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Thursday, May 24, 2007

"Let's start at the beginning..."

This is what we call a hiatus, in case you haven't noticed.

We'll be starting from the beginning, in the not too distant, not too soon, future.

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Name: Shawn Snead

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

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• Based on the 4-star rating scale, with letter grades. Only current (2006) releases. Click on film title for commentary. Ratings subject to change.

• Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón) [A]
• The Departed (Martin Scorsese) [A]
• Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola) [A]
• Miami Vice (Michael Mann) [A]
• Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) [A]
• United 93 (Paul Greengrass) [A]

• Brick (Rian Johnson) [A-]
• The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky) [A-]
• Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris) [A-]
• A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) [A-]
• The Queen (Stephen Frears) [A-]
• Superman Returns (Bryan Singer) [A-]
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles) [B+]
• Clerks II (Kevin Smith) [B+]
• The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro) [B+]
• Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck) [B+]
• Mission: Impossible: III (J.J. Abrams) [B+]
• Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre) [B+]
• The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) [B+]
• Volver (Pedro Almodóvar) [B+]

• Apocalypto (Mel Gibson) [B+]
• Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood) [B+]
• The Painted Veil (John Curran) [B+]
• 10 Items or Less (Brad Silberling) [B]
• Catch a Fire (Phillip Noyce) [B]
• The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel) [B]
• Dreamgirls (Bill Condon) [B]
• For Your Consideration (Christopher Guest) [B]
• Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener) [B]
• Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter) [B]
• The Illusionist (Neil Burger) [B]
• Inside Man (Spike Lee) [B]
• The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald) [B]
• The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino) [B]
• V for Vendetta (James McTeigue) [B]
• World Trade Center (Oliver Stone) [B]
• Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu) [B-]
• The Break-Up (Peyton Reed) [B-]
• Deja Vu (Tony Scott) [B-]
• Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood) [B-]
• Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer) [B-]
• Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis) [B-]
• Stranger than Fiction (Marc Forster) [B-]
• Swedish Auto (Derek Sieg) [B-]
• Talladega Nights (Adam McKay) [B-]
• Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny (Liam Lynch) [B-]
• Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman) [B-]
• We Are Marshall (McG) [B-]

• Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick) [C+]
• The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard) [C+]
• Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan) [C+]
• Nacho Libre (Jared Hess) [C+]
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski) [C+]
• The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (Michael Lembeck) [C+]
• The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry) [C+]

• American Dreamz (Paul Weitz) [C]