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FRESH America The Beautiful (2008) "America the Beautiful is a great film - a provocative cautionary tale that fingers crossed, might also act as a wake-up call." Richard Knight

FRESH Appaloosa (2008) "Ed Harris' labor of love is a welcome return to the classic westerns of yore." Richard Knight

FRESH Baby Mama (2008) "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

FRESH Be Kind Rewind (2008) "Director Michel Gondry delivers the first great film of 2008." Richard Knight

FRESH Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH Bottle Shock (2008) "It's such a rewarding movie going experience it's tempting to trot out all the adjectives generally used to describe a good wine. Not being a connoisseur I'll just say that it left me with a very pleasant buzz." Richard Knight

FRESH Brideshead Revisited (2008) "A sumptuous romantic drama that honors its literary source and deeply satisfies." Richard Knight

FRESH The Bucket List (2007) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH Burn After Reading (2008) "Here we are back on firm Coen Brothers bitter black comedic territory ala Fargo and The Big Lebowski and the laughs are aplenty in this aptly tagged "smart movie about stupid people."" Richard Knight

ROTTEN Chaos Theory (2008) "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?" Richard Knight

FRESH Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008) "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

ROTTEN The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) "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

FRESH Cloverfield (2008) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH The Dark Knight (2008) "A sinister epic that manages to turn its pulp, comic book source into complex and thrilling art for the masses." Richard Knight

FRESH Diva (1981) "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

FRESH Elegy (2008) "What helps the film stand out is the less than melodramatic approach of director Isabel Coixet and the complex performances of Kingsley and Cruz." Richard Knight

FRESH The Fall (2008) "An offbeat fairy tale for grownups that squeaks by on its visual panache and some major male eye candy." Richard Knight

FRESH Flash of Genius (2008) "Greg Kinnear's performance drives an old fashioned and satisfying David vs. Goliath picture." Richard Knight

ROTTEN Flawless (2007) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) "The fifth installment of Romero's zombie series is dark, creepy and funny." Richard Knight

FRESH Get Smart (2008) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH Ghost Town (2008) "It's Gervais' picture from first to last and in one fell swoop the movies have found a successor to the late Dudley Moore." Richard Knight

FRESH Hamlet 2 (2008) "Silly, inconsequential fun with enough laughs to make it worth a trip to the megaplex." Richard Knight

ROTTEN Hancock (2008) "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." Richard Knight

ROTTEN The Happening (2008) "If Shyamalan wanted to commit career suicide he couldn't have chosen a more likely vehicle than this laugh inducing 'thriller.'" Richard Knight

FRESH In Bruges (2008) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) "After 19 years, Spielberg and company have unearthed the best treasure of all - another great Indiana Jones movie." Richard Knight

FRESH Iron Man (2008) "Marvel-ous!" Richard Knight

FRESH A Jihad for Love (2008) "As compelling in its way as Daniel Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So." Richard Knight

FRESH Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) "A perfect Saturday matinee movie." Richard Knight

FRESH Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) "A very sweet family film, a cross between Annie and Nancy Drew" Richard Knight

FRESH Let's Get Lost (1988) "A beautiful film - as flawed as its subject, and all the more fascinating because of its odd lapses." Richard Knight

FRESH Life of Reilly (2007) "Charles Nelson Reilly's one-man stage show makes for a terrific one-man movie." Richard Knight

ROTTEN The Love Guru (2008) "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

FRESH Mamma Mia! (2008) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) "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

FRESH Mother of Tears (2008) "A very entertaining fiasco" Richard Knight

ROTTEN My Blueberry Nights (2008) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) "Though a bit too long it nevertheless has got the goods to speak to the FaceBook/MySpace/YouTube crowd in the way that Fame, Dazed & Confused, Billy Jack, and American Graffiti spoke to previous generations" Richard Knight

FRESH Nim's Island (2008) "An energetic but whisper thin south sea adventure that borrows heavily from Home Alone and Jewel of the Nile." Richard Knight

FRESH OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008) "A charming French spy farce replete with homoerotic undertones" Richard Knight

FRESH The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH Penelope (2008) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH Pineapple Express (2008) "One might suggest audience members indulge in a little recreational activity before entering the theatre but I'm not sure that will increase your laugh intake all that much. So I'll advise you to just say "maybe."" Richard Knight

FRESH The Pool (2008) "Documentary filmmaker Chris Smith's feature debut is startling, original and quietly winning." Richard Knight

FRESH Savage Grace (2008) "Money, madness, incest, matricide, retro fashions - what could be more cinematic than this?" Richard Knight

FRESH The Savages (2007) "A wonderful black comedy that has gotten a tad lost in the recent sea of excellent indie pictures." Richard Knight

FRESH Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) "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." Richard Knight

ROTTEN Smart People (2008) "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." Richard Knight

FRESH The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) "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." Richard Knight
  
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