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"...A remarkably accomplished piece of filmmaking by a 26-year-old Richard Kelly..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Excitingly original..."Entertainment Weekly "...Richard Kelly, the first-time writer-director, is obviously talented....He sees his characters freshly and clearly, and never reduces them to formulas. In Jake Gyllenhaal, he finds an actor able to suggest an intriguing kind of disturbance..." Chicago Sun-Times "...A fine film, even an astounding one....DONNIE DARKO has a texture and tang all its own....Haunting and altogether exquisite..." Sight and Sound "...This is startling filmmaking -- end of story..." Total Film "...This home life/high school satire set in someone's twilight zone grabs you and doesn't let go. It's also one of the best cast films of the last decade..." USA Today "One of the most original debuts of the past 20 years..." Uncut "DONNIE DARKO has become one of the most original and thought-provoking movies of the last 10 years..."Premiere 5 stars out of 5 -- "[Featuring] Jake Gyllenhaal's as yet unbettered performance and a stunning script."Empire31.51355

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"...A remarkably accomplished piece of filmmaking by a 26-year-old Richard Kelly..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Excitingly original..."Entertainment Weekly "...Richard Kelly, the first-time writer-director, is obviously talented....He sees his characters freshly and clearly, and never reduces them to formulas. In Jake Gyllenhaal, he finds an actor able to suggest an intriguing kind of disturbance..." Chicago Sun-Times "...A fine film, even an astounding one....DONNIE DARKO has a texture and tang all its own....Haunting and altogether exquisite..." Sight and Sound "...This is startling filmmaking -- end of story..." Total Film "...This home life/high school satire set in someone's twilight zone grabs you and doesn't let go. It's also one of the best cast films of the last decade..." USA Today "One of the most original debuts of the past 20 years..." Uncut "DONNIE DARKO has become one of the most original and thought-provoking movies of the last 10 years..."Premiere 5 stars out of 5 -- "[Featuring] Jake Gyllenhaal's as yet unbettered performance and a stunning script."Empire18.81764

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5 stars out of 5 -- "Donner's film deftly delves into Christian mythology, constructing a fantastically tall and creepy tale..."Ultimate DVD13.18708

"It's a perfectly acceptable family entertainment, with cute monkeys...self-empowerment and the eye-popping animation we've come to take for granted."Los Angeles Times "SPACE CHIMPS is hilarious....A child-friendly tale laced with deadpan asides for grown-up and delivered by top-notch voice actors."New York Times13.17239

"[T]his is a comic gem, uproarious and heartfelt at the same time....Alan Arkin gives an Oscar-caliber performance..." Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 4 -- "[S]omething wonderful: a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it." Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]martly and sympathetically executed....Feelgood fun for all the dysfunctional family."Total Film 4 stars out of 4 -- "[W]hat makes this one fly is its warmth. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is a first-class love-letter to a family of losers."Uncut "The perfect casting makes for some exceptionally confident comedy....With accessible humour and universal themes..."Sight and Sound Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2006" -- "It's hilarious, heartbreaking and achingly true."Rolling Stone 5 stars out of 5 -- "Full of eccentric but believable characters, witty dialogue and pitch-perfect performances....Touching, hilarious and quirky..."Ultimate DVD "A dysfunctional-family comedy with a difference -- the function progresses from dys to full and loving."Wall Street Journal13.16764

"...Bouncy, boisterous and charming....[It] becomes downright thrilling when it shows the bands in action..."New York Times "...Stone makes the drum competition scenes, already inherently photogenic, stirring to watch..." USA Today "...[An] entertaining and enthusiastically told tale.The film has also been smart in picking its lively, likable cast....If rhythm and movement are important to you, this is a film that deserves a spot on your dance card..." Los Angeles Times "DRUMLINE does more than capture the excitement of marching bands; it gets their clockwork beauty as well....Funny, sexy and rousing..." Entertainment Weekly "...Saldana is beautiful and delightful..." Box Office13.16749

