REVIEWS BY NATHANIEL ROGERS
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Blue Valentine Boy Bran Nue Dae Buried Contracorriente Cyrus The Eclipse happythankyoumore...	Holy Rollers The Kids Are All Right I am Love Last Train Home Lebanon Making the Boys Mother and Child Nowhere Boy	Please Give The Romantics The Runaways Shutter Island Splice Terribly Happy Vegetarian Waiting For Superman The Wolfman

 

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(104 films screened / Grading Scale )

Reviews
Amelia * Anvil! The Story of Anvil * Avatar * Brothers * Chéri
An Education * Every Little Step * Fantastic Mr. Fox
Inglourious Basterds * Julie & Julia * Knowing * Landscape No. 2
Moon * Nine * Precious * Public Enemies * A Single Man * The Road
Star Trek * Watchmen * Whip It *

Video Reviews
Antichrist * District 9 * Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince *
Inglourious Basterds * Julie & Julia * Julia * Moon *
My Sister's Keeper * "9" * Terminator Salvation * Up * Whip It *
(500) Days of Summer *

Articles / Review'ish
(500) Days of Summer * Adventureland * All About Actresses * Antichrist *
The Cove * Departures * Englishman In New York * Humpday * Make-Out with Violence *
Me and Orson Welles * Precious * Prodigal Sons * The Proposal * Summer Hours *
Terminator Salvation * That Evening Sun *

Short Takes (Click the Links) or Not Reviewed
Adam * Antichrist * Assassination of a High School President * Away We Go * Before Tomorrow * The Blind Side * Bright Star * Broken Embraces * Brothers * Confessions of a Shopaholic * Coraline * The Cove * Crazy Heart * Crude * Drag Me To Hell * Duplicity * Fighting * G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra * Gomorra * Gospel Hill * Guest of Cindy Sherman * The Hangover * Hunger * The Hurt Locker * The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus * Invictus * It's Complicated * I Love You, Beth Cooper * The Last Station * The Lovely Bones * The Maid * Mary & Max * The Messenger * Monsters and Aliens * Mothers and Daughters * The New Twenty * Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian * Nine * Observe and Report * Poundcake * Push * Red Cliff * The Road * Serbis * A Serious Man * Sherlock Holmes * Sin Nombre * A Single Man * Sunshine Cleaning * Taking Woodstock * True Adolescents * Tulpan * The Ugly Truth * Up in the Air * Valentino the Last Emperor * We Live in Public * Weather Girl * Whatever Works * Where the Wild Things Are * The White Ribbon * X-Men Origins: Wolverine *

 

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OLDER FILMS
Plenty (1985) Review & Streep Retro
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Review & Streep Retro
Julia (1977) Review & Streep Retro
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) -Personal Canon
The Terminator (1984) -Review
Play Time (1967) - Review
Girlfriends (1978) -Review
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) -Personal Canon
ABBA: The Move (1977) -Reader Request / Live Blogging
All That Jazz (1979) -Personal Canon / Reader Request
From Justin to Kelly (2003) -Reader Request
The Little Mermaid (1989) -Personal Canon
Network (1976) -Reader Request

 

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(114 films screened / Peer Pressure Grading Scale )

Best & Worst
Worst of the Year / Top Ten List / FiLM BiTCH AWARDS / Oscar Season

Full Reviews
Australia * Blindness * Changeling * Hamlet 2 * I Could Never Be Your Woman * Jumper * Kabluey * The Life Before Her Eyes * Mamma Mia! * Married Life * Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day * Never Back Down * Paranoid Park * Roman de Gare * Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired * Savage Grace * Secrecy * Sleepwalking * Slumdog Millionaire * Speed Racer * Stop-Loss * Transsiberian * Trouble the Water * Under the Same Moon *

Articles & Miscellania
Elegy * Frozen River * Turn the River * Vicky Cristina Barcelona * Sex & the City: The Movie *

Short Notes on
Afterschool * Brideshead Revisited * Cargo 200 * A Christmas Tale * Chronic Town * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button * The Dark Knight * Deception * Doubt * Frost/Nixon * A Girl Cut in Two * Gomorra * Hancock * Happy-Go-Lucky * In Bruges * Iron Man * Kung Fu Panda * Love Songs * Milk * Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist * Rachel Getting Married * The Reader * Reprise * Revolutionary Road * Take * True Love * Tulpan * Twilight * WALL•E * Waltz With Bashir * The Wrestler * Young @ Heart

Screened / Not Reviewed
27 Dresses * 10,000 BC * Baby Mama * Bolt * Burn the Bridges * Ciao * The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian * The Class * Cloverfield * Cochochi * The Duchess * Finding Amanda * Flight of the Red Balloon * Forgetting Sarah Marshall * Four Nights with Anna * Gran Torino * Hellboy 2: The Golden Army * In the City of Sylvia * In Memory of Myself * The Incredible Hulk * Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull * It's Better if Gabriela Doesn't Die * I've Loved You So Long * Karl Rove, I Love You * Last Chance Harvey * The Last Mistress * Leatherheads * Let the Right One In * Magazine Gap Road * Man on Wire * The Mermaid * Mongol * Munyurangabo * Noise * Quantum of Solace * Smart People * Snow Angels * Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story * Summer Palace * Synechdoche, New York * This Beautiful City * Tony Manero * Tropic Thunder * The Visitor * Wanted * Wendy & Lucy * Were the World Mine * The Women * Yes Man *

(92 films screened / Peer Pressure Grading Scale )

Best & Worst
Top Ten List -Best Films / Film Bitch Awards / Cinematic Shame -Overrated and Worst

Full Reviews
3:10 to Yuma * Atonement * Becoming Jane * Beowulf * The Brave One * Darjeeling Limited * Death at Funeral * Eastern Promises * Elizabeth The Golden Age * Enchanted * Evening * Golden Compass * Hairspray * La Vie En Rose * A Mighty Heart * Oceans 13 * Once * Ratatouille * Spider-Man 3 * Stardust * Sweeney Todd * Transformers * Zodiac *

Articles & Miscellania
Before the Devil Know You're Dead * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix * Lust, Caution *

Short Notes on
30 Days of Night * 300 * 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days * Adrift in Manhattan * American Gangster * The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford * Away From Her * A Casa Nostra * Death Proof * Diving Bell and Butterfly * Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer * Fraulein * I'm Not There * Jones * The Legacy * Living and the Dead * Margot @ Wedding * Milk & Opium * Michael Clayton * Nevermore * Next * No Country For Old Men * Persepolis * Planet Terror * Romance of Astrée * Secret Sunshine * Sicko * Son of Man * Summercamp! * There Will Be Blood * Thicker Than Water * Things We Lost in the Fire * The TV Set * Year of the Dog *

Screened Not Reviewed
28 Weeks Later * Avenue Montaigne * Black Book * Black Snake Moan * Bourne Ultimatum * Bug * Charlie Wilson's War * Control * Georgia Rule * Gone Baby Gone * The Host * Hot Fuzz * Into the Wild * Invasion * Jindabyne * Juno * Knocked Up * Lady Chatterley * Lars & Real Girl * Live Free Die Hard * The Lookout * The Namesake * Paris Je T'Aime * Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End * Reno 911!: Miami * Rescue Dawn * The Savages * Simpsons Movie * Starting Out In the Evening * Sunshine * Swedish Auto * Ten Canoes * Waitress * Zoo

 

older reviews?
2000-2006