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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
AARON HILLIS
Aaron Hillis

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• L.A. Weekly
• Premiere Magazine
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 267
Total QuickRatings: 22


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Girlhood
3.5/4 Carnage
3/4 Man on the Train
2.5/4 Together
2/4 Johnny English
1.5/4 Bulletproof Monk
1/4 Man on Fire
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 The New World
4/4 George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
4/4 Spider-Man 2
4/4 Girlhood
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/4 The Bucket List
1/4 Martian Child
1/4 Mr. Woodcock
1/4 I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
1/4 Hostel: Part II
1/4 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
1/4 Fantastic Four
1/4 House of Wax
1/4 Elektra
1/4 White Noise
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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"Sandhya Suri strikes humanist gold in her feature-filmmaking debut." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 8, 2008
 
I for India (2007)100%
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"Unlike the frustrating gimmickry of Mike Figgis's Timecode and Hotel, McDonald's bedazzling multi-frame experiment poeticizes and enhances an otherwise slender story (forgivable at only 77 minutes long)..." -- Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2008
 
The Tracey Fragments (2008)38%
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"Provocative and quietly mesmerizing... Gianvito's vital memorial of memorials could and should be dissected at length shot by shot..." -- Premiere Magazine
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2008)n/a
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"Beautifully creepy... Less concerned with gags than nimble storytelling and wide-screen aesthetics (every brooding corner of the frame is blotted in monochromatic noir hues), Plympton mines elegance from the utterly gonzo." -- Village Voice
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Idiots and Angels (2008)n/a
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"Warmly magical... Building to a tender Big Night-like feast where the gang's all here, suspense is as thick and exciting as communal joy, and a single sexy surprise proves one of the greatest moments in film this year..." -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
La Graine et le Mulet (2007)100%
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"Ingeniously madcap and heartfelt... more than just a whimsical curiosity, My Winnipeg takes an extraordinary leap forward..." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)88%
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"Exhilarating... a crowd-pleaser in such witty, poetic ways that even an art-house curmudgeon couldn't deny its tidy vigor." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2008
 
Man On Wire (2008)100%
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"A public-access ugly, unintelligible, inconsequential adaptation of [Melvin Van Peebles'] quarter-century-old Broadway show, Waltz of the Stork..." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008)n/a
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"First Saturday isn't exactly a winner, but it places." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
The First Saturday in May (2008)72%
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"Williams's multi-thread portrait is fascinating only as a scattershot, time-capsule sampling of those whose lives were defined by the Tiananmen Square protests." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Young & Restless in China (2008)73%
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"Unlike Diary, the drama here is buoyant enough to handle the contrast of its too-silly slapstick." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)30%
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"One might appreciate Anthology's all-new print -- with its epic sets and costumes, slumming icons, and unfocused meta-ambitions -- as the queer precursor to Southland Tales." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 23, 2008
 
Myra Breckinridge (1970)25%
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"It's surprising the film doesn't feature lesbians jumping on trampolines." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 18, 2008
 
The Hammer (2008)74%
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"The doc is sobering, straightforward, and a bit drab, but to the participants' credit, it's also an entirely nonpartisan endeavor." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2008)88%
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"A magical must-see and a loving tribute to Albert Lamorrisse's 1956 children's classic The Red Balloon..." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)80%
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"This rarity in cinema -- a graying cast in a female-bonding adventure -- couldn't be more dull-humored or predictably maudlin without just calling itself The Bucket List 2." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
Bonneville (2006)43%
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"[David] Novack's...inability to tell a compelling story makes it difficult for us to summon outrage." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
Burning the Future: Coal in America (2008)89%
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"Fastidiously researched, dubiously suspenseful character portrait is unable to salvage a lick of hindsight from the tragedy beyond "murderous narcissists are people too."" -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)37%
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"No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it's actually unexpected, I'll admit to being amused exactly once." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
Strange Wilderness (2008)0%
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"This beautifully daffy road-movie musical is as inspired, whimsical, and commercially unconcerned as its protagonist." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2007)60%
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"I'm moving to Europe." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Meet the Spartans (2008)2%
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"It's easy to see how this military adventure has become a cult favorite, with its oddball wit and an elegant simplicity to what was likely underfunded stunt work." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
White Sun of the Desert (1969)n/a
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"Sumptuous, haunting, and unusually tender... a nakedly psychological "in" to [Bergman's] earliest artistic impulses; nothing else in his oeuvre addresses so directly his childhood escapes into fantasy as the by-product of a harsh Lutheran upbringing." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Fanny and Alexander (1982)100%
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"More ethnologically remarkable than particularly well-made." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
The Bet Collector (2006)n/a
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"Who is the audience here, besides depraved Beatles completists?" -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 2, 2008
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)37%
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2.5/4
 
