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Fresh Up The Yangtze
Fresh OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
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Fresh Dare Not Walk Alone: A War of Responsibility
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Rotten The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Rotten The Visitor
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"By journey’s end, Chang has found, in the Yangtze, a brilliant natural metaphor for upward mobility in modern China: Whether they hail from the lowlands or the urban centers, everyone here is scrambling to reach higher ground." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 15, 2008
 
Up The Yangtze (2008)89%
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"Closer in spirit to the deadpan stylings of early Zucker brothers than the more obvious slap-shtick of the Austin Powers franchise," -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 8, 2008
 
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)74%
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"It’s an exemplary comic book fantasia. There’s plenty of CGI to go around here too, but Favreau uses it, for the most part, to enhance rather than supplant the movie’s physical dimension." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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"Inelegantly made and sometimes awkward in its transitions between the two eras, Dean’s film nonetheless packs a punch, thanks to vivid archival footage from this lesser-known (compared to Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham) hotbed of Southern racial unrest." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Dare Not Walk Alone: A War of Responsibility (2008)100%
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"Mousaian has a sensitive approach, but he does dialogue ('I don’t want to remember the past, man!') nearly as leadenly as he does metaphor." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Silence of the Sea (2008)n/a
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"Body of War is neither the most cinematic nor the most elegantly crafted of recent Iraq war documentaries, but that doesn’t stop it from being one of the most deeply affecting." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Body of War (2008)72%
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"An initially promising, but quickly disappointing retread of Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's hugely influential horror classic." -- Variety
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)35%
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"The film’s appeal is at once sentimental and perverse: It’s not every day that you get to see a 92-year-old woman soloing on 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go.'" -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Young@Heart (2008)87%
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"Bra Boys is nevertheless intriguing for its insider’s perspective of an outsider culture steeped in tradition, male-bonding rituals, and intense localism." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Bra Boys (2008)77%
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"McCarthy unquestionably means well, but he’s made one of those incredibly naive movies (like last fall''s Rendition) that give liberals -- Hollywood liberals especially -- a bad name." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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"It's a gas." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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"Honoré is not without talent, but Love Songs adds up to considerably less than the sum of its references." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Love Songs (2008)66%
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"Clooney makes us expect the best of him each and every time he takes to the field, and Leatherheads is considerably less than that." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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"Sincere without being especially memorable." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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"Flawless is the sort of movie that tends to get called 'enjoyably old-fashioned,' except that there’s nothing enjoyable about it." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Flawless (2007)62%
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"Klotz walks a perilous tightrope between profundity and pretension without ever tipping into the chasm." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
Heartbeat Detector (2007)75%
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"It Always Rains on Sunday is a masterpiece of dead ends and might-have-beens, highly inventive... and brilliantly acted..." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)n/a
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"A valuable addition to the growing canon of slow-food films for our fast-food nation." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
All in This Tea (2007)80%
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"Self-financed pic, which opens in Gaul on June 27, won't do much to win Lelouch any new fans at home or abroad. But it should amply please the old ones." -- Variety
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)84%
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"Stunning." -- Variety
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Bloody Sunday (2002)92%
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"Like a Tolstoyan epic." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Summer Palace (2008)68%
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"Nothing in Vantage Point quickens the pulse as much as the realization that, with each successive turn of the wheel, we come one step closer to the end." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)37%
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"Although the matters on Romero's mind weigh heavy, the movie he's made is anything but heavy-handed. Clocking in at a svelte 95 minutes, Diary of the Dead zips along." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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"Watching a movie this life-sucking, you start to scour the surroundings for something -- anything -- to hold your interest." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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"[A] wryly comic, sometimes heartbreaking and altogether original film." -- Variety
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
Momma's Man (2008)n/a
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"It's Allen himself who seems to have been cast adrift." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)50%
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"The plot effectively reduces down to one long slog from Spring Street to Central Park South." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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"The strong performances and Chaiken's vivid NYC locations, lend the film unexpected resonance." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
Liberty Kid (2007)86%
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"The sort of movie that inspires you to ponder all the better uses to which the chemical ingredients of 35mm film stock might be put." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
The Bucket List (2007)40%
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"It breathes new life into the genre by dousing it in buckets of blood." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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"If, as a movie, I Am Legend is less stylistically mind blowing and intellectually ambitious than last year’s Yuletide dystopia, Children of Men, it’s not far off." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)68%
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"A secular hymn to the small triumphs and cavernous tragedies of the everyday, and to our awesome ability to cope." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Secret Sunshine ()92%
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"It has an elating lightness that belies its heavy subject -- peace, or at least conversation, in the Middle East -- and it leaves you filled with a sense of possibility." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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"Rather than challenging our national aversion to unhappy endings, both in life and in cinema, [director] Strouse plays right into it. He's devised Grace Is Gone to work on our sentiments the way a porn movie works on our libidos." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Grace is Gone (2007)58%
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"Imagine Marty if Marty had turned out to be the Unabomber and you’ll have the gist of writer-director Frank Cappello’s oddly compelling, pitch-black comedy." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 5, 2007
 
He Was a Quiet Man (2007)76%
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"Kelly seems to think that to merely mention Fallujah or global warming -- or to name a bank after Karl Rove -- is the same as actually having an opinion about them." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Southland Tales (2007)35%
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"Like the movie’s mysterious Jigsaw doppelgänger, Saw IV is itself a poor substitute for the original (or even the first two sequels)." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Saw IV (2007)19%
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"[A] startling sophomore feature by 26-year-old writer-director (and Larry Fessenden protégé) Ti West." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Trigger Man (2007)88%
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"Reservation Road is one of those movies where the characters suffer early and often." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Reservation Road (2007)36%
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"Crossing the Line, like its subject, remains a fascinating and frustrating enigma -- a declassified government report still marred by redacted passages." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
Crossing the Line (2007)89%
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"This superb debut feature by Korean-American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 4, 2007
 
In Between Days (2006)84%
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"Mainly, the re-release is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon and cheap pleasure palaces." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 4, 2007
 
Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)97%
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"Gerwig is a modest (like everything in Mumblecore) revelation in the role, with a lithe, teasing sexuality and a vibrant personality that seems to be darting off in as many directions as her tousled blonde hair." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 27, 2007
 
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)67%
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"[Director] Spottiswoode's lackluster film fails to offer any fresh perspective on these now well-known events." -- Variety
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
Shake Hands With The Devil (2007)50%
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"Generally solid performances." -- Variety
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
Emotional Arithmetic (2007)14%
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"Call it the first green horror picture, punctuated by ample doses of red. Oh, and it’s also scary as f--k." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
The Last Winter (2007)78%
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"Penn’s film burns with native intelligence, never tipping into hagiography, and always doing what very few purveyors of McCandless’ story have been able or willing to do. It engages with him on his own terms." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
Into the Wild (2007)83%
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"It’s possible, I suppose, that Dunne and Wittenborn were so intent on excoriating the well-to-do that they conceived of this entire movie as an act of self-flagellation. In which case, they should rest assured that no one stands to make a dime from it." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
Fierce People (2007)24%
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"Jordan’s ballsy and sometimes bonkers movie is more ambitious and alive -- more worth writing, talking and thinking about -- than anything that has tumbled off the Hollywood assembly line in a good long while." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
The Brave One (2007)43%

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