Review Index

Most of these are actually reviews, but a few appreciations and/or brief commentaries are scattered about...

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2 Days in Paris (A-)
21 (C-)
3:10 to Yuma (A-)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (A)
(500) Days of Summer

A
The Abyss
Across the Universe (B+)
Adventureland (B+)
Afghan Star (B+)
American Gangster (B)
American Casino (B+)
American Teen (A)
Amreeka (B)
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (A)
Appaloosa (B-)
The Asphalt Jungle
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (A-)
At the Death House Door (B)
Atonement (B)
Australia (C+)
Away We Go (B)

B
Back to the Future: Part II
P.O.V.: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (B)
Ballast (A)
The Band's Visit (A)
The Bank Job (B-)
Barton Fink
*batteries not included
The Battle of Algiers
Bedtime Stories (B)
Bee Movie (B)
Be Kind Rewind (C)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (B-)
Beowulf - 3D (B-)
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) (A)
The Big Lebowski
The Big Sleep
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (A)
The Blind Side (C)
Blindness (D)
Blindsight (A-)
Blood Simple
Body of Lies (C+)
Boiler Room
Bottle Shock (C-)
The Box (C-)
Boy A (A-)
The Boy Who Could Fly
Break (F)
Breakdown
Burn After Reading (B+)

C
The Cable Guy
Capitalism: A Love Story
Cassandra's Dream (C+)
Changeling (C-)
Charlie Wilson's War (B)
Che (A-)
Chicago 10 (B)
Chop Shop (A-)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (B)
City of Men (A)
The Class (A)
Cloverfield (C)
Colin (B-)
Colore Non Vedenti
Coraline (A-)
The Counterfeiters (A-)
Couples Retreat (D)
The Cove (A)
Crazy Heart (B+)
Crude (A)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (A-)
The Custodian (A-)

D
The Darjeeling Limited (C+)
The Dark Knight (A)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (A)
The Devil Wears Prada (B-)
Diary of a Times Square Thief (B+)
District 9 (B)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (A)
Doubt (B+)
Drag Me to Hell (B+)
Dry Season (A)

E
Eastern Promises (B+)
The Edge of Heaven (B+)
Elegy (B-)
Encounters at the End of the World (A-)
Etienne! (B+)

F
The Fall (A-)
Falling Down
Fantastic Mr. Fox (A) 
Fargo
The Firm
Flash of Genius (C+)
Food, Inc. (A-)
The Foot Fist Way (C+)
Forgiven (B)
Friday the 13th (2009) (C)
Frost/Nixon (A-)
Frozen River (B+)
Funny Games (C-)

G
Gone Baby Gone (B+)
The Golden Compass (C)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (B)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (A)
Good Hair (B)
Goodbye Solo (A-)
Gran Torino (A)
The Great Buck Howard (B-)
The Great Debaters (B-)
The Great Outdoors
The Grocer's Son (A)
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (A)

H
Hamlet 2 (C+)
The Happening (F)
Happy-Go-Lucky (A)
Hava Aney Dey (Let the Wind Blow) (B+)
Heart of Stone (A)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (B+)
High School High
Hotel for Dogs (C-)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (B)
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hurt Locker (A-)

I
I Am Legend (B+)
I Love You, Man (B+)
I'm Not There (B+)
Inglourious Basterds (B+)
Ink (B-)
Into the Wild (A)
Intolerable Cruelty
In Bruges (B)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (A)
In the Loop (A-)
In the Shadow of the Moon (A-)
In the Valley of Elah (B)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (B)
Invictus (B)
Iron Man (B-)

J
Jerichow (A-)
Julie & Julia (B+)
Juno (B+)
Jumper (F)
Jurassic Park

K
Kicks (B)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (A)
The Kingdom (D)
The Kite Runner (A)
Knowing (F)
Kung Fu Panda (A)