"Clearly inspired by the dark-hearted stop-motion fables of Tim Burton...[a] fever-pitched computer-generated whizbang....The film's design is suitably cartoon Gothic..."Los Angeles Times "If Mel Brooks were to team up with Tim Burton, the result might be something like the loony and colorfully tantalizing animated film IGOR."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a compellingly oddball tale that should eventually find its niche as a minor late-night cult classic for NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS fans."Total Film13.16749

"[A] completely satisfying movie that quietly, gently blows you away. Exactly written, directed with a surgeon's precision and transcendently acted, SIDEWAYS brings emotional reality to a consistently amusing character comedy."Los Angeles Times "This is a building-block movie: Its stand-out excellence becomes apparent only gradually..."USA Today "[The film] fuses bracing wit and emotional gravity into something funny, touching and vital....Pure movie bliss." Rolling Stone "It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this..." Entertainment Weekly "[O]ne of the most incisive movies ever made about the intricacies of male bonding." Movieline's Hollywood Life "[A]s a painful, uproarious story of humanity, this is a perfectly contained cinematic experience." Premiere "SIDEWAYS is a thoughtful, comic road movie about people going through some kind of breakdown." Uncut "[T]he most likeable and affecting film that Payne has yet made." Sight and Sound Ranked #5 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "It's a heartbreaking study of life, loves and second chances, beautifully performed by the two leads." Uncut13.16186

4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ell-made family action adventure movie packed with chemistry."Ultimate DVD13.15662

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"...Connery's Bond was never better than this..."Total Film13.15514

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5 stars out of 5 -- "The kinetic, visually arresting drama, touching, sometimes funny and often horrifying, marks a new high in Boyle's career as he explores India's political, economic and social framework through the prism of a coming-of-age story."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The whoosh of action and romance pulls you in, but it's the bruised characters who hold you there....The no-bull honesty of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE hits you hard. It's the real deal..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 4 -- "The exhilarating and sweeping SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is one in in a million....With dazzling, magical realism and vigorous storytelling, the film has an enchanting power, fusing a fairy tale quality with gritty realism."USA Today "Boyle sets pulses quickening not through social critique but with bright colors, nifty camerawork, lots of running, and lots of music."Film Comment "SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is brash and lively and compulsively watchable....It's when Jamal is 18, and played by Dev Patel, that the movie takes on a touch of gravitas..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "Danny Boyle's SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE hits the ground running. This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time..."Chicago Sun-Times Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's 'Movies Of The Year' -- "Movie love fills every frame of this rowdy beauty from director Danny Boyle."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Braiding Boyle's thrilling depiction of a teeming, steaming India and writer Simon Beaufoy's deft mixture of comedy, romance, drama and suspense, SLUMDOG is a near-total delight."Total Film 5 stars out of 5 -- "At heart, this is Hollywood melodrama, Capra's wish-fulfilment parlayed into a new world....Thrillingly upbeat."Empire11.5633

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Director Darren Aronofsky's new film THE WRESTLER is a quiet, intimate portrait of a troubled soul -- someone at odds with himself and with life in general whose every ounce of pain and virtue is measured onscreen."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Rourke doesn't make a false move in this movie....You watch THE WRESTLER in a state of pure exhilaration. A great actor in a great movie will do that to you."Rolling Stone 5 stars out of 5 -- "Emotionally raw and with a climax that should draw tears, Mickey Rourke gives the performance of his career."Empire "THE WRESTLER is like ROCKY made by the Scorsese of MEAN STREETS. It's the rare movie fairy tale that's also a bravura work of art." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "In THE WRESTLER, Mickey Rourke wallops us with a damaged hero who is full of pathos and poignant contradictions....Rourke gives the performance of his life."USA Today "Rourke brings just the right amount of faded charisma to Robinson....The actor is not playing himself but rather a part powerfully informed by his past life."Los Angeles Times "[Mr. Aronofsky] makes a convincing show of brute realism. The supermarkets, trailer parks, V.F.W. halls and run-down amphitheaters of New Jersey are convincingly drab, and the grain of the celluloid carries a sour and salty aura of weariness and defeat."New York Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Mickey Rourke plays the battered, broke, lonely hero, Randy ('The Ram') Robinson. This is the performance of his lifetime....This is Rourke doing astonishing physical acting."Chicago Sun-Times Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "In this great, tender, brutal, lyrical, and haunting tale of a washed-up professional wrestler still living off the fumes of his '80s glory days, Darren Aronofsky shows you Randy 'The Ram' Robinson from the inside out..."Entertainment Weekly 5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]eautiful, bittersweet and, at times, surprisingly funny....For Rourke, at least, the wrestler is the role of a lifetime, and he's better than he's ever been."Total Film "Imagining someone other than the beatifically battered Mickey Rourke in the role of THE WRESTLER would be like picturing someone other than John Malkovich in BEING JOHN MALKOVICH."Washington Post "Elements that might have otherwise seemed clich...are poignantly authentic in the hands of Rourke and director Darren Aronofsky..."A.V. Club11.5591

