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	" A murky, directionless plot sinks this big-budget fantasy." Posted Oct 10, 2008	City of Ember (2008)	47%
	" This is a little too slick and commanding for its own good; despite Crowe and DiCaprio's best efforts, their characters keep getting flattened by the steamroller narrative." Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	52%
	" Pegg has some good obnoxious moments, but he's only a few movies away from becoming Dudley Moore." Posted Oct 3, 2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	33%
	" Maher�s first film project, Religulous, is a major disappointment because here, unlike on Real Time, he aims for laughs instead of insight -- and aims low." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Religulous (2008)	68%
	" Malcolm X (1992) proved that Lee could rise to the challenge of a sweeping historical epic, but this 160-minute drama is overblown and unconvincing, the director's bright, poppy style clashing with the grim subject matter." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	31%
	" Caruso and Spielberg probably thought they were reviving the paranoid style of 70s political thrillers, but their story is so implausible it barely provokes a tremor." Posted Sep 25, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
	" The screenplay by Brian Hohlfeld incorporates three of the original Pooh stories but captures none of the charm of A.A. Milne's droll voice." Posted Sep 10, 2008	Piglet's Big Movie (2003)	72%
	" The deft physical comedy is a pleasure, though the leering chauvinism becomes more embarrassing as the movie progresses." Posted Sep 5, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	80%
	" Monster Camp is an endless succession of fantasy enthusiasts talking about nothing." Posted Sep 2, 2008	Monster Camp (2007)	62%
	" Watching Allen fart out a story when he has no characters is always painful." Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
	" Without the grandiose narrative structure of the six live-action releases, this feels even more pointless, a mechanical attempt to milk the kids for every last dime." Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	19%
	" The rest of the movie never lives up to the hilarity of the opening, partly because the large-scale production smothers the gags but mostly because those gags are so easy to smother." Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
	" Never generates any big laughs, and the chase elements are so intentionally cliched they never take on a life of their own." Posted Aug 6, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
	" This starts to get interesting in the homestretch, as the woman's chronic deception begins to catch up with her, but for the most part it's an extended Geritol commercial." Posted Aug 1, 2008	Elsa & Fred (2008)	54%
	" This being senior year, Burstein can't help but capture some genuine drama, but there's a stage-managed quality to the movie that reminded me of MTV reality shows." Posted Aug 1, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
	" This being senior year, Burstein can't help but capture some genuine drama, but there's a stage-managed quality to the movie that reminded me of MTV reality shows." Posted Aug 1, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
	" The undertones of Frank Capra come bubbling to the surface in a smarmy finale complete with French horn and bags of mail from the common folk." Posted Aug 1, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	38%
	" Ferrell and Reilly get more mileage out of juvenile pouting and bickering than any other performers I can imagine, but that's about as far as this goes." Posted Jul 24, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
	" The year's most aggressive chick flick, with a score of irresistibly catchy ABBA tunes sweetening the dumb story like peaches in cottage cheese." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
	" Timur Bekmambetov makes his U.S. debut with this big, cruel, stupid actioner about an office dweeb (James McAvoy) who gets recruited into an ancient cult of assassins." Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
	" Like so many satires in the Strangelove mold, this never comes close to working as a story, but its lampoon of U.S. imperialism and military privatization is so bracingly obnoxious I didn't really care." Posted Jun 13, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	30%
	" This father-son drama never rises above the archetypal: its conflict will be familiar to all, its resolution a surprise to none." Posted Jun 13, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	72%
	" The movie is enjoyable for its flashy surfaces--the witty editing, the narrative forecasting, the droll omniscient voice-over--but as drama it seems superficial." Posted May 30, 2008	Reprise (2008)	86%
	" In both its TV and movie incarnations, the empty materialism and sincere longing for love always manage to cancel each other out, leaving behind nothing but what this started out as -- a sitcom." Posted May 29, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	50%
	" The Nickelodeon cartoon series about an oceanic sponge and his starfish sidekick washes onto the big screen with a tide of weak one-liners, exaggerated reactions, and vaguely nauseating gags." Posted May 20, 2008	The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004)	68%
