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Movies 2008:
Reviews of the latest films.
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- 000 In Quantum of Solace, James Bond is a total zero.
Nov. 14, 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle's irresistible hokum.
Nov. 13, 2008 - Role Models Paul Rudd + cult sketch director = funny movie.
Nov. 6, 2008 - Jean-Claude Van Damme Made Me Cry In JCVD, the action star delivers a kick-ass monologue.
Nov. 6, 2008 - Good Grief Why I love the melancholy Peanuts holiday specials.
Oct. 31, 2008 - Yuck Zack and Miri Make a Porno will make you never want to have sex again.
Oct. 30, 2008 - Everyone Sucks Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.
Oct. 24, 2008 - The Changeling Angelina Jolie's Oscar attempt.
Oct. 23, 2008 - The Secret Life of Bees Just sweet enough.
Oct. 17, 2008 - Lame-Duck Soup Oliver Stone's cinematic portrait of George W. Bush.
Oct. 16, 2008 - Glossy Torture Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies.
Oct. 10, 2008 - Happy Happy Happy Mike Leigh's new movie actually needed more sadness and woe.
Oct. 9, 2008 - Bark Bark The clumsy racial attitudes of Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
Oct. 3, 2008 - All Aboard the Crazy Train Anne Hathaway in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married.
Oct. 3, 2008 - Shyness Is Nice Michael Cera in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
Oct. 2, 2008 - Mr. Wedge Issue A new documentary about Lee Atwater.
Sept. 26, 2008 - Bird-Brained Shia LaBeouf in Eagle Eye.
Sept. 26, 2008 - Choke Gag.
Sept. 25, 2008 - Smooth Moves Why you should watch Max Ophuls this weekend.
Sept. 19, 2008 - Dead People Are Irritating The new Ricky Gervais comedy, Ghost Town.
Sept. 18, 2008 - Towelhead It's no fun being a sexually curious, biracial teenager in Houston.
Sept. 12, 2008 - Burn After Reading But pause before seeing the new Coen brothers movie.
Sept. 11, 2008 - How's Your Edamame, Tex? Takashi Miike puts the Western through the cultural blender.
Aug. 28, 2008 - Save Faris When will someone give Anna Faris the role she deserves?
Aug. 21, 2008 - Eminently Quaffable Bottle Shock is a sweet little wine movie.
Aug. 7, 2008 - There's Something About Robert Downey Jr. Watch him play a white guy playing a black guy in Tropic Thunder.
Aug. 7, 2008 - Bud Movie Pineapple Express has its moments, but it's kind of harsh.
Aug. 6, 2008 - Walking on Air Go see Man on Wire.
Aug. 1, 2008 - Dances With Roves Kevin Costner in the political "satire" Swing Vote.
July 31, 2008 - Baghead An indie horror film that kind of resembles early John Sayles.
July 25, 2008 - Close Encounters of the Woo-Woo Kind Mulder and Scully reunite in The X-Files: I Want To Believe.
July 24, 2008 - No Joke The Dark Knight, reviewed.
July 17, 2008 - Hot Mamma! Go see the defiantly dorky ABBA musical.
July 17, 2008 - Houdini in Love The charming tricks of Death Defying Acts.
July 11, 2008 - You're Going to Hellboy Guillermo del Toro's beastly good imagination.
July 10, 2008 - Best Year Ever The Wackness is a loving ode to 1994.
July 3, 2008 - Superbad Hancock's failed superhero satire.
July 2, 2008 - The Dominatrix Angelina Jolie crushes James McAvoy like a bug in Wanted.
June 27, 2008 - Robot Wisdom Wall-E reviewed.
June 26, 2008 - Muppet Troy! And other inspired responses to our movie-remake contest.
June 20, 2008 - No Love for The Love Guru Wow, what a bad movie.
June 19, 2008 - The Happening and The Incredible Hulk Two summer blockbusters reviewed and a reader contest.
June 13, 2008 - March of the Herzog The filmmaker goes to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.
June 11, 2008 - This Mongolian Life An old-fashioned epic about Genghis Khan.
June 6, 2008 - Sex and the City A guilty pleasure that's truly guilty.
May 29, 2008 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull What would a 32nd-century scholar make of Harrison Ford?
May 22, 2008 - Hip Scandinavian Gloom Joachim Trier's Reprise is melancholy but exuberant.
May 16, 2008 - Prince Caspian The Narnia series gets bleaker.
May 15, 2008 - Go, Speed Racer, Go Away! The Wachowski brothers' high-tech failure.
May 9, 2008 - Manhattan Without Car Alarms Tim Robbins plays a sound-pollution vigilante in Noise.
May 8, 2008 - Son of Rambow Like Billy Elliot, but schlockier.
May 2, 2008 - Iron Man What if Oscar Wilde were a superhero?
May 1, 2008 - Standard Operating Procedure Errol Morris' documentary about the Abu Ghraib torture photographs.
April 25, 2008 - High Treason Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay reviewed.
April 25, 2008 - Womb Service Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in the surrogate-mother comedy Baby Mama.
April 24, 2008 - Spurlock Holmes The stunt documentarian goes in search of Osama Bin Laden.
April 18, 2008 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall The school of Apatow reaches a new level of emotional nakedness.
April 17, 2008 - I See Smart People Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, and Thomas Haden Church in a shambolic comedy.
April 11, 2008 - Whoa Keanu Reeves as a Dirty Harry-style cop in Street Kings.
April 10, 2008 - Wong Kar Whatever My Blueberry Nights is beautiful, confusing.
April 4, 2008 - Illegal Use of Hands George Clooney's pro-football comedy Leatherheads.
April 3, 2008 - Drillbit Taylor Owen Wilson, Judd Apatow, and Seth Rogen team up for some nonfun.
March 20, 2008 - Truly, Madly, Sadly Anthony Minghella's best movie was his first one.
March 19, 2008 - Michael Haneke's Funny Games Feel like being tortured by a movie?
March 13, 2008 - Married Life A tony, well-upholstered drama that manages to charm.
March 7, 2008 - Me Want Good Caveman Movie Not this 10,000 B.C. crap.
March 6, 2008 - All the King's Women The Other Boleyn Girl is a costume drama with lots of brocade and sadly little booty.
Feb. 28, 2008 - Low Fidelity Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind.
Feb. 22, 2008 - Diary of the Dead George Romero's bleakest zombie movie yet.
Feb. 15, 2008 - Super Frat Boy Hayden Christensen in Jumper.
Feb. 14, 2008 - Strangers in Strange Lands In Bruges and The Band's Visit reviewed.
Feb. 8, 2008 - Hating Juno How the backlash started.
Feb. 8, 2008 - The Show Won't Go On There's something profoundly destabilizing about the concept of a year without an Oscar ceremony.
Jan. 31, 2008 - Meet the Charlatans Another terrible spoof movie from the nongeniuses who brought you Date Movie and Epic Movie.
Jan. 30, 2008 - Rambo He just wants to hand-forge iron and be left alone, but then a blond missionary shows up.
Jan. 24, 2008 - Cassandra's Dream The new Woody Allen is not unredeemably bad.
Jan. 18, 2008 - When Monsters Attack Pretty People J.J. Abrams destroys New York in Cloverfield.
Jan. 17, 2008 - Push! Ricki Lake's valentine to the home-birth movement.
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