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For your browsing pleasure, all the older Cranky Reviews are below. If you think we may have missed one, Search the Site (and if we messed up, email us and we'll fix it). NOTE: If a title begins with "The" and is more than two words, drop the "the". The highest rated, and most recommended, films are marked with a green font.

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Face/Off  ($7)
the Faculty  ($6.50)
Fahrenheit 9/11 ($7)
Fairy Tale: A True Story  ($5.50)
Faithless (nr)
Faithless
Fallen ($1)
Family Man, the  ($3)
Fan, the ($3.50)
Fantasia 2000  ($7)
Fantastic Four: Silver Surfer (nr)
Fantasticks, the ($5)
Fare Games  ($1)
Far From Heaven ($3)
Fargo  ($7.50/8)
The Fast and the Furious ($0)
2 Fast 2 Furious ($5/10)
Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift ($5)
Fast & Furious ($0)
Father of the Bride 2 ($6.75)
Fathers' Day  ($2)
Fear + Loathing in Las Vegas ($1)
Fearless ($7.50/10)
Feast of Love (nr)
Feeling Minnesota  ($1)
Felicia's Journey ($3)
Femme Fatale ($1)
Festival in Cannes ($4)
Fever Pitch ($7/10)
Fido ($7.50/10)
Fierce Creatures  ($7)
Fifth Element, the  ($7)
Fifty Dead Men Walking  ($7.50/10)
Fight Club, the ($3)
Fighting Temptations ($5/10)
Final Cut (nr)
Final Destination  ($1)
Final Destination 2 ($5/10)
Final Fantasy ($3)
Finding Forrester  ($4)
Finding Nemo ($7/10)
Finding Neverland ($9/10)
Firehouse Dog (nr)
First Kid  (nr - kids)
First Strike  ($5.50)
First Wives Club  ($7)
(500) Days of Summer ($6.50/10)
Flawless -1999 ($6)
Flawless - 2008 (nr)
Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas ($4)
Flipper  ($3)
Flirting with Disaster  ($7.75)
Flubber  ($3)
Flyboys ($3)
Fly Me To The Moon (nr)
Focus ($5)
Fools Rush In  ($4)
Foot Fist Way (nr)
Forbidden Kingdom (nr)
Forces of Nature ($4.50)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (nr)
For Love of the Game ($6.50)
Formula 51 ($4)
the Forsaken ($2)
40 Year Old Virgin, the ($7/10)
Four Feathers, the ($5)
Four Christmases ($6.50/10)
Four Rooms  ($2)
Fourth Kind, the (nr)
Fracture (nr)
Frailty ($4)
Freaky Friday ($8.50/10)
Freddy Got Fingered ($0)
Freddy vs Jason ($6/10)
Free Enterprise ($5)
Frequency  ($8)
Freshman Orientation (nr)
Frida ($7.50)
Friday Night Lights (nr)
Friends and Lovers ($1)
Frogs For Snakes ($1)
From Hell ($1)
Frost/Nixon ($6/10)
Full Frontal ($3)
Full Monty, The  ($8)
Funny People (nr)
Galaxy Quest ($5)
the Game ($1.00)
Gangs of New York ($9.50)
Garage Days (nr)
Garden State ($6.50/10)
Garfield
Gattaca  ($5)
the General $7.00)
General's Daughter, the ($4.50)
Georgia  ($7)
Georgia Rule ($5/10))
George of the Jungle  ($6)
Gerry ($0)
Get Bruce ($3)
Get Over It ($1)
Get Real ($0)
Get Shorty  ($8)
Ghost and the Darkness, the  ($5)
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai  ($6)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
  ($8.50/10)
Ghosts of Mars ($2)
Ghosts of the Abyss (reco'd)
Ghost Ship ($3)
Ghost Town (nr)
the Gift ($3)
Gigli ($1/10)
G.I. Jane   ($6)
Gingerbread Man ($6.50)
Girl, Interrupted ($4)
Girl Next Door, the
Girl with a Pearl Earring ($3/10)
Gladiator  ($6.50)
Glitter ($0)
Go ($7)
Gods and Generals ($3/10)
Gods and Monsters ($7.75)
Godsend ($0/10)
Godzilla ($6)
Godzilla 2000  ($3)
Golda's Balcony (nr)
Golden Bowl, the ($4)
Golden Compass (nr)
Goldeneye   ($4)
Gone in 60 Seconds  ($6.50)
Gone With The Wind
Goodbye Lover ($0)
Good Girl, the ($6)
Good Will Hunting  ($6)
Gosford Park ($5)
Gossip  ($2)
Gothika
Governess, the ($6)
Gran Torino (nr $8)
Grinch, the ($2)
Grace is Gone (nr)
Grace of My Heart  ($4)
Gran Torino (nr)
Gray's Anatomy  ($3)
Great Debaters, the (nr $6.50)
Great Expectations ($1)
Great White Hype, The  ($6.50)
Grindhouse ($2/10)
Groove ($2/10)
Green Mile, the ($6.50)
Groove  ($2)
Grosse Pointe Blank  ($7)
The Grudge ($0)
Guardian ($2/10)
Guinevere ($3)
Gun Shy  ($4.50)
the Guru ($5/10)
the Guys ($8.50/10)
Hairspray ($6/10)
Halloween: H20 ($6)
Halloween Resurrection ($2)
Hamlet (Branagh) ($7)
Hamlet (Hawke)  ($2)
Hancock ($5/10)
Hannah Montana Movie (family)
Hannibal ($5)
The Happening ($1/10)
Happy Gilmore  ($0)
Happy Go Lucky (nr $4)
HappyTexas ($6)
Hard Day's Night, a (nr)
Hard 8  ($3)
Hard Rain ($2)

