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78/100	" ...patently dishonest about a few things." Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Express (2008)	65%
80/100	" A post-apocalyptic children's fable that recalls the pre-Amelie work of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Pixar's Wall-E, City of Ember is a production designer's movie that retains some of the fairy-tale darkness of the Grimm" Posted Oct 10, 2008	City of Ember (2008)	47%
84/100	" ...a slightly too serious period costume drama" Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	60%
86/100	" ... a classical Western that invites us to savor no-nonsense camaraderie between two shootists for hire." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
79/100	" [a] literal-minded realization of an allegorical fable -- some stories are not improved by the filling in of details..." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Blindness (2008)	41%
87/100	" ... a compelling courtroom drama - think Revenge of the Nerds crossed with To Kill a Mockingbird" Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	59%
85/100	" ...skews closer to the rough charms of sub-John Hughes teensploitation flicks likeValley Girl than Juno" Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
92/100	" ...extraordinary, shatteringly unsentimental portraits of a poor illegitimate boy's coming of age" Posted Sep 30, 2008	The Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood / My Ain Folk / My Way Home (1972-1978)	n/a
78/100	" *... reductive and unfunny ... think Coming Home* crossed with Vegas Vacation minus Cousin Eddie ...*" Posted Sep 27, 2008*	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
88/100	" Gervais' limey tartness neatly complements the professional carbonated sparkle of Kinnear and Leoni." Posted Sep 19, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	85%
90/100	" Black and snappy, the Coen brothers' latest nihilistic wonder is an overt comedy about covert ops ..." Posted Sep 12, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
83/100	" ... an intriguing and visually interesting film that in aggregate never escapes the genre ghetto. It is another immigration song, a glancing curiosity that never really penetrates our preconceived romantic illusions." Posted Sep 12, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
83/100	" ...a movie that would probably be better off as a poem." Posted Sep 9, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	72%
87/100	" ... Black and White is sort of a mess, but it's the kind of worthy, ambitious mess that a director like Godard might make." Posted Aug 31, 2008	Black and White (1999)	38%
79/100	" Every Woody Allen movie becomes an occasion to discuss what went wrong with Woody Allen movies. My own theory is that Allen simply became too efficient at getting his movies made %u2014 he works quickly and cheaply and he never has to convince his backers" Posted Aug 25, 2008	Cassandra's Dream (2008)	51%
83/100	" ...in the end the movie is redeemed by a weird integrity." Posted Aug 22, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
87/100	" Simple Jack is not a bone-headed pandering Hollywood idea of what a mentally handicapped person might be like, but a joke about how Hollywood often misses the point and underestimates its audience." Posted Aug 17, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
89/100	" Allen is not interested in doing much more than glancing off some intriguing ideas, such as the common tragedy of the would-be artist who recognizes his mediocrity. But he's old enough to recognize that he doesn't need to be profound, just entertaining." Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
90/100	" ... examines ... in a sometimes subtle and sidelong poetic way, is examine the ways people recover and heal." Posted Aug 15, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	36%
82/100	" Levine has an eye for detail and the germ of what Stephen Colbert might call a "truthy" idea - that it is possible, even through a chemically induced fog of numbness, to genuinely feel for another person." Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	67%
85/100	" As a diverting documentary, Gonzo lives up to its subject matter - it is indulgent and witty, filled with a thousand little insights and ultimately sad. Thompson seemed obscure to his family, cartoonishly overblown to his friends." Posted Aug 8, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	89%
88/100	" ...has the slightly seedy look of a low-budget '70s film and an uncanny instinct for the way some people think and behave under the influence." Posted Aug 8, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
83/100	" ...more fun than expected, and in its own middlebrow way, peculiarly true to Waugh's own vision." Posted Aug 1, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	63%
86/100	" ... about the creation of fiction, the way we spin lies together into a simulacrum of life - if there's any philosophical point of view beyond that it's that every narrative is necessarily an abridgment of truth." Posted Aug 1, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
