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	" *As blatant vehicles for rising rappers go, Talento de barrio* won't do much to help Puerto Rican hip-hopper Daddy Yankee.*" -- Variety* Posted Oct 10, 2008	Talento de Barrio (2008)	0%
	" The pic's first 35 minutes sizzle until a Byzantine plot nudges the story toward near-parody in the final act." -- Variety Posted Sep 26, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	28%
D	" Given that Brazil, as a Latin American moviemaking powerhouse, steadily produces vibrant, vital films of real impact and humanity, it's a crime itself that Elite Squad may be the only Brazilian film that American audiences see this year." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 25, 2008	Elite Squad (2008)	50%
C-	" The Duchess is a lumbering number that takes its identity as a costume drama quite literally: How many outfits, and how well Keira Knightley wears them, are the only things that matter." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 25, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	61%
	" A powerful premise turned into a stubbornly flat, derivative war movie." -- Variety Posted Sep 19, 2008	Windtalkers (2002)	33%
	" As a pair of brothers raised to be topnotch grifters, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo are seldom allowed to play off of each other amid the film's breathless busyness and adoration for eccentricity." -- Variety Posted Sep 10, 2008	The Brothers Bloom (2008)	71%
	" It's clear why Volterra would have felt driven to make such a film. It's less clear why anyone not related to her would pay to see it." -- Variety Posted Sep 9, 2008	The Tree of Life (2008)	n/a
	" *The promising intrigue of a husband's bullheaded obsession with his wife's lover falls flat in The Other Man, directed with an indifferent hand by Richard Eyre." -- Variety* Posted Sep 8, 2008	The Other Man (2008)	n/a
	" As hard as metal and just as dumb, Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race couldn't be further from producer Roger Corman and director Paul Bartel's goofy, bloody 1975 original, Death Race 2000." -- Variety Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	43%
	" This is less a film than an argument -- so much so that it's hard to imagine many film critics, or audiences, without some knowledge of economic history being able to respond to it in any way except with sheer terror." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 21, 2008	I.O.U.S.A. (2008)	87%
	" Functions as an organizing tool for people worked up about the important issue, but is hardly suitable as a commercial doc release." -- Variety Posted Aug 1, 2008	Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008)	50%
	" The film tends to dawdle where it could be penetrating, and the telltale sign is an open ending -- after a quirkily staged climax -- that feels more vapid than fascinating." -- Variety Posted Jun 26, 2008	Big Heart City (2008)	n/a
	" This account of the WWII star-crossed love between a rabbi's daughter and a war-hating Teuton officer wants very much to be taken seriously. This proves impossible, since the script, casting and wartime atmosphere play as pure make-believe." -- Variety Posted Jun 5, 2008	The Poet (2008)	n/a
	" More interested in finding fresh ways to stage execution scenes than in finding meaning behind the human urge for self-appointed righting of wrongs, pic is stuffed with effects that have no lasting impact." -- Variety Posted May 9, 2008	The Boondock Saints (1999)	18%
	" Director Roger Spottiswoode�s skills for physical production outpace his ability to generate vitality and bring out the best in his actors." -- Variety Posted May 5, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	27%
	" A generally dull and unmemorable adaptation of Anne Michaels' extraordinary prose-poetry novel." -- Variety Posted May 2, 2008	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	68%
	" Decently made though unremarkable." -- Variety Posted Feb 12, 2008	The Women of Brukman (2008)	n/a
	" Resembles a Tony Scott movie without any of his intelligence and cinematic invention." -- Variety Posted Feb 12, 2008	Perro Come Perro (2008)	n/a
	" An overly calculated cautionary tale." -- Variety Posted Jan 30, 2008	Pretty Bird (2008)	n/a
	" Anywhere USA is dressed up in postmodern smarty pants, only to resolve as an excessively overlong personal project that chases its own tail." -- Variety Posted Jan 30, 2008	Anywhere, USA (2008)	n/a
	" *Apparently so personal that it feels as though it were hatched in a hermetically sealed capsule, Boaz Yakin's Death in Love* is as ambitious as it is stultifying and deadly to watch.*" -- Variety* Posted Jan 29, 2008	Death In Love (2008)	n/a
	" Pic's tendency to lecture on the power of faith and religion and on the demerits of science seems to assume an almost childlike audience that needs to be spoon-fed Pablum." -- Variety Posted Jan 23, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	36%
	" Pic lacks visual finesse and stylistic aplomb." -- Variety Posted Jan 22, 2008	Reversion (2008)	n/a
	" This half-comic, half-serious account of two Irish hitmen who are sent to the titular Belgian burg to cool their heels after a job is moderately fair as a nutty character study, but overly far-fetched once the action kicks in." -- Variety Posted Jan 18, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	81%
	" Director Mark Pellington hardly lets a moment pass without suggesting some bad vibes creeping onto the edges of the screen, but he's let down by Richard Hatem's script." -- Variety Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Mothman Prophecies (2002)	52%
