To: LindyBill who wrote (275852 ) 10/21/2008 3:53:30 PM From: KLP 5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793914 Rush was serious about this: He wants everyone to see the video this week: “ Lives of Others” ….to find out what it is like when private groups and the media and the government start to investigate private citizens…. How dare the Obama campaign group investigate Joe the Plumber….especially AFTER the fact….Obama went TO his house, on his property, and talked to Joe….Joe asked a question, and for once, Obama told the truth about his intent to spread other’s wealth to those who hadn’t worked to get their own…. en.wikipedia.org Critical reaction The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 93% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 138 reviews.[7] On Metacritic, another review aggregator, the film received an average score of 89 out of 100, based on 39 reviews.[8] Based on 34,830 votes, The Lives of Others earned 8.6 out of 10 stars on IMDb, as well as 52nd place in its list of the top 250 films. The film also earned 4.2 / 5 stars out of 347,080 ratings on Netflix.com. In a review, American neoconservative commentator John Podhoretz called the film "one of the greatest movies ever made, and certainly the best film of this decade."[9] William F. Buckley Jr., wrote in his syndicated column that, after the film was over, "I turned to my companion and said, 'I think that this is the best movie I ever saw."[10] A review in Daily Variety by Derek Elley noted the "slightly stylized look" of the movie created by "playing up grays and dour greens, even when using actual locations like the Stasi's onetime HQ in Normannenstrasse."[11] Time magazine's Richard Corliss named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #2. Corliss praised the film as a “poignant, unsettling thriller.”[12][13] Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film his highest rating of four stars.[14]