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Review of Two Lovers (1928)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 Feb 2009

Writer-director James Gray's Two Lovers is an old story, well told…

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Review of Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 Feb 2009

Isla Fisher [is] as bright a comic talent as anything Hollywood has to offer these days…

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Review of The International Player (2009)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 Feb 2009

Beautifully shot, often in or against some of the world's most impressive architecture, The International is far from a total loss…

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Review of The International (2009)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 Feb 2009

Beautifully shot, often in or against some of the world's most impressive architecture, The International is far from a total loss…

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Review of Two Lovers (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 Feb 2009

Writer-director James Gray's Two Lovers is an old story, well told…

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Review of Fanboys (2009)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 06 Feb 2009

Yawn; real fannish obsession can be much more absurd, and unsettlingly fascinating, than this burlesque ever gets…

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Review of He's Just Not That Into You (2009)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 06 Feb 2009

It's a different kind of commercial romcom, and more serious toward its material than most. No life-changer, but worth a date night at least…

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Review of Owl and the Sparrow (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 30 Jan 2009

The movie doesn't play as saccharine as it sounds, but gentle sentimentality runs this show nonetheless…

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Review of The Spirit (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 05 Jan 2009

Now that they've gone and made Batman all serious and good, the campy comics hero movie mantle has been taken up by The Spirit…

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Review of The Spirit (1987)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 05 Jan 2009

Now that they've gone and made Batman all serious and good, the campy comics hero movie mantle has been taken up by The Spirit…

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Review of Nothing But the Truth (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 19 Dec 2008

The two lead actresses play superbly rounded characters, both smart, tough customers unused to being pushed around, yet wives and mothers whose…

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Review of Yes Man (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 19 Dec 2008

Yes Man is a nice movie about the benefits and limits of approaching life with an upbeat attitude, but a comedy that was actually hilarious…

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Review of Doubt (2003)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Dec 2008

If you're going to set a faith-vs.-uncertainty debate in the heart of a church milieu, shouldn't some of the characters at least mention the…

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Review of Doubt (2009)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Dec 2008

If you're going to set a faith-vs.-uncertainty debate in the heart of a church milieu, shouldn't some of the characters at least mention the…

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Review of Che: Part One (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Dec 2008

You couldn't ask for a more committed and demanding performance than this one. But there is a richer one that eluded Del Toro…

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Review of Gran Torino (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Dec 2008

Clint Eastwood collects and distills everything we know he is capable of doing on screen -- some of which we might wish he hadn't done, but…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Dec 2008

The Reader isn't an act of moral imbecility like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, but it's pretty questionable all the way through…

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Review of Doubt (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Dec 2008

If you're going to set a faith-vs.-uncertainty debate in the heart of a church milieu, shouldn't some of the characters at least mention the…

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Review of Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 05 Dec 2008

LaBruce's film is such a riot of conflicting information and signifying styles that inner logic never really gets a grip…

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Review of Milk (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 26 Nov 2008

After many years and failed attempts, a very, very good biopic of Harvey Milk is finally here…

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