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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 27 Jul 2016

While not a definitive exploration of Baker's life, Born to be Blue does offer a lively portrayal of the man's elusiveness…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 10 Jul 2016

Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! is delightful fun, a 1980s college romp complete with sex and offbeat hijinks…

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Review of O.J.: Made in America (2016)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 09 Jun 2016

Despite how much you know or think you know about O.J. and the case, some moments in Made in America are absolutely jaw-dropping…

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Review of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 16 Apr 2015

Hollywood and Scientology have often collided, but never quite as explosively as they do in Going Clear, the revealing documentary by Oscar-winning…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 03 Feb 2015

Considering some of the sci-fi dreck from Hollywood in the last couple of decades, Jupiter Ascending isn't that bad of a film, just one we…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 03 Feb 2015

Interstellar is chockablock with philosophical ideas, visual effects and theoretical physics from Nolan and his brother, Jonathan, who co-wrote…

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Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 03 Feb 2015

The running time of 2 hours and 45 minutes allows plenty of time for lots of explosions and inane dialogue…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 03 Feb 2015

While Catching Fire could easily stand on its own, it also should make audiences hungry for the next installment…

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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 03 Feb 2015

Qohen and Bainsley are quirkily interesting though being little more than cyphers…

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Review of Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love (2008)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 16 Jul 2009

When the music starts playing, it's easy to forgive the film's flaws…

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Review of Séraphine (2008)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 16 Jul 2009

Rather painterly and a bit distant. It never digs into the messiest of either the artist's or her patron's lives…

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Review of Surveillance (2006)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Jun 2009

Its dark weirdness turns it into a surreal blur…

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Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Jun 2009

Its dark weirdness turns it into a surreal blur…

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Review of Surveillance (2008)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Jun 2009

Its dark weirdness turns it into a surreal blur…

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Review of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 16 Apr 2009

Michael Barrett's cinematography gives the film and the city of Pittsburgh just enough of a picturesque dream-like quality that, like its protagonist,…

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Review of Donkey Punch (2008)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 23 Jan 2009

Had they invested more into the characters, Donkey Punch might have been worth noting…

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Review of Red Roses and Petrol (2003)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 26 Jun 2008

With her static camera, director and co-writer Tamar Simon Hoffs has done little to move it out of its staginess…

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Review of Boarding Gate (2007)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Mar 2008

[Assayas] has concocted a plot that is dizzying and annoying at times, and it's hard to care about the characters in the shifting story…

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Review of Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 17 Dec 2004

What drove the original was the clash of personalities, but here, when all you have is a just lot of sand, things get pretty dry pretty fast…

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Review of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 19 Sep 2002

Comic-book logic in action movies has seemingly given way to video-game logic which is almost no logic at all and spooling out Ballistic's…

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