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PAUL MALCOLM
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L.A. Weekly

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Total Reviews: 61


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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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"[A] fascinating, evenhanded documentary."
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
Shadow Company (2007)85%
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"[Director] Yeung handles [his characters'] parallel journeys of self-discovery with humor, grace and an occasionally heavy hand, with Leow giving a winning performance as Ash."
Posted Aug 9, 2007
 
Cut Sleeve Boys (2006)45%
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"It’s easy to keep blaming Ken Burns for this kind of softcore Civil War porn, but enough is enough: This is a vanity project of the most indulgent order."
Posted Jun 7, 2007
 
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005)n/a
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"Such artless inattention to the con man’s craft might be overlooked if any of the characters or performers had the personality to pull one over on us, the audience."
Posted Apr 26, 2007
 
Fakers (2004)38%
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"It's a setup as old as the hills, but the unvarnished simplicity with which first-time director Benjamin Morgan rolls it out makes the tale worth another go-round."
Posted May 25, 2006
 
Quality of Life (2004)64%
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"This 'true account' of the Bell Witch haunting offers an encyclopedic rehash of spook films new and old, dressed out in murky period detail."
Posted May 4, 2006
 
An American Haunting (2006)12%
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"A film riddled with missed opportunities for good clean scares."
Posted Oct 20, 2005
 
The Fog (2005)5%
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"in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach weds his verbal gifts to a fresh visual acuity that brings layers of rich detail to a portrait of a family coping, poorly, with self-inflicted change."
Posted Oct 13, 2005
 
The Squid and the Whale (2005)94%
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"It’s the zippy chatter among the Serenity’s wised-up space pirates that gives the film most of its punch, but with only serviceable action sequences and largely cookie-cutter effects, you can still sense the void just outside."
Posted Sep 29, 2005
 
Serenity (2005)82%
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"Gordon gives an intimate, balanced account of how political power, famine, power shortages and a hatred of America have shaped their young lives."
Posted Sep 1, 2005
 
A State of Mind (2005)93%
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"Prominently placed in Jaque’s bachelor pad is a poster for Down by Law, but it’s abundantly clear that Lozano and company have been re-watching Pulp Fiction for the last decade."
Posted Aug 25, 2005
 
Matando Cabos (2005)53%
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"As a salvo in the culture wars, Dukes of Hazzard is a dud, and as an actual movie it doesn’t rate much higher."
Posted Aug 4, 2005
 
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)14%
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"The Giants' longevity flows from the fact that they can't be explained, only experienced."
Posted Jun 28, 2003
 
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003)82%
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"While his characters wallow and his wasted cast founders in the shoals of Will De Los Santos and Creighton Vero’s script, Åkerlund apes the tics of his primary influences: Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky and the photography of David LaChapelle."
Posted Mar 19, 2003
 
Spun (2003)36%
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"It's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most American representations of Castro."
Posted Mar 6, 2003
 
Fidel (2002)63%
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"A one-way ticket to Palookaville."
Posted Feb 27, 2003
 
Poolhall Junkies (2003)35%
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"It can't shake the impression of a video premiere stretched to big-screen size."
Posted Feb 12, 2003
 
Jungle Book 2 (2003)19%
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"Despite the film's aspirations to soul healing, its uplift remains mechanical, like an escalator's."
Posted Jan 20, 2003
 
Dragonfly (2002)7%
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"Pushes the Hollywood action movie to stratospheric new levels of incoherence."
Posted Jan 15, 2003
 
Rollerball (2002)4%
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"Rather quickly, the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation."
Posted Dec 13, 2002
 
Skins (2002)60%
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"A captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age."
Posted Dec 13, 2002
 
Take Care of My Cat (2001)81%
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"Nemesis never feels true to itself, its energy never fully engaged."
Posted Dec 12, 2002
 
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)37%
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"Moving and, ultimately, hopeful -- a hope that extends further than most documentaries allow."
Posted Dec 12, 2002
 
Trembling Before G-d (2001)89%
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"Too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience."
Posted Dec 9, 2002
 