"Since mainstream American horror's devolution... you have to tip your hat whenever an import attempts to maintain suspense and atmosphere instead, even when said import is an obvious retread." -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
The Orphanage (2007)85%
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1/4
 
"This terminally ill, terminally awful dramedy marks a sad cinematic milestone: The Bucket List is the first film in history to feature a truly wretched Nicholson performance -- and we're not talking about the character he plays." -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 23, 2007
 
The Bucket List (2007)40%
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"Eye-popping as The District! is, the overarching geopolitical satire is a haphazardly lobbed grenade too dim-witted to be explosive." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
The District (2007)88%
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"An avalanche-in-progress aside, there's no hook for the audience, who would probably have more fun getting drunk in the lodge." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
Steep (2007)55%
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"Writer-director Bahman Ghobadi's picturesque road trip is less about preserving a musical heritage than accepting one's fate, a mythic trek that's both heartrending and boisterous -- often as hauntingly absurdist as a Kusturica carnival." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2007
 
Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007)100%
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"Look isn't processing, critiquing, or even warning; in the end, it's just recording." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2007
 
Look (2007)61%
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"Yu's rousing, difficult-to-classify exercise in parallel storytelling is surprisingly accessible, and all the more insightful for it." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 27, 2007
 
Protagonist (2007)83%
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"Badland practically begs 'For Your Consideration' without the substance to justify its awards-season epic length." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 27, 2007
 
Badland (2007)20%
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"The cast has spirit, but the dialogue and situations are phonier than the Yule log on TV." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
This Christmas (2007)53%
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"It's frustrating that Midnight Eagle is more concerned with puffed-up nationalist pride than logic. How did five characters' paths all converge at the exact same minute anyway?" -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
Midnight Eagle (2007)25%
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"Warm and hilarious... the bittersweet milestones play like a Spalding Gray monologue loosened up with a few shots of tequila." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Life of Reilly (2007)100%
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"November seems late enough to call this one of the richest documentaries of the year." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
I for India (2007)100%
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"Collin's melancholy, beautiful feature debut does more than just chronicle this undervalued musician; it brings Ayler and his message of spiritual unity back to life." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2007)94%
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1/4
 
"It's a bit creepy, since [Dennis's] "quirks" are an unaddressed cry for help in this generic tonal mess that switches to light rom-com mode whenever any of its complicated-fatherhood drama starts to get too realistically sobering." -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Martian Child (2007)29%
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"Stewart is his own star, a would-be Speedo model and whoa-dude narrator whose droning reflections get in the way of his stunning underwater cinematography." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Sharkwater (2007)80%
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"Hopkins claims it's a comedy, and perhaps John Turturro's live-action cartoon of a mogul producer suggests so, but what does it all mean? That art can be just as shallow as Hollywood?" -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Slipstream (2007)24%
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"Funnier on paper than in reality, this self-impressed film has the stop-and-go pace of a student driver." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)60%
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"There's some nifty soft-focus cinematography and fine performances, but otherwise, not much to resonate on this side of the pond." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
Out of the Blue (2007)71%
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"Greco's sincerity is so palpable that the frequent uplift feels deserved, but with just-passable filmmaking and the demeaning score, Canvas falls somewhere between powerful indie and made-for-TV diversion." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2007
 
Canvas (2007)75%
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"Just because [director Hill] had access to countless postproduction digital effects doesn't mean he should've used them all." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
The Man Who Souled the World (2007)n/a
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"The film plays like the work of a fifth-generation Chinese hack faking a lavish Hollywood saga on an indie budget." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
Beauty Remains (2007)50%
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"Tastelessly hyper-stylized..." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures (2007)n/a
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"A richly drawn, ambitious character piece both socially relevant and genuinely suspenseful... This is filmmaking both gorgeous and deeply unsettling." -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
The Last Winter (2007)78%
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"[Sarandon is] somehow the only star who doesn't end up looking like an overpaid idiot working miles beneath her abilities. And that's a pretty cutting thing to say when you figure in Scott's standard fratboy follies." -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Sep 16, 2007
 
Mr. Woodcock (2007)13%

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