Harry Potter & Goblet of Fire (nr)
Harry Potter & Sorcerer's Stone ($4.50)
Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets ($9.50) 

Harry Potter Half Blood Prince ($5/10)
Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix (nr)
Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban ($5/$10)
Hart's War ($6.50)
Harvard Man ($5)
Haunted Mansion
the Haunting ($1)
the Haunting in Connecticut (nr)
Head of State ($6.50/10)
Head Over Heels ($2)
Heartbreakers ($4)
The Heartbreak Kid ($6.50)
Hearts in Atlantis ($4)
Heart of Me, the ($3/10)
Heat  ($0)
Heavy Metal 2000 (nr)
Hedwig & the Angry Inch ($6.50)
He Got Game ($5.50)
Heist ($7)
Hellboy ($5/10)
Hellboy 2 Golden Army ($6.50/10)
Hell's Kitchen ($0)
Herbie Fully Loaded (kids)
Hercules  ($7.50)
Here on Earth (nr)
Hidalgo ($7)
Hideous Kinky ($2)
High Art ($1)
High Crimes ($2)
High Fidelity ($4)
Highlander: Endgame ($4)
Hilary and Jackie ($2)
Hi-Lo Country, The ($5)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ($9/10)
The Hoax ($6.50/$10)
Holes ($6.50/10)
Hollow Man ($4.50)
Hollywood Ending ($7.50)
Hollywood Homicide ($4/10)
Holy Man ($5)
Holy Smoke ($3)
Home Alone 3  ($4)
Home Fries ($7.75)
Honey ($5/10)
Hope Floats ($5)
Horse Boy, the
($7)
Horse Whisperer ($7)
Hot Chick, the ($2.50)
Hot Rod (nr)
Hottie and the Nottie, the ($0)
the Hours ($2)
House of the Devil ($1/10)
House of Mirth, the ($6)
Howl's Moving Castle
Howard Stern's Private Parts
How Stella Got Her Groove Back ($3)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas ($2)
How to Deal ($2/10)
How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days ($3/10)
How to Seduce Difficult Women (nr)
The Hulk ($5/10)
Incredible Hulk (6/10)
Human Nature ($2)
Human Traffic ($3)
Hunchback of Notre Dame  ($8)
the Hunted ($0)
The Hunting Party ($7)
Hurly Burly ($4)
The Hurricane ($4)
The Hurt Locker (nr)
Hush ($1)
Hustle + Flow ($7.50 /10)
I Am David (nr)
I am Sam ($6.50)
Ice Age ($7.50)
Ice Harvest (nr)
Identity ($8/10)
Idle Hands ($2)
I Dreamed of Africa ($0)
If Lucy Fell  ($2)
Igby Goes Down ($0)
I [Heart] Huckabees ($7.50/$10)
I Know What You Did Last Summer  ($6.50)
I'll Be Home For Christmas ($1)
Illegal Tender (nr)
I Love You Beth Cooper (nr)
I Love  You Man ($6.50/10)
I'm Not Rappaport  ($4)
I'm Not There (nr)
the Impostors ($5.50)
In America ($9/10)
In and Out ($6)
In Bruges (nr)
The Incredibles ($8/10)
The Incredible Hulk ($6/10)
Independence Day  ($7.75)
the Independent ($2)
In Dreams ($1)
Indiana Jones Kingdom of Crystal Skull
Infamous ($5/10)
Inglorious Basterds (nr)
In Her Shoes (nr)
Inkheart (family)
The In-Laws ($7/10)
In Love and War ($3)
Inglorious Basterds (nr)
Innocence ($4)
the Insider ($4)
Insomnia ($6)
Inspector Gadget ($3)
Instinct ($3)
The International ($5/10)
The Interpreter (nr)
Interview with the Assassin ($3)
In the Bedroom ($1)
In the Cut ($1/10)
In the Loop (nr)
In the Shadow of the Moon (nr)
Intolerable Cruelty ($9.50/10)
In Too Deep ($4)
Into My Heart ($1)
Introducing the Dwights (nr)
Inventing the Abbotts ($4)
Invisible Circus, the ($3)
Iris ($8)
I, Robot ($6.50/10)
Iron Giant, the ($8)
Iron Man ($7.50/10)
Iron Monkey ($4)
Is Anybody There? ($7/10)
The Island ($10 /10)
Island of Dr. Moreau ($1.50)
Isn't She Great ($2)
I Spy ($3)
Italian Job, the ($9/10)
It Runs in the Family ($6.50/10)
Jack ($6)
the Jackal ($4)
Jackass: The Movie ($5)
Jack Frost ($3)
Jackie Brown ($4)
Jackie Chan's First Strike
Jackpot ($4)
Jakob the Liar ($5)
James and the Giant Peach ($6.75)
Jane Austen Book Club (nr)
Jarhead (nr)
Jason X ($6)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ($8.50)
Jeepers Creepers ($4.50)
Jeepers Creepers 2 ($6/10)
Jeffrey ($4)
Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood ($7/10)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius ($7)
Jimmy Show, the ($3)
Joe Dirt ($5)
Joe Gould's Secret ($6.50)
Joe Somebody ($1)
Joe the King ($5)
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars ($2)
John Carpenter's Vampires ($2)
John Q ($3)
Johnny English ($8/10)
Josie and the Pussycats ($5.50)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (family)
Joy Ride ($8)

