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THE DARK KNIGHT
 If Batman is the untamed world, The Joker is the unbalanced world. THE DARK KNIGHT tells us humanity lives somewhere in between.
In Christopher Nolan's sequel to BATMAN BEGINS, we hit the ground running, cape flouncing dramatically, cowl turned sideways so we can only see through one eyehole; claustrophobic scream rising as Gotham City is terrorized by The Joker, while the Batman, Commissioner Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent join forces to stop him at the cost of lives, ethics, reputations... as simple as this outline reads, director-writer Nolan and co-writer, Jonathan Nolan, have elevated this comicbook tale to tragedy on an operatic scale.
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W.
 Release: Oct 08 - Review: 30 Oct 08 
Putting the W in WMD.
...an insular, one-dimensional fairytale of a cowboy moron's rise to power, from an alcoholic tail-chaser to the bumbling, born-again dumbest president of the United States. Like W, the movie talks a lot but says nothing.
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RELIGULOUS
 Release: Oct 08 - Review: 24 Oct 08 
Maher Messiah.
Maher says it loud and proud: Stand up for what we DON'T believe in!
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THE
DARK KNIGHT
 Release: Jul 08 - Review: 13 Sep 08
Do not go gentle into that good knight...
If Batman is the untamed world, The Joker is the unbalanced world. THE DARK KNIGHT tells us humanity lives somewhere in between.
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HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Release: Jul 08 - Review: 3 Aug 08 
Hell-Tilt With The Wheels Comin' Off.
PAN’S LABYRINTH smashed up against the Cantina Sequence from STAR WARS and Guillermo del Toro rode that bad boy all the way to a town called HELLBOY.
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WALL-E
 Release: Jul 08 - Review: 22 Jul 08
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!
...the horror of this totalitarian society might have slapped us in the BRAZIL bone was it not for the Pixar team injecting robot buffoonery at every pixel.
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HANCOCK
Release: Jul 08 - Review: 12 Jul 08
Upping the Ante on Anti-Heroes.
...a “superhero movie” only on its surface. Deeper, where emotions are torn from desires and sorrow abides like ravenous bile, HANCOCK is a misunderstood gem.
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INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
 Release: Jul 08 - Review: 9 Jul 08
Crystal Numbskull and the Kingdom of the Buttoned Shirt.
Written by mutton-fist Lucas, directed by No-Risk Spielberg, and starring Ford with his shirt buttoned, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL starts off promising, then gets stupider by the stunt.
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THE INCREDIBLE HULK
Release: Jun 08 - Review: 4 Jul 08
Hulk movie - Smash!
...an adrenalized shot to the sternum – if it doesn’t knock you black and blue, it will at least slap you and call you Susan.
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THE HAPPENING
Release: Jun 08 - Review: 25 Jun 08
Nothing Happening.
Grandiose concept + morbidly inept cast = mediocre movie.
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IRON MAN
 Release: May 08 - Review: 17 May 08
Man of Steel, Ethics of Plastic.
...a steel-belted planet-crusher of a film; alloy feet on the ground, red-and-gold armor streaking for sub-orbital skies.
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