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2 Days In Paris (2007) |
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"'2 Days in Paris' is at once companionable and challenging, and like most worthwhile films these days, also is both derivative and original." | |
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The Apartment (1960) |
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"'The Apartment': The Film That Defines Me" | |
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Atonement (2007) |
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"The kind of classically contoured love story that American filmmakers have become (almost willfully) incapable of making anymore." | |
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Baby Mama (2008) |
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"'Baby Mama' Makes Do-Do" | |
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The Break-Up (2006) |
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""The Break-Up": A brilliantly uncompromising, often harsh but very accurate examination of a relationship unraveling" | |
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Death Proof (2007) |
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"'Death Proof': Prime Tarantino" | |
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Enchanted (2007) |
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"Amy Adams delivers an iconic breakthrough performance in Kevin Lima's sophisticated and subversive Disney film." | |
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
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"'Forgetting Sarah Foster': Judd Apatow's Latest Dick Flick" | |
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Hairspray (2007) |
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"'Hairspray': An unabashed, unapologetic movie musical that nearly jumps off the screen and challenges all of your silly hang-ups about movie musicals" | |
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Half Nelson (2006) |
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"'Half Nelson': A Magnetic Ryan Gosling" | |
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The Host (2007) |
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"'The Host': A sneaky, spellbinding celebration of what movies are supposed to be all about." | |
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I Am Legend (2007) |
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"Francis Lawrence's 'I Am Legend': The First Half - Its Better Half - Plays Like An Extremely Effective 'Anti-Michael Vick Flick'" | |
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I'm Not There (2007) |
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"For Better or Worse, Todd Haynes' 'I'm Not There' Reinvents the Biopic Genre" | |
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The Invasion (2007) |
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"'The Invasion': Oliver Hirschbiegel's take on Jack Finney's classic story is subtly political, commenting ever so slyly on the apathy and indifference - and the lack of empathy and compassion - that have taken over since 9/11, as well as the sense of enti" | |
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Iron Man (2008) |
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"Jon Favreau's 'Iron Man': The $100-Million Iraq War Movie" | |
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Joshua (2007) |
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"'Joshua': More than a 'horror film' - a staunchly unforgiving, thoroughly uncomproming look at how a child systematically ruins the lives of his parents" | |
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Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
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"Craig Gillespie's 'Lars and the Real Girl' Is an Off-Beat, '70s-Like Charmer that Could Have Been the Third Side of a Bud Cort Trilogy" | |
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Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
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"Kidman's Toxic Narcissist Drives Bracing 'Margot at the Wedding'" | |
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A Mighty Heart (2007) |
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"'A Mighty Heart': Where's Daniel?" | |
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The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
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"'The Nanny Diaries': Huh? It's supposed to be a comedy?" | |
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Norbit (2007) |
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"'Norbit': Eddie Murphy plus Brian Robbins = Frank Tashlin" | |
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Ratatouille (2007) |
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"Would it be redundant - or too premature - to call 'Ratatouille' the best film of the year?" | |
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Roman de Gare (2008) |
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"Claude Lelouch's 'Roman de gare'('Crossed Tracks'): A seductive, compulsively watchable little cat-and-mouse game" | |
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The Savages (2007) |
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"Tamara Jenkins' 'The Savages': Laura Linney, The Most Overlooked Great Gctress of Her Generation, Soars with Authenticity" | |
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Sex and the City: The Movie (2008) |
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"SATC Redux: A Lively, Ribald Comedy Has Somehow Morphed into a Shameless, Elephantine Soap Opera" | |
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Southland Tales (2007) |
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"Richard Kelly's 'Southland Tales' Looms as rude, Confrontational Political Black Comedy about a Very Messed-Up, Dystrophian America - a Film with the Vigor and Incorrigible Quality of a Work-In-Progress." | |
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Superbad (2007) |
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"'Superbad': 'American Graffiti Redux,' only updated with the usual raunch and a major penis fixation" | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) |
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"'Sweeney Todd': Burton has deconstructed and redefined Sondheim's masterwork, creating a film that compliments its stage predecessor. 'Todd' is at once different from the play and yet not different at all. A unique achievement" | |
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
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"'Talladega Nights': Deliciously Subversive Political Satire" | |
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Tarnation (2004) |
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"'Tarnation': A Filmic Diary of a Chaotic Life, Consisting of Mosaic-Like Bits and Pieces of Memorabilia" | |
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
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"'Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story': Sadly inert, alleged spoof of the subgenre, the crooner biopic" | |
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Year of the Dog (2007) |
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"Mike White's 'Year of the Dog': Smart, witty film about the consequences of single-minded committment." | |
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