The continuation of one of popular cinema’s enduring franchises is also one of Steven Spielberg’s rare misfires.
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Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The (2008)
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Tag / 2008
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Wendy and Lucy (2008)
A woman at wits’ end desperate for a job—and her hungry dog—are the subject of Reichardt’s depressing slice of working-class Americana, starring Michelle Williams in top form.
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Jerichow (2008)
The eternal love triangle is given the Hitchcockian treatment in Petzold’s spare but tightly-executed melodrama about outsiders in society.
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Ashes of Time Redux (2008)
Playing with narrative time liberally—or perhaps too haphazardly—Wong’s largely incoherent if artfully-conceived martial arts film works best as an evocation of old places and old romances.
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Pleasure of Being Robbed, The (2008)
The Safdies’ feature debut might not be a substantial piece of work but it is an uncut gem—rough and raw, yet possessing the heart of a passionate storyteller with a 16mm camera.
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Below Sea Level (2008)
Nomadland before Nomadland, Rosi’s raw, no holds barred documentary on folks living in isolation on buses and vans in the Californian desert finds grace and empathy in their existence.
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24 City (2008)
There’s something very deeply moving and universal about Jia’s seemingly mundane documentary about the stories of workers (and their children) who used to ply their trade in a Chengdu factory that had made way for new commercial development as China rapidly modernised in the 2000s.
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Song of Sparrows, The (2008)
Majid Majidi’s Berlinale Best Actor winner is a largely assured drama centering on the rural-urban divide in Iran through the eyes of a poor family.
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Dark Knight, The (2008)
Still the most accomplished superhero movie of the 21st century – a thrilling, endlessly fascinating treatise on good versus evil, and everything in between.
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Tokyo Sonata (2008)
An uncommunicative Japanese family whose patriarch has lost his job is placed under the microscope in this Cannes award-winning melodrama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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