The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.



Valkyrie(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.



Defiance(2008)

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Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.



Two Lovers(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.



Hancock(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Hancock is a superhero whose ill considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.



Australia(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.



Appaloosa(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.



Sunshine Cleaning(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.



Frozen River(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling ...



Sex and the City(2008)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.



W.(2008)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A chronicle of the life and presidency of George W. Bush.



Traitor(2008)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.



Wendy and Lucy(2008)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happening triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.



21(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.



Street Kings(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An undercover cop, disillusioned by the recent murder of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself.



Transsiberian(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.



Marley & Me(2008)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.



The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.




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