	" The raw material would seem to be in place for a strong, moving contemporary tragedy, but scene after endless scene fails to come to life." -- Variety Posted Nov 30, 2007	Badland (2007)	20%
	" One seriously confused documentary." -- Variety Posted Nov 6, 2007	Mr. Untouchable (2007)	74%
	" Just as Jigsaw tests his victims, the franchise�s own test will be whether such suspension can be maintained, or if matters lapse into a torture chamber of self-parody." -- Variety Posted Oct 29, 2007	Saw IV (2007)	19%
C-	" *Bad movies invariably stem from bad ideas, and the worst of the several rancid ideas packed inside of Dan in Real Life* is that Steve Carell could be the new Alan Alda.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Oct 25, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	66%
	" Even the long, long waits between goals in a match on the pitch are more enthralling." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 18, 2007	Futbaal: The Price of Dreams (2007)	n/a
	" Despite efforts to show the composer's domestic life, including his Buddhist-influenced daily exercise routines, there's no thoughtful discussion of what's behind the serialist music style Glass has brought to worldwide attention." -- Variety Posted Oct 2, 2007	Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2008)	71%
	" Depth of character, such a distinctive quality of Ali's book, is sacrificed for simpler strokes and shallower dimensions, with an undue emphasis placed by helmer Sarah Gavron and lenser Robbie Ryan on gorgeous pictures." -- Variety Posted Sep 13, 2007	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
	" *Despite both Steen as a thesp and Jensen as a writer making their early international impact with Dogma works, the austere verities are long gone here." -- Variety* Posted Sep 10, 2007	With Your Permission (2007)	20%
	" Comic touches are obvious and broad, while helmer Joe Menendez lacks the essential energy for a vital heist entertainment." -- Variety Posted Sep 1, 2007	Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)	63%
	" *This is a radically different Sleuth, one that feels at times like Pinter self-parody." -- Variety* Posted Aug 31, 2007	Sleuth (2007)	36%
	" Alternately glib, superficial and amusing, pic vainly attempts to absorb some degree of Serbian irony into a story that's unavoidably lessened by its privileged American vantage point." -- Variety Posted Aug 31, 2007	The Hunting Party (2007)	54%
F	" So unspeakably bad is screenwriter John August's debut as director, so hilariously unaware is the film of its overweening pretensions that it's tempting to want to deem it a Hollywood writer's fever dream." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 30, 2007	The Nines (2007)	70%
	" *Paul Haggis'follow-up to Crash* is too self-serious to work as a straight-ahead whodunit and too lacking in imagination to realize its art-film aspirations.*" -- Variety* Posted Aug 30, 2007	In the Valley of Elah (2007)	72%
	" Has no sense of its own ridiculousness." -- Variety Posted Aug 15, 2007	7 D�as (2007)	22%
	" Visually dull, without an ounce of cinematic purpose, pic will work most effectively on the small screen." -- Variety Posted Aug 4, 2007	Dirty Laundry (2007)	50%
	" Alternates too deliberately between jaunty comedy and serious message-making." -- Variety Posted Jun 22, 2007	Talk to Me (2007)	81%
	" The likeliest reason this film was included in the Palme d'Or lineup was as a nod during Cannes' 60th birthday to the two-time Palme winner; it only serves to underline how far the helmer of When Father Was Away on Business has sunk." -- Variety Posted May 29, 2007	Promise Me This (2007)	n/a
	" A semidrama always on the verge of reaching for laughs, but never grasping them." -- Variety Posted May 12, 2007	Parpados Azules (2007)	n/a
	" Tethered to the standard multicharacter drama conventions that can be seen most nights on ABC, Even Money hardly delves beneath the surface of its moralistic overview of the sins and ramifications of gambling addiction." -- Variety Posted May 9, 2007	Even Money (2007)	23%
	" A sensitive if literal-minded tale that demonstrates how Tibet's national identity is of a piece with its spiritual heart." -- Variety Posted May 4, 2007	Dreaming Lhasa (2007)	41%
	" An honorific but unmoving portrait of the Chicago Bulls� No. 23." -- Variety Posted Mar 21, 2007	IMAX - Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)	63%
	" It remains truly puzzling, though, how one of South America's greatest living filmmakers could have fashioned a drama that so flatly depicts a medical expert's gradual uncovering of a vast conspiracy to conceal a murder and rampant corruption." -- Variety Posted Feb 21, 2007	Bras�lia 18% (2006)	n/a
	" Ghost Rider would have been most fun had it been made for a dime by a Roger Corman-type outfit as a quickie Gothic adventure spinning Zane Grey, Faust and Evel Knievel." -- Variety Posted Feb 16, 2007	Ghost Rider (2007)	28%
	" It's not hard to detect this creature [Rasputia] as the object of something like pure hate by four male screenwriters. Comedy like this isn't pretty." -- Variety Posted Feb 9, 2007	Norbit (2007)	9%
	" Pic's enormous social importance is unfortunately neutralized by merely adequate filmmaking." -- Variety Posted Feb 6, 2007	Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2007)	85%

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