Promises (2002)96%
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"Stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom."
Posted Dec 5, 2002
 
They (2002)37%
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"Disney's most winning animated couple since Bambi and Thumper."
Posted Dec 2, 2002
 
Lilo & Stitch (2002)86%
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"Vaughan brings such disregard to the film that its pedestrian on-court action might as well have been shot from the bleacher seats."
Posted Nov 18, 2002
 
Juwanna Mann (2002)9%
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"Despite a few epic revelations, we never get a real sense of living, breathing dragons."
Posted Nov 18, 2002
 
Reign of Fire (2002)40%
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"A conventional if appealing tear-jerker."
Posted Nov 14, 2002
 
The Way Home (2002)74%
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"Best wear a helmet and have some fun."
Posted Oct 31, 2002
 
Jackass: The Movie (2002)49%
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"Thomas trudges through the film's action sequences with such obvious disinterest that when Wilson turns from a lackluster fireball to quip, 'Whoa, that was a big explosion,' you really know he's putting us on."
Posted Oct 31, 2002
 
I Spy (2002)16%
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"An amusing scenario, until even Miike seems to lose his taste for the oddly sweet concoction and allows the film to drift aimlessly to a rainbow-hued finale."
Posted Oct 25, 2002
 
Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)65%
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"Torem drifts into formula and his initially promising film goes unbearably soft."
Posted Oct 24, 2002
 
Looking Through Lillian (2002)60%
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"While the film throws a solid pop punch, you could still swear you've seen it all before."
Posted Oct 24, 2002
 
The City of Lost Souls (2000)58%
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"Twenty years after the original release of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, director Steven Spielberg runs his own studio but has yet to make a more personal film."
Posted Oct 21, 2002
 
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial The 20th Anniversary (2002)98%
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"On top of a foundering performance, [Madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag."
Posted Oct 10, 2002
 
Swept Away (2002)5%
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"Guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things. She lists ingredients, but never mixes and stirs."
Posted Oct 3, 2002
 
American Adobo (2002)30%
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"[It has] a humanist touch that stands at odds with the film's wholesale demonizing of the scattered Soviet army."
Posted Oct 3, 2002
 
Ambush (1999)n/a
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"Your taste for Jonah - A Veggie Tales Movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the Holy Spirit."
Posted Oct 2, 2002
 
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)65%
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Posted Oct 2, 2002
 
Air Bud (1997)33%
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"It would all be too obviously feel-good if Ducastel and Martineau weren't also tuned in to the liberating drift of the open highway and a sharp native humor that adds needed flesh and blood to their walking metaphors."
Posted Oct 1, 2002
 
The Adventures of Felix (2001)69%
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Posted Oct 1, 2002
 
The Acid House (1998)47%
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"The film's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that’s opened between them."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
Girls Can't Swim (2002)71%
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"The film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises."
Posted Sep 26, 2002
 
Wasabi (2002)45%
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"While much of the film's action ... comes live, as opposed to the digital mayhem of the game, Thai director Kaos (a.k.a. Wych Kaosayananda), making his inauspicious Hollywood debut, still can't breathe any life into it."
Posted Sep 19, 2002
 
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)0%
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"Why Crop Circles now, if not to ride the hype of M. Night Shyamalan's Signs to some quick cash? The movie's rambling, slapdash, repetitious nature suggests as much."
Posted Sep 17, 2002
 
Crop Circles: Quest for Truth (2002)63%
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"Hartnett's pitch-perfect sexual panic can be hilariously funny."
Posted Sep 16, 2002
 
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)38%
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"It's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah."
Posted Aug 29, 2002
 
Amy's O (2002)27%
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"Dismally dull sci-fi comedy."
Posted Aug 22, 2002
 
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)6%
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"The film's plainness, and the understated force of van der Groen and Petersen's performances, sharpen its complexity of feeling until all mawkishness is cut away."
Posted Aug 12, 2002
 
Pauline and Paulette (2002)83%

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