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Total Reviews: 63

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association


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"If Demme's version lacks the wallop of its predecessor, it is more likely to be popular with contemporary audiences, who will enjoy not only its labyrinthine twists but its stars' burnished professionalism." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 28, 2004
 
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)82%
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"This is a film that gives humanism back its good name." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 17, 2004
 
Oasis (2004)89%
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"It's worth fidgeting through the mediocre stuff to get to three good pieces." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 12, 2004
 
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)63%
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"Surely the oddest 1930s musical ever made, in or out of the 1930s." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 6, 2004
 
The Saddest Music in the World (2004)78%
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Posted May 1, 2004
 
Shaun of the Dead (2004)91%
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"For all the symbolic weight of its title, Young Adam doesn't come close to giving us Existence. But it does give us one limited human being." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 15, 2004
 
Young Adam (2004)63%
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"Vol. 2 is the most sheerly enjoyable movie I've seen in ages, allowing for all the intimacy that was missing from its predecessor." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 15, 2004
 
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)85%
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"A ravishing bauble about la dolce vita in Taiwan." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
Millennium Mambo (2003)79%
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"Bludgeons you with cartoonish gags about stupid football players, irritable-bowel syndrome and (for the second Coen film in a row) somebody accidentally shooting himself in the head." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
Ladykillers (2004)55%
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"An enjoyable, sneaky-smart fable about the collision between innocence and experience." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003)90%
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"As a friend joked, 'If you peel away the movie's postmodern tricks, what you're left with is about as profound as a Hugh Grant movie.'" -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 18, 2004
 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)94%
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"A fan-boy's paradise." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 9, 2003
 
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)85%
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"The most inventive vampire picture of the last 80 years." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 26, 2003
 
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003)86%
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"While 28 Days Later is itself a stylistic tour de force, Boyle recaptures his earlier storytelling briskness and deft touch with actors." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 26, 2003
 
28 Days Later (2003)88%
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"Provide a revealing glimpse into an earlier, if not more innocent, erotic universe." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 3, 2003
 
The Good Old Naughty Days (2003)75%
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"If you can get past the corn, the story exerts a not-unsatisfying emotional pull thanks to Yun's soulful gravity and a tenderness that Chen hasn't shown quite so openly since his 1984 debut, Yellow Earth." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 29, 2003
 
Together (2003)73%
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"What's missing is anything resembling a point of view ... or the slightest sense of critical discrimination." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 29, 2003
 
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)76%
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"It drowns [Carrey's] hilarious physicality in an ocean of sap." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 29, 2003
 
Bruce Almighty (2003)49%
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"Paramount's new version boasts no such cultural resonance, but it’s far more enjoyable than, say, X2 or The Matrix Reloaded." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 29, 2003
 
The Italian Job (2003)73%
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"The Hong Kong movie industry is crumbling, and this painfully slack horror picture is another sign of its decay." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 22, 2003
 
Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters (2002)29%
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"Feels like a jerry-built sequel." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 14, 2003
 
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)73%
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"[Kwietniowski] tracks his lost hero's descent with a cool, precise visual style that’s humanized by Hoffman's unerring ability to seem at once dull, decent and out of control." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 1, 2003
 
Owning Mahowny (2003)78%
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"The footage ... is astonishing both for the beauty of the birds and for its sheer technical brilliance." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 1, 2003
 
Winged Migration (2003)97%
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"Reygadas grapples with the most elemental of issues ... and the result is sly, touching and more than a little loony." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2003
 
Japon (2003)79%
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"Enjoyably swervy." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2003
 
Identity (2003)63%
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"One of the year’s finest movies." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2003
 
Ten (2003)86%
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"Dillon doesn't yet possess the directorial chops to give his story the necessary snap; the action too often feels poky and muffled." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 24, 2003
 
City of Ghosts (2003)47%
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"Though it doesn't fully transcend its small budget (the lighting is dingy), the story feels rooted in something more solid than prefab posturing." -- NPR's Fresh Air
Posted Apr 10, 2003
 
Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)80%
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"Pettigrew assumes that Fellini was a genius, and while this film won't convince any skeptics, the maestro's fans can sink into it like a hot bath." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 10, 2003
 
Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)72%
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"Like so many Sandler vehicles, the movie isn’t actually funny, but keeps feeling as if it should be." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 10, 2003
 
Anger Management (2003)43%
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Posted Apr 5, 2003
 
The Good Thief (2003)77%
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Posted Mar 8, 2003
 
The Quiet American (2002)89%
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"The opening 50 minutes are brutal, but if you can take the punishment, you’ll probably be wowed by Noé’s skills as a filmmaker." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 6, 2003
 
Irreversible (2003)56%
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"Its moral and political viewpoint is so crushingly simple-minded that one yearns for the intellectual nuance of George Bush." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 6, 2003
 
Tears of the Sun (2003)34%
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"Although I've never before seen Winslet flounder like this, it’s Spacey who really needs help -- his desire to be St. Kevin is turning him into a joke." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 20, 2003
 
The Life of David Gale (2003)20%
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"The movie has far less emotional weight than, say, Spider-Man." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 20, 2003
 
Daredevil (2003)44%
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"Van Sant ultimately reveals so little about this odd couple that we frankly don't give a damn what happens to them." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 12, 2003
 
Gerry (2003)61%
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"Green is attuned to the poetry of ordinary life, with its longueurs and sudden bursts of deep emotion." -- NPR's Fresh Air
Posted Feb 12, 2003
 
All the Real Girls (2003)71%
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Posted Jan 25, 2003
 
The Hours (2002)80%
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"From beginning to end, City of God doesn't just hold you; it clutches your lapels with its lurid exuberance." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 16, 2003
 
City of God (2003)92%
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"What ultimately gives Gangs of New York its power is less its storytelling than its grand, bracingly radical vision of American history." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 19, 2002
 
Gangs of New York (2002)76%
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"Rockwell delivers a performance admirable in its hustling sweatiness." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 19, 2002
 
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)77%
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"Bursts with the old-fashioned Hollywood panache." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 19, 2002
 
Catch Me If You Can (2002)96%
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"Nicholson himself has done all you could ask: This is easily his strongest work since he did Reds and The Border back-to-back 20 years ago." -- NPR's Fresh Air
Posted Dec 11, 2002
 
About Schmidt (2002)85%
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"Although a few moments are hilarious, this would-be romp remains laboriously earthbound when it should be swinging gaily through the trees." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 9, 2002
 
Human Nature (2002)49%
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"Tautly elliptical story of love, memory, guilt and redemption." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 27, 2002
 
Solaris (2002)64%
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Posted Nov 16, 2002
 
Read My Lips (2002)97%
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Posted Nov 16, 2002
 
Lagaan (2001)95%
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Posted Nov 16, 2002
 
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)44%
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Posted Nov 16, 2002
 
Time Out (2002)95%

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