	" At the end of this weak comedy is a strange and touching scene in which Bill Cosby and his childhood pals from Philadelphia, now elderly men, gather at the grave of Albert Robertson, the real-life inspiration for Cosby's bighearted Fat Albert." Posted May 20, 2008	Fat Albert (2004)	21%
	" [Tomas Young] deserves better treatment from the government than he's gotten as a returning veteran, and a better movie than this simpleminded indictment of every senator who voted 'yea.'" Posted May 16, 2008	Body of War (2008)	71%
	" Producer Ismail Merchant died in 2005, but Merchant Ivory's stuffy tradition of quality lives on." Posted May 16, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	47%
	" The killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. marines in November 2005 is still so clouded by cover-up that the last thing anyone needs now is an improvised drama about the tragedy by UK gonzo documentarian Nick Broomfield." Posted May 7, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2007)	63%
	" This adaptation of an Elinor Lipman novel is Hunt's feature directing debut, and under the circumstances she might have been wiser to give the lead role to someone else." Posted May 2, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	52%
	" Perelman never overcomes the disjuncture of having two familiar actresses play the same grown character, and despite the endless crosscutting, the two halves settle respectively into ghoulish foreboding and murky psychological drama." Posted Apr 25, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
	" Screenwriter Edward Anderson drops the South African angle in favor of more conventional developments and has a hard time bringing this across the finish line without a number of implausibilities." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Flawless (2007)	59%
	" his drama, about the three days leading up to the murder, never overcomes its inherent ghoulishness, largely because Chapman, like so many mentally ill people, is a huge bore." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Chapter 27 (2008)	20%
	" *A product of the recent poker craze, this can't compare with the movie that helped launch it, John Dahl's tense Rounders." Posted Apr 24, 2008*	Deal (2008)	0%
	" You don't have to be a genius to find yourself several steps ahead of this helpfully titled mystery thriller." Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
	" *The script favors routine Odd Couple* gags over the sort of comic contemplation of motherhood a writer like Fey might have brought to the subject.*" Posted Apr 24, 2008*	Baby Mama (2008)	62%
	" The hero's nuclear family and kooky rural relatives are so sketchily conceived that none of the intended comedy works, and the balance of the movie is given over to one of Crowe's sugary romances." Posted Apr 22, 2008	Elizabethtown (2005)	28%
	" Be very afraid." Posted Apr 22, 2008	London (2006)	14%
	" It's a little insulting to all the real reporters who've died in the field looking for hard information, not weak indie comedy." Posted Apr 21, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	36%
	" Though it's beautifully shot (and characteristically drenched in red-orange light), the characters gently bump each other away, like slow-rolling billiard balls." Posted Apr 18, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
	" The project reeks of commercial calculation, which is just tolerable until Walker, in search of a story arc, follows two chorus members with serious illnesses into the hospital." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	89%
	" As a director Carnahan definitely has the goods... Unfortunately the script is your basic renegade-cop narrative, with the usual hoo-ha about justice versus the law." Posted Apr 9, 2008	Narc (2002)	83%
	" Aside from threading in a few black-and-white clips of the band being interviewed in the mid-60s, Scorsese doesn't have much to say about the Stones, and their unfeeling professionalism onstage says quite enough already." Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
	" The students are so blandly written this never builds any suspense, though it probably has some value as an empowerment fantasy for debt-ridden collegians." Posted Mar 31, 2008	21 (2008)	35%
	" The gags are consistently weak." Posted Mar 29, 2008	Superhero Movie! (2008)	13%
	" Though its intentions are noble, it's hampered by a stock romantic subplot, a familiar structure, and a lack of symmetry." Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
	" First-time director James Gartner observes all the rituals--the coach busting chops, the team sneaking out to party--but the players are indifferently characterized and the civil rights story has a fake Black History Month feel." Posted Mar 25, 2008	Glory Road (2006)	56%
	" This is supposed to be about setting high standards, yet it's full of fudged ultimatums; in the end I couldn't be sure whether its morality was complex or just confused." Posted Mar 25, 2008	Coach Carter (2005)	63%
	" The earlier release helped make him a critics' darling with its meta-movie touches and baldly articulated strategy of implicating the audience in the violence; replayed a decade later, those stunts feel both rhetorical and redundant." Posted Mar 14, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	51%
	" A tedious movie about excitement." Posted Mar 7, 2008	Steep (2007)	51%

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