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[ 2008 ]
"Moscow Belgium"
"Retrieval"
"Edge of Heaven"
"Bonneville"
"Four Minutes"
"The Grand"
"Sex and Death 101"
"Water Lilies"
"Lost in Beijing"
"The Children of Huang Shi"
"4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days"
"The Counterfeiters"

[ 2007 ]
"The Unknown Woman" [ND]
"Private Property"
"Red Road"
"ViTUS"
"Cashback"
"ANGEL-A"
"Summer In Berlin" A comedy
"Hot Fuzz" A comedy
"The Valet"

Documentary Bin
[2008]
"Gomorrah"
"Courting Condi"
"Stranded"
"America the Beautiful"
"Poisoned by Polonium:
The Litvinenko File"

"Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art"
"Up the Yangtze"
"Bloodline"
"Forever"
"Young & Restless in China"
"Orthodox Stance"

[2007]

"Desert Bayou"
"Sharkwater"
"The Rape of Europa"
"Czech Dream"
"Sicko" (Michael Moore)
"The Unknown Soldier"
"In Search of Mozart"
"The Ritchie Boys"
"My Country, My Country"


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"Adam Resurrected" (Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe) [1/22/09]

2008 Reviews:
"Last Chance Harvey" (Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson) A comedy
"Good" (Viggo Mortensen, Jacob Isaacs)
"Revolutionary Road" (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet)
"The Reader" (Kate Winslet, David Kross) *
"Seven Pounds" (Will Smith, Rosario Dawson)
"Nothing But the Truth" (Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon)
"The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett)
"The Wrestler" (Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei) [12/19]
"Gran Torino" (Clint Eastwood)
"Doubt" (Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman)
"Eagle Eye" (Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan)
"While She Was Out" (Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas)
"Defiance" (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber)
"Frost/Nixon" (Frank Langella, Michael Sheen)
"Punisher: War Zone" (Ray Stevenson, Julie Benz)
"Australia" (Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman)
"Milk" (Sean Penn, Josh Brolin)
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Dev Patel, Freida Pinto) *
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" (Asa Butterfield, Vera Farmiga)
"Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains" [DOC]
"Zack and Miri Make a Porno" (Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks)
"Changeling" (Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich)
Synecdoche, New York" (Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Mortimer) A comedy
"Let the Right One In" (Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson)
"I've Loved You So Long" (Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein)
"Pride and Glory" (Edward Norton, Jr., Colin Farrell)
"W." (Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks)
"What Just Happened?" (Robert DeNiro, Bruce Willis)
"The Express" (Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown)
"Humboldt County" (Fairuza Balk, Jeremy Strong)
"Happy-Go-Lucky" (Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan) A comedy
"Body of Lies" (Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe)
"Rachel Getting Married" (Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt) A comedy
"Lakeview Terrace" (Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson)
"Appaloosa" (Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen)
"Traitor" (Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce)
"Burn After Reading" (George Clooney, John Malkovich) A comedy
Sukiyaki Western Django A comedy
"Bangkok Dangerous" (Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yongue)
"Death Race" (Jason Statham, Joan Allen)
"Tropical Thunder" (Ben Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr) A comedy
"Elegy" (Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz)
"Bottle Shock" (Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman)
"The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" (Brendan Foster, Jet Li)
"Swing Vote" (Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll)
"Frozen River" (Melissa Leo, Misty Upham)
"The Dark Knight" (Christian Bale, Heath Ledger)
"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" (David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson)
"Mamma Mia" (Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried)
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (Ron Perlman, Selma Blair)
"The Wackness" (Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby)
"Hancock" (Will Smith, Charlize Theron)
"Tell No One" (Francoise Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze)
"Wall-E" A comedy
"The Edge of Heaven"
"Wanted" (Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy)
"The Happening" (Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel)
"The Incredible Hulk" (Edward Norton, Liv Tyler)
"The Strangers"
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (Harrison Ford, Karen Allen)
"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" (Ben Barnes, Anna Popplewell)
"Speed Racer" (Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci)
"Iron Man" (Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow)
"The Ruins" (Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone)
"Redbelt" (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alice Braga)
"The Life Before Her Eyes" (Evan Rachel Wood, Uma Thurman)
"Street Kings" (Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker)
"Smart People" (Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker)
"Jack and Jill vs the World" (Freddie Prinze Jr., Taryn Manning)
"Leatherheads" (George Clooney, Renee Zellwegger)
"The Visitor"
"Flawless" (Demi Moore, Michael Caine)
"Run Fatboy Run" (Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton)
"21" (Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey)
"Boarding Gate" (Asia Argento, Michael Madson)
"Vantage Point" (Dennis Quaid, William Hurt)
"Sleepwalking" (Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl) -
"Funny Games" (Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt)
"Snow Angels" (Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell)
"Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" (Frances McDormand, Amy Adams) A comedy
"The Other Boleyn Girl" (Scarlet Johansson, Natalie Portman) +
"Cloverfield"
"Charlie Bartlett" (Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey, Jr.)
"Diary of the Dead" (Joshua Close, Michelle Morgan)
"Fool's Gold" (Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson) A comedy
"In Bruges" (Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson) A comedy
"The Hottie & the Nottie" (Paris Hilton, Christine Lakin) A comedy

