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D+	"It's borderline unwatchable." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 23, 2006	The Fountain (2006)	51%
C	"*I can understand [Black] wanting to make King Kong, but Nacho Libre* was a dismal affair and Tenacious D isn't much better.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Nov 23, 2006	Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006)	53%
B+	"Supported by commentary from both Republican and Democratic operatives, the movie confirms what most of us have known all along: Electability is all about staying on message. The truth and verifiability of that message is something else again." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 19, 2006	So Goes the Nation (2006)	91%
A	"Most powerfully, [Berg] also films a number of O'Grady's victims as they recount their trauma and, in some cases, loss of faith." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 12, 2006	Deliver Us From Evil (2006)	100%
D	"Despite a few psychologically insightful touches about how children learn to survive misery, Tideland is borderline unwatchable, although, as is true of all Gilliam movies, it certainly is different." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 12, 2006	Tideland (2006)	28%
B	"This scattershot movie, shot over two years, follows the zigzag trail of political satirist Al Franken as he feuds with Bill O'Reilly, campaigns against George W. Bush, and helps establish Air America." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 14, 2006	Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)	59%
D+	"*Plays like a bloated version of an old episode of Love, American Style." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Aug 3, 2006	The Boynton Beach Club (2006)	60%
B	"The film could be more adept and probing, but the ladies -- Cleo Hayes, Marion Coles, Elaine Ellis, Fay Ray, and Geri Kennedy -- are delightful." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 27, 2006	Been Rich All My Life (2006)	78%
B	"This camp farce has its moments of high hilarity, and Sedaris is a spark plug, but it's wildly uneven." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 6, 2006	Strangers With Candy (2006)	51%
B	"*The first-time director, James Marsh, and his co-writer Milo Addica (who wrote Monster's Ball), sustain a black-comic tone, and the performances, as far they go, are quietly chilling." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jun 8, 2006	The King (2006)	54%
C+	"Most of the time ... we are watching pathology without benefit of insight." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 25, 2006	12 and Holding (2006)	74%
B	"The up-close interviews with the prisoners, many of whom are in jail for murder, are the heart of the film." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 19, 2006	Shakespeare Behind Bars (2006)	92%
B	"Pollack directed with mixed results this adulatory documentary about his famous architect friend." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 11, 2006	Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)	81%
B	"Jacobson has a good eye for widescreen compositions and sustains a low-key note of dread but is less successful in his attempt to graft a neo-Western to a neo-noir." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 11, 2006	Down in the Valley (2006)	52%
B-	"Mullan always looks as if he's about to explode -- sometimes he does -- and he's in good enough shape to make the aquatic conceit believable." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Apr 13, 2006	On A Clear Day (2006)	67%
B-	"The film is meandering and highly uneven, but Robert Downey Jr. is truly oddball as a venomous drama critic, and watching that ball once again roll through Bill Buckner's legs is torture (for Red Sox fans anyway)." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 23, 2006	Game 6 (2006)	59%
C+	"Affleck is simply too clean-cut for the role." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 23, 2006	Lonesome Jim (2006)	58%
B-	"Peter Dinklage is excellent as the mob's chief lawyer." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 16, 2006	Find Me Guilty (2006)	57%
B-	"Lustig's cinematography has a Walker Evans-like power." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 16, 2006	Don't Come Knocking (2006)	42%
B	"Eimbcke attempts to give this story a melancholy overlay, but its main interest is in its confirmation that teenagers are pretty much the same everywhere." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 10, 2006	Duck Season (2006)	90%
B+	"While I don't entirely rule out the possibility that Bruce is a hoaxster, it seems more likely that his story is one of those weird scientific anomalies that more frequently turn up as an Oliver Sacks case history." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 2, 2006	Unknown White Male (2005)	73%
A-	"If you didn't already realize that politics can be a dirty business, then Marshall Curry's Oscar-nominated documentary will set you straight." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 2, 2006	Street Fight (2006)	100%
B	"*It's all a bit precious and preening, but Coogan is marvelous, almost as good as he was in Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jan 26, 2006	Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)	91%
B	"In addition to the usual pontificators like Gore Vidal, whose world weariness has assumed Olympian proportions, the director provides interviews with such right-wing counterparts as Richard Perle and William Kristol." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jan 19, 2006	Why We Fight (2006)	79%
C+	"It's a moderately enjoyable escapade that isn't quite clever enough for adults and not quite imaginative enough for children." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jan 13, 2006	Hoodwinked (2006)	48%
B	"*In [Jordan's] new film, Breakfast on Pluto, he's trying for a much more elaborate version of [The Crying Game]." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Nov 18, 2005	Breakfast on Pluto (2005)	55%
C-	"This thinly autobiographical gangsta odyssey never achieves liftoff, and Jackson is unconvincing." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 10, 2005	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)	17%
B+	"He attempts with mixed results to get inside the psyches of men who would blow themselves up for the cause." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 27, 2005	Paradise Now (2005)	88%
A-	"Ostensibly a children's movie, but adults will want to see it, too." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2005	Duma (2005)	93%
N/A	Click here to read article -- New York Magazine Posted Aug 7, 2004	Grand Illusion (1937)	97%
N/A	Click here to read article -- New York Magazine Posted Aug 7, 2004	2003 Year-in-Review (2003)	n/a
No Rating	Click here to read article -- New York Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002	Me, Myself & Irene (2000)	46%
	"Soderbergh is so busy trying to create his movie-within-a-movie -- and, in at least one instance, his movie-within- a-movie-within -a-movie -- that he botches the enclosing movie." -- New York Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002	Full Frontal (2002)	37%
	"It remains the preeminent documentary about historical tragedy and one of the most exhilaratingly demanding experiences the movies have ever offered." -- New York Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002	The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)	100%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- New York Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002	East-West (1999)	70%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- New York Magazine Posted Jul 28, 2002	K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)	60%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- New York Magazine Posted Jul 28, 2002	Happy Times (2002)	72%
	"The people who made this movie... [crammed] so many product placements into the action that you feel like there should be an 800 number at the bottom of the screen." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 23, 2002	Mr. Deeds (2002)	22%
	"Rock doesn't really act with the other performers; he stands next to them and buzzes in his own orbit." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2002	Bad Company (2002)	10%
	"Almost unbearably sad." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2002	Children Underground (2001)	94%
	"*Phil Alden Robinson, who directed from a script by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne, is an accomplished craftsman, but his movie has been upstaged by the sum of our* fears.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Jun 2, 2002	The Sum of All Fears (2002)	59%
	"Not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works, but Coppola, along with his sister, Sofia, is a real filmmaker. It must be in the genes." -- New York Magazine Posted May 26, 2002	CQ (2002)	67%
	"Judith and Zaza's extended bedroom sequence ... is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics." -- New York Magazine Posted May 26, 2002	Late Marriage (2001)	88%
	"Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades." -- New York Magazine Posted May 26, 2002	Enough (2002)	22%
	"About a Boy is sophisticated and nuanced, and every character is bursting with emotional contradictions." -- New York Magazine Posted May 19, 2002	About a Boy (2002)	94%
	"A glossy, depthless melodrama." -- New York Magazine Posted May 19, 2002	Unfaithful (2002)	47%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2002	Mystic Masseur (2001)	52%
	"*[Allen's] been making piffle for a long while, and Hollywood Ending* may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted May 5, 2002	Hollywood Ending (2002)	47%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- New York Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2002	Murder by Numbers (2002)	30%
	"*Seeing The Last Waltz* again after many years is like revisiting an old passion and realizing the heat is still there.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Apr 21, 2002	The Last Waltz (1978)	97%

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