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FRESH 300 (2007) "I still wish David Wenham weren't the narrator, but everything else about the movie is a brutal kind of hypnotic that keeps me coming back." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene (2008) "...even [Don] Cheadle is no substitute for the man himself." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) "Where does this movie rank in the grand pantheon of Alien and Predator movies? Next to last. It's still better than ALIEN RESURRECTION." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH American Teen (2008) "...a refreshing antidote to the overly beautified "teenagers" and excessively clean buildings that populate Hollywood's phony high school stories." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN The Art of Travel (2008) "...cloying and a structural mess" Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Big Man Japan (2007) "...we follow middle-aged bachelor Dai around Tokyo while he feeds his cat, rides the subway, and periodically transforms into a 50-foot tall tattooed wrestler who battles giant monsters." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Captain Abu Raed (2008) "If there's a flaw to the film, it's that the hero has none -- he's such a saint that this sometimes feels like a scripture lesson." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Caterpillar Wish (2006) "A well-done movie all-around -- but what teenager today uses film in her camera?" Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Choose Connor (2008) "The ending is also note-perfect. However...it could have used perhaps a bit more restraint in some areas." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) "...as inferior to the first book as the second one is, so is the second film from the first. Which is about right." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Cloverfield (2008) "...the swiftness, economy, and momentum of the storytelling is enough to sweep right over the rough parts." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH The Edge of Heaven (2008) "And you thought you had trouble connecting with your parents!" Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) "Bloodless, but just make sure your young 'uns are past the stage of copying all the moves they see." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN Frost (2008) "...it's kind of like Van Wilder with fewer laughs and a really horrible soundtrack." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN Fugitive Pieces (2008) "If you haven't had enough of Holocaust-related tales onscreen, this is a perfectly serviceable one" Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Garage (2008) "A wonderfully knowing portrait of the fading small-town lifestyle in the Emerald Isle, Garage doesn't quite make the "must-see" list because of its ending" Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008) "Though Boll now has his own fan base who love his awfulness -- the crowd I saw the movie with cheered when his name came up onscreen at the end -- he isn't consistent enough for my liking/disliking." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) "[George Lucas] and Steven Spielberg have earned back a lot of goodwill with this one. It's the only Spielberg movie in over a decade that actually ends when it's supposed to." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Kabluey (2008) "Prendergast is clearly a force to be reckoned with -- his fearless performance as Salman/Kabluey is a thing of beauty, and his sense of story and humor are note-perfect." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN King of Ping Pong (2008) "If this kid were your classmate in school, you'd avoid him. Doing likewise with the movie won't hurt." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN Mister Foe (2008) "Presented as a sort of romantic neo-fairy-tale, the movie rarely acknowledges the inherent creepiness of its premise." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN One Missed Call (2008) "One missed opportunity." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Pathology (2008) "When a movie opens with the diner scene from When Harry Met Sally as performed by cadavers, and later proceeds to sex scenes involving scalpels and needles, the actual plot becomes inconsequential." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Romance & Cigarettes (2007) "...you have not lived till you've seen Walken belt out a Tom Jones tune." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN Sherman's Way (2008) "Not an uncontrived moment goes by." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Shoot 'Em Up (2007) "...arguably the best-directed movie of the year." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Son of Rambow (2008) "Some of the dialogue is overly cinema-savvy for naive kids ("We're losing light!"), but...director Garth Jennings gives the proceedings a charmingly surreal and imaginative tone." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2008) "Gone are the days when you could rig a movie theater's seats with electric buzzers to simulate a monster attack...but you can relive them via this exuberant tribute" Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN Steep (2007) "I'm not a skier. My balance is bad, and that stuff scares me. So more power to those who are - this flick's for you. And probably not anyone else." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Street Kings (2008) "Ayer keeps upping the ante, to the point where finally you go, "Okay, NOW this [stuff] they're doing is definitely unacceptable."" Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN Superhero Movie! (2008) "Note to screenwriters: it's clear you think that jokes ending in the words "Myspace," "YouTube," or "Wikipedia" are automatically funny, but it just ain't so." Luke Y. Thompson

ROTTEN The Good Life (2007) "As a director, Stephen Berra makes this all quite palatable, but as a writer, he frequently mistakes platitudes for profundity." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH Time Crimes (2007) "one of the best movie opening sequences in recent memory...The rest, unfortunately, is a bit more predictable." Luke Y. Thompson

FRESH The Tracey Fragments (2008) "Likely to overwhelm and annoy viewers hoping for Juno Part II, it is nonetheless an audacious and imaginative work that's sure to remain one of the year's best." Luke Y. Thompson
  
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