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	"'The Dark Knight' boasts a visual splendor that matches its trenchant themes and inspired performances. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 21, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
2.5/5	"Felon ventures outside the prison walls so often that the audience doesn’t get a prolonged sense of the claustrophobia of confinement; the rage being displayed actually dispels the sense of isolation and boredom." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008	Felon (2008)	59%
1.5/5	"Slip this mockumentary into the “Not Worthy of Theatrical Release” file." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Doorman (2008)	25%
3.5/5	"The way in which the relationship is severed, and its understated depiction, leaves you feeling sad and empty, bringing you into communion with the place and its people." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008	Wonderful Town (2008)	91%
3/5	"Simultaneously avant garde and down to earth, the somber film is anchored by spontaneous musical eruptions on its more elusive end and by Sylvie Testud’s tactile performance." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2008	La France (2007)	100%
3.5/5	"While you may wish the filmmakers had included fewer scenic shots of the sun setting over California’s high desert and instead played devil’s advocate more often, the impact of Full Battle Rattle stems from its political and ideological neutrality." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 9, 2008	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	78%
	"After a frenetic and funny first half, 'Hancock' falls apart, devolving into a sentimentalized and scattershot piece short on integrity and sense. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 7, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
1.5/5	"Marcos Carnevale�s patronizing take on the relationship between an elderly widow and widower in Madrid unspools like the vision of a middle-aged person intent on propagating stereotypes about youthfulness and the golden years." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 27, 2008	Elsa & Fred (2008)	60%
3/5	"More successful at evoking sympathy for Dalton Trumbo than offering a detailed study of the Red Scare vis-�-vis the screenwriters known as the �Hollywood Ten,� it nevertheless provides a fascinating introduction to the always-relevant topic." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 27, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	72%
4.5/5	"The genius of WALL-E is how so many disparate influences...are incorporated and evoked while creating something unique...What a wonderful world it would be if the talents they manifest here could somehow be marshalled to address real-life problems." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
	"In 'Get Smart,' Steve Carell doesn't do anything to acknowledge Don Adams or make the Maxwell Smart role his own." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 23, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
	"Concentrates on telling a legible story with plenty of action and enough humor to make you think the proceedings are cleverer than they really are." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
	"Fast, light, and easy-to-swallow, 'Kung Fu Panda' is an ideal repast for families to enjoy during early summer at the multiplex. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 9, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
4/5	"Will inspire all writers, anyone concerned with intellectual property rights and every independent-minded grouch, whether or not he gives a fig for art or has a creative bone in his body." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 6, 2008	Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)	93%
3/5	"Bigger, Stronger, Faster* is also valuable because it anticipates weightier debates on related topics (gene doping, stem-cell therapy and cloning) where scientific and medical innovation intersects with public and private morality." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 30, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%
3.5/5	"*Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) turns this grim item from the stranger-than-fiction file into a provocative thriller in which horror and suspense collide with biting social commentary." -- Boxoffice Magazine* Posted May 30, 2008	Stuck (2008)	71%
	"This entry feels hokey and jokey, mired in nostalgia and strewn with Spielbergian and Lucasian themes as fake as the cobwebs used on the sound-stagey sets. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 26, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Variety Posted May 20, 2008	No One Would Tell (1996)	n/a
3.5/5	"Stands out from the recent wave of movies about the plight of immigrants coming to the United States...because it�s more suspenseful than heart-tugging." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 16, 2008	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	83%
3.5/5	"Filmmaker Christian Petzold meets his goal of providing an alienating portrait of the business world." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 16, 2008	Yella (2008)	76%
2/5	"Will be remembered as a shard in Page�s filmography." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 9, 2008	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	40%
2.5/5	"While they celebrate and subvert genre conventions, their tone isn�t mocking. They want kiddies and their chaperons to enjoy and question, yet the approach does distance the audience." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
1.5/5	"Amounts to overkill and leaves no room for interpretation or analysis." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 7, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2008)	63%
	"Downey acquits himself well enough during the action sequences in 'Iron Man,' but there just aren't enough of them and the existing ones could use a boost. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 5, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
