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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3.5/4 Eastern Promises
3/4 Hannah Takes the Stairs
2.5/4 Shoot 'Em Up
C+ Dark City
2/4 The Hunting Party
1.5/4 The Hottest State
1/4 Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
.5/4 Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Man on Wire
4/4 WALL-E
4/4 Up The Yangtze
4/4 Contempt
4/4 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4/4 I'm Not There
4/4 No Country for Old Men
4/4 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4/4 This Is England
4/4 Once
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 Bratz: The Movie
0/4 Gigli
.5/4 Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
.5/4 Georgia Rule
0.5/4 Let's Go to Prison
.5/4 An American Haunting
0.5/4 The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
.5/4 Underclassman
.5/4 Stealth
.5/4 Envy
 more...
 
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3/4
 
"The moral translates darkly and it translates well." -- Boston Globe
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
I Served the King of England (2008)87%
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3/4
 
"Traitor offers up one of the more maddeningly, gratifyingly complex lead characters seen in movies lately." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)53%
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3.5/4
 
"Frozen River does what too many independent American movies only pretend to do: Takes you to an unnoticed corner of our country and shows what it's like to actually live there." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Frozen River (2008)86%
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3.5/4
 
"What makes The Girl Who Leapt Through Time such an unexpected treat is the contemplative pace and painterly visuals." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2008)86%
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1/4
 
"At nearly two hours, Mirrors is overlong for a summer horror toss-off, and the movie's three or four false endings make it seem even more of a haul." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 18, 2008
 
Mirrors (2008)16%
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3/4
 
"A celebration of a large-hearted contrarian, and if it's over-worshipful, the film gets you in an indulgent frame of mind." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Trumbo (2008)75%
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2.5/4
 
"For the first time in my experience, a 3-D movie felt bigger than my ability to take it all in." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Fly Me To The Moon (2008)16%
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3/4
 
"A stylishly funky Hong Kong thriller from cult director Johnnie To and co-writer/codirector Wai Ka Fai." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Mad Detective (2008)82%
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4/4
 
"A documentary about a towering act of daring proves a spine-tingling memorial to recklessness as art." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Man on Wire (2008)100%
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3/4
 
"If movies were wine, Bottle Shock would be a pleasant varietal you'd find on the half-price shelf. Nothing fancy but tasty nonetheless." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)46%
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2.5/4
 
"Guys, you're asking us to swallow a pot farce, a buddy thriller, an action parody, and a touching tale of two men on the run? You must be high." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)68%
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3/4
 
"How are girls supposed to behave in a culture that tells them they're Disney princesses for the first 12 years and sex toys after that? Girls Rock! has one answer: Strap on a Fender and rage against the machine." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Girls Rock! (2008)73%
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3/4
 
"The movie's cheap, it's clever -- it's even a little scary in places. " -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Baghead (2008)79%
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3/4
 
"Consciously or not, the movie's about the way we structure our lives as drama if we want them to have any meaning at all." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
American Teen (2008)70%
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1.5/4
 
"Despite exotic locations, epic cinematography, and much spectacular crash and bang, this Mummy feels like a threadbare toss-off." -- Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)11%
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2.5/4
 
"The movie makes you glad that CSNY is still out there rocking in the free world. It makes you doubly glad they're not leading it." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
CSNY Déjà Vu (2008)63%
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3/4
 
"Cool, carnal, and lethal, The Last Mistress is a period drama with a difference." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
The Last Mistress (2008)78%
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2.5/4
 
"Has one joke that it beats into the ground: 40-year-old men acting like petulant 9-year-olds. Luckily, Ferrell and Reilly were born with no shame or sense of personal dignity, and they give good tantrum." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)53%
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3/4
 
"You come away impressed, oppressed, provoked, and beaten down, holding on to Ledger's squirrelly incandescence as a beacon in the darkness." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)94%
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3.5/4
 
"This is a secret history, and it's a wonder." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)95%
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2.5/4
 
"Man, have we been here before." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
The Wackness (2008)67%
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2.5/4
 
