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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
MARK KEIZER
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• Los Angeles CityBeat

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Total Reviews: 144

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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Dreamgirls
4/5 Sweet Sixteen
3.5/5 Ararat
3/5 About Schmidt
2.5/5 Femme Fatale
2/4 The Cave
2/5 Demonlover
1.5/5 The Adventures of Pluto Nash
1/5 Irreversible
.5/5 The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
0/4 Running Scared
2 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
 
 
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4/4 Dreamgirls
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0/4 Running Scared
.5/5 The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
1/5 Jack and Jill vs. the World
1/5 Dirty Deeds
1/5 The Dukes of Hazzard
1/5 Honeymooners
1/5 Irreversible
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

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2.5/5
 
"Carr-Wiggin doesn’t have the chops to pull off a romantic farce, but she’s so game for the attempt that we patiently wait for the movie to steer a steadier course." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 9, 2008
 
A Previous Engagement (2008)35%
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3/5
 
"A Walk into the Sea traps us in an odd and compelling purgatory, one that’s unable to answer the central question of what happened to Williams, yet still resolves with its own sense of satisfaction." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 7, 2008
 
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)75%
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2.5/5
 
"Not polished enough to spread, or strike a nerve, within the wider moviegoing community." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
The Dhamma Brothers (2008)81%
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1/5
 
"Considering the talent assembled, the only audience draw here is the prospect of getting out of the rain." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008)14%
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2.5/5
 
"The first theatrical release from the here! Network’s Independent Film Initiative, shaves the edges off the genre’s hoariest tendencies, for which it deserves credit and will hopefully be the start of a trend. But it’s still an uninspiring drama." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Shelter (2008)53%
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2/5
 
"It’s got the makings of a wicked little sex romp, but this dull, wordy comedy lacks visual punch and the laser-sharp satire that made the Waters-penned Heathers a mini-classic." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Sex and Death 101 (2008)26%
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"Reverend Billy is a charismatic presence, even if his shtick is too silly and the documentary too unfocused to motivate any serious change in the nation’s holiday spending habits." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)65%
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2.5/5
 
"[Director] Penn has crucially miscalculated, mistakenly assuming we’d rather watch comedic actors play poker instead of watching them be funny." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
The Grand ()42%
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"[Definitely, Maybe has] a largess of characters and themes and a genuine desire to explore them, good intentions that earn the film a grudging pass." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
Definitely, Maybe (2008)72%
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"While it would be unfair to say there aren’t moments of reasonable suspense, playing off our natural aversion to people being tortured does not constitute good filmmaking." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 11, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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"Cloverfield is further evidence of the nerd ascendant: It may be a product of the 'Wouldn’t this be awesome?' school of filmmaking, but at least it results in an awesome film." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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"It represents an encouraging maturation of the anti-Iraq War documentary mini-genre. Here, anger is the result of unimpeachable research somberly reported, not the gadfly humor and smug sense of 'gotcha!' that marks the modern-day snarkumentary." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)100%
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"The Great Debaters is passionate in a professional way, a very fine movie that should have challenged its audience as much as it challenged its characters." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
The Great Debaters (2007)79%
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"This wooden fable about the importance of believing in yourself is merely a collection of cutesy details that never coalesces into a strong narrative." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)36%
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"If Vaughn is trying to test the family-film waters without abandoning his core audience, it doesn’t work here." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Fred Claus (2007)22%
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"American Gangster has the virtue of being very good, certainly one of this year’s best..." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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2.5/5
 
"Feast of Love is bathed in the dark wood and lengthening shadows of a serious movie, but it ultimately can’t reconcile its humanism with its fatalism." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Feast of Love (2007)41%
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"In the striking minimalism of the film’s early scenes, Haggis and Jones are perfectly in sync..." -- Los Angeles CityBeat
Posted Sep 18, 2007
 
In the Valley of Elah (2007)71%
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3/5
 
"Great World of Sound makes its point quietly." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
Great World of Sound (2007)82%
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3.5/5
 
"Thanks to Berinstein’s celebratory but lucid documentary, now have a better sense of what it takes to make it on Broadway." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)88%
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3/5
 
"...Ferguson’s take has the precision and seriousness of purpose of a sniper’s bullet while Moore’s is a homemade shrapnel grenade." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2007
 
No End in Sight (2007)94%
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2.5/5
 
"He’s telling the story of a post-war Bosnia so ignored by the international community, war criminals are free to list their names in the phone book. You can’t make stuff like that up. But Shepard makes us think he did." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2007
 
The Hunting Party (2007)52%
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3/5
 
"1408 would have been much worse had it starred Jim Carrey, and The Number 23 would have been much better had it starred John Cusack." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
1408 (2007)78%
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2.5/5
 
"The tragedy is, the last two films are exactly what we feared the first one would be: corporate entertainment, heavy yet frivolous, trying to buy our love with bloated spectacle." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 25, 2007
 
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)45%
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3/5
 
"Director Michael Corrente’s borough-specific details and Sopranos writer Terence Winter’s well-drawn characters alchemize oft-used ingredients into a satisfying meal." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 18, 2007
 