Jude ($1)
Judy Berlin ($6)

Julie & Julia ($9/10
Jumanji ($5)
Jungle Book 2: Mowgli & Baloo (kids)
Jungle Book 2 (Disney)

Jungle 2 Jungle ($3)
Juno (nr)
Jurassic Park 2 Lost World ($7
Jurassic Park III ($5)
Just Looking ($3)
Just Married ($1/10)
Just the Ticket ($5)
Just Visiting ($5)
Juwanna Mann ($1)
K-19: The Widowmaker ($3)
Kabluey ($8/10)
Kate and Leopold ($5)
Kazaam ($1)
Keeping the Faith ($5)
the Kid ($3)
the Kid and I (nr)
Kill Bill (vol. 1) ($0)
Kill Bill (vol. 2) ($7.50)
King Arthur (nr)
King of California ($2/10)
King of the Jungle ($2)

The Kingdom (nr)
Kingdom Come ($5)

Kingdom of Heaven (nr)
Kinsey (nr)
Kirikou and the Sorceress ($7)
Kissing A Fool ($4)
Kissing Jessica Stein ($4)
Kiss of the Dragon ($5)
Kiss the Girls ($5.50)
The Kite Runner (just see it)
Kit Kittredge: An Ameican Girl (thumbs up - family)
A Knight's Tale
Knockaround Guys ($7)
K-PAX ($4)
Krippendorf's Tribe ($3)
Kull the Conqueror ($6.50)
Kundun ($4)
Kung Fu Panda ($8/10)
Kurt and Courtney ($2)
LA Confidential ($7.50)
Ladder 49 ($6/$10)
Ladies Man, the ($3)
Ladykillers, the ($8/10)
Lady in the Water ($3/10)
Lake Placid ($7)
Land Girls, The
Land of the Dead
Lantana ($2)
Last Castle, the ($6)
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider ($5/8)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life ($4/10)
Lars and the Real Girl ($6/10)

