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B	" Milk is an agitprop fantasy about the selflessness of sainthood. If anybody but Penn was playing the saint, we'd probably feel as if we were being sold a bill of goods. Instead, he just about pulls it off. Such is the treachery of talent." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 28, 2008	Milk (2008)	93%
C-	" This almost three-hour epic keeps shooting for the stars but usually crash-lands with a thud. Someone should have told co-writer/director Baz Luhrmann that just because you call your movie Australia doesn't mean you've created a national epic." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 26, 2008	Australia (2008)	53%
B+	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 21, 2008	First Basket (2008)	67%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 21, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	39%
B-	" Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is trying very hard to be a Dickensian fable for our time." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 17, 2008	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	92%
C+	" I'd be more inclined to call this French dysfunctional family epic gabby and preeningly self-indulgent -- in a word, annoying." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 17, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	90%
C	" It's ironic: After all these years of surviving everything that has been thrown at him, James Bond is finally being undone by his own team." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 17, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	66%
C	" Like a compost of Rocky Horror and Sweeney Todd, but without the floridity or the savage wit." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 7, 2008	Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)	27%
A	" The great conundrum of the Holocaust is that it was perpetrated by human beings, not monsters. Few movies have rendered this puzzle so powerfully." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 7, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	63%
A-	" If this were a fictional Hollywood movie, it would be criticized for being too upbeat. But sometimes truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's also a whole lot better." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 7, 2008	Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)	100%
C	" Ballast lacks ballast. Much praised by aficionados of minimalist indie cinema -- hey, who needs a plot when you've got mood? -- it's a wearying slog through anomie in a Mississippi Delta township." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 7, 2008	Ballast (2008)	86%
A-	" At just over two hours, Stranded is nonstop harrowing. It has cumulative power. Since we already know the outcome of the crash, [director] Arij�n doesn't inject into the proceedings a false note of suspense." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 3, 2008	Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains (2008)	89%
D	" A great big incomprehensible phantasmagoria. I'm all for 'personal' movies, but this one's private." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 28, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	64%
B-	" This hothouse Changeling is freeze-dried." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 28, 2008	Changeling (2008)	59%
B	" It would be easy to overrate I've Loved You So Long, which often dampens its best effects with undue tastefulness, but the image of Scott Thomas, with her despairing resilience, stays with one." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 28, 2008	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	91%
C+	" It's yet another movie about familial strife in the New York City Police Department. If you think you've seen it all before, you have." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 28, 2008	Pride and Glory (2008)	34%
C-	" The honey runs thick in The Secret Life of Bees, and so does the treacle." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 20, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	59%
A-	" This satire is a perfect sendup of Hollywood with a marvelous cast, including De Niro in his best performance in years." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 20, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	53%
C-	" Perhaps Stone believed that the only way you can make sense of the George W. Bush debacle is by presenting it as a goof -- a Freudian cartoon. But if that's the case, he erred on the side of caution." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 20, 2008	W. (2008)	57%
B	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Flawless (1999)	42%
C	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Reservation Road (2007)	36%
B	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	82%
C	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Red (1994)	98%
B	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	28%
B	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	89%
B	" Canet has a good feeling for lowlife atmosphere and he works up a few fine Hitchcockian twirls." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Tell No One (2008)	93%
B	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
C	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	21 (2008)	35%
A	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Man On Wire (2008)	100%
C	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Hancock (2008)	39%
B-	" The film is clearly intended as a microcosm of the US presidential elections, although the students' cutthroat tactics are bush-league in comparison." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 13, 2008	Frontrunners (2008)	88%
C-	" The Express may prove valuable to movie historians since it's a compendium of virtually every sports movie clich� ever contrived." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 13, 2008	The Express (2008)	62%
A	" It's a small, radiant gem in a movie season cluttered with rhinestones. You leave the theater feeling both clearheaded and buoyant." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 13, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	94%
C-	" A high-priced potboiler that never comes to a boil." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 13, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
B	" It's a great piece of acting -- high drama at the service of the highest talent." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 6, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	88%
B-	" Was Maher afraid he might muddy his clownish jape if he actually brought into the mix a learned theologian?" -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 6, 2008	Religulous (2008)	71%
D	" Set in a nameless English-speaking city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, it's an allegory that never rises to the level of believability." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 6, 2008	Blindness (2008)	41%
B-	" What makes the film work in spite of itself is [director] Sollett's sympathy for his characters and the teamwork between Cera and Dennings, whose winsome sultriness seems entirely unaffected." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 6, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	71%
C	" The Iraq war has thus far produced no truly memorable dramatic movies, as opposed to documentaries, and the losing streak continues with The Lucky Ones." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
B	" An even-handed portrait of a man who, as much as anybody, bears responsibility for the toxicity of high stakes political campaigning on both sides of the aisle." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2008	Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)	92%
C-	" Clocking in at 160 minutes, this interminable movie comes across like a rough cut. Perhaps Lee believed its length would give it gravitas. The opposite is true." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	33%
C	" Rockwell has an off-center charm and, as his gorgon mother, Anjelica Huston is more imposing than this movie deserves." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
A-	" Burn After Reading is a piffle, but it's a savagely amusing one." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 12, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	79%
C	" Some touching moments, but too blandly inspirational." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	35%
B	" Tropic Thunder passes for "daring" in a movie era notably short on risk-taking. In the case of Downey, that daring is earned." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
B	" There's something intriguing going on here. It's a movie about the sacrifices that people make to be happy." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	81%
D+	" George Lucas's fixation on this saga has gone past commercial smarts into full-blown monomania. With all the money and power he has at his disposal, here he is once again fobbing the same leaden dialogue and nonvisionary visuals at us." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	19%
C-	" Begins promisingly and then swerves into absurdity." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Red (2008)	68%
B+	" While this may seem like an apologia for randy older men, it doesn't come off that way, and Cruz gives her best performance to date." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
	" Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%

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