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I've Loved You So Long
(2007, Philippe Claudel,
PG-13)
In the drama “I’ve Loved You So Long,” Kristin Scott Thomas’s furious honesty rules out easy, unearned redemption.
Whatever Works
(2009, Woody Allen, NR)
12
(2007, Nikita Mikhalkov,
PG-13)
In “12,” the elements of the modest courtroom classic “12 Angry Men” have been enlarged to operatic dimensions.
Crossing Over
(2009, Wayne Kramer, R)“Crossing Over” delivers its sanctimony with less hand-wringing and more fist-shaking, complete with lurid violence and periodically bared female flesh.
Slumdog Millionaire
(2008, Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan, R)A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, “Slumdog Millionaire” doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
(2009, Andrzej Bartkowiak, PG-13)Daddies and daughters lend a wistful emotional core to “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li,” an otherwise generic martial-arts movie with video-game credentials. — Jeannette Catsoulis
The Reader
(2008, Stephen Daldry, R)“The Reader” is a scrupulously tasteful film about an erotic affair that turns to love.
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
(2009, Tyler Perry, PG-13)The best parts of “Madea Goes to Jail” are the title character’s motormouthed harangues. The rest of it is a fairly clumsy tale of sin and redemption. — A. O. Scott
An American Affair
(2009, William Sten Olsson, NR)A youngster falls for a siren with a friend in high places in “An American Affair.”
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
(2009, Bruce Hendricks, G)“Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience” isn’t a movie so much as a devotional object, a kind of secular fetish designed to induce rapture.
The Class
(2008, Laurent Cantet,
PG-13)
The young bodies crowding “The Class,” an artful, intelligent movie, come in all sizes, shapes and colors.
Tokyo!
(2008, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-Ho, NR)
Gomorrah
(2008, Matteo Garrone,
NR)
“Gomorrah” is a corrosive and ferociously unsentimental fictional look at Italian organized crime.
He's Just Not That Into You
(2009, Ken Kwapis, PG-13)Imagine an action flick in which the hero spends the entire movie chasing the villain without the satisfaction of smashing his enemy to smithereens.
Coraline
(2009, Henry Selick,
PG)
“Coraline” lingers in an atmosphere that is creepy, wonderfully strange and full of feeling.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
(2008, Woody Allen,
PG-13)
“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is a rueful comedy about two young American women who savor many Continental delicacies.
Examined Life
(2008, Astra Taylor, NR)Part of the fun of “Examined Life” comes from watching these very intelligent thinkers try to make themselves intelligible.
Watchmen
(2009, Zack Snyder, R)
Two Lovers
(2008, James Gray,
R)
Though it is set in the present, “Two Lovers” takes place in what often feels like an earlier incarnation of New York.
Katyn
(2007, Andrzej Wajda,
NR)
“Katyn” is a powerful corrective to decades of distortion and forgetting in Polish history.
Gran Torino
(2008, Clint Eastwood,
R)
“Gran Torino” shows an urgent engagement with the tougher, messier, bigger questions of American life.
Sunshine Cleaning
(2008, Christine Jeffs, NR)
Milk
(2008, Gus van Sant,
R)
Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. And “Milk” is a marvel.
Confessions of a Shopaholic
(2009, P.J. Hogan, PG)Like the flailing American economy, “Confessions of a Shopaholic” wants to eat its cake and have its spiritual redemption too. (Talk about timing!)
