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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       2.5/4      Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)      "Predictable losers-are-people-too jesting raised a notch by the quality work of consummate professionals." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      Flawless (2007)      "Revealing when it needs to be and unpredictable when you least expect it." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      21 (2008)      "Jim Sturgess turns up the heat as an untapped genius who takes a walk on the wild side." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      Funny Games (2008)      "Rests so heavily on tenterhooks of guilt that an apology is in order for admiring it." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Married Life (2008)      "Director Ira Sachs plays it wistful not wayward, sticking to essential melodrama and tidy infidelities while dropping narrative cherry bombs for calculated effect." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      The Counterfeiters (2008)      "Plays the concentration camp drama to dynamic effect." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)      "What a difference a day makes in this cheeky comedy of manners." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2/4      City of Men (2008)      "Paulo Morelli mines old territory in yet another ode to Rio's vivid favelas." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      The Band's Visit (2007)      "In turns tender and awkward yet always with an eye towards the universal language of hope." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2.5/4      Be Kind Rewind (2008)      "Only crazy rubber-faced Jack Black could pull off such a spoofy, overly-eager slapdash of a project." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      Vantage Point (2008)      "Smart escapist thrillers are a dying breed but this is one of the good ones." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2/4      Charlie Bartlett (2007)      "A lightweight outing heavy on convention." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       4/4      4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)      "Utilizes its draconian politics to underscore the desperate determination and nerve-racking fear of stepping outside the box." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2/4      Untraceable (2008)      " Life is too short for long-term exposure to relentless agony and distress, even in the guise of entertainment." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2.5/4      27 Dresses (2008)      "Frilly testament to the romantic secondary and homage to the nice girls who don't always finish last." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       1/4      The Bucket List (2007)      "Even the one-two punch of A-list heavyweights Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman can't save this terminal tearjerker from itself." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       4/4      The Orphanage (2007)      "Saturated in anxiety and dripping with dread." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       4/4      There Will Be Blood (2007)      "Visceral, volatile and epic." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      The Great Debaters (2007)      "Turns out Denzel Washington makes magic on both sides of the camera." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      The Savages (2007)      "Affecting and dangerously close to home." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2/4      Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)      "Revenge is a dish best served cold, exactly how I was left after watching Helena Bonham Carter butcher a cheeky star turn in Tim Burton's cutthroat musical." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Juno (2007)      "Sweet, sassy, and satisfying." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      Atonement (2007)      "Magnifies its inescapable destiny with dazzling bravura." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      The Golden Compass (2007)      "Performances lend heft and humanity to the overriding whimsy." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      The Kite Runner (2007)      "Genuine if not exactly inspiring." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      I'm Not There (2007)      "A rag-tag pastiche of genius, wit and irony." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      This Christmas (2007)      " a cornucopia of cine-cheer and familydysfunction." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Margot at the Wedding (2007)      "Noah Baumbach knows his way around an honest exploration of family and friendship and Margot serves to reinforce the point." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Redacted (2007)      "Brian De Palma has achieved a fresh level of perspective; the psychological wounds of war as seen through the eyes of the damaged and eternally damned." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       4/4      No Country for Old Men (2007)      "The Coens return to form, creating their most idiosyncratic characters since Steve Buscemi's Carl Showalter faced down the wood chipper in Fargo." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2/4      Martian Child (2007)      "John Cusack is the only bright spot in an otherwise sentimentally sloppy drama that telegraphs its plot points with a blinding laser beam." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Sharkwater (2007)      "Sharkwater has a message or two or three; its intentions are nothing if not noble." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2.5/4      American Gangster (2007)      "Ridley Scott pumps up the volume with a gritty, glitzy valentine to the anarchic American drug wars." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      Lars And The Real Girl (2007)      "Tender, thoughtful and distinctive." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2.5/4      Reservation Road (2007)      "A semi-absorbing but ultimately tiresome waiting game." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2/4      Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)      "Overwrought indies aren't typically my thing and this achingly angsty melodrama does little to alter my thinking." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2.5/4      Sleuth (2007)      "A semi-satisfying game, set and match." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Gone Baby Gone (2007)      "A gritty expose of the shady shards of right and wrong." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      My Kid Could Paint That (2007)      "Maddening and more than a little thought-provoking." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Lust, Caution (2007)      "Ang Lee has gone back to his roots and the results are undeniably intriguing." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      Michael Clayton (2007)      "A resonant throwback with deep roots to the political thrillers of the 1970s; slick, smart and saturated in dramatic paranoia." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)      "Capricious, meditative and absorbing." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)      "I shudder at the term chick flick but Jane Austen Book Club is a shining example of the genre, resplendent with feminine energy yet gently tweaking its masculine side." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       4/4      In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)      "To say these guys still have the Right Stuff is an overwhelming understatement." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3/4      Across the Universe (2007)      "Julie Taymor's wildly ambitious ode to the Fab Four is a flawed but occasionally fabulous change of pace." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       4/4      Into the Wild (2007)      "Sean Penn steps behind the camera to craft one of the most powerful films of the year." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       3.5/4      Eastern Promises (2007)      "Viggo Mortensen chews it up and spits it out as the corrupt centerpiece of maverick director David Cronenberg's searing mob thriller." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       4/4      Deep Water (2007)      "A tangle of turbulent seas and emotions." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2/4      Silk (2007)      "Alessandro Baricco's lyrical short novel is tentatively re-imagined as a saccharine love story with minimal depth." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly       2/4      Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)      "Ladron leans far too heavily on a lifeless script and sluggish pacing to get its well-worn point across. The film's been-theres and done-thats are widespread." [movie review]      Palo Alto Weekly

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