| 50% Elite Squad | | Brutal, action heavy, Brazilian cop film with a pointless voiceover. Lacks flair, overdoes the violence and is never quite sure where its morals lie. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 50% Whaledreamers | | This documentary, produced by Julian Lennon, explores the connection between whales and a tribe. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 50% The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela | | The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, is an 85 minute drama which chronicles the story of a naive but street smart Filipina transsexual prostitute named Raquela who decides to travel in order to find her prince charming. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 52% Allah Made Me Funny | | The comedians featured in Allah Made Me Funny are, like the movie itself, only mildly amusing. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 55% Battle in Seattle | | Well intentioned and passionate, this docu-drama about the 1999 WTO protests draws stronger political assertions than it does strong characters. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 55% Breakfast with Scot | | Though Breakfast with Scot is a well-intentioned movie with some charming performances, it suffers from sitcom humor and predictable setups. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 55% Good Dick | | Marianna Palka's quirky indie debut centred on two dysfunctional loners is hit and miss, but has enough originality to see it through. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 40% Choose Connor | | Fifteen-year-old Owen Norris (Alex Linz) is at the top of his graduating middle-school class, has no friends and spends almost all of his time studying. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 38% Forgiveness | | On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 29% Forever Strong | | Rick Penning (Sean Faris, Never Back Down) lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense for a team coached by his overbearing father (Neal McDonough, Minority Report). When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate (Sean Astin, The Lord of the Rings) offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 40% Smother | | Since getting his start on PUNK'D, Dax Shepard has had the privilege of starring opposite Hollywood's loveliest ladies, from Jessica Simpson in EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH to Amy Poehler in BABY MAMA. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 49% Towelhead | | This story of politics, race and, sexual awakening has moments that pack a punch, but overall, Towelhead never quite achieves the nuance of helmer Alan Ball's television work. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 43% YPF | | This frank--and frankly hilarious--Canadian indie certainly lives up to its risqué title, but there's more going on in than just sex in this debut from writer/director Martin Gero. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 43% Just Buried | | While some inherit fortunes, Oliver inherits a funeral home--a failing funeral home at that. No one in town in dying. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 55% Choke | | While bolstered by strong performances from Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, Choke struggles to capture the tone of Chuck Palahniuk's novel. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 75% Mister Foe | | Carefully balanced between the dark and the dreamy, Mister Foe is a charged coming-of-age story with whimsy and bite. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 74% Elegy | | Intelligent, adult and provocative Philip Roth adaptation, with classy performances. Never quite the sum of its parts though. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 73% Flow: For Love of Water | | Flow is an informative, disturbing and enthralling film that highlights a criminally underreported problem. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 76% Ballast | | Winner of numerous prizes at prestigious film festivals all around the world, including Sundance, San Francisco, and Buenos Aires, BALLAST is a stunning, emotionally powerful feature-film debut from Lance Hammer, who wrote, directed, and edited the film and served as one of the producers. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 83% Silent Light | | With SILENT LIGHT, Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas (JAPON, BATTLE IN HEAVEN) delivers an extraordinary, transcendent meditation on love and religion. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 80% Amexicano | | Within a setting of working-class America, director Matthew Bonifacio and screenwriter Carmine Famiglietti tell the story of the unlikely yet believable bond that develops between a blue-collar Italian American from Queens and an illegal immigrant. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 79% Lola Montes | | LOLA MONTES, the last film by Max Ophüls, is one of the most celebrated examples of both wide screen CinemaScope and lush Technicolor in film history. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 67% A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | | Though it may not be as profound as its pacing would suggest, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers delicately examines familial issues in an earnest fashion. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 58% Humboldt County | | Directors Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky assemble an enviable cast--including Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, Brad Dourif, and Chris Messina--for their first film. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 67% Fraulein | | Fraulein is Andrea Staka's artfully crafted story of the friendship among three women from Yugoslavia. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 70% Virtual JFK | | Film Forum is pleased to present the US theatrical premiere of Virtual JFK: Vietname if Kennedy Had Lived, beginning Wednesday, September 17. Scottish historian Niall Ferguson calls it virtual history: the great what ifs, the plausibility of counterfactuals. