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6/10	"In The X-Files: I Want to Believe, ooky canted shots of trundling agents in "FBI"-emblazoned jackets seem like refreshing counterprogramming amid the rumble of the season's action movies." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 25, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	32%
7/10	"Transsiberian makes provocative connections between external and internal states, the ways that composition can reveal character." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 18, 2008	Transsiberian (2008)	85%
7/10	"Batman's dilemma in The Dark Knight is how to use his bad press, whether he will embrace it or continue to fight it." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
3/5	"Family holiday dramedy has some iffy content." -- Common Sense Posted Jul 16, 2008	This Christmas (2007)	54%
8/10	"Seductive and stirring, Mia Zapata's gritty vocals and physical urgency are clear enough even in The Gits grainiest footage." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Gits (2008)	n/a
8/10	"In Full Battle Rattle, the Iraq Simulation and the war are both real and not real, confusing, painful, and horrific, for the refugees working as role players." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 11, 2008	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	78%
8/10	"None of the interviewees in Marina Zenovich's fascinating documentary manages to make sense of the famous filmmaker's behavior or apparent thinking. But they all have compelling impressions." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 11, 2008	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	85%
7/10	"As he loves Liz, life, and TV, Hellboy embodies possibility, faith, and imagination." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 11, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
	"While its plot aligns War, Inc. with other, higher-profile action-thrillers, its political critique is more explicit and its ad campaign more oblique." -- NPR Posted Jul 3, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
	"Unable or unwilling to acknowledge or comprehend this trauma, the U.S. command structure is indicted no matter what it says." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 3, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2008)	63%
8/10	"While Gonzo makes a familiar case, that Thompson frequently lost himself in celebrity, it also argues for his legacy, not cynicism but optimism." -- PopMatters Posted Jul 3, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	86%
6/10	"Angelina Jolie has evolved. As of Wanted, she is no longer merely mortal, but her own sublime creature." -- PopMatters Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
7/10	"At last, an answer to the celebrity voicing in animated movies! No dialogue." -- PopMatters Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
6/10	"In Brick Lane's London, Nazneen is confined by a series of small rooms and doorways, narrow streets and muted colors." -- PopMatters Posted Jun 20, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	62%
	"The Antarctic is exactly the place Werner Herzog needs to be, documenting extreme possibilities of life and thought." -- PopMatters Posted Jun 13, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	95%
	"Baghead is a mumblecoreish meditation on the increasingly permeable boundaries between movies and life." -- PopMatters Posted Jun 13, 2008	Baghead (2008)	87%
9/10	"Snow and ice fill the frame in My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin's ookily brilliant evocation of his childhood." -- PopMatters Posted Jun 13, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	97%
9/10	"*Engaging, provocative, and often discomforting, Operation Filmmaker* reveals increasing tensions between Muthana and his would-be benefactors, including filmmaker Nina Davenport.*" -- PopMatters* Posted Jun 4, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
	"Unsettled works to show something else, the many perspectives that might be embodied by even one person." -- PopMatters Posted May 31, 2008	Unsettled (2008)	100%
	"*One of Quantum Hoops' favorite distractions from actual games is to look at the charmingly nerdy lives of Caltech students." -- PopMatters* Posted May 31, 2008	Quantum Hoops (2007)	79%
	"*Anguished and ambitious, the man-boy writers in Joachim Trier's Reprise* imagine themselves into alternate lives.*" -- PopMatters* Posted May 31, 2008	Reprise (2008)	88%
	"The film wends its way into an interrogation of storytelling per se." -- PopMatters Posted May 31, 2008	The Fall (2008)	53%
	"Savage Grace shows the family members' slide in and out of pathologies, but it doesn't sensationalize or even much pry into possible motives." -- PopMatters Posted May 31, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	42%
	"*Quite happily politically incorrect, Stuck* pins everyone, including viewers.*" -- PopMatters* Posted May 31, 2008	Stuck (2008)	71%
