6	"[DirectorAssarat�s] raw, poetic sensibility turns this posttraumatic parable into something both dreamy and oddly disturbing." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008	Wonderful Town (2008)	90%
3/6	"Visually impressive, but any hack can do a halfway decent job with trailer-ready tangents. Not everyone can push the genre forward, and the fact that Nolan's padded popcorn flick isn't the streamlined masterpiece it could have been is a real buzzkill." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 15, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
2/6	"Burstyn can do maternal strength and strife in her sleep, but Kari Skogland�s hardscrabble weepie is still indistinguishable from any number of similar memory-lane melodramas." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	The Stone Angel (2008)	53%
3/6	"The movie says nothing about the period and everything about the power of the pout." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	Eight Miles High (2007)	45%
2/6	"There�s neither brilliance nor bite to this look at innocence lost. Next time, go Nathanael West, young man." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	Garden Party (2008)	12%
3/6	"No one expected a Baudrillard essay on the perils of sim cities, but such a heady subject deserves more than a skim job." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	78%
2/6	"Great, just what we needed: another rote exercise in indie-feely humanism." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 2, 2008	Diminished Capacity (2008)	28%
3/6	"You sense that Jacobs�s exhumation requires either the punch of a short or the contemplative scope of a 14-hour video installation to properly work its avant-magick." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2008)	83%
3/6	"Balancing the political and the personal is a smart idea, though the resulting togglethon ends up being the uneasiest of marriages." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	71%
2/6	"The film keeps artificially pumping your adrenal glands with mindless, malnutritional sensations, only to leave you crampy and cranky minutes later." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
2/6	"Both Patric and Morton give brazenly fearless performances, yet these talents are left tangoing to a tune that�s nowhere near worthy of them." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 18, 2008	Expired (2008)	60%
4/6	"Forman�s career pivot point between Prague�s film-school halls and the Oscars podium is still a prime example of the way a foreign director can apply an outsider�s perspective to something like Nixon�s Amerikkka and draw blood." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 18, 2008	Taking Off (1971)	100%
2/6	"If you needed to find something -- anything -- redeeming about Carlos Brooks�s ridiculous romantic thriller, you can at least credit it for not sticking to the paths most traveled." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	64%
4/6	"...makes for fascinating anthropology despite the film�s flaws; Herzog�s take on the exterior landscapes may lack focus, but the keen attention he pays to interior geographies is perfect compensation." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	94%
6/6	"Jacques Rivette�s free-form dissertation on the interzone between performance and spectatorship is the ideal filmgoing experience, even as the 'story' transcends all long-standing rules of narrative engagement." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Celine and Julie Go Boating (1976)	95%
3/6	"If Nelson�s aim was simply to give this bull a stage on which to rage, he�s succeeded; if the director is also trying to advocate the importance of Ellison as a man of letters, he�s wildly off the mark." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)	93%
3/6	"That old Argento black magic, literally and figuratively, is still AWOL." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	51%
3/6	"Given that Eric Guirado�s drama sticks to a predictable arc, it�s less the tale that matters than the telling." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	The Grocer's Son (2008)	82%
3/6	"Shorts programs require a gambler�s mentality -- roll the dice, take your chances -- and thankfully, this collection of French snippets has two that offset a sense of 'comme ci, comme �a' curating." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	"L'Origine de la tendresse" and Other Tales (2008)	n/a
3/6	"Tornatore is unable to sustain tension once the heroine�s agenda is revealed halfway through, and what follows veers between ploddingly dull and unintentionally risible." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	62%
4/6	"Jean-Luc Godard�s fourth film is a heartfelt, headstrong attempt to push his own concept of a deconstructed cinema even further into the stratosphere." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	My Life to Live (1962)	89%
4/6	"Bertino�s cat-and-mouse chase is genuinely terrifying. If the director learns how to make what happens once the mouse is caught just as interesting, he�ll have a long, prosperous future ahead of him." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
2/6	"Both a musty throwback and a mushy example of contemporary knee-jerk humanism." -- Time Out New York Posted May 21, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	26%
