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America The Beautiful (2008) |
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"America the Beautiful is a great film - a provocative cautionary tale that fingers crossed, might also act as a wake-up call." | |
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Baby Mama (2008) |
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"Baby Mama which was written not by Fey but by its director Michael McCullers is awfully familiar yet the movie - forgive me - delivers its laughs without audiences having to go into labor to get them." | |
Richard Knight | |
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Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
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"Director Michel Gondry delivers the first great film of 2008." | |
Richard Knight | |
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Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007) |
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"Let's hope this is the springboard for a biopic on the art world's dynamic gay duo - maybe by the time it gets made we'll even have some openly gay actors to play the parts." | |
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) |
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"A sumptuous romantic drama that honors its literary source and deeply satisfies." | |
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The Bucket List (2007) |
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"For those who want to Believe, those who want to be cuddled by the fake laughter through tears emotions that only an expertly made piece of Hollywood toffee like this can provide - if only for the moment - get out your hankies." | |
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Chaos Theory (2008) |
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"The movie lives up to its title. How else to explain the random switch from such a dizzy set up with such promise to a typical, by the numbers relationship drama?" | |
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Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008) |
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"A charming, loving portrait electrified by the inclusion of lots of terrific home movie footage. These relics of gay history are worth the rest of the movie." | |
Richard Knight | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
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"If this is a movie for children than I can only guess the filmmakers had Donald Rumsfeld's grandkids in mind when they made it" | |
Richard Knight | |
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Cloverfield (2008) |
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"Cinéma Vérité Godzilla - canny enough to have been designed for the YouTube generation as well as for those elder folks like myself that still like a good ride on the roller coaster every once in awhile." | |
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
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"A sinister epic that manages to turn its pulp, comic book source into complex and thrilling art for the masses." | |
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Diva (1981) |
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"Director Jean Jacques-Beineix's pop art pastiche is a glittering mix of artifice and genuine cool with its intricate yet effortless thriller plot enacted by some of the screen's most individual and eccentric characters; its combination of playful sexiness" | |
Richard Knight | |
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The Fall (2008) |
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"An offbeat fairy tale for grownups that squeaks by on its visual panache and some major male eye candy." | |
Richard Knight | |
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Flawless (2007) |
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"The picture is mildly entertaining, aided strongly by the retro period and Caine's authoritative performance. As for Moore, the script doesn't offer her much - certainly not the intensity that brought her equal parts fame and derision." | |
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George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
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"The fifth installment of Romero's zombie series is dark, creepy and funny." | |
Richard Knight | |
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Get Smart (2008) |
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"If there is anything that will save Get Smart from the same mindless fate as the rest of director Peter Segal's blandly funny oeuvre, it's the presence of Steve Carell." | |
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Hancock (2008) |
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"A strange hybrid of a movie; a film that never congeals and is the first misstep that I can recall Smith making since he refused to kiss Eric Thal on screen in Six Degrees of Separation 15 years ago." | |
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The Happening (2008) |
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"If Shyamalan wanted to commit career suicide he couldn't have chosen a more likely vehicle than this laugh inducing 'thriller.'" | |
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In Bruges (2008) |
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"In Bruges has unforgettable moments of depth, lots of pitch black humor, outrageous, unbelievable twists that are nevertheless quite entertaining and the teaming of Gleeson and Farrell who jointly deliver an acting knock out." | |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
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"After 19 years, Spielberg and company have unearthed the best treasure of all - another great Indiana Jones movie." | |
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Iron Man (2008) |
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"Marvel-ous!" | |
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A Jihad for Love (2008) |
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"As compelling in its way as Daniel Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So." | |
Richard Knight | |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) |
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"A perfect Saturday matinee movie." | |
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) |
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"A very sweet family film, a cross between Annie and Nancy Drew" | |
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Let's Get Lost (1988) |
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"A beautiful film - as flawed as its subject, and all the more fascinating because of its odd lapses." | |
Richard Knight | |
