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B	" It's a great piece of acting -- high drama at the service of the highest talent." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 6, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	83%
B-	" Was Maher afraid he might muddy his clownish jape if he actually brought into the mix a learned theologian?" -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 6, 2008	Religulous (2008)	66%
D	" Set in a nameless English-speaking city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, it's an allegory that never rises to the level of believability." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 6, 2008	Blindness (2008)	39%
B-	" What makes the film work in spite of itself is [director] Sollett's sympathy for his characters and the teamwork between Cera and Dennings, whose winsome sultriness seems entirely unaffected." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 6, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
C	" The Iraq war has thus far produced no truly memorable dramatic movies, as opposed to documentaries, and the losing streak continues with The Lucky Ones." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
B	" An even-handed portrait of a man who, as much as anybody, bears responsibility for the toxicity of high stakes political campaigning on both sides of the aisle." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2008	Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)	90%
C-	" Clocking in at 160 minutes, this interminable movie comes across like a rough cut. Perhaps Lee believed its length would give it gravitas. The opposite is true." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	30%
C	" Rockwell has an off-center charm and, as his gorgon mother, Anjelica Huston is more imposing than this movie deserves." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
A-	" Burn After Reading is a piffle, but it's a savagely amusing one." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 12, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
C	" Some touching moments, but too blandly inspirational." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	36%
B	" Tropic Thunder passes for "daring" in a movie era notably short on risk-taking. In the case of Downey, that daring is earned." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
B	" There's something intriguing going on here. It's a movie about the sacrifices that people make to be happy." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
D+	" George Lucas's fixation on this saga has gone past commercial smarts into full-blown monomania. With all the money and power he has at his disposal, here he is once again fobbing the same leaden dialogue and nonvisionary visuals at us." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	19%
C-	" Begins promisingly and then swerves into absurdity." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Red (2008)	62%
B+	" While this may seem like an apologia for randy older men, it doesn't come off that way, and Cruz gives her best performance to date." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
	" Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
C	" *It doesn't measure up to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Which is sort of like saying Rocky V* wasn't as good as Rocky IV. Sort of.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Aug 8, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
B+	" You feel like you're watching a life, not a performance." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 1, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	86%
C	" The filmmakers want to fashion a civics lesson but they don't bother to include anything of substance." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 1, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	38%
C-	" Anyone looking for a terrific summer popcorn movie should not hop on board." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	13%
B+	" A great piece of work in a movie." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 25, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	63%
B-	" Burstein does indeed capture some of the awkwardnesses that we can all relate to -- the dating scene, the snubs, the cliques, the bad behavior." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 25, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
B	" David Duchovny's Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully are still chastely in love, the world is as dark and doomy as ever, and Billy Connolly, as a scurvy priest who may or may not be a visionary, steals the acting honors." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 25, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	32%
C+	" Director Adam McKay is a veteran of the Judd Apatow school of R-rated gross-out gooniness, but this latest installment in the canon is decidedly underpowered." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
A-	" *As an anatomy not only of Polanski's psyche but also of the legal system he confronted, it's as baroquely compelling as The Dark Knight." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	87%
C-	" Streep certainly gives it the old college try and so do Walters and Baranski, who are experienced singer/dancers. Somehow they all end up looking just as flamboyantly amateurish as everybody else." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
A-	" The film is so relentlessly bleak that, paradoxically, its blackness is not given its full due. But this comic-book movie is more disturbing, and has more freakish power, than anything else I've seen all year." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
C-	" *Why would you take your kids to see Space Chimps, an uninspired animated feature about chimp astronauts, when you could take them instead to see Wall-E." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Space Chimps (2008)	35%
A	" A semidocumentary account of native Americans living in Los Angeles's downtown Bunker Hill, its evocations of loneliness and despair and renewal are among the most eloquent in American cinema." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	90%
C+	" *Much of Journey* plays like a thinner version of an Indiana Jones movie – a series not noted for its stoutness to begin with.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	62%
C	" When will Eddie Murphy think as highly of his talents as we do?" -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 11, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	20%
B	" Decorous to a fault, in the manner of middling Eric Rohmer talkfests, it's a film that could use some shaking up." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 27, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
B+	" Family home movies and photos and archival clips round out the film, which holds its hero-worshiping to fairly tolerable levels." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 27, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	78%
A-	" WALL-E is yet another notch in Pixar's computer-animation belt, and it's one of the better entries, with greater emotional resonance than anything they've done since Finding Nemo." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
C-	" The film's high proficiency is at the service of a concept that can most accurately be defined as sadomasochistic." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
C	" For most of the movie, we feel as trapped as she does, and the lurching narrative seems anything but novelistic." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 20, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
A-	" The first feature film based on the highly popular American Girl book series -- there have already been three made-for-television American Girl movies -- plays out like a sweet-souled Nancy Drew mystery." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 20, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	79%
C-	" Get Smart needed to be a lot smarter. And funnier. The movie stands as proof yet again that hit television series do not make for good movies." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
B	" What links all these characters is Myers's gift for antic, elfin burlesque. He's like a second-best Peter Sellers." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
C+	" A smash-and-slash affair. This probably bodes well for the franchise but ill for those of us who think the world would be a better place with at least one less conflicted comic book antihero glutting the megaplexes." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
C-	" *If you were a fan of David Cronenberg's Crash, you might just be the target audience for Quid Pro Quo, a perverse psychological drama about able-bodied people who yearn to become disabled." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jun 13, 2008	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	66%
a	" A supremely cranky and lyrical feat." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 13, 2008	Encounters At the End of the World (2007)	94%
C	" It's also a bit sneaky of Shyamalan to set us up for a paranoid 9/11 thriller and then go all Greenpeace on us. He's trying to be socially conscious but he doesn't have the reformist's temperament. He has the temperament of a self-infatuated messiah." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	18%
A-	" Mongol is a throwback to a more respectable tradition. The largeness of its scope arises naturally from the material, not the budget. The movie earns its stature." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 6, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
B+	" The film's parallels between Mohmed's travails and the Iraq war are forced, but overall this is a fascinating odyssey that never plays out in ways you would expect." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 6, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
B+	" The animation is consistently sporty and there are some choice comic riffs on martial arts movies." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	89%
B+	" Zohan coasts on its premise far more often than it fulfills it. But these days, you take your laughs where you find them. It's a pretty good scattershot comedy." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	35%
C	" Given its subject matter, it's oddly vacuous -- it rarely takes hold emotionally even when its people hit bottom with a resounding thud." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 30, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
C+	" An unstable concoction of political melodrama, film noir, and weepie." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 30, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	61%

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