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"Writer-director Raul Sanchez Inglis tries to do several ambitious, honorable things with Vice, but for much of the action, they cancel each other out." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Vice (2008)40%
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"Mandt directs and acts with great zest and contagious, unpretentious good cheer." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Last Stop For Paul (2008)70%
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"Lyrical and funny, Full Grown Men is a tough-minded film about the need to grow up." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Full Grown Men (2008)42%
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"[Makes] the most of thrifty means to highly entertaining effect." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Park (2007)36%
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"Roth’s gift for unlocking the best in each of his actors does bring those long-ago times to life." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
Berkeley (2007)33%
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"... Colpaert has so vividly seized the contemporary moment, and explored it with his own eyes and conscience." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 25, 2007
 
G.I. Jesus (2006)50%
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"There are ticklish moments, but no real laughs." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 5, 2007
 
Baby Geniuses (1999)3%
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"It's good to hear people talking about openheartedness without irony." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
Commune (2006)95%
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"A too-specific tale of historic injustice rather than one of divinely benevolent sacrifice on everybody’s behalf." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
Color of The Cross (2006)33%
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"Writer Sam Catlin and director Danny Leiner have fashioned an alert, shrewdly observed portrait of a moment in time." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 20, 2006
 
The Great New Wonderful (2006)74%
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"A feel-good movie about failure." -- Variety
Posted May 19, 2006
 
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs & Blockbusters ()n/a
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"Jacobson has an excitingly clear-eyed, unsentimental feel for the intensity of adolescent passion." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 11, 2006
 
Down in the Valley (2006)52%
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"The Proposition is a very hard and harsh movie, but it also has a hypnotic, lyrical velocity." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 4, 2006
 
The Proposition (2006)86%
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"The story it tells, measured strictly in terms of emotional power and overall fun, is as moving and pleasurable as any matinee item by Ford, Hawks or Raoul Walsh." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 3, 2006
 
The Promise (2005)32%
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"[It's] as if the filmmakers (maybe without even realizing it) are mocking his emotions, implying that kids are just kids, and only think they feel what they’re feeling." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 1, 2005
 
Little Manhattan (2005)74%
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"Whitely, to his great credit, unfolds this tale simply, just as it was lived." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2005
 
New York Doll (2005)89%
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"A howl of grief and outrage that all middle paths were torched in this tragic war." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 13, 2005
 
Innocent Voices (2004)70%
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"The barometer of the film’s undoing is Burns’s super low-key performance, which starts out as a poker-faced spoof on heroic cool, but takes a misstep more fatal than mere time-travel can undo." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
A Sound of Thunder (2005)8%
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"We’re led to experience her life as she does -- as an adventure in which setbacks are not challenges, but illuminations of untracked paths." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Touch the Sound (2006)87%
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"A one-woman Rashomon that plays and replays the same traumatic incident, with shifts in nuance." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 21, 2005
 
November (2005)30%
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"Leguizamo's strengths and limitations fit snug with the reporter's own -- the comedic sizzle the actor brings to his best work translates smoothly into hardhearted aggression." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 7, 2005
 
Cronicas (2005)72%
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"The film does disintegrate into big speeches as it rounds to its climax — but through these characters, Milani hauntingly maps the souls of men and women at odds in a theocracy." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 24, 2005
 
Unwanted Woman (2005)n/a
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"A riveting thriller full of good scares and learned, muckraking insight into the global labyrinth of oil and politics." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 16, 2005
 
The Deal (2005)21%
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"Originally written in the 1970s. That figures, in the best sense: It is worthy of comparison to the lifelike, character-rich films we cherish from that era, and is certainly one of the finest films to come out this year." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 12, 2004
 
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)66%
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"A wise, high-energy conjuring of 1968." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 5, 2004
 
The Dreamers (2004)61%
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"Fiery energy, swift, character-driven chitchat and a tough, upbeat sense of how the world works." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 20, 2003
 
Dinner Rush (2001)89%
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"Cox's own directorial style is innocent, in the sense of being original without ever straining for effect." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 9, 2002
 
Innocence (2001)83%
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"Bergman has reached for a woman's insight his whole career. Ullmann completes this for him." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 21, 2002
 
Faithless (2001)85%
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"This dark, exuberant epic is nearly 18 years old, yet remains the most popularly successful film ever to render the inner life of an artist." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 3, 2002
 
Amadeus (1984)97%
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Posted Oct 2, 2002
 
Afterglow (1997)69%
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"Moland ... has a fine eye for landscapes, but an even surer touch with actors." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 1, 2002
 
Aberdeen (2001)87%
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"Kormakur ... balances tones with a smooth, mature confidence." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
101 Reykjavik (2001)89%
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"This is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it’s hard to know what to praise first." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 19, 2002
 
Scarlet Diva (2000)50%
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"It works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film’s length becomes a part of its fun." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 19, 2002
 
Lagaan (2001)95%
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"Khouri manages, with terrific flair, to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 10, 2002
 
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)44%
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"We're less in suspense over how (or if) the killers will be caught than we are over the question of just who this tough, hedonistic detective is." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 1, 2002
 
Murder by Numbers (2002)30%
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"Less a formulaic continuation than a witty set of themes and variations that fit the earlier picture like a glowing outer ring." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 16, 2002
 
Return to Never Land (2002)44%
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"...for once, a much-praised movie is actually as great as everybody says it is." -- Movieline
Posted Jan 24, 2002
 
Unforgiven (1992)96%
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"Eastwood has cast his lot with one of the finest screenplays to have come along in many years, and the result stands him, unembarrassed, in the company of greatness." -- Movieline
Posted Nov 12, 2001
 
Unforgiven (1992)96%
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"Robert Altman's finest film since McCabe & Mrs. Miller." -- Movieline
Posted Nov 12, 2001
 
Vincent & Theo (1990)86%
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"The Killing is a dazzling show of innovative storytelling." -- Movieline
Posted Nov 12, 2001
 
The Killing (1956)96%
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"This is the beauty of Branagh's vision of Henry V --the very thing that saves it from becoming an elaborate ego trip." -- Movieline
Posted Nov 12, 2001
 
Henry V (1989)100%
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"Yields more madness and poetry than the original could ever touch." -- Movieline
Posted Nov 12, 2001
 
Batman Returns (1992)77%
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"Though this is hardly a Kubrick film, since Kubrick wasn't involved in the preproduction, Douglas's wisdom in calling on Kubrick to bail him out on this ambitious production is evident throughout." -- Movieline
Posted Nov 12, 2001
 
Spartacus (1960)95%
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"The opening sequence of Goodfellas is a feat of bravura moviemaking." -- Movieline
Posted Nov 12, 2001
 
Goodfellas (1990)96%
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"[Burnett] creates a dreamily solid world where in Jones' heroic sweetness can flourish, and Redgrave and Kidder can disappear into their roles with a dazzling, playful intensity." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 2, 2001
 
The Annihilation of Fish (2001)70%
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"With Sandra Bullock in the lead, writer Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) spinning the tale, and director Betty Thomas calling the shots, it's a reliably solid treat." -- Mr. Showbiz
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
28 Days (2000)30%

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