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10,000 B.C. (2008) |
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"Ready to rumble, scantily clad Neanderthals gone wild, gliding around the globe faster than high speed Internet. And while dodging seemingly nearsighted menacing reptiles with bad manners, whose oversized choppers repeatedly miss their mark." | |
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21 (2008) |
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"Treating card playing as an exciting spectator sport rather than, say, about as thrilling as watching fishing for two hours, this offbeat cautionary tale warns all those impulsive casino-bound eggheads out there, that losers come in all IQ's." | |
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August (2008) |
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"A procession of anger mismanagement protagonist episodes of rude behavior with assorted unbelievably receptive babes, and a glutton-for-punishment old flame (Naomie Harris) whom he manages to re-con into bed, before she wises up all over again." | |
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August (2008) |
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"A procession of anger mismanagement protagonist episodes of rude behavior with assorted unbelievably receptive babes, and a glutton-for-punishment old flame (Naomie Harris) whom he manages to re-con into bed, before she wises up all over again." | |
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The Bank Job (2008) |
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"These heady high jinks ultimately deflate as a gritty collection of assembled journalistic details, with little solid dramatic scrutiny of dirty politics or shadowy personalities." | |
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Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
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"A people's cinema rough cut heart so squarely in the right place over in Passaic as opposed to Hollywood, that it's pretty much hard to resist." | |
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Black August (2006) |
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"American Gulag: Prison Rebel Turned Filmmaker TCinque Sampson Talks Black August, The Tragic Life Of George Jackson." | |
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Canary Season (1993) |
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"Canary Review: With the Tokyo sarin gas subway attacks as allegory, this is a searing indictment of a society that may have lost sight of adult responsibility for their youth, its most precious human resources." | |
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Caramel (2008) |
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"Ritual and rebellion collide in this bittersweet confection casting a rare gaze upon the pleasures, sorrows, dreams and sexual desires of Arab women in the Middle East." | |
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Chronicles of an Exorcism (2007) |
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"For better or worse, Satan seems to have gotten his very own reality show and is loving all the attention, in this combo Exorcist, Blair Witch Project and clerics gone wild movie within a movie." | |
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
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"Without question one of the most demonic, pure incarnations of nightmarish instant classic movie villains, Heath Ledger's Joker self-mutilated danger junkie, misery loves company chaos freak in hellish warpaint may be gone, but will never be forgotten." | |
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Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
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"A bittersweet bedtime story about at least three babes who broke a guy's heart during his hard knocks, early adult years, in addition to, well, Bill Clinton." | |
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Drillbit Taylor (2008) |
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"A Superbad lite knockoff replacing sex with violence and minus the dirty talk, Drillbit Taylor is its own worst enemy by tackling a grim subject like school bullies for laughs." | |
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Enchanted (2007) |
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"A dark fairy tale turned contemporary urban romance tossing together time zones and centuries, and animation and real humans with mixed-company kid fare. Time will tell, depending upon the zone of preference." | |
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Expired (2008) |
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"How likely is it that love, not to mention hot sex, can blossom between two people who've picked identical careers dedicated to punishing the rest of us? Delightfully kinky sex and the city meter maid romp." | |
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Felon (2008) |
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"Dorff, who was last spotted as a scary sexual sadist in Shadowboxer, gives a mesmerizing performance evolving from stunned civilian to brutalized inmate and dangerous prison thug, then transforming into a tested man who rediscovers his own humanity." | |
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
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"A prison sex slave rebellion having to do with an organ sandwich, don't ask, and a detour over to Bush's secret sex den, make this ballsy doper duo and their Blue State versus Red State rant hard to resist." | |
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Holly Hobbie & Friends - Best Friends Forever |
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"A Sisterhood Of The Homemade Pants for the female small fry set." | |
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In Bruges (2008) |
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"Brooding, tense, allegorical, quirky, tragic and unbelievably funny, In Bruges may be the most intelligent, introspective and bizarre gangster thriller in quite some time, perhaps ever." | |
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Irina Palm (2008) |
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"Garbarski combines social satire, hand jobs, feminism, and romantic grace to create a tenderhearted tale of found love and female empowerment. And he actually pulls it off, give the guy a hand. On second thought..." | |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) |
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"Many of the engaging scenes can be enjoyed the old fashioned way, minus the 3D glasses, simply for the sheer infusion of wacky humor and that playful force of personality Fraser provides. Who knew science fiction and comedy could reactivate Jules Verne." | |
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The Last Winter (2007) |
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"An eco-supernatural dreamscape companion piece to Al Gore's cautionary doc, An Incovenient Truth, and a thinking man's figurative and literal sub-Arctic chiller with a turbulent character-driven indie soul." | |
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Love for Sale: Suely in the Sky (2007) |
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"Yet another addition to that deplorable male fantasy on screen, namely that prostitution is a primary path to female empowerment and liberation." | |
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Lucky Man (2007) |
