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4/5	"*It�s almost funny how often and how closely The Visitor* teeters toward clich�, only to deliver one gently genuine moment after another.*" -- Sacramento News & Review* Posted May 12, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
	"If anybody could manage a fizzy romantic comedy of sexual repression in 1942, it was Billy Wilder, already with three screenwriting Oscar nominations under his belt and making his American directorial debut, with The Major and the Minor." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Apr 16, 2008	The Major and the Minor (1942)	100%
3/5	"*Eventually, Where in the World � ?* seems to tire of its own shtick -- almost, but not quite, earning real empathy on those grounds alone.*" -- Sacramento News & Review* Posted Apr 16, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	35%
3/5	"We find ourselves again in that classily downbeat indie-film world of American suburbia, where life has an archly banal quality and seething tensions bring about a tangible hush -- usually resulting in suffocated marriages and catastrophic violence." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Apr 4, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	67%
4/5	"*For all its armor of brutalizing urban dystopia (and, boy, is there a lot of that -- you could fund a war on terror with the fog- and rain-machine budgets alone), Blade Runner* has a gooey center.*" -- Sacramento News & Review* Posted Apr 2, 2008	Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)	97%
	"Starting Out in the Evening is just a movie about a dignified old white man who writes novels, slowly, on a typewriter. Clever concept." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jan 23, 2008	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
4/5	"A self-styled maverick of major ambition and, until now, minor films, [director P.T.] Anderson has achieved a bombastic breakthrough with There Will Be Blood." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jan 11, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
4/5	"The Orphanage avoids cynical gimmickry and condescension. It's harrowing in a more sophisticated way, and a fine example of why we've come to expect some kind of elegance from Spanish-language horror films." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jan 7, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	86%
4/5	"Having illuminated the many dimensions in that vast universe between the flat affect of creative depression and the modish affectation of emo posing, Corbijn manages Control with elegant, understated veneration." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Dec 21, 2007	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)	63%
4/5	"*When Juno* dispenses with gimmickry and really trusts its voice, it�s fresh and sharp and funny.*" -- Sacramento News & Review* Posted Dec 21, 2007	Juno (2007)	93%
4/5	"No Country for Old Men isn�t quite a masterpiece. It�s simply an exercise in fine craftsmanship, whose craftsmen suit each other superbly." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Nov 19, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	95%
3/5	"There�s a sense of the filmmaker himself trying to decide just what to make of this spectacle he�s staged, what stance to take." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Nov 13, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
3/5	"Rather than just another one-dimensional they-made-me-a-vigilante movie, this is, um, just another two-dimensional trudge of solemnity, delicately extracted from only the best stock of irritatingly respectable literary fiction." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 29, 2007	Reservation Road (2007)	37%
3/5	"Shoot 'Em Up is too silly for its glib violence to seem mean, and too dumb to mean anything, or take notes on, but it�s not without wit." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 18, 2007	Shoot 'Em Up (2007)	66%
3/5	"*Not exactly the stone-etched last word on biblical moviemaking, The Ten* at least has a rare flair for the non sequitur, and a sassy, spasmodic charm.*" -- Sacramento News & Review* Posted Aug 20, 2007	The Ten (2007)	39%
3/5	"[Director] Dahl exudes such a casual control; his lightness of touch reads as a concern for good form, like knowing how to squeeze a trigger instead of pulling it." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jul 23, 2007	You Kill Me (2007)	79%
3/5	"For all the pains it takes to establish mood and character, Jindabyne hides under its own uneasy surfaces; it never allows enough sense of what this community really is, of what�s to be grieved when it comes apart." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jun 18, 2007	Jindabyne (2007)	66%
5/5	"A magnanimous and devastating directorial debut from the young Canadian actress Sarah Polley." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jun 4, 2007	Away From Her (2007)	95%
	"With a fearless, at times outrageously duplicitous and undeniably illuminating, protagonist (who, in fact, co-financed the film), Hara reveals a whole culture coping with its most traumatic memories." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Feb 28, 2007	The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On ()	n/a
