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2008 Viewings

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Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging B (AL)

Australia D+ (AL)

The Baader Meinhof Complex C (AL)

The Bank Job C+ (AL)

Body of Lies A- (AL)

Burn After Reading C- (AL)

Changeling B (AL)

Che: Part One D+ (AL)

Cloverfield C+ (AL) A+ (ME)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button D (AL)

The Dark Knight B- (AL) B+ (ME)

Death Race D+ (AL)

Defiance D (AL)

Donkey Punch F (AL)

Doubt B+(AL)

Eagle Eye D (AL)

Easy Virtue D (AL)

Elegy A (AL)

The Fall A- (AL)

The Forbidden Kingdom D- (AL)

Frost/Nixon A- (AL)

Frozen River B (AL)

Get Smart D (AL)

Ghost Town B+ (AL)

Gomorrah B (AL)

Hancock A- (AL) B+ (ME)

Happy-Go-Lucky B+(AL)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army A- (AL)

In Bruges D- (AL)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull B- (AL)

I've Loved You So Long A (AL)

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (3D) F (AL)

Lakeview Terrace B- (AL)

Let the Right One In B- (AL)

Mamma Mia! D (AL)

Man on Wire B+(AL)

Married Life B- (AL)

Milk B (AL)

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist C- (AL)

The Orphanage B- (ME)

Pineapple Express D- (AL)

Pride and Glory D (AL)

OSS117: Cairo - Nest of Spies D+ (AL)

Quantum of Solace C+ (AL)

Quarantine B- (AL)

Rambo D+ (AL)

The Reader D+ (AL)

[Rec] A (AL) A+ (ME)

Redbelt C (AL)

Revolutionary Road A (AL)

Role Models B (AL)

Sex and the City B+ (AL)

Shine a Light A (AL)

Slumdog Millionaire B+ (AL)

Taken C+ (AL)

Teeth B+ (AL)

Tropic Thunder B (AL)

Twilight B+ (AL)

Valkyrie C- (AL)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona A+ (AL)

The Visitor A- (AL)

The Wackness B- (AL)

Wall*E B+ (AL)

Wanted C+ (AL)

Wendy and Lucy C+ (AL)

What Happened in Vegas B- (ME)

The Wrestler A (AL)

 

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Married Life

USA, 2008

Director:

Ira Sachs

Starring:

Chris Cooper
Pierce Bronsnan
Patricia Clarkson
Rachel McAdams

Matt: -

Adam: B

   

 

Well cast, well acted drama about (un)happily married life in 40s suburbia. This Ira Sachs penned adaptation of the John Bingham novel is a nicely paced, convincingly plotted yarn that allows the entire cast (and Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan in particular) to shine. Lacking that special something to elevate it to greatness, this is nevertheless worth your time.

AL