Brooklyn Rules (2007)50%
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2/5
 
"Lucky You is drowsy and unsure of itself, bad news if you’re a poker player or a movie." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 4, 2007
 
Lucky You (2007)28%
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2/5
 
"Considering the setup features three attractive, lovelorn characters, Kasdan takes a fairly high road. But his script only feigns insight." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
In the Land of Women (2007)43%
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2/5
 
"Considering the movie gets sillier as it goes along, relying on car stunts and gunplay to get to the ambiguous, unsatisfying finish line, it’s unclear why [director] Antal wanted Vacancy to be his American debut." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
Vacancy (2007)55%
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2/5
 
"As political statements go, Dreaming Lhasa is gentle, well-meaning and produced 10 years too late and three drafts too soon." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 17, 2007
 
Dreaming Lhasa (2007)41%
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"Mike Binder, whose previous work (The Upside of Anger) suggested the possibility of great things, fully arrives with this delicately observed and emotionally expansive drama." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 23, 2007
 
Reign Over Me (2007)63%
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1.5/5
 
"An underwhelming confection so conceptually lazy it’s a miracle the film has enough strength to make it through the projector." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 16, 2007
 
Music and Lyrics (2007)63%
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2.5/5
 
"The film’s ultimate failure is that it permanently taints our enjoyment of Hopkins’ interpretation, borne of the unwanted knowledge that Lecter is just another victim of a bad childhood." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 9, 2007
 
Hannibal Rising (2007)15%
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2.5/5
 
"Like a girl falling for the wrong guy, [writer/director] Grant has fallen for her own inadequate material. Her overstuffed story feels under-explained." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2007
 
Catch and Release (2007)22%
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"Unlike the litany of inspirational teacher movies, Chalk uses humor to make its truth approachable and palatable." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Chalk (2007)79%
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2.5/5
 
"Like Gardner’s desire to escape the confines of his economic station, there’s a better movie struggling to escape the confines of a Hollywood movie machine that values story mechanics over genuine emotion." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)66%
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2.5/5
 
"The very audience most likely to respond to blood and gunfire is least likely to respond to stridently delivered messages." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2006
 
Blood Diamond (2006)63%
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4/4
 
"Critics and fans could spend hours arguing over director and cast, but it’s hard to imagine many combinations achieving greater success than what Condon has accomplished." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2006
 
Dreamgirls (2006)78%
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2.5/5
 
"Although it plays like a rough draft of a better Iraq War film yet to be made, Home of the Brave should put the subject on the front page, where it belongs." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2006
 
Home of the Brave (2006)23%
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"Cowriters Bollinger and Capelli may have sincere intentions, but they’re too immature and unpolished to pull off what they’re attempting." -- Los Angeles CityBeat
Posted Dec 6, 2006
 
Waltzing Anna (2006)n/a
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3/5
 
"Sometimes, despite the problems we start and the problems we refuse to stop, America really is okay. And often, it’s much more." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2006
 
God Grew Tired of Us (2007)91%
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"Steel’s film is powerful and upsetting, but as pointless as suicide itself." -- Los Angeles CityBeat
Posted Nov 8, 2006
 
The Bridge (2006)69%
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3/5
 
"Fans of Scarface and even Goodfellas will definitely get their thrills." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 29, 2006
 
Cocaine Cowboys (2006)70%
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2.5/5
 
"There’s no way around it, but the movie’s modest success is undercut by its micro budget and Goldthwait’s pedestrian direction." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 20, 2006
 
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)63%
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3.5/5
 
"Ewing and Grady cover the proceedings thoroughly, although, considering the intense and fertile subject matter, it would have been hard to screw it up... the filmmakers rightly limit their scope to the camp and its participants." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2006
 
Jesus Camp (2006)87%
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"Hamer could have picked any period of Chinaski’s semi-fictional, whiskey-soaked life and ended up with the same enjoyably episodic, rusty blade of a movie." -- Los Angeles CityBeat
Posted Aug 21, 2006
 
Factotum (2006)75%
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"Director Hans Canosa’s incisive and melancholy pas de deux... presented entirely in split-screen... [is] a potentially ostentatious piece of directorial hoohah, but it has rewards." -- Los Angeles CityBeat
Posted Aug 14, 2006
 
Conversation(s) with Other Women (2006)73%
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"Adapting the Brian Aldiss novel, the [directorial] pair instead creates a psychedelic dream state in which various supporting players recount their roles in the punk-rock myth." -- Los Angeles CityBeat
Posted Aug 10, 2006
 
Brothers of the Head (2006)67%
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1.5/5
 
"A hurricane of accusations and grievances, supported by repetitive, droning sound bites." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 28, 2006
 
America: Freedom To Fascism (2006)24%
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3.5/5
 
"Utilizing riveting, rarely-seen video taken at the Jonestown compound in Guyana on the day of the tragedy, [director Nelson] manages to create a definitive account." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 7, 2006
 
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)94%
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3.5/5
 
"A hypnotic fictional fusion of archival NASA footage and new material." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 7, 2006
 
The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy (2006)67%

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