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TASHA ROBINSON
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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A The Promise
A- Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol
3.5/4 Persepolis
B+ Cars
3/4 Son of Rambow
B Lady Vengeance
2.5/4 Trade
B- House of Sand
C+ Water
2/4 Becoming Jane
C Hoot
1.5/4 The Ten
C- Scoop
D+ The Wild
1/4 The Final Season
D Everyone's Hero
D- The Salon
F Sydney White
 
 
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A WALL-E
A Happy Feet
A The King
A The Promise
A- Kung Fu Panda
A- The Fall
A- Redbelt
A- In Bruges
A- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A- Ratatouille
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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F Sydney White
D- The Salon
D War, Inc.
D Romance & Cigarettes
D The 11th Hour
D Shrek the Third
D Flannel Pajamas
D Everyone's Hero
D Ultraviolet
D Ultraviolet
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C-
 
"Like a poorly designed videogame, it's as much a test of endurance of repetition as anything else." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Space Chimps (2008)38%
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C+
 
"Like its early predecessors, it's a nominally fun trip, but it's tissue-thin and instantly forgettable." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)60%
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2/4
 
"For about half its length, Jonathan Levine's film The Wackness resembles a grunge remake of The Graduate, updated for the peculiarly specific setting of 1994 New York City." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 
The Wackness (2008)66%
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3/4
 
"Accessible, entertaining and hugely kinetic, packed with memorable songs from Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and many more icons of Thompson's era." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jul 3, 2008
 
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)86%
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B+
 
"It's worth it just to see a ready-made Superman-sized superhero in action without all the baggage of decades of retellings and reworkings; even looking at familiar faces working through a familiar genre, it's nice to be surprised for once." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)38%
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B
 
"Louise Bourgeois is absorbing, largely because of Bourgeois' striking art, prickly personality, and assured intensity." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008)91%
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A
 
"It's Pixar's most daring experiment to date, but it still fits neatly into the studio's pantheon: Made with as much focus on heart as on visual quality, it's a sheer joy." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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B
 
"Up The Yangtze goes from sleepily hypnotic to riveting over the course of 90 minutes." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Up The Yangtze (2008)95%
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C+
 
"Brick Lane feels slight and late to the table. Still, its pretty musings about small-scale self-actualization can be seductive." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Brick Lane (2008)63%
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3/4
 
"[Director Li Yang] Li was a documentarian before he switched to feature films with the highly praised 2003 feature Blind Shaft, and it shows in his raw style." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Blind Mountain (2008)75%
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3/4
 
"[Director Christopher] Zalla keeps the tension high through a taut story rather than through manipulative, obtrusive thriller direction." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)83%
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A-
 
"Kung Fu Panda is yet another celebrity-voiced animal adventure, but it stands out from the crowd of similar films with its lightning wit and whirlwind brio." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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2.5/4
 
"Korine falls so thoroughly in love with many of his images, including his opening shot, that he stretches them out in hypnotic slow motion." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 29, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)43%
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D
 
"The overall experience is manic, juvenile, and hit-or-miss, as if the auteurs behind Epic Movie were trying to remake Wag The Dog." -- Onion AV Club
Posted May 23, 2008
 
War, Inc. (2008)31%
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B+
 
"The packaging is perfect, and the end results beat A View To A Kill any day." -- Onion AV Club
Posted May 23, 2008
 
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)77%
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B-
 
"It's a polished, beautifully shot story, and it acknowledges the messiness of real life. But like real life, it's often baffling and frustrating." -- Onion AV Club
Posted May 23, 2008
 
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)26%
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A-
 
"It's the most glorious, wonderful mess put onscreen since Terry Gilliam's Brazil." -- Onion AV Club
Posted May 8, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)53%
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3/4
 
"The kid-heavy cast tends to substitute enthusiasm for subtlety, but the way they throw their hearts into their games just makes it easier to get drawn in." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Son of Rambow (2008)75%
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A-
 
"A superior, sophisticated, and unusually gentle character study where the point isn't the twists, so much as watching how one man's belief system holds up through them." -- Onion AV Club
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)71%
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2/4
 
"It's a long, eye-rolling haul...hampered by lurching exposition and hammy setup." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)63%
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C-
 
"Where In The World is a conversation-starter for ADD-stricken adolescents who can't bear to think about one thing for too long, or too deeply." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)35%
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D+
 
"The dread is thick and the atmosphere is so heavy that every simple car ride or bedtime story seems like it's happening on the crumbling edge of a lonely cliff." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)26%
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B-
 
"It's a discomfiting character study in which compelling, convincing acting and lively dialogue help mitigate the feeling that none of these people are worth spending time with." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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3.5/4
 
