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Body of Lies (2008)

Drama Rated PG-13

“Isn’t it time someone did a serious cost-benefit analysis on the filmmaking partnership of Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott?

Quarantine (2008)

Horror Rated R

“…feels as if someone had videotaped their trip through a haunted house run by the local Jaycees.”

Gomorrah (2008)

Drama Rated NR

"…resembles a post-apocalyptic Mob movie done by Robert Altman."

W. (2008)

Drama Rated PG-13

“…humanizes, though never legitimizes, our 43rd president.

Billy: The Early Years (2008)

Drama Rated PG

"…a biography picture of the patronizing saint variety."

Religulous (2008)

Documentary Rated R

“…a profane, sacrilegious and very funny anti-religion documentary that is well worth seeing – perhaps especially if you’re a person of faith.

Hounddog (2008)

Drama Rated R

“…as discomfiting as you’ve heard, yet there is one moment near the end that nearly saves it.

The Iron Giant (1999)

Family Rated PG

  Underappreciated upon its initial release, The Iron Giant has gone on to become one of the more beloved animated features of the 1990s. The movie takes place in 1950s Maine, where an imaginative boy befriends a gargantuan robot that falls from outer space, much to the consternation of the paranoid government. Classic touchstones abound

Coraline (2009)

Family Rated PG

“…the first 3-D movie that made me forget I was watching 3-D – and that’s a good thing.

Fanboys (2009)

Comedy Rated PG-13

Funny, I always thought of the National Lampoon crowd and Star Wars nation as separate demographics. Apparently they’re the same, at least according to Fanboys. A comedy about four Star Wars-obsessed buddies who break into George Lucas’ ranch to sneak a peek at The Phantom Menace, Fanboys is a pandering, puerile exercise, the equivalent of

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9 to 5 (1980)

Comedy Rated PG

“Parton’s smile wins 1,000 hearts and deflects twice as many harassing come-ons.”

Cure (1997)

Thriller Rated NR

“Like an unsettled mind, this is littered with background disturbances…”

It Ends (2026)

Horror Rated R

“A delectably malleable metaphor movie…”


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