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Review of The Foot Fist Way (2008)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 May 2008

It's all saved by actor Danny McBride, who has created such a distinctive character in Simmons, at once engaging and repulsive, that it's hard…

Review of Heavy Metal in Baghdad (2007)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 May 2008

More than just another Iraq-doc, Heavy Metal is a surprisingly up-close look at the toll of the war on young people, and how they still have…

Review of Postal (2007)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 May 2008

Boll's rampant narcissistic showmanship creates such a bizarre, garish spectacle that it is almost tempting to give him credit for being something…

Review of Dark Matter (2008)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Apr 2008

It is easy to see the film as two movies crammed together, neither of them being very good…

Review of Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002)

By Mark Olsen (451) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 11 Jan 2008

It's Lawrence who throws Runteldat (as in run and tell that) off key, repeating an admonition about the trials and tribulations of life that…

Review of Phat Girlz (2006)

By Mark Olsen (451) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 03 Sep 2007

Mo’Nique's character here is so underwritten that the actress doesn't get a chance to really capitalize on her extra screen-time…

Review of September Dawn (2007)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Aug 2007

A rare case in which one can't help but wish the film were somehow worse than it is, for it would then be easier to dismiss outright…

Review of Cut Sleeve Boys (2006)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Aug 2007

The bones of something more interesting are there -- how people come to mentally and emotionally define themselves and the ways in which they…

Review of Hurricane on the Bayou (2006)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 05 Jul 2007

Positioned as somewhere in between the eggheady activism of Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the anger of Spike Lee's When the…

Review of The Hip Hop Project (2006)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 May 2007

Perhaps the film's biggest failing is simply that the music of The Hip Hop Project isn't more thrilling, that there isn't a sonic equivalent…

Review of The Ultimate Gift (2007)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Mar 2007

The film constantly teeters on the fulcrum of its own treacly good intentions and simplistic parable-like storytelling, and the extent that…

Review of Joe Somebody (2001)

By Mark Olsen (451) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 28 Feb 2007

It all misses the mark emotionally, hindered by one-dimensional characters and telegraphed developments…

Review of Going Down (2003)

By Mark Olsen (451) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 15 Feb 2007

Going Down is woefully lacking in the comedy (or the sex for that matter), and even some of the teens look a little long in the tooth…

Review of Daddy's Little Girls (2007)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Feb 2007

More surprising is Perry's inability to write back-and-forth dialogue with any real wit or verve…

Review of Wrong Turn (2003)

By Mark Olsen (451) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 02 Feb 2007

The film does, in the end, raise something of an existential dilemma: If you set out to make a new version of something you know to be bad,…

Review of Primeval (2007)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Jan 2007

Strangely self-serious, and without covering the prerequisites of top-shelf nastiness that contemporary horror requires, this giant crocodile…

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 Jan 2007

Scotsman not only lacks vision, a true sense of how to mesh Obree's sporting triumphs and personal setbacks, but it also lacks passion…

Review of Doogal (2006)

By Mark Olsen (451) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 13 Dec 2006

Doogal is one of those pickup-and-redub jobs, the original version having been made by European studio Pathé based on a 1960s British children’s…

Review of Corpse Bride (2005)

By Mark Olsen (451) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 14 Nov 2006

There is much clattering and clanking plus a couple of songs; some of the gothic-inspired, neo-Victorian visuals are quite arresting; and the…

Review of Stormbreaker (2006)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Oct 2006

The film is forever trying to balance between being for younger teenagers and keeping their parents occupied as well, and never quite gets it right…

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