	"As intelligent, earnest, and challenging film that is only partly about steroids, and mostly about the culture that makes them go." -- PopMatters Posted May 31, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%
	"The movie offers easy targets and conclusions." -- PopMatters Posted May 27, 2008	Recount (2008)	75%
	"Refusenik's opening on Israel's 60th birthday could not have been more timely." -- PopMatters Posted May 19, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	94%
	"In David Mamet's universe, the fight is always the issue." -- PopMatters Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
	"Errol Morris' smart new documentary remembers the Abu Ghraib pictures' effects -- the shock, the outrage, and the anger that greeted their release." -- PopMatters Posted May 2, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
	"For all Tony's new understanding of "peace," the fact that Iron Man is in fact a weapon allows the film to do what summer movies must do: clanking and bashing, zooming, shooting, and exploding." -- PopMatters Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
	"Spurlock goes home in time for his son's birth, but if there's an end of violence and distrust possible in the Middle East, it is not yet visible." -- PopMatters Posted Apr 30, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	35%
	"CJ7 acknowledges the clich�s, sometimes embracing and sometimes satirizing the conventional depictions of kids and adults in family films." -- PopMatters Posted Apr 30, 2008	CJ7 (2008)	45%
	"While the scene announces the film's intensive focus on water -- a sign of transition, loss and rebirth -- it is also a sign of its stylized poetry, sometimes lovely, sometimes precious." -- PopMatters Posted Apr 30, 2008	Jellyfish (2008)	86%
	"Less sensuous than the pie � la mode, more nuanced than the doors opening and closing, cutting the cards might not change any odds, but it does offer an illusion of choice." -- PopMatters Posted Apr 30, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
	"Pashu straddles a particular and complicated divide in Without the King, Michael Skolnik's intriguing documentary about the last kingdom in Africa." -- PopMatters Posted Apr 30, 2008	Without the King (2008)	94%
	"Specialist Crystal Davis' story reflects many stories, her life changed forever, her efforts to meet all kinds of unanticipated challenges." -- PopMatters Posted Apr 9, 2008	Fighting for Life (2008)	88%
	""You go to a parade, you got to a demo," says Bobby Muller, "Standard routine: you put the gimps on the front. You gotta have the visual."" -- PopMatters Posted Apr 9, 2008	Body of War (2008)	71%
	"*Pleasant and clever, Leatherheads* is not built for surprises.*" -- PopMatters* Posted Apr 4, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
	"Though none of the boys, now young men, talks about it, they all bear burdens of rejection and rage." -- PopMatters Posted Mar 31, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	89%
	"In Rico especially, and in Brandon's confrontations with his own delusions, the movie focuses on the unhealthy rituals of manhood and male community encouraged by the military" -- PopMatters Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
	"Music -- as a general concept and in the daily details of rock camp -- occasions this ideal state, connected and creative." -- PopMatters Posted Mar 21, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	74%
	"In this allegory, you understand, times change and troubles stay the same." -- PopMatters Posted Mar 21, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	68%
	"It's hard not to think of the many other protestors, detainees, and U.S. citizens whose rights are being stifled as we speak." -- PopMatters Posted Mar 21, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	76%
	"As it articulates the families' trauma and distress, the film also shows the layers of context that have produced their frustrations." -- PopMatters Posted Mar 21, 2008	Shoot Down (2008)	n/a
	"*However you parse the character's evolution, Rambo* the film shows a peculiar understanding of changes in the industry.*" -- PopMatters* Posted Mar 21, 2008	Rambo (2008)	35%
	"Perhaps the band members have seen the movies she so loves, and in her eyes, imagine themselves as next generational approximations of Omar Sharif." -- PopMatters Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
	"The film establishes a complex, compressed moral universe, in which choices are severely limited." -- PopMatters Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
	"*But for all the showy action and spurty blood, it's the evolving intimacy between Ken and Ray that is most compelling in In Bruges." -- PopMatters* Posted Mar 21, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	80%
	"The movie assumes you know all this already and shows it to you anyway." -- PopMatters Posted Mar 21, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	50%

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