2008 Moview Review Index

Film Reviews and commentary by Tom Condon, OP (St. Martin Province) listed alphabetically by title
Atonement When Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) was 13 years old, she was witness to a lewd act between her older sister Cecillia (Keira Knightley) and Robbie (James McAvoy), a servant's son, that ends up sending the boy to jail. Several years later, Briony (Romola Garai) is a young woman who tries to heal the wound the previous incident inflicted on her family. READ MORE	WINNER Golden Globe Award: best film drama best original score.
Enchanted A fairy tale princess, Giselle (Amy Adams), is banished from her perfect animated realm by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) and forced to make her way on the mean streets of New York City. Lost and alone, Giselle befriends a divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) who may turn out to be her prince charming, even though her hand is promised to an actual prince (James Marsden) back home. READ MORE
Juno Juno (Ellen Page) is a Mid-Western highschooler, who decides one day, out of boredom or curiosity, to have sex with her friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), a member of her school's track team. She likes him well enough, but isn't hung up on him. This one time encounter results in Juno's pregnancy. She and her best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) decide to take control of the situation by browsing for prospective adoptive parents in the local Pennysaver newspaper... READ MORE
Michael Clayton Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is what is known in the legal world as a "fixer," or in the character's own pejorative version, a "janitor" who cleans up legal messes for VIPs and corporations on behalf of a prestigious New York City law firm. READ MORE
No Country for Old Men No Country is set in Texas in 1980. It follows three characters: Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who happens upon a suitcase full of money from a botched drug deal; the psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who is fast on Llewelyn’s tail, and Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) who is trailing both of them through the border towns of West Texas. READ MORE	Winner: Best Picture Oscar
The Savages Two siblings (Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman) who have drifted apart over the years are forced to get reacquainted when they both must care for their elderly father (Philip Bosco). READ MORE
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The thriller is based on the hit Broadway musical and Depp actually sings in the film. Depp plays Benjamin Barker, a man who was falsely imprisoned for 15 years after a judge sets him up in order to take his wife and daughter. Barker escapes and takes on the name of Sweeney Todd. Todd, who is a barber by trade, seeks to take out revenge on all of the people who have wronged him. READ MORE	WINNER: Golden Globe: best film musical and best actor in a musical for Johnny Depp
There Will Be Blood Daniel Day-Lewis gives a stunning performance as a self made oil man, with many secrets, who tries to buy up the oil rights in California in the early years of the 20th Century. Tom Condon loved this film, find out why... READ MORE	Winner: Best Actor, Academy Awards

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