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 68% Religulous | | Religulous is funny and offensive in equal measure, and aims less to change hearts and minds than to inspire conversation. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 68% Ping Pong Playa | | A gentle, light, kid friendly comedy about a Chinese-American hoopster turned ping pong pro, Playa is a charming but considerable digression from director Jessica Yu's previous works. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 17% Fly Me To The Moon | | Flatly animated and indifferently scripted, Fly Me To the Moon offers little for audiences not comprised of very young children. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| The Corporal's Diary | | Jonathan Santos, 22, documented his 37 days in Iraq on video and in writing; never knowing that day 38 would be his last. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| Saving Marriage | | Three years in the making, Saving Marriage is on the scene as one state grapples with a simple question: Should gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry? | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| The Pleasure of Being Robbed | | The loopy life of a young kleptomaniac (Eléonore Hendricks), and her adventures in compulsive thievery are the subject for this observant comedy. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| All of Us | | In the South Bronx, a young doctor embarks on a research project to find out why black women are being infected with the HIV virus at an alarming rate. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| Billy: The Early Years | | Most of us know Billy Graham as the self-assured and charismatic preacher who became one of the most important figures of 20th Century Christianity. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| Callback: The Unmaking of Bloodstain | | When a gritty cop drama goes terribly wrong on the first day of shooting, the actors and director must examine the chain of events that caused the film to go spiraling out of control. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| The Death of Andy Kaufman | | Andy Kaufman, often erroneously cited as a comedian, was the world's first performance artist. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| Loins of Punjab Presents | | A ruthless philanthropist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| Walking on Dead Fish | | Walking on Dead Fish is a heart-felt documentary about a small-town high school football team and its DISPLACED PLAYERS who are thrown together by the powerful winds and floods of Katrina. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 0% Surfer, Dude | | Matthew McConaughey stars in this film as Steve Addington, an A-list surfer who comes home to find Malibu has changed. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 0% Everybody Wants to be Italian | | Fishmonger Jake Bianski (Jay Jablonski) has a bit of a problem. He's madly in love with his teenage sweetheart, Isabella (Marisa Petroro)--even though they broke up eight years before and she is now married with three kids. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 0% Talento de Barrio | | In Talento de Barrio, Daddy Yankee stars as Edgar Dinero, a misunderstood product of the slums of Puerto Rico who becomes torn between the street life of his childhood neighborhood and his ambition to become something more. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 0% The House of Adam | | Jorge Ameer's intelligent, sharp, and occasionally darkly funny thriller centers on Anthony (John Shaw), a closeted small-town detective investigating the murder of his lover, Adam (Jared Cadwell), who lived like a recluse in a small cabin outside of town. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 16% Hounddog | | Despite a noble effort from Dakota Fanning, Hounddog is overwrought, cliche-ridden and downright exploitative. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 14% Shoot on Sight | | Shoot On Sight is a gripping thriller and riveting family drama that unfolds the turmoil in the life of Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 14% Proud American | | Award-winning corporate media producer Fred Ashman makes his independent film debut with PROUD AMERICAN, a loving look at the American Dream. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| Call + Response | | Slavery is very much alive in the 21st century. With over 27 million people in bondage around the world, a collection of musicians--including Moby, Natasha Bedingfield, Matisyahu, and Talib Kweli--gather together to make a stand for justice. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| The Pink Conspiracy | | Dave is convinced that his knockout girlfriend Jamie is cheating on him, despite his best friend Victoria's reassurance that it's all in his head. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| The Tree of Life | | A woman from Los Angeles tries to come to terms with her father's death by traveling to Italy, the land of his birth, to trace the roots of his family tree. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| Able Danger | | Thomas Flynn is just a guy who runs a cafe in Brooklyn; but his insistence that 9/11 was a government conspiracy turns his world upside down. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 0% All Roads Lead Home | | This is a movie, not so much about life, but about the absence of life that comes with great tragedy. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| Phoebe in Wonderland | | So much of what constitutes psychological inquiry in cinema is overly simplistic, boiling down the complexity of behavior to clichés. So its exceptionally gratifying, when dealing with subjects as difficult as parenting and growing up, to find as rich an inquiry as Daniel Barnzs remarkable Phoebe in Wonderland. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| The World Unseen | | In this drama set in 1950s South Africa, two women find love in surprising places. Lisa Ray (WATER) stars as Miriam, a married mother, while Sheetal Sheth (AMERICAN CHAI) plays Amina, a progressive owner of a café. Though the women appear to have little in common, they are instantly drawn to one another, and a forbidden affair begins. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 52% Body of Lies | | Body of Lies relies on the performances of Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio to elevate it beyond the conventional espionage thriller. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 51% Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys | | Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys treads the filmmaker's established terrain of family loyalty and moral uprightness, though the occasionally predictable plot slides forward, aided by an excess of soapy melodrama. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 47% City of Ember | | City of Ember is visually arresting, and boasts a superb cast, but is sadly lacking in both action and adventure. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 52% Get Smart | | Get Smart rides Steve Carell's considerable charm for a few laughs, but in the end is a rather ordinary Summer comedy. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 57% RocknRolla | | Mixed reviews for Guy Ritchie's return to his London-based cockney wideboy gangster movie roots, but most agree, it's a step in the right direction following two major turkeys. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 53% Mamma Mia! | | This jukebox musical is full of fluffy fun but rough singing voices and a campy tone might not make you feel like "You Can Dance" the whole 90 minutes. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 53% Traitor | | Despite another reliable performance from Don Cheadle, Traitor suffers from too many cliches and an unfocused narrative. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 41% Blindness | | This allegorical disaster film about society's reaction to mass blindness is mottled and self-satisfied; provocative but not as interesting as its premise implies. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 39% The House Bunny | | Anna Faris is game, but she can't salvage this middling, formulaic comedy. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 38% Swing Vote | | Despite Kevin Costner providing his most charismatic performance in years, Swing Vote fails to find the right mix of political satire and heartfelt drama. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 42% Lakeview Terrace | | This thriller about a menacing cop wreaking havoc on his neighbors is tense enough but threatens absurdity when it enters into excessive potboiler territory. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 43% Death Race | | Mindless, violent, and lightning-paced, Death Race is little more than an empty action romp. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 43% Beverly Hills Chihuahua | | Despite hitting some sweet notes, Beverly Hills Chihuahua is little more than disposable family entertainment. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 43% Fireproof | | FIREPROOF, from the same team that made the 2006 hit FACING THE GIANTS, is a Christian relationship drama with a very strong message. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 59% Flash of Genius | | The touching underdog story of a single guy against a massive corporation, Flash of Genius is a well-paced and well-written tale with a standout performance by star Greg Kinnear. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 83% Tropic Thunder | | With biting satire, plenty of subversive humor, and an unforgettable turn by Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder is a triumphant late Summer comedy. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 80% Vicky Cristina Barcelona | | A beguiling tragicomedy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona charms with beautiful views of the Spanish city and a marvelously well-matched cast. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 78% Burn After Reading | | With Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers have crafted another clever comedy/thriller with an outlandish plot and memorable characters. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 85% Ghost Town | | Ricky Gervais' consistently sharp performance and beautifully dry execution transform this otherwise mainstream comedy into an endearing, funny, and altogether snappy romantic comedy. With ghosts. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 96% WALL-E | | Charming, audacious, and timely, Wall-E's lighthearted magic and stellar visuals testify once again to Pixar's ingenuity. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 95% The Dark Knight | | Dark, complex and unforgettable, The Dark Knight succeeds not just as an entertaining comic book film, but as a richly thrilling crime saga. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 89% Kung Fu Panda | | Kung Fu Panda has a familiar message, but the pleasing mix of humor, swift martial arts action, and colorful animation makes for winning Summer entertainment. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 63% Quarantine | | Fans of the handheld camerawork of CLOVERFIELD and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT will find much to like in this remake of Spanish film REC. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 60% The Duchess | | While The Duchess treads the now-familiar terrain of the corset-ripper, the costumes look great and Keira Knightley's performance is stellar in this subtly feminist, period drama. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 65% The Express | | This inspirational sports biopic set in the the civil rights era is interesting even for non-football fans, and features a great performance by Dennis Quaid as tough-but-fair football coach. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 75% Appaloosa | | A traditional genre western, Appaloosa sets itself apart with smart psychology, an intriguing love triangle, and good chemistry between the leads. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 35% Space Chimps | | Space Chimps' cheap animation and overabundance of monkey puns feels especially dated in a post-Wall-E world. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 96% The Pool | | Beautifully crafted with loosely drawn characters and a lilting, natural pace, Chris Smith's The Pool features a universal message to which everyone can relate. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 95% August Evening | | Brad Eska's debut feature is a simple but compelling film, with strong performances and a story that moves along slowly but never fails to engage its audience. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 92% Tell No One | | An intense, well-crafted thriller, Tell No One is equal parts heart-pounding and heart-wrenching. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 97% Happy-Go-Lucky | | Mike Leigh's latest partially-improvised film is a light-hearted comedy with moments that bite, and features a brilliant star turn by Sally Hawkins. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 100% Man on Wire | | James Marsh's doc about artist Phililppe Petit's artful caper brings you every ounce of suspense that can be wrung from a man on a (suspended) wire. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 100% Obscene | | Cultural luminaries as varied as John Waters, Amiri Baraka, John Sayles, and Erica Jong join for the common cause of celebrating the career and influence of Barney Rosset. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 100% Secrecy | | The classification universe is invisible to most of us, yet the production of governmental classified secret documents involves millions of people. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 86% Frozen River | | Veteran character actress Melissa Leo delivers a stunning performance in this powerful -- if grim -- indie film. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 85% Nights and Weekends | | Mattie and James are in love. But too many mornings and too many miles apart have taken a toll on them. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 91% A Secret | | A SECRET follows the saga of a Jewish family in post-World War II Paris. François, a solitary, imaginative child, invents for himself a brother as well as the story of his parents` past. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 92% Moving Midway | | Godfrey Cheshire's richly observed film about his family's Southern plantation - and the colossal feat of moving it to escape urban sprawl - is a thoughtful and witty look at the lingering remnants and still-powerful mythology of plantation culture and the antebellum South. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 91% Ashes of Time Redux | | Wong Kar Wais redux, with a few slight changes from his 1994 classic, is a feast for the eyes, if a little difficult to follow. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 91% Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story | | Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 2% Disaster Movie | | Returning to their seemingly bottomless well of flatulence humor, racial stereotypes, and stale pop culture gags, Friedberg and Seltzer have produced what is arguably their worst Movie yet. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 28% Eagle Eye | | Eagle Eye is a preposterously plotted thriller that borrows heavily from other superior films. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 28% Igor | | With an animation style that apes Tim Burton, and a slew of cultural references that aren't clear enough to reach the crowds, Igor's patched together antics make it hard to see who the film is trying to please. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 23% Righteous Kill | | Al Pacino and Robert De Niro do their best to elevate this dowdy genre exercise, but even these two greats can't resuscitate the film's hackneyed script. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 29% Nights in Rodanthe | | Derivative and schmaltzy, Nicholas Sparks' Nights in Rodanthe is strongly mottled by contrivances that even the charisma of stars Diane Lane and Richard Gere can't repair. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 33% How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | | A decent performance from Pegg in a disappointing film. Neither sharp nor satirical, Weide's adaptation relies too heavily on slapstick, and misses the point of the source material in the process. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 33% The Lucky Ones | | The Lucky Ones features heartfelt performances, but is undone by the plot's overwrought parade of coincidence and contrivance. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 32% Miracle at St. Anna | | Miracle at St. Anna is a well-intentioned but overlong, disjointed affair that hits few of the right notes. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 10% The Women | | The Women is a toothless remake of the 1939 classic, lacking the charm, wit and compelling protagonists of the original. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 10% Bangkok Dangerous | | With murky cinematography, a meandering pace, a dull storyline, and rather wooden performances, The Pang Brothers' Hollywood remake of Bangkok Dangerous is unsuccessful. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 7% Babylon A.D. | | A poorly constructed, derivative sci-fi stinker with a weak script and poor action sequences. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 13% An American Carol | | An American Carol suffers not so much from its perceived political bias, but from the fact that it simply is not very funny. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 19% The Clone Wars | | Mechanical animation and a less-than stellar script make The Clone Wars a pale shadow of George Lucas' once great franchise. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 18% My Best Friend's Girl | | My Best Friend's Girl spends too much time being vulgar and offensive, leaving little room for laughs. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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| 13% Mirrors | | Inconsistency and listless plot make this K-horror remake a less-than-frightening time at the movies. | | 10/12/2008 3:05:04 PM |
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