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4/5	"*Fear of intimacy trumps fear of death in Love Comes Lately, filmmaker Jan Sch�tte's plaintively effective merging of three Isaac Bashevis Singer short stories." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jul 25, 2008	Love Comes Lately (2008)	59%
3.5/5	"Bustin' Down the Door entertainingly captures surfing's last great hoorah of no-holds-barred radicalism." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	Bustin' Down the Door (2008)	64%
2/5	"Take is too enamored of its time-shifting gimmick and cheap suspense to ultimately have much impact." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	Take (2008)	44%
	"*The Australian charmer Kenny, about a hard-working, jovial employee for a portable toilet company, is a low-key study of underdog pride rather than a Larry the Cable Guy bodily function jokefest." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Kenny (2008)	100%
3/5	"A dark piece of whimsy that enchants and befuddles in equal measure." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	86%
1.5/5	"There's little indication, beyond the endlessly unfunny school humiliations and fogey-dom signposts (ha ha, he uses Old Spice), that the notion of a preteen codger is worth our sympathies." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	Harold (2008)	25%
3.5/5	"The bounty of incident is balanced by knowing humor, compelling characters and a dedicated compassion toward those for whom the search for home sends their head, heart and feet flying in all directions." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Live and Become (2008)	83%
1.5/5	"If, as Tolstoy observed, happy families are alike, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, the Dublin-set film Red Roses and Petrol didn't get the message, being a dysfunctional clan movie that feels dispiritingly like all the others." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Red Roses and Petrol (2008)	0%
3.5/5	"Without the King transitions nicely from standard operating crisis report to a portrait of a hopeful political awakening." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	Without the King (2008)	94%
4/5	"By the end, the beautifully shot Wonders Are Many has both probed issues of moral responsibility and scientific curiosity, and paid homage to the strange transcendence that can attend any anticipation of a thing created." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2008)	83%
	"Roach gets a lot of suspenseful mileage out of these ping-ponging reversals of fortune." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 27, 2008	Recount (2008)	75%
1.5/5	"Director Joan Carr-Wiggin intends to strike a blow for frustrated wives and mothers everywhere, but her unimaginative mixture of obvious farce and feeble midlife crisis harangues gives everything the whiff of interminable theater." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	A Previous Engagement (2008)	35%
3.5/5	"The movie pops with parodic joy--in the hoary double-entendres and presentational acting styles--and hotly lighted 35-millimeter cinematography that evokes lounge music album covers and Playboy ads." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 8, 2008	Viva (2008)	68%
3.5/5	"If you're not tickled and stirred by the sight of her 95-pound frame kicking off sheets and leaping out of bed to answer a phone -- a gig, maybe! -- then shame on you." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	Hats Off (2008)	38%
1.5/5	"Director H.S. Miller thinks he's made something broodingly visionary when you're more likely to be aesthetically shaken up by one of Mad magazine's Fold-Ins." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	Anamorph (2008)	26%
3/5	"The movie covers an immense amount of shameful historical ground, but the soft-spoken Carroll's mission is less about winning an argument than prodding true believers" -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	83%
2/5	"Blind to the fact that it should be rising up against its own formulaic kind." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008)	14%
3/5	"Brock's story and the vivid remembrances of protesters...Clumsier is Dean's attempt to revive calls for social justice regarding today's poverty-stricken West St. Augustine." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Dare Not Walk Alone (2008)	100%
3/5	"*For the most part A Bloody Aria* has an adept way of muddying these themes for audiences expecting the usual gore-thirsty trip.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jan 17, 2008	A Bloody Aria (2006)	40%
2/5	"The Singing Revolution might ignite history buffs, but for musicphiles, it's unfortunately a one-note symphony." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Singing Revolution (2007)	83%
2/5	"Grief has rarely seemed so ordinary." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Reservation Road (2007)	37%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2007	The Bubble (2006)	38%
4/5	"Perhaps the greatest service Johnson does is to turn the event that spurred him to make the film -- the FBI labeling animal rights activists the top domestic terrorist threat -- into a crucial dialogue." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 3, 2007	Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)	91%
4/5	"Writer-director Louise Hogarth shrinks an enormous issue down to human terms..." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 28, 2007	Angels in the Dust (2007)	82%
1.5/5	"*The rampaging-monsters flick Dragon Wars* loudly speaks the universal language of effects-laden mayhem. Unfortunately, it is also fluent in the laughable dialogue of a million bad fantasy flicks.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Sep 17, 2007	Dragon Wars (2007)	24%