"Four Minutes"
"Paranoid Park"
"Undoing"
"Orthodox Stance"
"Beaufort"
"The Grand"
"Sex and Death 101" A comedy
"Forever"
"Lost in Beijing"
"Water Lilies"
"Bloodline"
"The Children of Huang Shi"
"Up the Yangtze"
"Bonneville"
"Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic"
"Jumper"
"The Visitor"
"The Strangers"
"Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File"
"Kabluey"
"Yella"
"Edge of Heaven"
"War, Inc." A comedy
"City of Men"
"Retrieval"
America the Beautiful
Deal
Reprise
Man On Wire
Days and Clouds
The Tree of Life
Dear Zachary
Eden
The Class
Pathology




2007 Reviews:
"Cassandra's Dream" (Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor) A comedy
"The Orphanage" (Belen Rueda, Roger Princep)
"There Will Be Blood" (Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano) *
"The Bucket List" (Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson) A comedy
"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter) A comedy
"Walking Hard" (John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer) A comedy
"Charlie Wilson's War" (Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman) *
"National Treasure: Book of Secrets" (Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger)
"I Am Legend" (Will Smith, Alice Braga)
"The Kite Runner" (Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi)
"Youth Without Youth" (Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara)
"Juno" (Ellen Page, Michael Cera) A comedy
"The Golden Compass (Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman)
"Atonement" (Keira Knightley, James McEvoy)
"Strength and Honor" (Michael Madsen, Richard Chamberlain)
"Starting Out In the Evening" (Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose)
"Love In the Time of Cholera" (Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno)
"No Country For Old Men" (Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones)
"Lions For Lambs" (Robert Redford, Meryl Streep)
"American Gangster" (Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe)
"Hitman" (Timothy Olyphant, Olga Kuryenko)
"Slipstream" (Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater)
"If I Didn't Care" (Bill Sage, Roy Scheider)
"Things We Lost In the Fire" (Halle Berry, Benicio del Toro)
"Gone Baby Gone" (Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman)
"Rendition" (Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon)
"Reservation Road" (Mark Rufalo, Joaquin Phoenix)
"Lars and the Real Girl" (Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer) A comedy
"Sleuth" (Michael Caine, Jude Law)
"Michael Clayton" (George Clooney, Tilda Swinton) *
"The Darjeeling Limited" (Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody)
"The Kingdom" (Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner)
"Outsourced" (Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker)
"Eastern Promises" (Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts) *
"Trade" (Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos)
"Into the Wild" (Emile Hirsch, William Hurt)
"The Brave One" (Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard)
"In the Valley of Elah" (Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron)
"December Boys" (Daniel Radcliffe, Lee Cormie)
"I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With" (Jeff Garlin, Sarah Silverman)
"Shoot 'Em Up" (Clive Owen, Paul Giammati)
"3:10 To Yuma" (Russell Crowe, Christian Bale) *
"The Hunting Party" (Richard Gere, Terrence Howard) A comedy
"Exiled" (Roy Cheung, Francis Ng) A Dark Comedy
"Resurrecting the Champ" (Josh Hartnett, Samuel L. Jackson)
"War" (Jason Statham, Jet Li)
"Right At Your Door" (Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane)
"Year of the Dog" (Molly Shannon, Peter Sarsgaard) [DVD] A comedy
"Delirious" (Michael Pitt, Steve Buscemi)
"Stardust" (Charlie Cox, Claire Daines)
"Descent" (Rosario Dawson, Chad Faust)
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Matt Damen, Joan Allen)
"This Is England" (Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham)
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson)
"Transformers" (Shia LaBoeuf, Megan Fox)
"Sunshine" (Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne)
"Into the Arms of Strangers" (Ron Carey, Juliana Dever) [ND]
"1408" (John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson)
"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" (Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba)