Last Chance Harvey (nr)
Last Dance ($2.75)
Last Days, The
Last Days of Disco ($4)
The Last House on the Left ($0)
Last King of Scotland ($8/10)
Last Man Standing ($7)
Last Night ($1)
Last Orders ($5)
Last Resort ($4)
Last Samurai, the ($9/10)
Last September, the ($3)
Last Shot, the ($7.50)
La Vie En Rose ($5/$10)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the ($0/10)
Leaving Las Vegas ($4)
Le Divorce ($2/10)
Left Behind (nr)
Legally Blonde ($7)
Legally Blonde 2 ($4/10)
Legend of Bagger Vance ($3)
Legend of Drunken Master ($6.50)
Legend of Ron Jeremy ($3)
Legend of 1900 ($4)
Legend of Zorro (nr)
Leila ($3)
Leopard Son, the ($3)
Les Miserables ($4)
Lethal Weapon 4 ($6.50)
Levity ($4/10)
Liam ($4)
Liar Liar ($3)
Liberty Heights ($6)
License to Wed ($3/10)
Lies ($0)
Life ($5)
Life and Death on Long Island ($5)
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the
Life as a House ($8.50)
Life Less Ordinary, a ($3)
Life Is Beautiful ($7.75)
Life of David Gale ($5/10)
Life or Something Like It (nr)
Light It Up ($2)
Like Mike (kids)
Lilo & Stitch (kids)
Limbo ($2)
the Limey ($2)
Lions for Lambs (nr)
Lisa Picard Is Famous ($7)
Little Black Book
Little Manhattan ($9.50/10)
Little Nicky ($3)
Little Vampire, the (kids)
Little Voice ($7.75)
Live Free or Die Hard $8.50/10)
Living Out Loud ($5)
Lizzie McGuire Movie (teens)
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels ($5)
the Locusts ($1)
Lonely Hearts ($6.50/10)
the Longest Yard($8.50/$10)
Long Kiss Goodnight, The ($7.50)
Looking for Richard ($7)
Looney Tunes Back in Action ($4.50/10)
Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring ($8.50)
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers ($8)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King ($8/10)
Lord of War (nr)
Lords of Dogtown (nr)
Loser ($2)
Lost in Space ($6)
Lost in Translation ($4/10)
Lost Souls ($3)
Lost World: Jurassic Park ($7)
Love Actually ($4/10)
Love and Basketball ($5)
Love and Death on Long Island ($5/10)
Love Don't Cost A Thing ($3/10)
Love Guru, the ($7/10)
Love Jones ($8)
Love Letter, The ($1)
Love Sonf for Bobby Long, a
Love Stinks ($2)
Love Walked In ($7)
Love's Labour's Lost ($8)
Loving Jezebel ($4.50)
Lucie Aubrac ($6)
Lucky Numbers ($6.75)
Luminarias ($0)
Luminous Motion ($6.50)
Lust, Caution (nr)
Luther ($6.50/10)
Luzhin Defence, the ($5.50)
Lymelife ($6.50/10)
Macbeth (nr)
Mad City ($7)
Madeline ($4)
Made of Honor (nr)
Mad Money (nr)
Maid in Manhattan ($5)
Mafia! ($5)
Magnolia ($0)

the Majestic ($5.50)
Malibu's Most Wanted ($5/10
Mambo Italiano ($5/10)
Mamma Mia! ($4/10)

Management ($6.50/10)
Man Apart, A ($1/10)

