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3/5	" Gary Fleder's sporting drama has its heart in the right place but, sheesh, that title grows more ironic with each crawling minute." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Dec 5, 2008	The Express (2008)	61%
3/5	" At times Special People feels hobbled by the very political correctness it wants to poke fun at; still, it's nicely observed and crisply played, gently confounding a gaggle of prejudices during the course of a svelte 81-minute run." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008	Special People (2007)	89%
3/5	" For all its flaws and fumbles there is a certain guilty pleasure in Choke." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 21, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
3/5	" Richard McGuire's contribution is a small gothic masterpiece in which a guttering candle picks out half-glimpsed horrors inside an old dark house." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 3, 2008	Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)	74%
3/5	" This ill-starred four-piece are the heroes of a flawed, fascinating documentary, shot on digital video by two excitable gonzo-esque journalists from Vice magazine." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 12, 2008	Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)	81%
4/5	" The acting is heartfelt, but the film carries a heaped cargo of conceits that has it wavering between the stark and the sentimental, the nuanced and the schematic." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	64%
3/5	" You don't need to have a grudging affection for Vin Diesel to appreciate this dunderheaded comic-book adventure - although, obviously, it helps." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2008	Babylon A.D. (2008)	7%
4/5	" Does Andrew Stanton's film amount to much more than a brilliant aesthetic exercise? I'm not convinced it does." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jul 18, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
4/5	" A near-classic of 40s film noir." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Apr 8, 2008	The Killers (1946)	100%
5/5	" Blade Runner, in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 23, 2007	Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)	94%
3/5	" A horribly enlightening documentary." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Nov 9, 2007	A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006)	79%
5/5	" Fresh as a daisy after all these years, Satyajit Ray's 1955 spellbinder comes underpinned by a tumultuous Ravi Shankar sitar and paints a ground's-eye portrait of life in an impoverished Bengali village." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 24, 2007	Pather Panchali (1954)	97%
3/5	" Princess remains technically brilliant and never less than compelling, albeit in a queasy, troubling fashion. Its images rattle in the memory like unclean ghosts." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 19, 2007	Princess (2007)	55%
4/5	" A soulful valentine to music, friendship and the joys of honest hard graft, played out in the bedsits and recording studios of a deglamourised Dublin." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 19, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
3/5	" The moral implications of this scheme are so charged and turbulent that they defy neat resolution. If the film's inhabitants are walking a tightrope, it occasionally seems that that its writer-director is too." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 12, 2007	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
5/5	" I loved Ratatouille. I was even tempted to drop the odd bit of popcorn, like tipping the waiter after a particularly good meal." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 12, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	96%
5/5	" The film is so boldly conceived, richly textured and beautifully paced that its marathon running time feels more like a sprint." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Oct 6, 2007	The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)	100%
4/5	" Check your cynicism at the door: Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 22, 2007	The Sound of Music (1965)	83%
3/5	" Krzysztof Krauze's droll, unassuming little biopic stands as a fitting memorial to a life on the fringes." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 14, 2007	My Nikifor (2004)	86%
3/5	" Form and content in perfect harmony." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 8, 2007	Reprise (2008)	86%
4/5	" It is at once a coming-of-age comedy and a fond farewell to an era." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 8, 2007	Withnail and I (1988)	96%
3/5	" A pungent ghost story, evocatively played out in a creaking haunted house." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 17, 2007	Fissures (2007)	73%
3/5	" It looks tired, slightly soft in the middle, and yet there is a raw, hard-won honesty here that puts most contemporary US movies to shame." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Aug 10, 2007	The Walker (2007)	52%
5/5	" If anything, Robert Altman's self-styled "anti-western" looks even richer, stranger and more daring than it did when it first appeared back in 1971." -- Guardian [UK] Posted May 4, 2007	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)	89%
	" Smart, subtle and excruciatingly honest." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Mar 16, 2007	Funny Ha Ha (2005)	89%
3/5	" A vivid portrait of a town in crisis." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Jan 27, 2007	Right at Your Door (2007)	69%
3/5	" Unconscious is relentlessly wacky but robustly performed..." -- Guardian [UK] Posted Sep 23, 2006	Unconscious (2007)	85%
	" Harvey Pekar is not your average superhero. He's at once author and character, hero and victim, his life and his art the result of a perpetual two-way osmosis." -- Sight and Sound Posted Jan 6, 2004	American Splendor (2003)	94%
	" A consistently bewitching experience." -- Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002	Wonderland (2000)	63%
	" This is a picture by turns amusing and melancholic, sweet-centred and dark-edged." -- Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)	81%
	" *Yes, Bamboozled* is a picture of genuine importance. Yes, it is also crude, unstable and hazardous.*" -- Sight and Sound* Posted May 30, 2001	Bamboozled (2000)	47%
	" A study in multiculturalism, Toback's film is something of a melting-pot itself: mixed-up, messy and teeming with vitality." -- Sight and Sound Posted Apr 17, 2001	Black and White (1999)	38%

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