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Life of Reilly (2007) |
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"Charles Nelson Reilly's one-man stage show makes for a terrific one-man movie." | |
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The Love Guru (2008) |
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"Both the tissue thin character and the movie are hardly sustainable beyond an SNL sketch which makes the 90 minute running time almost as interminable as one of those Deepak Chopra sanctimonious self-help tapes." | |
Richard Knight | |
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Mamma Mia! (2008) |
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"The movie gets by on sheer exuberance. Your appreciation of it, I suspect, will strongly depend on your mood and the enthusiasm of the audience members around you." | |
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) |
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"Uncork the champagne you Noel Coward lovers, you passionate Cole Porter queens. Here is a movie that combines the effortless sophistication and lyrical cleverness of those two witty gay icons." | |
Richard Knight | |
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Mother of Tears (2008) |
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"A very entertaining fiasco" | |
Richard Knight | |
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My Blueberry Nights (2008) |
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"My Blueberry Nights at any length doesn't begin to answer the question why Jones, who seems nice in a bland, girl next door way, would ever be tapped to star in a movie." | |
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Nim's Island (2008) |
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"An energetic but whisper thin south sea adventure that borrows heavily from Home Alone and Jewel of the Nile." | |
Richard Knight | |
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OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008) |
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"A charming French spy farce replete with homoerotic undertones" | |
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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
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"In an earlier era this would have starred Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins and in its way, The Other Boleyn Girl is just as trashy and enjoyable." | |
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Penelope (2008) |
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"Penelope is a sweet trifle, a great kid's movie, and not surprising, given its subject matter a film gay audiences will find familiar and comforting. That's because, more than anything, this is a story of acceptance of one's true self." | |
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Savage Grace (2008) |
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"Money, madness, incest, matricide, retro fashions - what could be more cinematic than this?" | |
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The Savages (2007) |
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"A wonderful black comedy that has gotten a tad lost in the recent sea of excellent indie pictures." | |
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Sex and the City: The Movie (2008) |
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"The reunion is fun and predictably fabulous but the movie eventually totters on its expensive Manolo Blahnik's, trying to stay upright for too long, gorging on too much of a good thing. Fun and frothy as it is, fleet of foot it's not." | |
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Smart People (2008) |
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"Audiences who love seeing cranky, emotionally blocked characters find a chance to bloom will be happy to endure the withering onscreen insults but I didn't have much use for these dyspeptic folks and was happy to see them go." | |
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) |
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"At 97 minutes this not just a great Saturday matinee for 10 year-olds, but one for their indulgent parent(s) or handy dandy favorite gay relative/babysitter as well." | |
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Stop-Loss (2008) |
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"The war in Iraq has itself become the realization of the shameful "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (it's not just gays and lesbians that are being told to look the other way). Stop-Loss reveals just one ugly aspect of such insidiousness." | |
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The Strangers (2008) |
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"Though I much preferred the efficient, murderous simplicity of Them, the French original, for the uninitiated The Strangers is a nice little fright fest and perfect date fare to boot." | |
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Then She Found Me (2008) |
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"As Then She Found Me moves along it takes on some of the same sweet, loopy tone of Waitress and the story has a similar arc. It doesn't have the lush, dreamy look of Waitress (or its sounds) but it felt just as satisfying." | |
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Untraceable (2008) |
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"The movie's run of the mill stuff - fairly entertaining but not particularly inventive - with the standard twists and turns. Yet another film featuring a cute but horrific serial killer fixated on a beautiful and intelligent female law officer." | |
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Vantage Point (2008) |
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"To fall for Vantage Point you have to throw away any connection to reality." | |
Richard Knight | |
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War, Inc. (2008) |
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"A great political satire - a Dr. Strangelove for the YouTube generation" | |
Richard Knight | |
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The Witnesses (2008) |
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"A welcome addition to a legion of AIDS related movies and the French perspective, so different from our own, never fails to intrigue" | |
Richard Knight | |
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Young@Heart (2008) |
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"The soothing, all encompassing power of music and song - its ability to unify, offer pleasure, fulfill the artistic bent, communicate, and much more - is vividly demonstrated in the documentary Young@Heart." | |
Richard Knight | |
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