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Released on January 18, 2008
Cloverfield (2008)
“Cloverfield” is nominally a monster movie, but mostly it’s a feature-length gimmick.
Rating: PG-13 (Violence)
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27 Dresses (2008)
“27 Dresses” makes the point that modern American weddings are all pretty much alike. The same could be said about modern American romantic comedies.
Rating: PG-13 (Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 107 Minutes
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Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the necessary clarity and ethical rigor, “Taxi to the Dark Side” will be essential.
Rating: R
Running Time: 106 Minutes
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Running With Arnold (2008)
Rating: NR
Running Time: 72 Minutes
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Teeth (2008)
Teenage horror-movie spoof, John Waters parody, No Nukes protest movie, twisted sex-education film, quasi-feminist fable, outrageous stunt: Mitchell Lichtenstein’s clever, crude comedy, “Teeth,” is all these and more.
Rating: R (Nudity/Adult Situations/Strong Sexual Content/Rape & Sexual Abuse/Not For Children/Profanity)
Running Time: 94 Minutes
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Still Life (2008)
In “Still Life,” the blood and the sweat run directly into the Yangtze River, where they mingle with more than a few tears.
Rating: NR
Running Time: 108 Minutes
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Cassandra's Dream (2008)
“Cassandra’s Dream,” Woody Allen’s latest excursion to the dark side of human nature, is good enough that you may wonder why he doesn’t just stop making comedies once and for all.
Rating: PG-13 (Mild Violence/Adult Situations/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 105 Minutes
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Beaufort (2008)
“Beaufort” may be, strictly speaking, a war movie, but for long stretches it feels more like science fiction.
Rating: NR (Violence)
Running Time: 131 Minutes
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Summer Palace (2008)
Lou Ye’s “Summer Palace” examines youthful idealism and its unhappy aftermath.
Rating: NR
Running Time: 140 Minutes
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Mad Money (2008)
In the breezy, amoral heist comedy “Mad Money,” “Fun With Dick and Jane” meets “9 to 5” on the way to recession.
Rating: PG-13 (Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 103 Minutes
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Released on January 11, 2008
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)
Rating: NR
Running Time: 104 Minutes
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008)
You don’t have to go far into the press material for “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie” before you hit the phrase “faith-and-values-based property.” It is used to describe this and earlier offerings from the VeggieTales franchise, but the “faith” component of this rather ordinary film for children doesn’t make itself readily apparent.
Rating: G (Excellent For Children)
Running Time: 84 Minutes
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Times and Winds (2008)
Livestock far outnumber humans in “Times and Winds,” Reha Erdem’s transporting vision of life in a mountain village in northwest Turkey.
Running Time: 110 Minutes
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In the Name of the King (2008)
Like actors in an amateur stage play, the large, mostly all-star — or has-been star — cast of “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale” look, rather dazedly, to be playing dress-up.
Rating: PG-13 (Violence)
Running Time: 124 Minutes
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Released on January 10, 2008
First Sunday (2008)
In “First Sunday,” Ice Cube departs a bit from the upright-citizen persona, playing a man driven to crime by desperate circumstances.
Rating: PG-13 (Adult Humor/Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 98 Minutes
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Mad Money (2008)
In the breezy, amoral heist comedy “Mad Money,” “Fun With Dick and Jane” meets “9 to 5” on the way to recession.
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Rating: PG-13 (Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 103 Minutes
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Man in the Chair (2007)
In “Man in the Chair” Christopher Plummer, an actor typecast nowadays as a suave, smiling cobra, sheds his scales to play a tippling old curmudgeon.
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Adult Situations/Adult Language)
Running Time: 107 Minutes
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
When it comes to emotional violence, “Margot at the Wedding” is hard to beat.
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Rating: R (Mild Violence/Nudity/Adult Situations/Profanity/Substance Abuse (Alcohol, Drugs)/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 91 Minutes
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Martian Child (2007)
There’s nothing wrong with the setup of “Martian Child,” but there’s little right about the delivery.
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Rating: PG (Adult Situations)
Running Time: 106 Minutes
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Michael Clayton (2007)
Dark in color, mood and outraged worldview, “Michael Clayton” is a film that speaks to the way we live now.
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Adult Situations/Not For Children/Profanity)
Running Time: 120 Minutes
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Monika (2007)
More than 50 years after its first screening in America, “Monika” arrives in New York again to light up the screen, this time without a trace of impropriety.
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Rating: NR (Adult Situations)
Running Time: 96 Minutes
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Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
If the concept of “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” is ingenious, its execution is erratic.
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Rating: G
Running Time: 94 Minutes
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Mr. Untouchable (2007)
The flashy documentary “Mr. Untouchable” looks at the life of Nicky Barnes, once one of the most powerful drug dealers in Harlem.
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Brief Nudity/Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 92 Minutes
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Music Within (2007)
A bad movie with a good heart, “Music Within” is a biography of Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston), an activist for the handicapped.
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Rating: R (Adult Situations/Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 93 Minutes
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My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
“My Kid Could Paint That” explores a case in which the grown-up fascination with a child’s art appears to have spun out of control.
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Adult Language)
Running Time: 82 Minutes
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Naked Boys Singing! (2007)
In “Naked Boys Singing!” 10 grown men (including one natural redhead) go full monty while belting out show tunes and high-kicking like muscular Rockettes.
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Rating: NR (Nudity/Adult Language)
Running Time: 95 Minutes
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Nanking (2007)
“Nanking” is a swift, incisive documentary about one of the lesser-known horrors of the 20th century.
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Rating: R (Adult Situations/Rape & Sexual Abuse)
Running Time: 90 Minutes
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
The hyperactive sequel “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” sends its archaeologist hero on a globetrotting quest that might have been devised after a long night of Wikipedia surfing.
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Rating: PG (Violence)
Running Time: 123 Minutes
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
For formalists — those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design — “No Country for Old Men” is pure heaven.
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Rating: R (Graphic Violence/Adult Situations/Profanity)
Running Time: 122 Minutes
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Note By Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007)
“Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037” follows the painstaking yearlong process of building and fine-tuning a handmade nine-foot concert grand piano.
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Rating: NR
Running Time: 81 Minutes
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O Jerusalem (2007)
It’s not easy to turn one of the most controversial events of the 20th century into a movie that makes your eyes roll, but “O Jerusalem” does this and worse.
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Rating: R
Running Time: 100 Minutes
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One Missed Call (2008)
“One Missed Call” is the latest Japanese knockoff to fetishize death by technology.
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Rating: PG-13 (Violence/Adult Situations/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 86 Minutes
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