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"[With] moments of shivery and twitchy suspense and a solid lead performance from Mark Wahlberg."New York Times10.95659

"DAY WATCH is playfully rendered....[With] quick shifts in tone from dramatic noir to absurd humor, from horror to romance."Box Office 3 stars out of 5 -- "DAY WATCH offers more bedlam and comes jam-packed with spectacle..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] eye-bulging stunts....[And more] bravado than a good proportion of multiplex Holly-fodder..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Timur Bekmambetov confidently assembles the complicated plot....It's a rich film....The major achievement is that it establishes its own tradition."Empire "There are some real showstoppers among the CGI-fuelled special effects....The gleefully anything-goes tone is set right from the start..."Sight and Sound10.95659

"A spirited mishmash of horror notions, special effects and plot elements recycling everything from NOSFERATU to STAR WARS, NIGHT WATCH makes for splendidly diverting Saturday-night entertainment." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 4 -- "Bekmambetov delivers a manic shocker that grows more compelling as it increases in ridiculousness..." Premiere "[T]he story has been stylishly brought to the screen....It bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its own fiendish games." New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "Whip-fast, bonkers and sometimes completely incomprehensible....[A] stylish riff on vampire mythology..." Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] cryptic but giddyingly inventive Russian fantasy..." Ultimate DVD 4 stars out of 5 -- "A milestone in Russian cinema....Energetic..."Uncut10.95659

"...A script that makes [Bond] fit for the 90's....Lowell becomes the most playful, modern Bond heroine in years..." New York Times "...The movie whips up a combustible brew of old and new..." Los Angeles Times10.95659

"In a time when vacant retreads such as THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS are the problem, VANISHING POINT is the answer." Rolling Stone10.95659

"[A] gem of madcap mayhem..." Premiere10.95659

"...A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white..." Rolling Stone "RAGING BULL is not simply the greatest boxing movie ever made; Martin Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece is arguably the finest American film released in [that] decade..." New York Times "...[Scorsese's] most ambitious film as well as his finest....The performance of [De Niro's] career..." New York Times "...One of the bloodiest and most beautiful reflections on atonement in the Scorsese canon....It is still one of cinema's most breathtaking films..." Los Angeles Times "...Pesci's performance is the counterpoint to De Niro's, and its equal; their verbal sparring has a kind of crazy music to it....RAGING BULL is the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema..." Chicago Sun-Times "De Niro has gone above and beyond. Yet nothing can match his mesmerising performance as middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta..." Total Film "[A] monumental biopic..." Premiere "[A] troubling, exhilarating, masterfully made study of self-destructive masculinity." Sight and Sound Ranked #2 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "'Ultimate' is, for once, an accurate description." Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is without a doubt De Niro's ultimate immersion into 'The Method', up there with Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE."Empire10.95659

"...This one's memorable for great '60s styling..."Total Film "...[I]t gave the world a new kind of hero: impossibly suave, impossibly competent, always a winner, and perfectly embodied in hirsute Sean Connery." Premiere10.95659

"...[Chandrasekhar] does have a knack for orchestrating raucous comic teamwork..." Rolling Stone "...These five comedians have the potential to be every bit as cultishly popular as Canada's 'Kids In The Hall'....SUPER TROOPERS showcases their enormous promise..." Total Film10.95659

