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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%
	"This is a film that gives humanism back its good name." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 17, 2004	Oasis (2004)	89%
	"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)	64%
	"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%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- musicOMH.com Posted May 1, 2004	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	91%
	"*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%
	"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%
	"*A ravishing bauble about la dolce vita* in Taiwan.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Mar 25, 2004	Millennium Mambo (2003)	80%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"A fan-boy's paradise." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 9, 2003	Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)	85%
	"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%
	"*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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"It drowns [Carrey's] hilarious physicality in an ocean of sap." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 29, 2003	Bruce Almighty (2003)	49%
	"*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%
	"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%
	"Feels like a jerry-built sequel." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 14, 2003	The Matrix Reloaded (2003)	73%
	"[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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"Enjoyably swervy." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 24, 2003	Identity (2003)	63%
	"One of the year�s finest movies." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 24, 2003	Ten (2003)	86%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
	"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%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- NPR's Fresh Air Posted Apr 5, 2003	The Good Thief (2003)	77%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- NPR's Fresh Air Posted Mar 8, 2003	The Quiet American (2002)	89%
	"The opening 50 minutes are brutal, but if you can take the punishment, you�ll probably be wowed by No�s skills as a filmmaker." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 6, 2003	Irreversible (2003)	56%
	"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%
	"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%
	"*The movie has far less emotional weight than, say, Spider-Man." -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Feb 20, 2003	Daredevil (2003)	44%
	"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%
	"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%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- NPR's Fresh Air Posted Jan 25, 2003	The Hours (2002)	80%
	"*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%
	"*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%
	"Rockwell delivers a performance admirable in its hustling sweatiness." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 19, 2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)	78%
	"Bursts with the old-fashioned Hollywood panache." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 19, 2002	Catch Me If You Can (2002)	96%
	"*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%
	"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)	50%
	"Tautly elliptical story of love, memory, guilt and redemption." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 27, 2002	Solaris (2002)	64%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- NPR's Fresh Air Posted Nov 16, 2002	Read My Lips (2002)	97%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- NPR's Fresh Air Posted Nov 16, 2002	Lagaan (2001)	95%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- NPR's Fresh Air Posted Nov 16, 2002	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)	44%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- NPR's Fresh Air Posted Nov 16, 2002	Time Out (2002)	95%

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