	"So many movies presume to instruct us on how to be young, and to insist we remain that way. Here�s a rare picture that with all due respect -- and all due irreverence -- would like to suggest one vital way of being old." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Feb 21, 2007	Venus (2006)	89%
	"Apocalypto is assertive with its demand for suspended disbelief. Clearly Gibson has some powerful, elemental moviemaking stuff going on." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jan 3, 2007	Apocalypto (2006)	65%
C	"*This might be the best Rocky* movie since the first Rocky movie. But if that sounds like a rave, just think of all the others.*" -- Sacramento News & Review* Posted Dec 29, 2006	Rocky Balboa (2006)	76%
	"The fact is, any Leonard Cohen documentary automatically risks inelegance by contrast to its subject�s artistic example. But here�s the flip side of that coin: Cohen is so good that even an untimely, mediocre movie about him... resonate[s]." -- Maisonneuve Posted Sep 27, 2006	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006)	71%
3/5	"Just who the hell does Oliver Stone think he is? [...] [W]hen a director who routinely hits everyone over the head undertakes a movie about the world falling down on men�s heads, how can we not want to see what he makes?" -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Aug 21, 2006	World Trade Center (2006)	70%
4/5	" Burger has assembled an elite group of singular, precise performers whose efforts synthesize into a trove of highly glamorous delights." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Aug 21, 2006	The Illusionist (2006)	75%
	"It’s fine that this film feels uncomfortable indulging the shopworn tropes of coming-of-age story or black comedy or romance or mystery thriller, but, well, ambivalence is self-propagating." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jun 3, 2006	Art School Confidential (2006)	36%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted Jun 3, 2006	Green Street Hooligans (2005)	46%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Touch the Sound (2006)	87%
	"Larry�s routine becomes considerably more embarrassing the longer it continues." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)	6%
	"Finally, a movie that explores what happens when a group of people who can�t get along find themselves freakishly mutated by cosmic radiation!" -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Fantastic Four (2005)	26%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Mysterious Skin (2005)	83%
	"The beauty of the movie is in how alive it all sounds: rich and rueful and satisfying." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006)	90%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Tony Takitani (2005)	90%
	"Don�t believe the hype. All this muddled movie has to offer is more numbly regurgitated, willfully cartoonish pop political commentary." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	V For Vendetta (2005)	73%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Two for the Money (2005)	20%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Rebound (2005)	13%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Separate Lies (2005)	70%
3/5	"A rough but engrossing sketch of what freedom feels like, and what it costs, for seven men who've endured that national nightmare." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	After Innocence (2005)	91%
	"After having gorged on nonfiction films that tell us what to think, Werner Herzog�s Grizzly Man is an improbable palate cleanser, allowing us to not know what to think and encouraging us to admit as much." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Grizzly Man (2005)	93%
	"Having abstained from character development and stalling for something to do between calls, the movie dwells in the house�s dark corners, plugging plot holes with overzealous sound design." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	When a Stranger Calls (2006)	9%
	"Spielberg trades in hollow, spuriously cinematic gestures and in explicitly topical politics that I suspect will render this movie embarrassingly dated before decade�s end." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Munich (2005)	77%
	"No one else could have made it, and you should see it." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Saraband (2005)	93%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Don't Move (2005)	47%
	"Director James Wong enjoys organizing dangerous objects and circumstances into precariously menacing Rube Goldberg arrangements." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Final Destination 3 (2006)	45%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Breakfast on Pluto (2005)	55%
4/5	"The movie's ambience, most apparent in its slangy hardboiled banter, is unprecedented and invigorating." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Brick (2006)	78%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Cach� (2005)	88%
	"his movie, full of easy swipes at easy targets, comes off like that overly chummy guy at a party who got drunk too early and goes around taking too long to set up a joke that�s already been beaten to death." -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	American Dreamz (2006)	41%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Ballets Russes (2005)	91%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Sacramento News & Review Posted May 12, 2006	Thumbsucker (2005)	71%

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