"...Slick, sleek...Erotic....Lane's finely emotional presentation is the film's convincer..." Los Angeles Times "...[Lane] reaches a new career plateau..." USA Today "...UNFAITHFUL has a taut, economical screenplay..." New York Times "...Filmed both sensually and thoughtfully, thanks in part to a performance by Diane Lane that gracefully turns from forcefully sensual to weary..." USA Today "...Lane is a force of nature. Her slow-burning, fiercely erotic performance charges the movie..." Rolling Stone "...Lane serves up a compulsively watchable performance....[Martinez] is smoothly convincing..." Variety "...Sensational sex-and-its-consequences melodrama....Lane, in the most urgent performance of her career, is a revelation..." Entertainment Weekly "The film is Ms. Lane's from start to finish; she gives a sensationally fine performance."Wall Street Journal10.95659

"...The most satisfying Bond movie since THE SPY WHO LOVED ME..." New York Times "...Brosnan is ever suave and dashing in his fourth effort as Bond....Berry's sleek beauty is well-suited to the role..." USA Today "...DIE ANOTHER DAY is the sexiest and most exciting Bond adventure in years....Tamahori gets the true trick of Bond..." Entertainment Weekly "...Brosnan, in his fourth time up at the Bond bat, hits this one out of the park..." Rolling Stone "...Tamahori springs a few surprises in DIE ANOTHER DAY..." Los Angeles Times "...Brosnan once again proves more than up to the task of filling bond's shoes and, especially in the early going, gives the character some dark and nasty shadings that reveal a welcome desire to take Bond back to Ian Fleming-based basics..." Variety10.95659

"...[Featuring] a vibrant acting debut by Derek Luke....The young actor has great presence on screen....He makes Antwone's stillness, his sweetness and his violence equally believable and compelling..." Los Angeles Times "...As a director Mr. Washington shows a confident grasp of cinematic narrative in a hearty meat-and-potatoes style. But the most remarkable aspect of his behind-the-camera debut is his brilliantly surefooted handling of actors..." New York Times "...Washington the actor puts in a fine performance. But 28-year-old Luke is the star of the show, striking just the right notes in his understated and uplifting performance..." USA Today "...Truly worthwhile....Washington expertly weaves a matter-of-fact social commentary into an extremely personal story..." Premiere "...Intense....Derek Luke's clean, direct performance as Fisher is the real attention-getter..." Entertainment Weekly ...Stately and thought-provoking..." Sight and Sound10.95659

"Murphy makes his face a blank slate....There's a hint of deviltry in his stone-featured Buster Keaton gaze....Eddie Murphy still has the gift of surprise." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly10.95659

"AUSTRALIA is a postmodern blockbuster filtered through the very particular sensibility of Luhrmann....Luhrmann brings an unapologetically over-the-top and operatic aesthetic to the table."Los Angeles Times "[T]his creation story about modern Australia is a testament to movie love at its most devout, cinematic spectacle at its most extreme..."New York Times "[W]hat a gorgeous film, what strong performances, what exhilarating images and -- yes, what sweeping romantic melodrama. The kind of movie that is a movie, with all that word promises and implies."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hings slow down...allowing Luhrmann to show off his talent for stunning visuals, to flex new action muscles with a thrilling cattle stampede, and to set in motion the beguiling AFRICAN QUEEN-inspired romance..."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "[Kidman's] finest moments are a reminder that no major actress has done more consistent work in the past decade."Total Film "The most expensive Australian film ever made is rousing and passionate....Kidman gives one of her most engaging performances..."Hollywood Reporter10.95659

"...A terrific, twisted comedy....A dazzling mix of mirth and malice....McDormand wins your heart..." Rolling Stone "...The Coens prove themselves masters of orchestrating cross-purposes plots....FARGO is a further demonstration of Joel Coen's remarkable ability to mix comedy with horror..." Sight and Sound "...McDormand's uproariously sly-spry performance connects with Roger Deakins' bleakly beautiful photography to create one of the Coens' most consistently successful outings..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...FARGO is a strikingly mature, unique entertainment that plays on many levels...all satisfying..." Variety "...With the perfect assist from their actors, all of whom are well in on the joke, this affectionate look at the frozen North brings the Coens back in from the cold..." Los Angeles Times "...A great movie....FARGO is true toe the rhythms of small-town life....William H. Macy's performance is an implosion of fear and frustration..." Chicago Sun-Times10.95659

