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Keith Uhlich Baltimore City Paper Nov 25, 2014 The converted will be satisfied, or at least show up to the theater in obeisant force. Money will be made and anticipation stoked for next year's blowout finale. It's a circle-vicious to some, a religion to others-with no end in sight. Go to Full Review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014) 70% 60%

Serena Donadoni Baltimore City Paper Jun 28, 2014 1.5/5 Deb Hagan takes an adolescent rite of passage and turns it into a primer on collegiate sadism, pushing the R rating to new raunchy lows in the process. Go to Full Review College (2008) 5% 27%

Gary Dowell Baltimore City Paper Jan 22, 2010 Unabashedly old-fashioned and fantastically pulpy. Go to Full Review The Illusionist (2006) 74% 83%

Gary Dowell Baltimore City Paper Jan 22, 2010 The dull and tedious splatter-fest See No Evil is, sadly, not even half as intriguing as its skuzzy pedigree. Go to Full Review See No Evil (2006) 9% 50%

Blake DePastino Baltimore City Paper Jan 22, 2010 It's all a confection, but the plot is tight, Jolie is hot, and I'll probably see the next one, too. Go to Full Review Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) 24% 44%

Gary Dowell Baltimore City Paper Jan 22, 2010 It may seem that Invincible takes too long to get to the football. But by the time it does get down to it, we've invested enough in Wahlberg and Kinnear to give a damn about the outcome of the all-important Big Game. Go to Full Review Invincible (2006) 71% 73%

Gary Dowell Baltimore City Paper Jan 22, 2010 Undiscovered is a lifeless affair, as disinterested in its own characters as moviegoers are likely to be. Go to Full Review Undiscovered (2005) 6% 48%

Gary Dowell Baltimore City Paper Jan 22, 2010 Visually arresting but only sporadically enthralling. Go to Full Review Silent Hill (2006) 34% 63%

Bret McCabe Baltimore City Paper Oct 8, 2009 4/4 It ... works as an intimate story of one woman's mental instability; the film commendably does not demur from recognizing that whatever powered Séraphine's art was also responsible for her social awkwardness and institutionalization. Go to Full Review Séraphine (2008) 88% 80%

Cole Haddon Baltimore City Paper Jul 16, 2008 In a medium where CGI has become synonymous with superheroes, the limited presence of it adds a degree of startling reality to The Dark Knight that makes a person believe a billionaire could dress up as a bat and kick ass on a city's streets. Go to Full Review The Dark Knight (2008) 94% 94%

Bret McCabe Baltimore City Paper Apr 3, 2008 Falling is a finely observed, idiosyncratic slice-of-life piece set to slow boil and captured in deadpan details. Go to Full Review Falling (2005) - - - -

Gary Dowell Baltimore City Paper Jan 8, 2008 If it all sounds silly, convoluted, and confusing, that's because it is silly, convoluted, and confusing. It's also a hell of a lot of fun. Go to Full Review Night Watch (2004) 59% 72%

Cole Haddon Baltimore City Paper Dec 20, 2007 4.5/5 This poignant comedy, which tackles the touchy subject of teen pregnancy with a frankness that startles, owes the bulk of its triumph to the screenplay by Diablo Cody. Go to Full Review Juno (2007) 93% 88%

Cole Haddon Baltimore City Paper Nov 8, 2007 1.5/5 Fred Claus is the perfect example of how a great idea can be ruined by the most competent filmmakers. Go to Full Review Fred Claus (2007) 20% 32%

Cole Haddon Baltimore City Paper Nov 8, 2007 .5/5 Succeeds only as another example of why Law should never star in a remake of a Caine movie again. Go to Full Review Sleuth (2007) 37% 51%

Lee Gardner Baltimore City Paper Nov 5, 2007 Filmmakers Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer plunged into their subject for this documentary, detailing with care and wit the history of the area, its peculiar ecology and sociology, and the scientific and legislative efforts to save it. Go to Full Review Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004) 94% 86%

Cole Haddon Baltimore City Paper Oct 18, 2007 3.5/5 A gore-filled, cheer-inciting B-movie that re-imagines the vampire as something to be feared, not to sleep with. Go to Full Review 30 Days of Night (2007) 51% 56%

Cole Haddon Baltimore City Paper Oct 18, 2007 2/5 The pacing is gruelingly slow, with too much attention paid to needless cinematic flourishes. Go to Full Review The Darjeeling Limited (2007) 69% 78%

Cole Haddon Baltimore City Paper Oct 11, 2007 4/5 Director Craig Gillespie deserves praise for making such a silly premise so endearing, but Gosling, as always, is the real champ here. Go to Full Review Lars and the Real Girl (2007) 81% 84%

Cole Haddon Baltimore City Paper Sep 6, 2007 3/5 Never once does it take itself seriously, nor does it attempt to convince you that this cartoon world populated by unstoppable gunmen, FBI-profilers-turned-hitmen and lactating hookers should be taken seriously, either. Go to Full Review Shoot 'Em Up (2007) 67% 65%