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SAM ADAMS
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• Los Angeles Times
• Onion AV Club
• Philadelphia City Paper

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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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"Making the minutiae of life hold continuous interest is no easy task, as demonstrated by [Cristi] Puiu's fledgling first feature, 2001's Stuff And Dough." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Stuff and Dough (2008)67%
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B-
 
"Roman De Gare's neatest trick is [Dominique] Pinon's performance, which draws out a hitherto unseen leading-man allure." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)84%
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B
 
"The story hits too many familiar beats, but Kormákur flavors his familiar dish with beauty shots of Iceland's pitted landscape and the occasional cooked sheep's head." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Jar City (2008)89%
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B+
 
"The movie wavers between Sundance-friendly issue film and spiritual reverie." -- Onion AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Unforeseen (2007)85%
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"Gets inside Chapman's head but never under his skin." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)37%
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0/5
 
"Hottie goes from insufferable to downright intolerable. While it pays lip service to inner beauty, the movie winds up as a feature-length advertisement for cosmetic surgery." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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1.5/5
 
"Uwe Boll isn't the worst director in the world, but In the Name of the King might be more enjoyable if he were." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 14, 2008
 
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)5%
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"Starting Out is a movie for savoring, not one whose flavor explodes on your palate, but its minor-key attractions are substantial." -- Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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3.5/5
 
"Most of the movie's villains are slack-jawed variations on Beavis and Butt-Head, but Kern's high-pitched dimwit steals the show. As his eyes glaze over, you can see a thought try to cross his face and give up halfway." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 3, 2007
 
The Sasquatch Gang (2007)46%
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1.5/5
 
"Building to a climactic twist as arbitrary as it is unsatisfying, WarK ties itself in knots trying to bring something new to a stale formula. It's never painful to watch, but that's only because it provokes no feeling at all." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 27, 2007
 
War (2007)14%
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2/5
 
"Drama/Mex has flashy style but puppetlike characters and unconvincing stories." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Drama/Mex (2007)35%
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2/5
 
"The movie's sloppiness is galling, especially given its target audience. It's one thing to feed grown-ups junk, and another to serve it to consumers too young to know they're being had." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
Underdog (2007)15%
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4/5
 
"Rife with bloody gore and funny gags." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 21, 2007
 
Black Sheep (2007)71%
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2/5
 
"The movie could have had much greater resonance were it not focused so monolithically on basketball. One wonders what life was like at Attucks High, or how the players' success on the court affected their lives off it." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 27, 2007
 
Something to Cheer About (2002)43%
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3.5/5
 
"Vacancy becomes a critique of sadistic thrillers, at the same time still serving as a crackerjack example of the genre." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 19, 2007
 
Vacancy (2007)55%
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2.5/5
 
"The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2007
 
Adam's Apples (2007)70%
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3/5
 
"A little of this junk-drawer fusillade goes a long way. It would have been interesting to see Maiellaro and Willis up the ante for their big-screen outing, rather than simply riffing at greater length." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2007
 
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)48%
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2/5
 
"Although Ice Cube is still happy to haul out his old snarl when it serves his purposes, he's clearly trying to reinvent himself as a family entertainer. But the milder he gets, the less confident he seems. What's a reformed gangsta rapper to do?" -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 3, 2007
 
Are We Done Yet? (2007)8%
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2.5/5
 
"Pride wades into the shallows when it ought to be diving into the deep end. In waters this familiar, everyone knows how to swim." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 23, 2007
 
Pride (2007)46%
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2/5
 
"My Brother is brimming with would-be life lessons. But the movie goes in so many directions, and follows through on so few of them, that all it transmits is a vague glow. It's watered-down chicken soup for the soul." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 15, 2007
 
My Brother (2007)30%
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1.5/5
 
"The landscape of Wild Hogs is cluttered with the comic equivalent of suburban sprawl, an endless cyclorama of rehashed jokes and whiny complaint." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 1, 2007
 
Wild Hogs (2007)15%
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2/5
 
"Drawing on their sitcom chops, Graham and Cavanagh cover for their cloth-eared dialogue with trumped-up camaraderie, pushing and pulling at each other like toddlers in playgroup." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 22, 2007
 
Gray Matters (2007)10%
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2/5
 
"It's a good thing the performances are subtle, since little else about Starter for 10 is. Director Tom Vaughan has a particularly leaden hand with music cues." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 22, 2007
 
Starter For 10 (2007)89%
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1.5/5
 
"Lacking the wit to qualify as a sick joke, the ongoing saga of Hannibal Lecter has become the Grand Guignol equivalent of a shaggy-dog story." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 9, 2007
 
Hannibal Rising (2007)15%
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1.5/5
 
"Surely some humanitarian organization will recognize the selflessness with which Murphy has taken three of the movie's major roles, thus saving two other actors from a nasty black mark on their résumés." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 8, 2007
 
