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  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu A
    dir. Cristi Puiu; with Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Doru Ana
  • INLAND EMPIRE A
    dir. David Lynch; with Laura Dern, Karolina Gruszka, Peter J. Lucas
  • Clean A–
    dir. Olivier Assayas; with Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Martha Henry
  • Dave Chappelle's
          Block Party     A–
    dir. Michel Gondry; documentary; with Dave Chappelle, Mos Def, Common
  • The Departed A–
    dir. Martin Scorsese; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
  • Drawing Restraint 9 A–
    dir. Matthew Barney; with Matthew Barney, Björk, Sosui Oshima
  • Half Nelson A–
    dir. Ryan Fleck; with Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie
  • Children of Men B+
    dir. Alfonso Cuarón; with Clive Owen, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Julianne Moore
  • Crank B+
    dirs. Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor; with Jason Statham, José Pablo Cantillo
    ★ The Descent B+
    dir. Neil Marshall; with Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid
  • L'Enfant B+
    dirs. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; with Jérémie Renier, Déborah François
  • Fast Food Nation B+
    dir. Richard Linklater; with Greg Kinnear, Catalina Sandino Moreno
  • The Fountain B+
    dir. Darren Aronofsky; with Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz
  • The Good Shepherd B+
    dir. Robert De Niro; with Matt Damon, Oleg Stefan, William Hurt
  • Inside Man B+
    dir. Spike Lee; with Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
  • Iraq in Fragments B+
    dir. James Longley; documentary; three-part chronicle of war-torn Iraq
  • Jesus Camp B+
    dirs. Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady; documentary evangelical children's camp
  • Letters from Iwo Jima B+
    dir. Clint Eastwood; with Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Ryo Kase
  • Old Joy B+
    dir. Kelly Reichardt. Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith
  • Police Beat B+
    dir. Robinson Devor; with Pape Sidy Niang, Anna Oxygen, Eric Breedlove
  • Requiem B+
    dir. Hans-Christian Schmid; with Sandra Hüller, Burghard Klaußner, Imogen Kogge
    © The Road to Guantánamo B+
    dirs. Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross; with Asif Iqbal, Afran Usman
  • Three Times B+
    dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien; with Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Mei Fang
  • Tristram Shandy: A Cock and
          Bull Story     B+
    dir. Michael Winterbottom; with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Naomie Harris
    © Two Drifters B+
    dir. João Pedro Rodrigues; with Ana Cristina De Oliveira, Nuno Gil
  • When the Levees Broke:
          A Requiem in Four Acts     B+
    dir. Spike Lee; cable TV; documentary; aftermath of the flooding of New Orleans
    ©     Akeelah and the Bee     B
    dir. Doug Atchison; with Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett
  • Casino Royale B–
    dir. Martin Campbell; with Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen
  • Deliver Us from Evil B
    dir. Amy Berg; documentary; inquiry into histories of sexual abuses by clergy
  • Factotum B
    dir. Bent Hamer; with Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei
  • Gabrielle B
    dir. Patrice Chéreau; with Pascal Greggory, Isabelle Huppert, Claudia Coli
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your
          Saints     B
    dir. Dito Montiel; with Shia LaBeouf, Robert Downey Jr., Channing Tatum
  • Heading South (Vers le sud) B
    dir. Laurent Cantet; with Karen Young, Charlotte Rampling, Ménothy Cesar
  • An Inconvenient Truth B
    dir. Davis Guggenheim; documentary; Al Gore's slideshow against global warming
  • Monster House B
    dir. Gil Kenan; animated; with the voices of Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner
  • The Notorious Bettie Page B
    dir. Mary Harron; with Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Chris Bauer
  • Our Daily Bread B
    dir. Nikolaus Geryhalter; documentary about modern, mechanized food production
  • Poseidon B
    dir. Wolfgang Petersen; with Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett
  • Sherrybaby B
    dir. Laurie Collyer; with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad William Henke, Bridget Barkan
  • Shut Up & Sing B
    dirs. Barbara Kopple & Cecilia Peck; documentary; with the Dixie Chicks
  • United 93 B
    dir. Paul Greengrass; with Ben Sliney, Khalid Abdalla, Jamie Harding
  • Volver B
    dir. Pedro Almodóvar; with Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas
  • Babel B–
    dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu; with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza
  • Battle in Heaven B–
    dir. Carlos Reygadas; with Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz
  • Borat B–
    dir. Larry Charles; with Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell Campbell
  • Bubble B–
    dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Debbie Doebereiner, Dustin Ashley
  • Cars B–
    dir. John Lasseter; animated; with the voices of Owen Wilson, Paul Newman
    ★ The Devil Wears Prada B–
    dir. David Frankel; with Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt
  • Don't Come Knocking B–
    dir. Wim Wenders; with Sam Shepard, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley
  • Dreamgirls B–
    dir. Bill Condon; with Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx
  • Duck Season B–
    dir. Fernando Eimbcke; with Enrique Arreola, Diego Cataño, Danny Perea
  • Friends with Money B–
    dir. Nicole Holofcener; with Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand
  • Fur: An Imaginative Portrait of
          Diane Arbus     B–
    dir. Steven Shainberg; with Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell
  • Lemming B–
    dir. Dominik Moll; with Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, André Dussollier
  • Little Miss Sunshine B–
    dirs. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris; with Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear
  • Marie Antoinette B–
    dir. Sofia Coppola; with Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Coogan
  • Mission: Impossible III B–
    dir. J.J. Abrams; with Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Phillip Seymour Hoffman
  • Our Brand Is Crisis B–
    dir. Rachel Boynton; documentary about U.S.-managed Bolivian political campaign
  • The Pursuit of Happyness B–
    dir. Gabriele Muccino; with Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton
    © A Scanner Darkly B–
    dir. Richard Linklater; animated; with Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr.
  • Shortbus B–
    dir. John Cameron Mitchell; with Sook-yin Lee, Paul Dawson, PJ DeBoy
  • Slither B–
    dir. James Gunn; with Elizabeth Banks, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, Tania Saulnier
  • Water B–
    dir. Deepa Mehta; with Sarala, Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas
    ★     The Black Dahlia C+
    dir. Brian De Palma; with Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart
  • Breaking and Entering C+
    dir. Anthony Minghella; with Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn
  • The Dead Girl C+
    dir. Karen Moncrieff; with Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, Mary Beth Hurt
  • Happy Feet C+
    dir. George Miller; animated; with the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams
  • The Last King of Scotland C+
    dir. Kevin Macdonald; with James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker
  • Mrs. Harris C+
    dir. Phyllis Nagy; cable TV; with Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley, Frances Fisher
    © The Night Listener C+
    dir. Patrick Stettner. Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale
  • A Prairie Home
          Companion     C+
    dir. Robert Altman; with Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep
  • The Prestige C+
    dir. Christopher Nolan; with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine
  • Quinceañera C+
    dirs. Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland; with Emily Rios
  • Running with Scissors C+
    dir. Ryan Murphy; with Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Evan Rachel Wood
  • Summer Palace C+
    dir. Lou Ye; with Hao Lei, Guo Xiaodong, Bai Xueyun
  • This Film Is Not Yet Rated C+
    dir. Kirby Dick; documentary; exposé of the MPAA's mysterious ratings system
  • Blood Diamond C
    dir. Edward Zwick; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou
  • Brick C
    dir. Rian Johnson; with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Noah Fleiss
  • Come Early Morning C
    dir. Joey Lauren Adams; with Ashley Judd, Jeff Donovan, Laura Prepon
  • Down in the Valley C
    dir. David Jacobson; with Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, Rory Culkin
  • Failure to Launch C
    dir. Tom Dey; with Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Flags of Our Fathers C
    dir. Clint Eastwood; with Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach
  • For Your Consideration C
    dir. Christopher Guest; with Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey
  • The History Boys C
    dir. Nicholas Hytner; with Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore
  • Infamous C
    dir. Douglas McGrath; with Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig
