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Tokyo Sanata, 2008, Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa and Kyoko Koizumi
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
NR Rated Comedy and Drama
Running time: 119 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Stellet Licht, 2008, Directed by: Carlos Reygadas Cast: Cornelio Wall and Peter Wall
A father’s faith in God is put to the test when he falls for another woman.
NR Rated Drama
Running time: 145 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Sugar, 2008, Directed by: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Cast: Algenis Perez Soto and Karl Bury
Dominican baseball star Miguel “Sugar” Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.
Running time: 120 minutes
Rated R
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

The Wild Bunch, 1969, Directed by: Sam Peckinpah Cast: William Holden and Ernest Borgnine
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the “traditional” American West is disappearing around them.
Running time: 145 minutes
Rated R
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Vals lm Bashir, 2008, Directed by: Ari Folman.
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term service in that conflict
Running time: 90 minutes
Rated R
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: None
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Last Chance Harvey, 2008, Directed by: Joel Hopkins. Cast: Dustin Hoffman and emma Thompson
In London for his daughter’s wedding, a rumpled man finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life.
Running time: 92 minutes
Rated PG-13
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Hundstage, 2001, Directed by: Ulrich Seidl. Cast: Maria Hofstatter and Alfred Mrva
In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker.
NR Rated
Running time: 121 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ****
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile, 2007, Directed by: Cristian Mungiu. Cast: Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu
Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980′s Romania.
NR Rated
Running time: 113 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ****
Cast performance: ****
Music: None
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Yakuza

Last Resort, 2000, Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski. Cast: Dina Korzun and Paddy Considine
When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum
NR Rated
Running time: 73 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Yakuza

Sunshine Cleaning, 2008, Directed by: Christine Jeffs. Cast: Amy Adams and Emily Blunt
Two sisters start a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
Rated R
Running time: 102 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

The Great Buck Howard, 2008, Directed by: Sean McGinly. Cast: John Malkovich and Collin Hanks
Drama about Troy Gable, who hopes of getting into the entertainment industry by dropping out of law school, he takes a job as a road manager for a mentalist name the Great Buck Howard.
Rated PG
Running time: 87 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

When Brendan Met Trudy, 2000, Directed by: Kieron J Walsh Cast: Peter McDonald and Flora Montgomery
A teacher meets a woman who turns out to be a thief.
R Rated
Running time: 94 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

The Class aka Entre Les murs , 2008, Directed by: Laurent Cantet Cast: Francois Begaudeau
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
PG -13 Rated
Running time: 128 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ****
Music: *
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Watchmen, 2009, Directed by: Zach Snyder Cast: Billy Crudup and Patrick Wilson
When an Ex-Superhero is murdered, a vigilante named Rorschach begins an investigation into the murder, which leads to more terrifying conclusion.
R Rated
Running time: 162 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Twoski