Norbit (2007)9%
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2/5
 
"The objective view gives the audience too much room to unravel its schematic plot, which is far less inspired than its creepy visuals." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 2, 2007
 
The Messengers (2007)11%
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5/5
 
"The movie's interests tend more toward the personal than the political. Cultural differences notwithstanding, Sánchez is the archetype of the overachieving dad, sacrificing his present to provide for his family's future." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 11, 2007
 
Romántico (2006)96%
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Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Black Christmas (1975)57%
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4.5/5
 
"For all its bright-hued nostalgia (the cricket greens are practically incandescent), Wondrous Oblivion edges up to hard truths, most powerfully expressed in Lindo's towering performance." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Wondrous Oblivion (2006)67%
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1/5
 
"Like an ugly tie or a pair of slipper socks, Black Christmas is destined to be forgotten the instant it's unwrapped, gathering dust until the season rolls around again." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 26, 2006
 
Black Christmas (2006)17%
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2/5
 
"[Its] mild-mannerness is especially disappointing when compared with such documentaries as The War Tapes and the excellent Home Front, vivid and incisive explorations of post-Iraq anger and disillusionment that have gone largely unseen." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 15, 2006
 
Home of the Brave (2006)23%
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2.5/5
 
"It's understandable that Scott wants to highlight snowboarding's diversity, but perhaps a winter-sports documentary shouldn't try to cover the waterfront." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 8, 2006
 
Snow Blind (2006)20%
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2.5/5
 
"That Empire lacks clear-cut heroes and villains is not necessarily a fault, but the movie's muddle too often comes across as an attempt to avoid assigning responsibility where it belongs." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 8, 2006
 
The Empire in Africa (2006)67%
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2/5
 
"If Biraben had devoted more energy to the human contours of his story, its metaphorical implications would have sorted themselves out." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 24, 2006
 
Cautiva (2005)67%
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2/5
 
"Like a fatally snarled string of Christmas lights, Deck the Halls promises holiday cheer but delivers only frustration." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 21, 2006
 
Deck the Halls (2006)6%
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2/5
 
"The Return universally fails to establish any sense of reality, which makes it hard to register when Joanna's world starts falling apart." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 13, 2006
 
The Return (2006)16%
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1/5
 
"The movie's disinterest in character might be forgivable were its plot not riddled with holes." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
Unknown (2006)36%
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3/5
 
"Michael Taylor and Karen Coshof's slickly made documentary serves as a tidy primer on climate change, making up in breadth what it lacks in exhortation." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 2, 2006
 
The Great Warming (2006)67%
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1/5
 
"A comprehensive list of what's wrong with Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With a Kiss would stretch farther than the unabridged works of William S." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
Romeo & Juliet, Sealed With a Kiss (2006)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"What makes 51 Birch Street a moving revelation rather than a therapeutic exercise is Block's commitment to understanding his parents, Mike and Mina, on their own terms, regardless of what it does to his image of them." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 19, 2006
 
51 Birch Street (2006)94%
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2/5
 
"Tideland's unmodulated frenzy has the effect of a prolonged shriek, too high and shrill for individual words to make themselves heard." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 19, 2006
 
Tideland (2006)28%
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2/5
 
"Why another version of this oft-filmed tale?" -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 13, 2006
 
One Night With The King (2006)16%
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2.5/5
 
"Apart from reviving the original Massacre's pervasive sense of Nixon-era malaise, it doesn't offer much in the way of satisfying origins." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 6, 2006
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)14%
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3/5
 
"MacDonald seems less interested in the Silver Belles' past than their inspirational present. Eventually, the inevitable broken hips and dizzy spells take their toll, but those who remain seem determined to shuffle-step their way into the sunset." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 28, 2006
 
Been Rich All My Life (2006)78%
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2/5
 
"There's little sign of the honest ambivalence that made Lennon a great artist, if a questionable spokesman." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 15, 2006
 
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)76%
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"There's no room in Blind Chance's deterministic universe for character or personal choice, which may be why the film feels less fleshed-out, more schematic than some of Kieslowski's others." -- Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Aug 30, 2006
 
Blind Chance (1981)83%
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4/5
 
"Climaxing with a union as heartfelt as it is perverse, the movie asserts with eccentric force the belief that love knows no bounds, be they physical, spiritual or sensible." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 25, 2006
 
Two Drifters (2006)43%
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3/5
 
"A well-worn coming-of-age tale enlivened by pungent detail and a sharp visual sense." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 27, 2006
 
The Motel (2006)87%
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"Those who don't find it overblown and irresponsible will be shocked and sobered by the realities it depicts." -- Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Jun 28, 2006
 
The Gift (2003)n/a
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2/5
 
"It's reasonable, of course, for a teenager to misunderstand his mother. But The Whore's Son doesn't comprehend her any better than her son does." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 9, 2006
 
The Whore's Son (2006)25%

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