"The gimmickry can't lift the boats of a threadbare storyline. What the proselytizers and the investors forget is that if the characters and emotions aren't three-dimensional, the rest of the movie will always look flat." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)61%
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3/4
 
"A blast of fanboy wit, style, imagination, and prodigious noise that comes on like heavy-bore pop art." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)88%
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3/4
 
"There's nothing remotely cool about Kit Kittredge. That's why it's cool." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)79%
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3.5/4
 
"David Volach has created a drama that, in retrospect, feels positively biblical." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
My Father My Lord (2008)92%
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4/4
 
"The best American film of the year to date." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)97%
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2.5/4
 
"Wanted is quite happy to judge a man by the size of his gun. The irony is that the biggest one here belongs to Jolie, and her Amazon smile indicates she knows exactly how nervous that makes the boys." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Wanted (2008)73%
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3/4
 
"Everyone here comes out smelling bad -- that's why the film's so good." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Operation Filmmaker (2008)92%
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2.5/4
 
"Get Smart, version 2008, surrounds skilled, likable players, and a handful of solid belly laughs with $80 million worth of formulaic summer-movie mediocrity. A lot of things explode, but the movie never detonates." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)52%
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2.5/4
 
"Savage Grace contemplates passion without sampling it, though, and the film quickly becomes as remote as a magazine spread." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
Savage Grace (2008)41%
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1.5/4
 
"War, Inc. fires off dozens of lethal dialogue squibs like 'War is the improvement of investments using other means,' but it doesn't connect them into anything that can truly rattle an audience's complacency." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
War, Inc. (2008)31%
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1/4
 
"You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)19%
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4/4
 
"In his masterful and haunting documentary Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang shows the old China drowning helplessly under the weight of the new." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Up The Yangtze (2008)95%
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3/4
 
"A hugely entertaining personal documentary about what steroids mean to American pop culture." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)97%
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2.5/4
 
"Kung Fu Panda illustrates the dilemma CGI movies find themselves in: They're suspended on a rickety bridge between product and moviemaking, and the boards of our interest are beginning to rot away." -- Boston Globe
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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3/4
 
"The result is a documentary that plays like a fat, satisfying work of nonfiction literature -- the final word because it seems to contain every word." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 30, 2008
 
Refusenik (2008)94%
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3.5/4
 
"Constantine's Sword speaks provocatively to history and our moment." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 30, 2008
 
Constantine's Sword (2008)85%
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3.5/4
 
"Reprise, a vibrant new Norwegian film, burns with the passions of literature and youth." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 23, 2008
 
Reprise (2008)86%
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3/4
 
"A rollicking class reunion that stands as the second best entry in the venerable series." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 18, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)77%
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2.5/4
 
"A sincere but unevenly made documentary about Buddhism on death row." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 16, 2008
 
The Dhamma Brothers (2008)82%
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3/4
 
"A muscular fantasy epic that marks a filmmaking improvement if not a leap in dramatic inspiration over 2005's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Caspian reveals this series as conceived ever more clearly as a junior-league Lord of the Rings." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 16, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)66%
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3.5/4
 
"It’s an absolute delight." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Son of Rambow (2008)75%
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3/4
 
"While Redbelt may be a character study in search of a movie, that character feels fresh and real." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)72%
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2/4
 
"The movie demands you be a glutton for sensation and then has the nerve to ask why you're not hungrier." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)36%
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3.5/4
 
"The movie’s a staggering work that traces the rotten blossom of this scandal close to its roots." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)78%
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1.5/4
 
"Made of Honor is a retread -- My Best Friend's Wedding with the genders reversed and the brains removed. Chick flicks this calculated should come with enough Scorpion Bowls to numb the pain." -- Boston Globe
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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C+
 
"City ultimately plays like one of those art-deco dystopian CD-ROM adventures of recent years." -- Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
Dark City (1998)76%
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3.5/4
 
"Flight looks at the world the way a kid would, taking it all in and sifting for clues." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)79%
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2.5/4
 
"My Blueberry Nights is Wong Kar Wai's first English-language movie. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also his worst movie." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)48%
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3.5/4
 
"In Young@Heart, the prison is old age, and every song's a jailbreak." -- Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Young@Heart (2008)88%

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