  • Notes on a Scandal C
    dir. Richard Eyre; with Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy
  • The Painted Veil C
    dir. John Curran; with Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones
  • Pan's Labyrinth C
    dir. Guillermo del Toro; with Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
  • The Proposition C
    dir. John Hillcoat; with Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
  • The Queen C
    dir. Stephen Frears; with Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell
    © The Science of Sleep C
    dir. Michel Gondry; with Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat
  • Something New C
    dir. Sanaa Hamri; with Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Blair Underwood
    © Summer Storm C
    dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner; with Robert Standlober, Kostja Ullmann
  • Sweet Land C
    dir. Ali Selim; with Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming
  • Time to Leave C
    dir. François Ozon; with Melvil Poupaud, Christian Sengewald, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
  • Trust the Man C
    dir. Bart Freundlich; with David Duchovny, Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore
  • Tsotsi C
    dir. Gavin Hood; with Presley Chweneyagae, Kenneth Nkosi, Mothusi Magano
  • Venus C
    dir. Roger Michell; with Peter O'Toole, Jodie Whittaker, Leslie Phillips
  • World Trade Center C
    dir. Oliver Stone; with Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello
    ©     All the King's Men C–
    dir. Steven Zaillian; with Jude Law, Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins
  • Art School Confidential C–
    dir. Terry Zwigoff; with Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Sophia Myles
  • Bobby C–
    dir. Emilio Estevez; with Freddy Rodriguez, William H. Macy, Lindsay Lohan
  • Catch a Fire C–
    dir. Phillip Noyce; with Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna
  • The Illusionist C–
    dir. Neil Burger; with Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel
  • Little Fish C–
    dir. Rowan Woods; with Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Dustin Nguyen
    ★ Miami Vice C–
    dir. Michael Mann; with Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li
  • The Nativity Story C–
    dir. Catherine Hardwicke; with Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Ciarán Hinds
    © V for Vendetta C–
    dir. James McTeigue; with Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea
  • Curse of the Golden Flower D+
    dir. Zhang Yimou; with Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat, Liu Ye, Jay Chou
    © Freedomland D+
    dir. Joe Roth; with Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco
  • Idlewild D+
    dir. Bryan Barber; with Antwan A. Patton, André Benjamin, Paula Patton
  • Little Children D+
    dir. Todd Field; with Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley
  • Manderlay D+
    dir. Lars von Trier; with Bryce Dallas Howard, Danny Glover, Isaach de Bankolé
  • Phat Girlz D+
    dir. Nnegest Likké with Mo'Nique, Kendra C. Johnson, Jimmy Jean-Louis
  • Pirates of the Caribbean:
          Dead Man's Chest     D+
    dir. Gore Verbinski; with Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
  • Snakes on a Plane D+
    dir. David R. Ellis; with Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips
  • The Good German D
    dir. Steven Soderbergh; with George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
  • Hard Candy D
    dir. David Slade; with Ellen Page, Patrick Wilson, Sandra Oh
  • Shadowboxer D
    dir. Lee Daniels; with Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, Vanessa Ferlito
  • Why We Fight D
    dir. Eugene Jarecki; documentary; postdate on the "military-industrial complex"
  • Basic Instinct 2 D–
    dir. Michael Caton-Jones; with Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis
    © Hollywoodland D–
    dir. Allen Coulter; with Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane
    ★ Lady in the Water D–
    dir. M. Night Shyamalan; with Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Thank You for Smoking D–
    dir. Jason Reitman; with Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright, William H. Macy
    ★     Apocalypto F
    dir. Mel Gibson; with Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Dalia Hernandez
  • Ask the Dust F
    dir. Robert Towne; with Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Idina Menzel
    ★ The Hills Have Eyes F
    dir. Alexandre Aja; with Aaron Stanford, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin
  • Stranger Than Fiction F
    dir. Marc Forster; with Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal

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