"The Search for John Gissing" (Mike Binder, Alan Richman) A comedy [DVD]
"Evan Almighty" (Steve Carrell, Morgan Freeman) A comedy
"You Kill Me" (Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni) A comedy [Marquee Video]
"Black Sheep" (Matt Chamberlain, Danielle Mason)
"Disturbia" (Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer)
"Broken English" (Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud)
"Ocean's Thirteen" (George Clooney, Brad Pitt) A comedy
"Mr. Brooks" (Kevin Costner, Demi Moore)
"Knocked Up" (Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogan) A comedy
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley) A comedy
"Bridge to Terabithia" (Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb)
"Brooklyn Rules" (Freddie Prinze, Jr., Mena Suvari)
"Fay Grim" (Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum) A comedy
"Shrek the Third" (Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz) A comedy
"Georgia Rule" (Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan)
"Spider-Man 3" (Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst)
"The Treatment" (Chris Eigeman, Famke Janssen)
"Away From Her" (Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent)
"Next" (Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel)
"Diggers" (Paul Rudd, Lauren Ambrose)
"Fracture" (Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling)
"Snow Cake" (Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver)
"Jindabyne" (Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne)
"Lonely Hearts" (John Travolta, Salma Hayek)
"The Reaping" (Hilary Swank, David Morrissey)
"The Hoax" (Richard Gere, Marcia Gay Harden)
"Black Book" (Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch)
"Ten 'til Noon" (Rick Wasserman, Rayne Guest) [Marquee Video]
"The Lookout" (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode)
"Shooter" (Mark Wahlberg, Kate Mara)
"Reign Over Me" (Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle)
"Caffeine" (Mena Suvari, Marsha Thomason) A comedy
"The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (Cillian Murphy)
"Adam's Apple" (Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen) A comedy
"Zodiac" (Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Rufalo)
"Wild Hogs" (William H. Macy, John Travolta) A comedy
"Amazing Grace" (Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai)
"Gray Matters" (Heather Graham, Tom Cavanugh)
"Starter for 10" (James McAvoy, Alice Eve) A comedy
"Breach" (Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe)
"Music and Lyrics" (Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore) A comedy
"The Situation" (Connie Nielsen, Damian Lewis)
"Beyond the Gates" (John Hurt, Hugh Dancy)
"Catch and Release" (Jennifer Garner, Tim Olyphant)
"The Hitcher" (Sophia Bush, Sean Bean)
"Alpha Dog" (Emil Hirsch, Justin Timberlake) Look
The Game Plan
The Savages
Enchanted
The Last Mimzy
Grace Is Gone
Persepolis
Margot at the Wedding
Control
Honeydripper
Man In the Chair
Ratatouille
I'm Not There
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Across the Universe
The Simpsons Movie
Beowulf
The Band's Visit
La Vie en Rose
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly



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Best of the Year
(2008)
The Edge of Heaven
Ironman
The Counterfeiters
(Best Foreign Language film, 2007)
Four Minutes
(In German)

Award Buzz
(2008)
The Edge of Heaven
(Best Foreign Language film of the year)
Frost/Nixon
(Best Actor Performance by Frank Langella)
Milk
(Best Actor Performance by Sean Penn)
Doubt
(Best Actor Performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman)
The Wrestler
(Breakthrough performance by Mickey Rourke)
The Dark Knight
(Best Supporting Actor Performance by Heath Ledger)
The Visitor
(Modestly excellent performance by Richard Jenkins)
Doubt
(Best Actress Performance by Meryl Streep)
I've Loved You So Long
(Best Actress Performance by Kristin Scott Thomas)
Frozen River
(Outstanding performance by Mellisa Leo)
Revolutionary Road
(Best Actress Performance by Kate Winslet)
Rachel Getting Married
(Possible Best Actress Performance by Anne Hathaway)
The Reader
(Best Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet)
Slumdog Millionairre
(Best Director: Danny Boyle)
Slumdog Millionairre
(Best Adapted Screenplay: Danny Boyle)
The Reader
(Best Adapted Screenplay: David Hare)
Slumdog Millionairre
(Best Soundtrack score by A.R. Rahman)

