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Post by Penelope »

Mine's pretty slim as well:

****
None

***1/2
None

***
1. In Bruges
2. Iron Man
3. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
4. Mamma Mia!
5. Tropic Thunder
6. Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
7. Burn After Reading
8. Definitely, Maybe

**1/2
9. Brideshead Revisted
10. The Duchess
11. Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs)

**
12. Hamlet 2
13. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
14. The Women
15. The House Bunny
16. The Dark Knight

*1/2
17. Nights in Rodanthe

*
18. Vantage Point
19. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Post by Zahveed »

I haven't seen many movies, for various reasons, so I'm not listing them as a top ten.


****
The Dark Knight
Wall-E

***1/2
Tropic Thunder

***
Iron Man
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Charlie Bartlett
Kung Fu Panda
Be Kind Rewind

**1/2
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Cloverfield
Speed Racer

**
Hancock
Semi-pro
The Bank Job

*
The Happening
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Post by Eric »

Really haven't seen much, but ...

**** / ***½
Nothing.

***
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Viva (Anna Biller)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)

**½
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (Ken Jacobs)
The Memory Thief (Gil Kofman)

**
Man On Wire (James Marsh)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)


Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)
Choose Connor (Luke Eberl)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)

*
My Mexican Shivah (Alejandro Springall)
The Favor (Eva Aridjis)

½
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (Todd Stephens)


Nothing.




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Post by anonymous1980 »

****
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)

***½
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Reprise (Joaquim Trier)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Appaloosa (Ed Harris)
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (Guillermo Del Toro)
Burn After Reading (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen)

***
Sparrow (Johnnie To)
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne/John Stevenson)
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Serbis (At Your Service) (Brilliante Mendoza)
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (Mark S. Waters)

**½
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
Australia (Baz Luhrmann)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
Bolt (Byron Howard/Chris Williams)
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
Horton Hears a Who (Jimmy Hayward/Steve Martino)

**
The Incredible Hulk (Louis Letterier)
Wanted (Timur Bakmemnatov)
The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
Speed Racer (Andy Wachowski/Larry Wachowski)
RocknRolla (Guy Ritchie)
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (Eric Brevig)


None yet

*
None yet

½
10,000 B.C. (Roland Emmerich)




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Post by Sabin »

Sonic is gone, isn't he?

This year has been so insane I haven't made myself patron of the new Kimberly Pierce, Errol Morris, Ben Stiller, the first David Gordon Green, among others based on dissenting views; like that would've stopped me a year ago. I've only seen 26 pictures. I plan on remedying that this month. The most recent addition is 'Chop Shop'. I've yet to see Bahrani's 'Man Push Cart' but that's at the top of my To See list. Just when I think I've outgrown De Sica's neorealism, this film comes along.

Will be astonished if my Top Two changes and kinda thrilled.

****
1. WALL*E (dir. Andrew Stanton)
2. Reprise (dir. Joachim Trier)
3. Chop Shop (dir. Ramin Bahrani)

***1/2
4. Paranoid Park (dir. Gus Van Sant)
5. The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
6. Burn After Reading (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)
7. The Band's Visit (dir. Eran Kolirin)
8. Iron Man (dir. Jon Favreau)
9. In Bruges (dir. Martin McDonagh)

***
10. Shotgun Stories (dir. Jeff Nichols)
11. Son of Rambow (dir. Garth Jennings)
12. The Incredible Hulk (dir. Louis Leterrier) (more like ***1/2 for everything up to the big fight at the end, and then a rapid plummet)
13. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (dir. Guillermo Del Toro)
14. Be Kind, Rewind (dir. Michel Gondry)

**1/2
15. Cloverfield (dir. Matt Reeves)
16. Roman de Gare (dir. Claude Lelouch)
17. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (dir. Peter Sollett)
18. 21 (dir. Robert Luketic)
19. Hancock (dir. Peter Berg)

**
20. The Fall (dir. Tarsem)
21. My Blueberry Nights (dir. Wong Kar-wai)
22. Baby Mama (dir. Michael McCullens)

*1/2
23. Vicky Christina Barcelona (dir. Woody Allen)
24. Pineapple Express (dir. David Gordon Green)
25. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (dir. Steven Spielberg)

ONE STAR BUT ALSO KINDA THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
26. The Happening (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
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