86/100	" ... film full of wry comments and textural gestures - Trier mixes film stock and references to MTV-style jump cuts and the French New Wave (Truffaut's Jules and Jim is an obvious point of reference) to the extent that the pyrotechnics threaten to b" Posted Jul 25, 2008	Reprise (2008)	86%
75/100	" ... a flat, desultory piece that relies too much on the presumed comic chemistry between its co-stars." Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
91/100	" ...a movie that fulfills the promise of the best Hollywood movies in that it offers us transport to an alternate yet recognizable reality." Posted Jul 25, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
85/100	" *... defaults to a kind of poetic conventionality that is unlikely to completely satisfy fans of either The Pianist* or The Love Letter.*" Posted Jul 11, 2008*	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	68%
93/100	" ... a plainspoken, poetic work that is likely to surprise you with its virtues no matter how often you've heard it called a "great film."" Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Bicycle Thief (1948)	97%
84/100	" ...at times it veers dangerously close to being just another solipsistic horror show, another magic trick in which absolution is achieved through ordinariness." Posted Jul 4, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
83/100	" ...there's an undeniable energy to this subjective, self-serving film which at times says more than it means to about this male-dominated culture." Posted Jul 4, 2008	Bra Boys (2008)	57%
91/100	" It may well be the best science fiction film in ages, but the movie doesn't need any hyperbolic assertions to draw an audience.Or, alas, to sell its action figures." Posted Jul 4, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
83/100	" There are lots of interesting ideas and some fine work on display, but it never gels into a fully satisfying movie experience. Like its titular super-anti-hero, it only works sometimes." Posted Jul 4, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
85/100	" You might look at this movie and see a lot of talent in service to low humor. But chances are, you'll be laughing too hard to notice." Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
83/100	" ... slight and sweet as a meringue" Posted Jun 13, 2008	Priceless (2008)	83%
84/100	" ... might be viewed as a symptom of a Hollywood system in which women of a certain age are devalued and ignored." Posted Jun 6, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	52%
87/100	" ...an uneven film, but a special one that earns its ahs." Posted Jun 6, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	74%
80/100	" Zohan may have an Apatow label, but it's got Sandler guts." Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	35%
76/100	" ... a gay camp parody of the way fabulous heterosexual women court affection" Posted Jun 6, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	50%
78/100	" ... bored me to the point that I really wanted to get up and leave the theater." Posted May 30, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
87/100	" ...he first hour of the film is as successful as anything I've ever seen or read at conveying how the world looks to the drugged." Posted May 28, 2008	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)	48%
91/100	" ...a literate and low-key character study of an ordinary man in depressingly average straits." Posted May 23, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	93%
82/100	" ... dreamy, woozy, elliptical and gorgeously infused with orange-red light and smeary Matisse blues. It's visually beautiful and its open-ended narrative is loose and suggestive" Posted May 16, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
76/100	" ... not so much a bad movie as an infuriating one, a pretty empty thing that wants desperately to be loved for its deep thoughts." Posted May 9, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
91/100	" ...all the more effective for its lack of hysteria. It isn't a finger-pointing song so much as a lament for the death of character - the quality that permits us to follow our principles despite our fears." Posted May 9, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
88/100	" ...a mash-up of Mamet's familiar stylized stories of victims and con men with a conventional sports underdog movie set in the relatively novel world of mixed martial arts fighting" Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	70%
88/100	" Secrecy might have had a different kind of resonance, for I grew up with the understanding that there is much that is not my place to know. Some questions are not to be asked." Posted May 8, 2008	Secrecy (2008)	100%
90/100	" ...a machine with a human heart, a gleaming vehicle of transport." Posted May 2, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
90/100	" ... an honest effort to sound painful human depths." Posted Apr 25, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
90/100	" There is brutality in Snow Angels, but little bitterness. Like sunlight on ice, its painful beauty glints and stabs the eyes." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	67%

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