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Review of My Bloody Valentine (2009)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 Jul 2013

Wooden performances by forgettable, generic actors -- again, just like in the original -- don't aid in making things any less leaden…

Review of Copperhead (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Jun 2013

Painfully lugubrious, any sting Copperhead might contain for its contrarian's view of history is undone by its wayward sense of storytelling…

Review of Gasland Part II (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Jun 2013

With continued arguments and legislation over fracking, this follow-up seems inevitable and necessary…

Review of The Secret Disco Revolution (2012)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Jun 2013

The movie feels like a flakey, off-the-cuff blog post that somehow transmogrified itself into a feature-length documentary…

Review of Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 May 2013

Even if you may not be putting a Pussy Riot song on your next playlist, there is something so of-the-moment and exciting about the group that…

Review of We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 May 2013

Make no mistake, We Steal Secrets is a sprawling, ambitious, major work — a gripping exploration of power, personality, technology and the…

Review of Peeples (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 May 2013

An infectious, warm comedy of family and communication and a promising debut as writer-director for Chism…

Review of Paradise: Love (2012)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 May 2013

The film is, perhaps, intended as a deadpan burlesque of race and class and beauty ideals...but it plays more as a boorish, overextended punch line…

Review of The Lords of Salem (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Apr 2013

The Lords of Salem is like some queasy-making machine, a chamber piece of possession and madness that exerts a strange, disturbing power…

Review of Evil Dead (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Apr 2013

It's unlikely the movie will gain the same ardent following as Raimi's debut, but it offers enough good-time gore, goofiness, scares and screams…

Review of The Story of Luke (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Apr 2013

The Story of Luke is not a saga of epic proportions, but with a huge assist from Pucci's layered performance, takes a premise that could easily…

Review of Abominable (2006)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Apr 2013

Schifrin wisely holds off showing the monster -- because once the creature is revealed, the already shaky film takes a turn for the worse…

Review of Molly's Theory of Relativity (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Mar 2013

At times, Lipsky's storytelling is too cutely self-aware, trying too hard, making Molly's Theory of Relativity something of an intriguing,…

Review of Family Weekend (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Mar 2013

Family Weekend is no worse than many of the dysfunctional family comedies that populate the Sundance Film Festival — Little Miss Sunshine…

Review of Wrong (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Mar 2013

Rubber felt inventive and complex, but here Dupieux's absurdism is simply muddled, masking the fact he doesn't really have much to say…

Review of The Kill Hole (2012)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Mar 2013

Though the film at times works scene by scene, Webley can't quite tie it all together. A disjointed jumble, The Kill Hole can't dig itself out…

Review of Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Mar 2013

The film has a sarcastic tone, like that of a friend who you never can tell is kidding or not, which eventually breaks through into a place…

Review of If I Were You (2012)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Mar 2013

Harden is a wonderful actress but struggles to find the complexity in so strained a situation…

Review of The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Mar 2013

The Last Exorcism Part II is an effectively unnerving, slow-burn supernatural horror tale…

Review of Phantom (2013)

By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Feb 2013

A modest thriller propelled by a strong cast and straightforward storytelling…

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