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4 stars out of 5 -- "As a biography interested in an honest swath of Wallace's life, NOTORIOUS' broad appeal will welcome and satiate both the devout and the curious..."Box Office "[R]easonably faithful to the facts of Biggie's life and wholeheartedly devoted to burnishing his myth."New York Times "Most noteworthy is the movie's stunning cinematography and powerful soundtrack....The ensemble is solid, and Jamal Woolard is strong as Biggie."USA Today "[L]ike Biggie, NOTORIOUS has fine time along the way, with Woolard channeling the rapper's sweetness and wit as comfortably as his pathos....Through it all are the rhymes and the music, hugely enjoyable in their own right..."Los Angeles Times "NOTORIOUS is a rock-solid biopic with a foolproof rise-and-fall storyline and a warmly nuanced performance by Jamal Woolard as iconic rapper Christopher Wallace -- aka Biggie Smalls..."Variety "NOTORIOUS is a luridly unapologetic trip through the violence, hunger, verbal bravado, and money fever of the hip-hop world, which it views as both liberating and destructive....NOTORIOUS has a fascinating trajectory..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "NOTORIOUS is a good film in many ways, but its best achievement is the casting of Jamal Woolard..."Chicago Sun-Times "Woolard, a Brooklyn rapper known as Gravy, has not previous acting experience. Yet his portrayal amounts to a Biggie resurrection....He's a knockout."Rolling Stone9.629322

"Political strides notwithstanding, the anxious standoff between humans and mutants has reached a crisis point, and the slow-building momentum of the last two installments finally reaches escape velocity..." Los Angeles Times "[T]he third X-Men film retains the franchise's kick-butt action, and it has a few emotionally resonant scenes....Director Brett Ratner has a way of blending special effects and action with drama..."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "X3 is fast, furious....With plenty of shocks in store for trilogy stalwarts, it's a gift of a screenplay..." Total Film "[The film has] undeniably spectacular moments....Kelsey Grammar is ideally cast as Beast..." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "As the opposing leaders of the Mutant culture, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen bring their usual gravitas....It is entertaining, has an air of finality, and it boasts some spectacular visuals." Ultimate DVD "LAST STAND is a brisk dilution of the original comic-book 'Dark Phoenix' story line with mostly top-notch acting."Premiere "[B]ursting with high-end stars....A worthy addition to any X-library."Entertainment Weekly9.621044

"...Macaulay Culkin is the star atop this comedy tree..." USA Today "...Played with great glee by Macaulay Culkin....Endearing, up-to-the-minute..." New York Times "...A live-action cartoon....[Culkin sets] the movie's overall tone..." -- Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly "...The ways in which its characters collide and carom off the walls are strictly funny-pages stuff....Macauley Culkin has the kind of crack comic timing that's missing in many an adult star..." Los Angeles Times "[I]t's not just the cartoonish slapstick that made ALONE one of the most successful comedies of all time: It's the sweet heart and courageous tenacity of the kid himself." Premiere 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] slapstick kiddie fantasy about an abandoned boy and some bumbling burglars."Total Film9.621044

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"...Hard and slick, it's a teasing glimpse of the series' possible future..." Total Film "[E]nduringly rousing stuff..." Uncut9.621044

"It's fun to watch this acting odd couple spar....Mr. Cruise pours on his characteristic intensity and lights up the board....[Ms. Streep delivers] one of her vibrant, entertaining, gestural performances."New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "The back-and-forth between Cruise and Streep, in particular, is electric; this will, if there's any justice, see Cruise finally win an Oscar."Empire "Carnahan's writing ignites familiar issues with vigor and snap..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "Streep, Cruise and Redford all bring maximum charisma to their roles....Redford -- working in a lower register -- exudes charm and decency as a professor, but still packs his best lines with a killer punch."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's given extra gravitas -- a quality it hadn't lacked -- by Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise."Uncut9.621043