L
The Ladykillers 
Lakeview Terrace (B)
Lars and the Real Girl (A-)
Lean on Me
Let the Right One In (A)
Letters to the President (B+)
Lions Den (A-)
Lions for Lambs (C)
Living Arrangements (B-) 
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (B+)
Lorna's Silence (A-)
Love in the Time of Cholera (C-)
Lovely By Surprise (B+)
The Lovely Bones (C)

M
Mamma Mia! (B)
Man on Wire (A)
The Man Who Wasn't There
Manda Bala (B+)
Margot at the Wedding (C-)
Medicine for Melancholy (A-)
Michael Clayton (C)
Milk (B+)
Milking the Rhino (A) 
Miller's Crossing
Miracle at St. Anna (B)
Moon (B+)
The Mosquito Coast
Mulholland Drive
Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) (A-)
Mutum (A-)
My Blueberry Nights (A-)
My Kid Could Paint That (A-)

N
Nanking (A)
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (B-)
New York, I Love You (C)
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (B+)
No Country for Old Men (A)
No End in Sight (A-)
Nobel Son (D)
Notorious (B-)

O
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Observe and Report (C)
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (A-)

P
P-Star Rising (A-) 
Paper Heart
Paranoid Park (B)
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (C+)
Persepolis (B+)
Pineapple Express (C)
Planet B-Boy (B+)
The Pool (A)
Ponyo (on a Cliff by the Sea) (A)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (A-)
Precious (B)
Priceless (A)
The Princess and the Warrior

Q
Quantum of Solace (C)
Quid Pro Quo (B)

R
Rachel Getting Married (B+)
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation
Raising Arizona
Rambo (F)
Redbelt (C-)
Rendition (D)
Reprise (B+)
Reservation Road (B-)
Return to Oz
Revanche (A-)
Revolutionary Road (A-)
The Road (B)
Role Models (B-)
Roman de Gare (B+)
Romeo + Juliet
Ronin
Rumba (B)
Rumble in the Bronx
Run, Fatboy, Run (C+)

S
The Savages (B+)
School of Rock
A Serious Man (A)
Semi-Pro (C)
Shine a Light (B)
Shutter Island (B-)
The Siege
A Simple Plan
Sita Sings the Blues (A-)
Slumdog Millionaire (A+)
Smart People (C)
P.O.V.: Soldiers of Conscience (B+)
Son of Rambow (B+)
The Song of Sparrows (A)
Southland Tales (D)
Speed Racer (B-)
The Spy Who Loved Me
Standard Operating Procedure (A-)
Star Trek (B-)
State of Play (B)
Step Brothers (C-)
Stop-Loss (A-)
Strangers on a Train
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (B+)
Sugar (A)
Surfwise (A)
Synecdoche, New York (A-)

T
Take Out (A)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (and 123)
Taxi to the Dark Side (B+)
Tell No One (B+)
Terminator Salvation (C+)
There Will Be Blood (A-)
Things We Lost in the Fire (B)
This Is It (A)
Three Monkeys (A)
Titanic
Tokyo Sonata (A-)
Tony Manero (B)
Toy Soldiers
P.O.V.: Traces of the Trade (A-)
Traitor (B-)
Transsiberian (A-)
Tropic Thunder (A-)
Trouble the Water (A)
The Truman Show
Tulpan (A-)
Two Lovers (B+)
Tyson (A-)

U
Under the Same Moon (C)
Up (A-)
Up in the Air (B+)
Up the Yangtze (A)

V
Valkyrie (B+)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (A-)
The Visitor (A-)

W
W. (B+)
The Wackness (B)
The Wages of Fear
Waitress (B+)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (C+)
Waking Life
WALL*E (A)
Waltz with Bashir (A)
War Child
War Dance (A)
The Way We Get By (A-) 
We Live in Public (B+)
We Own the Night (C+)
Win or Lose: A Summer Camp Story (B+)
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden (C-)
Where the Wild Things Are (B)
Woman Rebel
The Wrestler (A)

X

Y
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (A-)
Yes Man (C+)
You Don't Mess With the Zohan (C)
Young at Heart (A+)
Youth Without Youth (C-)

Z

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2008 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
2009 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts