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	"*For that particular someone, Savage Grace* could be the perfect summer chiller.ca*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 27, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	42%
4.5/5	"Shampoo, made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	Shampoo (1975)	62%
2.5/5	"There are moments of beauty here, but not enough to make up for the mannered dialogue and hamstrung performances." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Go-Getter (2008)	40%
1.5/5	"The message -- believe in yourself even when all evidence suggests you shouldn't -- is annoyingly familiar and frankly overdue for a serious debunking, but it's not about to happen here." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
2/5	"Miss Conception isn't so much a movie as an extended sitcom -- it looks like one, it acts like one, it reduces everything to the lowest common denominator like one." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 6, 2008	Miss Conception (2008)	0%
4/5	"It's a beautiful, unexpectedly enrapturing story about a world in transition and both the closeness and unbridgeable divide between generations and cultures." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
3.5/5	"It's a fascinating and unexpectedly profound and melancholy meditation on what we have become as a country and on the misguided obsessions that made us this way." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%
4/5	"A vision of which doesn't require its characters being frozen in amber after a fairy tale ending and allows life to go on, happily and unconventionally." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
3/5	"Somehow, what starts as a series of cheap shots in a barrel develops into something more, thanks largely to warm, engaging performances by Cusack and Tomei. War, Inc. is both right-on and somehow off, but it gets points for trying." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 23, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
2/5	"A well-acted, if not terribly well-crafted, character-driven drama without much in the way of a purpose." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 16, 2008	Turn the River (2008)	75%
4/5	"[Director Joachim Trier] captures, in a way that's cool and romantic and heady, the moment in life when nothing matters more than ideas, influences and the possibility of shaping one's life into a work of art." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 15, 2008	Reprise (2008)	88%
2.5/5	"*While it's full of arresting, indelible images, Mr. Lonely* remains mostly on the level of abstraction. You get it but you don't always feel it.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 9, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	43%
2/5	"The fakeness of it all overwhelms, dampening any real excitement. It's hard to care about characters so stiff and one-dimensional they out-cartoon the cartoon originals." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
2/5	"What Happens in Vegas feels oddly stilted yet desperate, as though its principals felt the need to overcompensate for the too-neat symmetry of opening scenes with over-the-top violence and bright orange tans." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	27%
4/5	"[A] contemporary noir with a samurai movie interior, as sincere, plaintive and strangely optimistic a movie as he's made." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
2.5/5	"For a film about falling in love with the movies, its insights on them are next to nil." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
3.5/5	"Body of War makes no bones about its activism. Then again, like the others, it's the willingness to contextualize events and apply reason to them that makes it and others so valuable." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Body of War (2008)	71%
3/5	"If Forgetting Sarah Marshall lacks the heady mix of sheer exuberance and unexpected maturity of the granddaddy of the genre, Apatow's 40-Year-Old Virgin, it's more soulful than Knocked Up and more inclusive than Superbad." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
2.5/5	"My Blueberry Nights should have played like a memory, but its hard-living, luckless losers are too beautiful to be believed." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 4, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
3.5/5	"Clooney and Zellweger radiate intelligence and seem to take pleasure in each other's mental agility. Even when the lines are less than spectacular, the spark between the two actors is knowing and playful." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 4, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
4/5	"The perfect frothy fantasy for the obscene wealth gap era, Priceless (Hors de Prix) stars a gorgeous, cellophane-thin Audrey Tautou as Ir�ne, a dedicated gold digger who finds herself accidentally mixed up with a penniless bartender." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 28, 2008	Priceless (2008)	83%
2.5/5	"Snow Angels begins with a wink, but it ends with a sucker punch. And somehow this doesn't feel fair." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	67%
4/5	"*Youth and death meet again in Gus Van Sant�s Paranoid Park, a gorgeously stark, mesmerizingly elliptical story told in the same lyrical-prosaic style that has characterized his latest films." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 14, 2008	Paranoid Park (2008)	74%
2.5/5	"The sad thing is that this Horton doesn't stick by its central message -- that every voice counts -- the way Horton sticks to the Whos. It pretends to, but the sincerity is just too scary to commit to fully." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
2.5/5	"*Maybe it is about compromise, after all, because though Married Life* has its moments, it's bewildering as a whole.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 7, 2008	Married Life (2008)	57%
3.5/5	"It's hard not to like a movie in which Frances McDormand spends half her screen time staring longingly at leftover scraps of bread and half-eaten apples, as she does in the charmingly featherweight Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 7, 2008	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	78%
3.5/5	"*For all its sad moments, Romulus, My Father* is a love story between father and son kept aloft by unalloyed admiration.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Feb 29, 2008	Romulus, My Father (2008)	44%
4/5	"The director wants to bring recent history to life for people who weren't around to witness it, and in that he succeeds pretty admirably." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 29, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	76%
2.5/5	"[Director] Poll never picks a tone to stick with, so the movie is neither quite naturalistic nor stylized enough, and Charlie's character vacillates between charming-soulful and creepy-weird." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
3.5/5	"Eminently likable. And there's something about Gondry's persistent nostalgia that feels contemporary, or opportune, at least." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	68%
3/5	"An ambling narrative, but an atmospheric one that feels authentic despite its unlikely character pairings." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 15, 2008	The Witnesses (2008)	85%
2/5	"The movie suffers from the same malaise Romero diagnoses in society. It's just too mediated to be scary, despite its zeal for gore. You can't feel the characters' fear, and they don't seem to feel it either." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 15, 2008	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	60%
2.5/5	"I kept wishing for another scene with Mulgarath in the form of Nolte, because, well, you can never have enough Nolte, and because his particular brand of kinetic insanity would have been just what the movie needed to shake up its clockwork smoothness." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 14, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
4/5	"In Bruges manages to toy with cliché while avoiding it entirely." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	80%
4/5	"Billy's resilience, though, is nothing short of amazing. Not to mention part of growing up." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	Billy the Kid (2007)	88%
2/5	"Anything can happen -- anything except anything remotely entertaining." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
3.5/5	"*What lingers after watching Alice's House* are not the moments of conflict but the inexorable rhythms of daily life.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jan 25, 2008	Alice's House (2008)	90%
1.5/5	"A stew of cheap irony, ponderous but meaningless allegory, violence and pretension, the movie is all borrowed style and calculated pandering. It does, however, get more ludicrous by the minute. So in that sense, it's good for an occasional laugh." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 25, 2008	The Air I Breathe (2007)	14%
4.5/5	"Campy, shameless and sophisticated, Lichtenstein's debut is gutsy and original." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2008	Teeth (2008)	81%
2.5/5	"27 Dresses dutifully privileges its formulaic plot over its stick-figure characters, slapping a happy ending on a setup that, say, Happiness director Todd Solondz could have gone to town on." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2008	27 Dresses (2008)	40%
2/5	"The big problem with Mad Money is not that the situation is implausible -- this is a caper; it's supposed to be over the top -- it's that it doesn't do the work necessary to con us into believing it." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2008	Mad Money (2008)	21%
4/5	"Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber's haunting documentary about legendary jazz musician Chet Baker, first came out in 1989 and hasn't been easy to catch since. Now reissued in 35 millimeter, the film looks like a pristine time-capsule." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 11, 2008	Let's Get Lost (1988)	96%
4/5	"A beautiful, evocative collage composed of concert footage, photographs, interviews and film clips, as well as interviews with people who knew him, the film is a rigorously thorough biography and an impassioned accolade." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 4, 2008	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	88%
	"Eerie, atmospheric...an unexpectedly poignant ghost story." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 3, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	86%
	"A reminder that even the most complex situations, identities and stories are heartbreakingly simple." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 26, 2007	Persepolis (2007)	96%
3/5	"*How weird is John Turturro's Romance & Cigarettes? Almost indescribably weird, though also strangely involving." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 21, 2007	Romance & Cigarettes (2007)	53%
1/5	"*You could go see P.S. I Love You, or you could hit yourself on the head with a meat mallet." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 21, 2007	P.S. I Love You (2007)	20%
3.5/5	"Tim Burton's scaled-down adaptation chooses style over substance. The result, however, is still a pretty enjoyable film." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 20, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
4.5/5	"Yu's film may be challenging to synopsize, but it's thoroughly engrossing and wildly surprising." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 14, 2007	Protagonist (2007)	84%
2.5/5	"*Ultimately, Youth Without Youth* is more intriguing than it is satisfying. It hooks you, then lets you flounder.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 14, 2007	Youth Without Youth (2007)	29%

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