Worst
(2008)
Deal
Sex and Death 101
While She Was Out

Most sensual
(2008)
Boarding Gate

Funniest
(2008) A comedy
Moscow Belgium
Get Smart
Hancock
In Bruges

Least Funny (of those trying to be)
(2008) A comedy
The Hottie & the Nottie
War, Inc.
Ghost Town
Drillbit Taylor

Best in Animation
(2008)
Bolt
Wall-E (1st act)

Best in Documentary
(2008)
Man on Wire
Courting Condi
"Stranded"

Best in Horror
(2008)
Let the Right One In

Interactive Feedback Leaders
Atonement
Into the Wild
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

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Really Good Choices
(2007)
Eastern Promises
There Will Be Blood
(Best Actor noms for these two, for sure)
No Country For Old Men
Into the Wild
3:10 To Yuma
American Gangster
The Lookout
In the Valley of Elah
Zodiac
You Kill Me
The Breach
The Unknown Woman
(Possible Best Foreign Language Film)
Most sensual
(2007)
Georgia Rule

Most culturally rewarding
or informative
(2007)
In Search of Mozart
The Rape of Europa

Best L.A. Books Made Into Movies
Special feature on filmcritic.com)

Soundtracks with the most intriguing music
(2007)
There Will Be Blood
The Kiterunner
(Alberto Iglesias)
The Unknown Woman
(Ennio Morricone)
Eastern Promises

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Ten 'til Noon
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Action, action, action
(2007)
Spider-man 3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Off-beat & Original
(2007)
Fay Grim
You Kill Me
Ten 'til Noon

My Best Pics
(2006)
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
The Painted Veil
The Secret Life of Words

Oscar Nominations
(2006)
The Complete List

Family Fun
(2006)
Little Miss Sunshine
The Illusionist
Invincible

Best Original Screenplay
(2006)
Stranger Than Fiction
Deja Vu
The Lives of Others
Little Miss Sunshine
The Dead Girl
Akeelah and the Bee

Best Adapted Screenplay
(2006)
The Painted Veil
The Departed
Little Children

Best Indie Films
(2006)
Little Miss Sunshine
Sherrybaby
Little Children
The Secret Life of Words


"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has outgrossed "The Incredibles" and "The Passion of the Christ" in worldwide earnings (6/19/08) and "Iron Man" has outswung "King Kong." Crashing over both of them is "Death Race." Want to see the current line up of all-time boxoffice hits and see which is the most successful Harry Potter and what movie tops them all?
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New Discoveries
New Loves
(2006)
Ellen Page ("Hard Candy")
Gretchen Mol ("The Notorious Bettie Page") [4/14]
Sarah-Jane Potts ("Kinky Boots")
Clara Khoury ("The Syrian Bride")

Funniest
(2006) A comedy
Little Miss Sunshine
Stranger Than Fiction

Interesting Films Adapted From Stageplays
(2006)
Winter Passing
The Sisters

The M. Gyllenhaal Year

After her breakout role in "Secretary" 4 years ago, Maggie's finally in charge. See her in all of these 2006 releases!
The Great New Wonderful
Trust the Man
World Trade Center
Sherrybaby
Paris, je t'aime
Monster House
Stranger Than Fiction

Visual Uniqueness
(2006)
"The Good German"
"Deja Vu"
"Children of Men"
"The Black Dahlia"
"All the King's Men"

Best Documentaries
(2006)
"Who Killed the Electric Car"
"An Inconvenient Truth" (Al Gore)
"Shut Up and Sing"
"Cocaine Cowboys"
"Been Rich All My Life" (Harlem dancers)

Breakout Roles
(2006)
Akeelah and the Bee
(Keke Palmer)
Little Miss Sunshine
(Abigail Breslin)
Half Nelson
(Shareeka Epps, Ryan Gosling)

Most Adventuresome
(2006)
"Renaissance"


Good Horror
(2006)
The Descent

Action Fixes
(2006)
Apocalypto
Deja Vu
Miami Vice

Actors' Most Daring Style Adventures
(2006)
Miami Vice
(Gong Li speaking English)

Scoop
(Scarlett Johannson speaking Woody Allen)


Most Erotic
(2006)
Lower City

Most Vicious
(2006)
"Dead Man's Shoes"


2002 Nominations
(with commentary)

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Worthy of note:
Read My Lips
(French crime film noir with unexpected twists)
Talk To Her
Nominated, Best Original Screenplay
Edge of Madness
Superb story and storytelling, avail on DVD







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