Man From Elysian Fields, the ($8.50)
Man in the Iron Mask, The ($5)
Man of the Century ($2/8)
Man on the Moon ($7)
Mansfield Park ($5)
Man Who Cried, the ($4)
Man Who Knew Too Little ($5.50)
Man Who Wasn't There, the ($7)
Manna From Heaven
(nr)
Margot at the Wedding (nr)
Marie Antoinette
($0)
Married Life (nr)
Mars Attacks! ($7)
Martin Lawrence Live RunTelDat (nr)
Marvin's Room ($2)
Mary and Max (nr)
Mask of Zorro, the ($8)
Master and Commander ($5.50/10)
Masterminds ($3)
Matchmaker, The ($5.50)
Matchstick Men ($6.50/10)
Matilda ($7.50)
the Matrix ($3/5)
the Matrix Reloaded ($4/10)
the Matrix Revolutions ($3/10)
Max ($8.50)
Max Keeble's Big Move (kids)
Max Payne (nr)
Maze ($3)
Meet Dave ($6/10)
Meet the Parents ($6)
Meet Joe Black ($2)
Meet the Deedles ($1)
Meet the Parents ($3)
Meet the Robinsons (nr)
Memento ($8)
Me Myself & Irene ($3)
Men in Black ($8)
Men in Black II ($8)
Men of Honor ($1)
Men Who Stare at Goats (nr)
Merchant of Venice
Mercury Rising ($2)
Merry Gentlemen, the (nr)
Message in a Bottle ($5)
the Messenger ($2)
Metro ($2)
Metroland ($1)
the Mexican ($6.50)
Michael ($5.50)
Michael Collins ($7.50)
Mickey Blue Eyes ($7.50)
Midnight in Garden of Good Evil ($4)
A Midsummer Night's Dream ($5)
the Mighty ($6.50)
A Mighty Heart (nr)
Mighty Peking Man
Mighty Aphrodite ($4)
Mighty Joe Young ($4)
Milk (nr)
Million Dollar Hotel ($1)
Minority Report ($6.50)
Minus Man, the ($4)
Miracle($7.50/10)
Miss Congeniality ($5)
the Missing ($4/10)
Mission: Impossible ($4.50)
Mission: Impossible 2 ($4.50)
Mission Impossible 3 (nr)
Mission to Mars ($5)
Miss Julie ($2)
Miss Petigrew Lives for a Day (nr)
The Mist (nr)
Mod Squad ($3)
Money Talks ($4)
Monkeybone ($1)
Monster ($8.50/10)
Monster House (kids)
Monster's Ball ($6.50)
Monsters, Inc. ($5)
Moon ($6.50/10))
Moonlight Mile ($8)
Mother ($6)
Mothman Prophecies, the ($8)
Motorcycle Diaries
Moulin Rouge ($5)
Mouse Hunt ($2)
Mr and Mrs Smith (nr)
Mr. Bean's Holiday ($4/10)
Mr. Brooks ($10)
Mr. Deeds ($5)
Mrs. Henderson Presents (nr)
Mr. Holland's Opus
Mr. Magoo ($1)
Mr. Nice Guy ($5)
Mr. Rice's Secret ($3)
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride ($3)
Mr. Woodcock (nr)
Mr. Wrong ($4)
Mrs. Winterbourne ($2)
Mulan ($6)
Mulholland Drive ($2)
Mulholland Falls ($4)
Multiplicity ($3)
Mumford ($6)
the Mummy ($5.50)
the Mummy Returns ($6)
Mummy: Tomb of Dragon Emperor (nr)
Muppets From Space ($3)
Muppet Treasure Island
Murder by Numbers ($5.50)
the Muse ($5)
Music of the Heart ($5)
the Musketeer ($1)
Must Love Dogs ($3 /10)
My Best Friend's Wedding ($7)
My Favorite Martian (nr)
My Fellow Americans ($3)
My First Mister ($5.50)
My Giant ($7)
My Kid Could Paint That (nr)
My Life So Far ($1)
My Life Without Me ($6/10)
My Name Is Joe ($4)
My One and Only (nr)
My Son the Fanatic ($3)
Mysteries of Pittsburgh (nr)
Mystery Men ($5)
Mystery Alaska ($6.75)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 ($4.50)
Mystic River (n.r.)
Myth of Fingerprints ($4)
Nacho Libre ($1)
Nancy Drew (nr)
Nanny Diaries, the (nr)
Napoleon Dynamite ($8/10)
National Lampoon's Van Wilder ($5)
National Security ($1/10)
National Treasure ($6.50/10)
the Negotiator ($6)
Never Been Kissed ($7)
New Guy, the ($2)
New in Town ($1/10)
Newton Boys, The ($6)
New York Minute (kids)
Never Again ($2)
Next (nr)
Next Best Thing, the ($4.50)
Next Friday ($1)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smthsonian (nr)
Night at the Roxbury, A ($2.50)
Night Listener, the ($4)
Nightwatch ($6)
Nim's Island1 (nr)
9 ($7.50/10)
Ninth Gate, the ($0)
Nixon ($6)
No Country for Old Men (nr)
No Looking Back ($2)
No Reservations ($4/10)
Nosferatu
the Notebook (nr)
Nothing To Lose ($6)
Notting Hill ($6.50)
Novocaine ($2)
Now and Then ($4)
Nurse Betty ($8)
Nutty Professor ($7)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps ($4)

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