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"Lucky Man packs a whole lot of full length feature drama, character conflict and hard boiled humor into its brief running time, paved with richly drawn offbeat personalities and finely crafted storytelling. " | |
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Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005) |
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"This investigative literal and figurative global chain reaction appears to be yet another exceptionally worthy addition to the evolving genre of what may be termed anti-globalization cinema." | |
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My Blueberry Nights (2008) |
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"The movie is all over the map in more than just its cross-country itinerary, and these stars are all far too good looking to imagine them as unrequited lovers and perpetual losers. But that blueberry pie sure looks awfully good." | |
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Nim's Island (2008) |
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"Jodie 'Brave One' Foster is still peeved, though now it's less about what bad people do, than how icky their unsanitary their germs are. And she isn't half bad either doing a divine nitwit dining on worms or playing soccer with a coconut in the wilds." | |
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Only for You (2008) |
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"A bittersweet take on the twentysomething tribulations of young adulthood when messy matters like love and work need to be sorted out, and soon." | |
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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
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"An all in the dysfunctional family royal romp with incestuous tendencies, this richly textured, dramatically disciplined, erotically laced and emotionally taut creation makes for weirdly kinky historical analysis, but pretty steamy pre-tabloid melodrama." | |
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Penelope (2008) |
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"With only a DNA witch's curse pig's snout compromising Ricci's otherwise exceedingly alluring physical assets, it doesn't make a lick of sense that prospective suitors are jumping out of windows after catching a glimpse of her disfigured beak." | |
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Quid Pro Quo (2008) |
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"Not exactly Bunuel's differently abled erotica classic Tristana, it raises mystifying questions about disability as a state of mind. And whether or not the final clues to this mind over matter mystery reside in sex, shoes or tulips, hypochondriacs beware." | |
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Rails & Ties (2007) |
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"Kevin Bacon turns in a solid, attention grabbing performance as a rigid, scornful man in a deep funk just trying to cling to a familiar world disintegrating all around him." | |
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Shadows In Paradise: Hitler's Exiles In Hollywood (1990) |
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"The Exiles may be said to be about everything and nothing. This radically experimental fusion of drama and documentary is a day of subtle revelations in the life of the LA inner city Native American community of Bunker Hill back then." | |
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Shine a Light (2008) |
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"The Stones aspire to project physical and musical agelessness, and a reinvented rebellion switched from anti-patriarchal authority to one against Father Time. You don't need a weathered man to know which way the wind blows." | |
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Sleepwalking (2008) |
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"Taking its cue from the tabloids, this is yet another addition to that tacky category of scandal sheet cinema. Why do celebrities with charmed Hollywood lives imagine everyday people as a bunch of sleazy or dimwitted degenerates, misfits and assassins." | |
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Smart People (2008) |
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"A cast of such sad sacks, that it's pretty astonishing when the lusty sparks begin to fly between any of them, and with an overload of brain power coming across as some kind of mental impairment. Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex and the UniverCity comedown." | |
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Step Brothers (2008) |
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"The Will Ferrell Step Brothers Interview" | |
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Street Kings (2008) |
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"While military man turned director Ayer implicates our culture steeped in violence and the damaging effects of trained killing, whether by police or in war, he's assembled such a deplorable LAPD rogues gallery, it's hard to tell which one is the worst." | |
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Sunflower (2005) |
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"An odd combination of sociopolitical metaphor and conventional melodrama, Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yang's Sunflower has moments of keen insight and power touching on the ways in which human character and personality are shaped by historical experience." | |
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The Counterfeiters (2008) |
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"This richly layered allegorical clash between a criminal and a communist, pits the urge for survival despite one's debasement, against defiance, collective rebellion and martyrdom - the very impulses that advance history, but at enormous cost." | |
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The Signal (2007) |
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"A bloody banquet of excessive, tasteless gore, but with an odd infusion of unsavory humor that never meshes with the horror. Think fatal car crash with a laugh track." | |
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Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) |
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"Master of disguise Perry's tangled web of narrative threads range from poignant to positively awful." | |
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Vantage Point (2008) |
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"Surveillance cinema at its best, with audience attention span on high alert, camcorders and palm pilots elbowing their way in, and plenty of optic nerve to spare." | |
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War, Inc. (2008) |
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"Cusack as a mercenary in bulltetproof designer suits and Hilary Duff doing a kinky Arab superstar sexpot shoving scorpions down her crotch, can't save this satire crossing the line between the chaos of war and the chaos of filmmaking." | |
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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) |
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"Spurlock draws some weird paternal parallels, subconscious or not, between Osama as the fugitive founding father of Al Qaeda, and his own possibly wayward, pre-partum depression, stressed situation as an imminently expectant, first time fugitive dad-to-be" | |
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