2.5/5	"The movie starts out in muscular, typically Mametian fashion but can�t sustain that punch due to his less-than-firm handling of the storyline." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 2, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
	"The line between vulgar-funny and just plain vulgar is crossed too often in this indefensible sequel. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 28, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
2/5	"Overly deliberate, quite preposterous thriller." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
2.5/5	"Anyone prone to carsickness should bypass Stuff and Dough, unless they have an unquenchable desire to understand Romanian society or a keen interest in the career development of one of its best filmmakers." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2008	Stuff and Dough (2008)	67%
	"'Forgetting Sarah Marxhall' channels Jason Segel's talents in a way that's satisfyingly fresh but still validates classic rom-com story arcs. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 21, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
1.5/5	"Expelled may prove to be as controversial as the producers hope, but the reactions will be more entertaining and elucidating than the film itself." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 18, 2008	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)	8%
2/5	"An academic thriller likely to engage only avid collectors of serial-killer flicks." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 18, 2008	Anamorph (2008)	26%
2.5/5	"Sorely in need of an outsider�s impartial slant." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 14, 2008	Bra Boys (2008)	60%
	"A recurring story pushed to the hilt, 'Street Kings' has a fiercely hyperbolic integrity." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 14, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
	"I found one vital piece of 'Nim's Island' to be ridiculous and the entirety to be only marginally successful. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 12, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	49%
	"As much as I was hoping it would be a game effort, I'd quick-kick 'Leatherheads' on any given Sunday. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 8, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
3.5/5	"Graced with a captivating lead performance and artful cinematography." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2008	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	88%
	"Though slightly overstated, the part played by singing was no doubt significant. Its implied role in keeping the Estonian revolution nonviolent is especially stirring." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 3, 2008	The Singing Revolution (2007)	83%
3/5	"*Love conquers lucre in the cosmopolitan fairytale Priceless, a Kir Royale of a romantic comedy pairing Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh on the French Riviera." -- Boxoffice Magazine* Posted Mar 28, 2008	Priceless (2008)	83%
4/5	"The mixture of the surreal and concrete feels remarkably accurate: a verit� depiction of war with a profound ghostly quality." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 28, 2008	Alexandra (2008)	94%
2.5/5	"The scenery isn�t mind-blowing or the filmmaking awesome, but there�s a certain majesty in how the movie achieves its noble goal of raising awareness about the world water crisis." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)	86%
1.5/5	"Antonio Negret employs too many characters, backstories and plot tangents to address a subject that�s unwieldy enough already" -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Towards Darkness (2007)	13%
2.5/5	"a useful time capsule � a generously baked history of a minor pop-culture institution." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008)	89%
2/5	"Considerably more importance is placed on the chops and the socks than the story, and yet the action sequences aren�t terribly memorable." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Flash Point (2008)	42%
	"When a screenwriter and cast, to the extent they ad-libbed, resort to so much gratuitous profanity, it's a sure sign of desperation. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 14, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
	"While there are moments, '10,000 B.C.' never makes you jump. On the plus side, the movie isn't as lumbering as those digital elephantine beasts. " -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 10, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
	"Clear-eyed and without aiming for the emotional jugular, Ezra goes well beyond geography, politics and ethnicity... to explore the psychological toll on young people caught in violent situations not of their making and beyond their understanding." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 19, 2008	Ezra (2007)	63%
	"Jumper is like a glorified TV pilot from 2005, when supernatural dramas were all the rage. It will make it onto the schedule, but have its legs cut out from under it before the season is over." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 19, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
	"Alas, the nautical romantic comedy constitutes a missed opportunity�a voyage to Red Lobster in a dinghy�mostly thanks to mediocre directing." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
	"The internecine clash depicted between coastal elites and down-home folk goes beyond race to address universal themes about culture and family, so it�s more than a guilty pleasure like sweet tea." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2008	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)	24%
	"The juiciest bits happen off camera, yet their consequences are riveting, thanks in no small measure to sympathetic performances by Carla Ribas and Berta Zemel." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2008	Alice's House (2008)	90%

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