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X-Files: I Want to Believe Nathan M Rose |  Jul 26, 2008 It has been six years since X-files has been off the air, but this summer, the series creator, Chris Carter, along with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, bring back the critically acclaimed series... Full Review  | Grade: C

The Dark Knight Eric English |  Jul 19, 2008 What the #!@#@$, Chris Nolan. You introduce a main villain from the Batman mythos 3/4ths of the way through your movie, give him 3 or 4 "choices" to make (something tells me he's made up his mind already) then kill him off? Really? Full Review  | Grade: B

Wall-E Roger Longenbach |  Jun 30, 2008 I have been worried about his film for the last year or so, ever since I watched the teaser trailer where Andrew Stanton recaps the development of the ideas that the creative heads at Pixar tossed aro... Full Review  | Grade: A

Wanted Nathan M Rose |  Jun 29, 2008 Once in a while, there are movies that break the mold of your typical action genre and define the next few years of action films. In the 1980's, it was Die Hard; in the 1990's, it was the Matrix; in t... Full Review  | Grade: B

The Happening Marco Chacon |  Jun 21, 2008 It's no surprise that M. Night makes challenging movies--exactly who they challenge, though, is a matter of some opinion. The consensus seems to be that they challenge audiences on a mass scale to thi... Full Review  | Grade: C

The Incredible Hulk Nathan M Rose |  Jun 15, 2008 Ever since The Crow was released in 1994 and refined the superhero genre, it seems Hollywood cannot get enough of... Full Review  | Grade: B

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Roger Longenbach |  May 19, 2008 Much delayed, Prince Caspian has been released almost two and half years after The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.  The original cast of the Pevensie children has retu... Full Review  | Grade: A

Speed Racer Marco Chacon |  May 17, 2008 Speed Racer isn't just an adaptation. It's a live-action anime executed with fearless conviction. Full Review  | Grade: C

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead Marco Chacon |  May 08, 2008 All the cool kids are shooting video on their phones and using handcams these days so when Romero goes for a reboot of his moribund Dead franchise he picks up where Full Review  | Grade: C

The Forbidden Kingdom Marco Chacon |  Apr 29, 2008 You'd expect the first collaboration between Jet Li and Jackie Chan to be something special: together they're about as close as we come to a cultural icon on the scale of Bruce Lee. Indeed, filmed par... Full Review  | Grade: B