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	"The audience is herded from clich� to unintentional farce to insult-to-its-intelligence." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 5, 2008	The Poet (2008)	n/a
	"Never delivers either the thrill of its underworld setting or much insight into its complicated workings." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 3, 2008	Young Yakuza (2007)	30%
	"Walsh nearly redeems the whole thing: His eyes flicker with an intelligence that isn�t in the script, and he graces his character with layers of inner life in a film that coasts on surfaces." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 27, 2008	Just Add Water (2008)	n/a
	"It's a wit-free homage to Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan that, for all its slick presentation, never comes close to hitting the mark of its forebears." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 7, 2008	Spiral (2008)	50%
	"Few of the songs, which range from gleefully raunchy to gratingly sentimental, are truly memorable." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 18, 2007	Naked Boys Singing (2007)	64%
	"Dead One never generates either the fear or just tension that it intends with its portentous music, religious iconography and meant-to-be-creepy voice-overs." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 13, 2007	The Dead One (2007)	n/a
	"U2, notoriously tight with the rights to their music and image, were reportedly so impressed by the script that they allowed their music and some concert footage to be used for very cheap. They got gypped." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 16, 2007	7 D�as (2007)	22%
	"A well-acted trifle straining to be a hard-hitting morality play." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 7, 2007	Descent (2007)	24%
	"A film made by people just smart enough to acknowledge that the tropes of modern queer filmmaking have been reduced to clich�, but who themselves lack the courage to push beyond tried-and-true box-office formulas." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 22, 2007	Boy Culture (2007)	70%
	"Takes a hot-button issue (here, it's homophobic U.S. immigration policies) and reduces it to dry sloganeering and shameless emotional manipulation of the audience." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 9, 2006	Maple Palm (2006)	n/a
	"Shottas, based on a true story, has been sitting on shelves for a few years now, accruing mythology as a great film that�s been unjustly sidelined. That, it is not. [It�s] wretched." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 2, 2006	Shottas (2006)	13%
	"The film only rarely harnesses the power of the anachronistic, funk-driven, beat-heavy rap music that swells its soundtrack." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 24, 2006	Idlewild (2006)	48%
	"The tale is unnecessarily fractured and becomes increasingly didactic as it collapses into a mess of shrill big-screen activism and smugly relayed leftist ideals." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 10, 2006	Poster Boy (2006)	22%
	"The Celestine Prophecy Movie never transcends either the look or the feel of a cult recruitment film crossed with a Christian-network infomercial." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 20, 2006	The Celestine Prophecy (2006)	5%
	"*[Franti's] unreflective, narcissistic humanitarianism is straight out of an old SCTV* skit.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Jul 13, 2006	I Know I Am Not Alone (2006)	n/a
	"It�s a dud." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2006	The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2006)	22%
	"Churlish though it seems to throw daggers at this clearly heartfelt but insipid drama, the naivet� quickly becomes exasperating." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 1, 2006	Conrad Boys ()	25%
	"The film never rises above its cry now-avenge later Lifetime Channel sensibilities." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 18, 2006	Hate Crime (2005)	11%
	"Sharon vanishes and Rose sets about finding her daughter in the not-quite deserted town, where ash falls from the sky and every setting looks like a back-lot or soundstage." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 21, 2006	Silent Hill (2006)	29%
	"David Heavener�s pseudo-sordid, clich�-addled erotic thriller is too yawningly lame to even stoke a good feminist outrage." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 20, 2006	Angel Blade (2006)	n/a
	"Intermittently amusing, rarely illuminating and ultimately tedious documentary." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 6, 2006	24 Hours on Craigslist (2005)	50%
	"Well-meaning but mediocre." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 19, 2006	On the Outs (2005)	93%
	"It�s a mean-spirited exercise in stilted outrageousness." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 5, 2006	Oxygono (2005)	17%
	"Despite Menkin�s clear belief that he�s crafted a rousing true-life drama, his film plays like a clich�-ridden, painfully self-conscious Hollywood melodrama about a noble person with disabilities." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 1, 2005	39 Pounds of Love (2005)	61%
	"Though the film is crammed with music -- the soundtrack is stellar -- the production numbers fall completely flat, leaving you to pine for the over-caffeinated touch of Baz Luhrmann." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 29, 2005	Sue�o (2005)	43%
	"It�s to be hoped that by his next film, his director�s gift won�t be shortchanged by the writer in him mistaking psychological complexity for acting-school exercises." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 15, 2005	Walking on the Sky (2004)	29%