2/6	"All this proves is that watching a poorly executed scene from 19 perspectives is worse than watching it once in an unbroken frame." -- Time Out New York Posted May 14, 2008	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	40%
3/6	"Though the film attests that the director can masterfully dredge up metaphysical dread, it also proves that he needs to learn to avoid easy ways out." -- Time Out New York Posted May 14, 2008	Yella (2008)	76%
2/6	"What Eigeman needs is a stronger sense of style and storytelling if he wants to elevate the material past the stock indie-miserabilism mark." -- Time Out New York Posted May 8, 2008	Turn the River (2008)	75%
4/6	"Long before Wong Kar-wai perfected his dreamy, ennui-infused aesthetic (or got hopelessly stuck in blueberry goo), he made a name for himself with this warhorse tale of small-time hoods on the road to ruin." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2008	As Tears Go By (1988)	71%
3/6	"Though Lelouch has toned down his penchant for putting pretty pictures ahead of plot, there�s still a nagging sense of disposability." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
4/6	"Standard Operating Procedure never offers concrete answers; it lets the perpetrators explain themselves straight into the camera, and we�re left to sift through the testimonies." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
2/6	"Uncomfortable moments and near�nervous breakdowns transition into Oxygen-channel cuteness, which we�re supposed to read as some sort of approximation of�messy real life? Not quite." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	54%
3/6	"The subject is never less than fascinating, though the film�s repetitive format and reiteration of the same points ad infinitum will wear you down before the paint can dry." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Bomb It (2008)	87%
1/6	"Compared with Jon Avnet�s barely functional directing and the ripened dialogue, Pacino�s phoned-in turn hardly qualifies as a cardinal sin." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 18, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
3/6	"*Every time the focus switches to Michael Angarano channeling his inner Ralph Macchio, The Forbidden Kingdom* reminds you that it's primarily an act of occidental tourism.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	63%
3/6	"The movie gets lots of things right, yet it fumbles key facets so badly that you simply can�t christen it the gridiron version of �His Girl Friday�." -- Time Out Posted Apr 11, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
3/6	"Though the film stands out from the Iraqumentary pack, even its intimate moments feel attached to an overall agenda." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008	Body of War (2008)	71%
3/6	"We�ve watched Wang belabor this point to death, which doesn�t detract from the film�s grace notes, but also doesn�t exactly make this neorealistic chronicle of rural life the deepest of profeminist parables." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2008	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	88%
3/6	"The movie gets lots of things right, yet fumbles key facets so badly that you simply can�t christen it the gridiron version of His Girl Friday." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
5/6	"The director�s eye for baroque black-and-white imagery puts him behind only Bava and Welles, while the film�s sharp social satire gives heft to its ambition." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2008	The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)	89%
3/6	"The offbeat path is now a well-beaten one; perhaps it�s time to try something truly different." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2008	Jellyfish (2008)	86%
1/6	"The list of transgressions in Bruce Van Dusen�s stalled road-trip flick is miles long: dialogue chocked with bumper-sticker platitudes, self-consciously quirky characters, gratuitous gunplay and a soundtrack top-heavy with achingly bad dorm-rock." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 27, 2008	Backseat (2008)	8%
4/6	"Like his fellow Mason-Dixon minimalist David Gordon Green (the film�s producer), [director] Nichols favors mood and ellipses over momentum and explanations, which gives this contemporary Hatfields-versus-McCoys narrative a beguiling, drifting atmosphere." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 27, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	89%
5/6	"To laud [Alexander] Sokurov�s latest film for being accessible is faint praise, as if the fact that you don�t need a Ph.D. in Russian history to watch it constitutes its worthiness." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 27, 2008	Alexandra (2008)	94%
4/6	"*It�s only when Planet B-Boy* settles into the stories of the 2005 tournament's hopefuls and turns into the Spellbound of bodyrockin' that the film finds its proper ambassadorial groove.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Mar 20, 2008	Planet B-Boy (2008)	91%
2/6	"A parade of cheap shots designed to provoke knee-jerk reactions; only a montage of puppies being slaughtered would be more manipulative." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 20, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	73%

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