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Sunday
September 7, 2008

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Tell No One (Ne le dis ŕ personne) (Reviewed September 5, 2008)
Tropic Thunder (Reviewed August 22, 2008)
The Dark Knight (Reviewed August 15, 2008)
American Teen (Reviewed August 7, 2008)
Mongol (Reviewed August 7, 2008)
Wall-E (Reviewed July 14, 2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Reviewed June 13, 2008)
Iron Man (Reviewed May 16, 2008)
Son of Rambow (Reviewed May 8, 2008)
Baby Mama (Reviewed May 5, 2008)
Smart People (Reviewed April 24, 2008)
Priceless (Hors de Prix) (Reviewed April 22, 2008)
The Band's Visit (Reviewed April 7, 2008)
Vantage Point (Reviewed March 11, 2008)
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Reviewed February 29, 2008)
In Bruges (Reviewed February 29, 2008)
There Will Be Blood (Reviewed January 29, 2008)
Juno (Reviewed January 25, 2008)
Charlie Wilson's War (Reviewed December 21, 2007)
P.S. I Love You (Reviewed December 21, 2007)
Nanking (Reviewed December 12, 2007)
Atonement (Reviewed December 7, 2007)
Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding (Reviewed November 30, 2007)
Protagonist (Reviewed November 30, 2007)
The Savages (Reviewed November 28, 2007)
August Rush (Reviewed November 21, 2007)
Darfur Now (Reviewed November 2, 2007)
Bella (Reviewed October 26, 2007)
Out of the Blue (Reviewed October 19, 2007)
3:10 to Yuma (Reviewed October 18, 2007)
The Brave One (Reviewed October 16, 2007)
Sleuth (Reviewed October 12, 2007)
The Good Night (Reviewed October 5, 2007)
Lust, Caution (Reviewed September 28, 2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Reviewed September 21, 2007)
December Boys (Reviewed September 14, 2007)
In the Shadow of the Moon (Reviewed September 7, 2007)
Fierce People (Reviewed September 7, 2007)
Ladrón que roba a ladrón (Reviewed August 31, 2007)
Mr Bean's Holiday (Reviewed August 24, 2007)
The Bothersome Man (Den Brysomme Mannen) (Reviewed August 24, 2007)
Becoming Jane (Reviewed August 3, 2007)
No Reservations (Reviewed July 27, 2007)
My Best Friend (Mon Meilleur Ami) (Reviewed July 13, 2007)
Introducing the Dwights (Reviewed July 6, 2007)
Le Doulos (Reviewed June 29, 2007)
A Mighty Heart (Reviewed June 22, 2007)
 
 


About the rating system:

Because I think of my readers as busy people whose lives, and even whose leisure time, are not organized around movies, I doubt the need for a finely calibrated, four- or five-star rating system, which could only accentuate the subjectivity of movie-reviewing anyway. Such readers, it seems to me, are likely to want instead to know the following:

  • Is the movie so good that I simply must see it?
  • Is it something that’s worth seeing if I haven’t got anything better to do on a Saturday night?
  • Is it a waste of time?

For those who trust me to answer such questions on their behalf, I give for an affirmative answer to the first question (two stars), to the second, (one star) and to the third, (no stars).

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