	"The script, by David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg, is breathtakingly bad." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 1, 2005	Underclassman (2005)	8%
	"*This concert film of her most recent comedy tour, the Assassin Show, is painfully bereft of wit or cogent insight." -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Sep 1, 2005	Margaret Cho - Assassin (2005)	38%
	"More predictable than its makers seem aware, its emotional hooks much too dull to pull us in." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 4, 2005	Milwaukee, Minnesota (2005)	39%
	"The drama is unintentionally humorous, the humor incredibly labored and the acting rarely better than one might find in a Chi Chi LaRue XXX production." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 23, 2005	Slutty Summer (2005)	13%
	"Slasher fans whose fright reflexes are set to hair-trigger mode will jump at High Tension�s mathematically precise, fake-out scares. But they�re likely to hate themselves for it even as they tremble." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 9, 2005	High Tension (2005)	41%
	"You root for the kids, who are utterly captivating, but Green is another story. His shtick -- a combo of insufferable stage-parent and unbearable rock geek -- is exhausting." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 2, 2005	Rock School (2005)	82%
	"Lough doesn�t bomb the system; he sucks it off." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 26, 2005	Bomb the System (2005)	33%
	"This look at the assorted struggles of modern hetero coupledom gives off a distinctly moldy aroma." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 5, 2005	Happily Ever After (2005)	57%
	"It�s when adults with whitewashed notions of childhood get hold of a camera that kiddie fare -- like this uninspired effort from writer-director Eric Hendershoot -- goes limp." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 14, 2005	Down and Derby (2005)	24%
	"Its lackluster efforts to be raunchily topical about issues of race, class and sexuality leave its talented cast stranded without a paddle." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 31, 2005	Beauty Shop (2005)	40%
	"A former short film stretched beyond the interest of its wanly amusing riffs, it settles for easy, familiar jokes and slack storyline tension." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 24, 2005	D.E.B.S. (2005)	39%
	"A determinedly old-fashioned boxing/ coming-of -age film, only perfunctorily hitting its marks." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 17, 2005	Black Cloud (2004)	17%
	"Though sprung from the mind of a woman, the film plays like a hetero male fantasy of tortured love." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 17, 2005	Don't Move (2005)	47%
	"Opening with a portentous quote from Kafka, writer-director Ari Kirschenbuam's Fabled quickly reveals itself to be a hyper-stylized flick, but the glossy sum effect is that of a film student straining for a weightiness he can't pull off." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 10, 2005	Fabled ()	40%
	"There's not a single surprise or moment of dramatic tension." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 12, 2005	Uncle Nino (2003)	23%
	"It all collapses under an atrocious performance by Pacino." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 30, 2004	William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004)	70%
	"Writer-director Dan Harris attempts a juggling act of tone, style and genre that results in about half a dozen different movies being shuffled across the screen, none of which -- despite fine performances all around -- really works." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 16, 2004	Imaginary Heroes (2004)	34%
	"Albaladejo turns his film into a banal, mildly entertaining trifle of affirmation, eliciting a shrug more than any real emotion." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 17, 2004	Bear Cub (2004)	79%
	"Even ignoring the low-grade aesthetics, the documentary feels like you've stepped into a geek-nerd convention where all but hardcore initiates will be either bored or amused by the proceedings." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 28, 2004	Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of A Sorcerer ()	0%
	"What really sink the film are the script's reductive, outdated psychological implications ... and its clumsy melodramatics." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 7, 2004	Transfixed (2001)	9%
	"While the documentary footage ... is powerful, it's often undermined by the fact that you know there is deep contrivance at work." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 22, 2004	September Tapes (2004)	21%
	"The relentless hagiography by Salles and screenwriter Jose Rivera results in a bloodless exercise." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 22, 2004	The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)	83%
	"At once a woefully overfamiliar bashing of Hollywood superficiality and a seemingly unwitting paean to the self-absorbed enlightenment that passes among industry folk for personal growth." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 22, 2004	Hollywood Buddha (2004)	20%
	"Squanders Mac's natural gift of salty gruffness by shoehorning him into a dull, heartwarming cinematic lesson on humility and the joys of teamwork." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 15, 2004	Mr. 3000 (2004)	56%

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