"The film is often breathtakingly beautiful, and even as the students triumph over the naysayers, it's melancholy knowing they aren't sharing viewers' experiences of their starkly gorgeous world." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Blindsight (2008)97%
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3/4
 
"There's a lot to like about spunky Breslin, even when she's unnecessarily recapping events or recapitulating Home Alone as she chases caricatured cruise-ship tourists from her island. She's a charismatic, energetic presence at the heart of the film" -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 7, 2008
 
Nim's Island (2008)49%
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2.5/4
 
"There's a pleasant, easygoing charm to Caramel, largely stemming from Labaki's rare determination to depict Beirut as something other than a war-torn, slowly recovering battleground." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Caramel (2008)91%
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2.5/4
 
"Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)81%
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C+
 
"A harmless feel-good movie that tries to tell audiences what it's like to be a victimized immigrant, and mostly winds up telling them what it's like to have their heartstrings yanked, gratuitiously and often." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Under the Same Moon (2008)73%
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1/4
 
"Married Life is structured like a Douglas Sirk melodrama or a Hitchcock thriller rather than a mystery, but it's a mystery nonetheless, because it's rarely clear what Sachs intends the movie to be." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Married Life (2008)57%
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B-
 
"Shows signs that Chow is trying to put more thought and heart into his films, with uneven success." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)45%
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B-
 
"The Other Boleyn Girl is a fitting prequel to the Elizabeth movies: It's pretty, passionate, and full of historical poppycock." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)42%
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B
 
"For those who don't mind their history pre-seasoned with a little phantasmagoria and a lot of sarcasm, Chicago 10 is a hugely entertaining piece of pop fluff, as dynamic and modern as the Beastie Boys cut on the soundtrack." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Chicago 10 (2008)76%
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C+
 
"Director Palansky is trying for a deft, hip, modern fairy-tale feel, but the odd material, sprawling story, and complicated tonal balancing act get away from him, and the film winds up as a poorly paced tug-of-war between sweet quirk and sloppy camp." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Penelope (2008)52%
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B-
 
"[Star Karl] Markovics largely rescues the film with his mesmerizingly layered, steady performance as a man who solves the problem of compromise by refusing to admit that he's compromising." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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1/4
 
"Charlie Bartlett asks audiences to believe that its protagonist is so sheltered that he has no clue how bizarre his precious, overly mannered behavior looks to his peers." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)55%
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C-
 
"No exciting action can cover the film's profound shallowness and repulsive attitude toward everyone but Christensen." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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3/4
 
"It isn't quite the world of the books. But it's a perfectly magical and exciting one in its own right." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)79%
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3/4
 
"The most extraordinary thing about the grim Best Documentary Academy Award nominee Taxi to the Dark Side is how straightforward its interviewees are about the military prisoner they collectively murdered in Afghanistan in 2002." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)100%
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A-
 
"When it's funny, it's hilarious; when it's serious, it's powerful; and either way, it's an endless pleasant surprise." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)80%
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C-
 
"The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 4, 2008
 
The Eye (2008)21%
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3.5/4
 
"In spite of all the idealistic baggage, the film feels like it's traveling light. The fluid handmade visuals hang onto the uniqueness of Satrapi's heavy-lined work while giving them a smoothness and a visual depth they previously lacked." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Persepolis (2007)96%
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C-
 
"It's full of mild goofiness and equally mild messages about believing in yourself. It's all good-natured enough. It just isn't actually good." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Jan 12, 2008
 
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A Veggietales Movie (2008)43%
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2.5/4
 
"By salvaging a troubled script with deep, committed, touching portrayals, Plummer and Walsh help prove Schroeder's points about how Hollywood isn't just the province of the rich, young and pretty." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Man in the Chair (2007)48%
/
B
 
"Enthusiasts and neophytes alike should be able to join together in gasping at the sight of people plunging down vertical walls of ice, taking their lives into their own hands for a brief, lion-lifed adrenaline charge." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
Steep (2007)55%
/
B
 
"Reasonably absorbing." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Dec 12, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)69%
/
3/4
 
"For now, The Golden Compass can stand on its own, as a standard-issue but still glorious adventure." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)41%
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D
 
"While it looks like it was great fun to film, it's regrettably little fun to watch." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Romance & Cigarettes (2007)53%
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B+
 
"Grace Is Gone attempts to address grief frankly, gently, and without didacticism, and it largely succeeds." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Grace is Gone (2007)57%
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A-
 
"The putative film adaptation reaches well beyond the contents of that book, expanding its philosophical resignation into a grim but beautiful visual poem." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)94%

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