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	Title Critic	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Cargo 200 Vadim Rizov	12/31/08	Good	"...an unflinching portrait of the grim vileness of Soviet Russia in 1984... it feels as if you're watching some kind of deranged performance-art piece.... beautifully filmed and completely disturbing for its entire running time."
2.	Yonkers Joe Michelle Orange	01/07/09	Moderate	"Lahti burns through a thinly written role with a surprising level of warmth... Palminteri looks tired of twitching his shoulders and working a pompadour in two-bit roles like this."
3.	The Unborn Nick Pinkerton	01/07/09	Poor	"The final exorcism-by-committee, performed in an abandoned asylum that looks like it was laid out by the Illinois chapter of the Knights Templar..."
4.	Just Another Love Story Nicolas Rapold	01/07/09	Moderate	"Danish director Ole Bornedal ('Nightwatch') continues a career of laying the groundwork for remakes that will be middling in more familiar, English-language ways."
5.	Chandni Chowk to China David Chute	01/14/09	Fair	"...a mélange of old-school masala movie clichés decorated with some flashes of minty-fresh foolishness..."
6.	Mock Up On Mu J. Hoberman	01/14/09	Excellent	"...a modern American myth fashioned from all manner of cultural detritus, notably the prehistory of the sci-fi religion Scientology... 'Mu's' mix of original and found footage is dense and almost seamless..."
7.	Notorious Robert Wilonsky	01/14/09	Good	"...less biopic than an engaging, heartbreaking, small-scale drama about a lost little boy who wants to make his mom proud but keeps breaking her heart."
8.	Cherry Blossoms (Hanami) Ella Taylor	01/14/09	Moderate	"The best I can say for 'Cherry Blossoms' is that it's made with love; the worst, that it's been a big hit in Germany. Yearning for Ozu, Dörrie stops off at cute, and parks."
9.	Ballerina Michelle Orange	01/14/09	Good	"...watching these women perform is a striking lesson in ballet's rigorous aesthetic alchemy -- and the extreme, exquisite individualism that prevails."
10.	California Dreamin' J. Hoberman	01/21/09	Outstanding	"...a darkly farcical meditation on geopolitical haplessness... Ambitious and somewhat allegorical... That this posthumous movie's open ending seems cautiously optimistic makes it all the more poignant."
11.	The Lodger Ella Taylor	01/21/09	Poor	"...a dreary L.A. noir do-over... Nodding, winking, and sighing, the film lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter."
12.	Inkheart Nick Pinkerton	01/21/09	Moderate	"It all smacks of that overdone 'passion for literature' common in English teachers who send any healthy-minded kid running from books."
13.	Dog Eat Dog (Perro Come Perro) Aaron Hillis	01/21/09	Weak	"Congratulations, Colombia! You've caught up with America's rich cinematic tradition and produced one of your own trashy, cliché-riddled, post-Tarantino gangster movies.... director Carlos Moreno's feature debut is mighty shallow.... Yawn."
14.	Of Time and the City J. Hoberman	01/21/09	Good	"...the ascension of the homeboy Fab Four is greeted with a sarcastic 'yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah'.... The filmmaker prefers an angrier form of sentimentality."
15.	Crips and Bloods: Made in America Ernest Hardy	01/21/09	Good (Not Great)	"It's a lot to take in, and Peralta does an admirable job cramming tons of history and insight into his reportage on how the 'hood' came to be."
16.	Donkey Punch Nick Pinkerton	01/21/09	Fair	"Oliver Blackburn submerges the film into seeing-tracers, pharmaceutical euphoria, the gals flitting about -- until everything jackknifes on an amateur porn mishap."
17.	The Colour of Magic Nick Pinkerton	01/27/09	Poor	"As soon as a pointy wizard hat shows up in a movie, I'm done. And this film is lousy with wizard hats.... To one unsteeped in Terry Pratchett lore, this celluloid spin-off -- released as a two-part telefilm in the U.K. -- is unwatchable, and nothing more."
18.	Serbis J. Hoberman	01/28/09	Very Good	"...it could be a porn-based sitcom. But is that porn or meta porn? 'Serbis' may be a raunch-fest, but it's also a mind-trip -- a raunch-fest with ideas."
19.	Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh Ella Taylor	01/28/09	Very Good	"...an ungainly hybrid of straight-up documentary and ingenuous reenactment."
20.	Shadows Aaron Hillis	01/28/09	Moderate	"...it doesn't take a film scholar to realize an hour before the script does that she's not quite who she claims to be. If not for the hypnotic atmosphere, lush cinematography, and frequent, if random, softcore humping, we'd have seen these ghosts before."

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