3/5	"You might wish this speed-limit-safe exercise in Woody Allen-esque urban romantic neuroses had taken jazzier comic risks." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007)	74%
3/5	"The film wavers between nervous dread for the unsuspecting public and sheer gall at the number of consultants who agreed to help sell something nonexistent (for money, of course)." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 7, 2007	Czech Dream (2007)	82%
3.5/5	"[Fox] gives his beautiful dreamers plenty of leeway to win us over." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 7, 2007	The Bubble (2007)	55%
2.5/5	"...too often feels more like a tapped-out keg than a provocative romp." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Freshman Orientation (2007)	33%
3/5	"Brief bits of real charm, personality and camp-life detail squeeze through, suggesting why some thrive in an oasis of animal worship, outdoor revelry and zero-to-hero popularity that forgives a nerdy rep back home." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Summercamp! (2007)	77%
1.5/5	"It's indie provocation trapped between shock and blah." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 9, 2007	Descent (2007)	24%
0/5	"A spirit-sapping exercise in female degradation fantasy." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 13, 2007	Captivity (2007)	7%
4/5	"Tekkonkinkreet, for all its architecturally grimy virtuosity and flourishes of anime cool, remains the story of a damaged city that can still point to one mighty example of brotherly love." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 12, 2007	Tekkon Kinkreet (2007)	72%
4.5/5	"A crafty mixture of George Romero and Douglas Sirk, Fido is a boy and his zombie movie that may have an unusually pastoral color scheme but tears into its many satirical targets with the vigor of a freshly reborn flesh-eater." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 14, 2007	Fido (2007)	68%
3.5/5	"*Ultimately, Election* and Triad Election -- which benefit from being seen back to back -- play like a mature reevaluation of [Johnnie] To's long-standing talent for splashy, eye-popping violence.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 8, 2007	Election (2005)	86%
4/5	"Like any good sequel, this film takes what is familiar with the original's concept -- in this case, an internecine struggle for supremacy -- and deepens it." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 8, 2007	Triad Election (2007)	96%
	"With such rich material about dreams deferred, it�s disheartening that co-writer�director Desmond Nakano�s nobly made but patchy drama mires itself in nostalgia tropes and storytelling clich�s." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 10, 2007	American Pastime ()	38%
4/5	"The story it tells is a shattering mystery of violation and loss, if only because by the end, certain answers only lead to more punishing questions." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 10, 2007	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007)	83%
3/5	"*If Pusher III* is the trilogy's least effective, that may be because the soured-deal plot line is by now a given, and its theme is the simplest.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Nov 2, 2006	Pusher 3 (2006)	100%
3.5/5	"In Refn's skilled street-realist hands, the child becomes a potent, wailing metaphor for Tonny's own dilemma of rudderless need." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 2, 2006	Pusher 2 (2006)	100%
4/5	"The film practically vibrates with youthful aggression, sly humor and gathering tension, hurling itself forward like a junkie toward the next fix." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 2, 2006	Pusher (1999)	77%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 30, 2006	4 (2006)	81%
3/5	"What's almost refreshing about Phillips' approach to comedy... is that he and co-writer Scot Armstrong like the classically unfettered fun of a silly bit played to the hilt." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 29, 2006	School for Scoundrels (2006)	25%
1/5	"*Where Ealing comedies used to have full command of irony, Keeping Mum* is weirdly clueless.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Sep 28, 2006	Keeping Mum (2006)	55%
	"*It�s a low-boil affair from the Office Space* auteur that wears out its dumb-and-dumbest playbook early on.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Sep 5, 2006	Idiocracy (2006)	71%
	"An exhaustive, ruminative, angry and even occasionally gallows-humorous account of the strange domino effect of tragedy compounding incompetence compounding tragedy that dealt a critical blow to one of America�s great cities." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 22, 2006	When the Levees Broke (2006)	96%
2/5	"The swirl of bad girl shenanigans, Hollywood satire and noir-ish melodrama in Mini's First Time that was intended to make for an icy cocktail of prurience and moral insight tastes more like freezer burn instead." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 14, 2006	Mini's First Time (2006)	54%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 24, 2006	The Long Weekend (2006)	n/a
1.5/5	"*A film with movement-sparking rather than moviemaking on its mind, Revoloution* is a hopelessly muddled example of inspirational indie cinema.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 9, 2006	RevoLOUtion (2006)	18%
2.5/5	"The theme is hidden desire, but the trip feels like a stale museum tour of the usual psychodrama tropes -- voyeurism, ghosts, sexual fantasy, dream imagery, murder -- without the goose-bumps-on-your-brain payoff." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 3, 2006	Lemming (2006)	70%

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