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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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Saw IV (2007)
"Saw IV” is bloody proof that Jigsaw may be dead, but his well of corporeal abuses has yet to run dry.
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Rating: R (Profanity/Gore)
Running Time: 92 Minutes
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Secret Sunshine (2007)
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Rating: NR
Running Time: 142 Minutes
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Shotgun Stories (2007)
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Violence/Adult Situations/Profanity)
Running Time: 90 Minutes
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Sleuth (2007)
In the remake of “Sleuth,” what was once insignificant is now insufferable.
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Rating: R (Profanity)
Running Time: 88 Minutes
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Smiley Face (2007)
“Smiley Face,” about a pot-addled would-be actress stumbling through a long, weird day in Los Angeles, is a contradiction in terms: a “stoner” comedy with a purpose.
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Rating: R (Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 84 Minutes
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Southland Tales (2007)
“Southland Tales” is a funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired look at America and its discontents.
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Adult Situations/Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 161 Minutes
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Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
A crepuscular glow suffuses Andrew Wagner’s intelligent, careful adaptation of a near-perfect novel by Brian Morton. One of Mr. Wagner’s themes (and also Mr. Morton’s) is the waning of that old, literary New York, the twilight of an idea of the city as a capital of the modern mind.
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Nudity/Adult Language/Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 110 Minutes
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Steal a Pencil for Me (2007)
“Steal a Pencil for Me” recounts 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Jack Polak’s stint in Nazi camps.
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Rating: NR
Running Time: 97 Minutes
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Steep (2007)
“Steep” is an undeniably impressive visual spectacle that follows the sport of extreme skiing.
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Rating: PG
Running Time: 92 Minutes
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Strange Culture (2007)
Somewhere between documentary and dramatization, fact and impression, “Strange Culture” molds one man’s tragedy into an engrossing narrative experiment.
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Rating: NR
Running Time: 75 Minutes
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Summer Palace (2008)
Lou Ye’s “Summer Palace” examines youthful idealism and its unhappy aftermath.
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Rating: NR
Running Time: 140 Minutes
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
“Sweeney Todd” is as much a horror film as a musical. It is also something close to a masterpiece.
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Rating: R (Graphic Violence)
Running Time: 117 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.
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Rating: R
Running Time: 106 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.
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Rating: R (Nudity/Adult Situations/Strong Sexual Content/Rape & Sexual Abuse/Not For Children/Profanity)
Running Time: 94 Minutes
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The Band's Visit (2007)
“The Band’s Visit,” the first feature by the Israeli writer and director Eran Kolirin, flirts recklessly with obviousness, cuteness too.
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Profanity)
Running Time: 86 Minutes
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The Bucket List (2007)
“The Bucket List” operates on the hope that two beloved stars rubbing their signature screen personas together can spark warm, fuzzy box office magic.
Release Date: December 25, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Adult Language)
Running Time: 97 Minutes
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The Business of Being Born (2008)
“The Business of Being Born” is a passionate ground-level examination of home childbirth.
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Rating: NR
Running Time: 87 Minutes
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The Comebacks (2007)
“The Comebacks” is one of those parody movies that presume that merely making reference to another film constitutes a joke.
Release Date: October 19, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Adult Humor/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 84 Minutes
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Wes Anderson’s main characters share with him a passion for collecting rare objects and unusual experiences, all of which they handle with exquisite, jealous care.
Release Date: September 29, 2007
Rating: R (Profanity)
Running Time: 91 Minutes
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
With “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” Julian Schnabel demonstrates his own imaginative freedom in every frame and sequence.
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Nudity/Adult Situations/Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 114 Minutes
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The Genius Club (2007)
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Rating: PG (Adult Situations)
Running Time: 119 Minutes
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The Golden Compass (2007)
“The Golden Compass” has many of the virtues of a faithful screen adaptation and many of the predictable flaws.
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Violence)
Running Time: 118 Minutes
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The Great Debaters (2007)
There are enough things to admire about “The Great Debaters,” the heavily fictionalized true story of The Little Debate Team That Could, that your impulse is to forgive the movie its shortcomings.
Release Date: December 25, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Violence/Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 123 Minutes
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The Killing of John Lennon (2008)
Andrew Piddington’s devastating re-enactment of events leading up to, including and immediately after the murder is taken from interviews, depositions and court transcripts.
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Rating: NR
Running Time: 112 Minutes
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The Kite Runner (2007)
In both novel and film form, “The Kite Runner” recounts a simple yet shrewd story about that favorite American pastime: self-improvement.
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Violence/Adult Situations/Rape & Sexual Abuse/Profanity)
Running Time: 122 Minutes
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The Mist (2007)
Until the director Frank Darabont decides that he’s saying something important instead of making a nifty horror movie, “The Mist” isn’t half bad.
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Profanity/Gore)
Running Time: 125 Minutes
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The Orphanage (2007)
“The Orphanage,” a diverting, overwrought ghost story from Spain, relies on basic and durable horror movie techniques.
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Rating: R (Adult Situations)
Running Time: 105 Minutes
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The Perfect Holiday (2007)
“The Perfect Holiday,” directed by Lance Rivera, is that most dispiriting product, a formulaic movie that doesn’t believe in itself.
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Rating: PG (Profanity)
Running Time: 96 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.
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Rating: G (Excellent For Children)
Running Time: 84 Minutes
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The Savages (2007)
Tamara Jenkins’s “The Savages,” is a beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls.
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Rating: R (Adult Situations/Not For Children/Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 113 Minutes
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The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)
The forces of Light and Dark are at it again in “The Seeker,” David L. Cunningham’s stilted fantasy about a pubescent lad charged with defeating evil.
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Rating: PG (Violence)
Running Time: 99 Minutes
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The Ten Commandments (2007)
Release Date: October 19, 2007
Rating: PG
Running Time: 88 Minutes
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The Walker (2007)
With “The Walker,” the director Paul Schrader likes his decadence ripe and toxic, seeping through the gold-trimmed furniture and into the water supply.
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Brief Nudity/Profanity)
Running Time: 107 Minutes
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The Water Horse (2007)
Many lonely children yearn for a pet to call their own. In “The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep,” based on a novel by Dick King-Smith, a boy finds not only that, but a best friend as well.
Release Date: December 25, 2007
Rating: PG (Mild Violence/Suitable for Children/Adult Language)
Running Time: 111 Minutes
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Rating: NR
Running Time: 104 Minutes
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
“There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell.
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Rating: R (Violence)
Running Time: 158 Minutes
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This Christmas (2007)
“This Christmas” includes more family melodrama than all the holiday-homecoming flicks from the past decade combined.
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 117 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.
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Running Time: 110 Minutes
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Tony N' Tina's Wedding (2007)
Anyone too busy during the last couple of decades to make it to the Off Broadway production that inspired “Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding” can relax: the film version is now here.
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Rating: R (Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 108 Minutes
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Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
Couched in a familiar language of hope and redemption, “Why Did I Get Married?” benefits from one of the strongest casts of Mr. Perry’s career.
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Adult Situations/Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 118 Minutes
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Undoing (2007)
“Undoing,” by the writer and director Chris Chan Lee, buries a potentially haunting pulp thriller beneath flashy tics.
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Rating: R (Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 85 Minutes
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