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Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 15 Dec 2003

The set design is gung-ho Hallmark (Tinkerbell lights, that sort of thing) with a strong whiff of Fellini (the fairy glade looks like a pre-Raphaelite…

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Review of Something's Gotta Give (2003)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 10 Dec 2003

Jack, the actor, smiles obligingly, but you can practically feel him rolling his eyes…

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Review of The Statement (2003)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 10 Dec 2003

This classy cast ... surely deserves better by way of character development, and almost all seem to compensate with wild overacting…

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Review of Meet the Parents (2000)

By Paul Malcolm (112) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 07 Dec 2003

While Stiller and De Niro can play hilariously off one another, the film -- despite its happy ending -- feels unresolved…

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Review of The Last Samurai (2003)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 04 Dec 2003

The only history that bears a real influence on The Last Samurai is the history of Hollywood moviemaking, and the unfortunate way it has of…

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Review of In America (2003)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 25 Nov 2003

The film is not emotionally subtle, but it is beautifully shot, by cinematographer Declan Quinn, with a grainy, impressionistic eye that mimics…

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Review of Crimson Gold (2003)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 22 Nov 2003

The result is the work of a funereal yet darkly funny neorealist, sounding the rallying cry against the inflexible maxim casually delivered…

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Review of 21 Grams (2003)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 20 Nov 2003

A movie that wallows so profoundly in its own misery that watching it is like atoning for some sin you didn't commit…

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Review of Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

By Robert Abele (1,309) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 13 Nov 2003

Needless to say, other voices -- any other voices -- would have given this legacy-obsessed film an invaluable context for such a fiery, scrutinized…

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Review of Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 13 Nov 2003

The movie looks like it cost a fortune, with Dean Cundey's glistening widescreen compositions and Bill Brzeski's towering, storybook sets providing…

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Review of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 13 Nov 2003

It is a dull and boring film, pretty as a Turner landscape and as sweetly becalmed as the glassy Sargasso Sea in which the men of the unfortunately…

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Review of Bobby G. Can't Swim (1999)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 13 Nov 2003

The movie rarely overcomes its terminal Scorsese- and Ferrara-isms, or fulfills the promise, evident in the film's early passages, that Montias…

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Review of Enemy of the State (1998)

By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 10 Nov 2003

This paranoid thriller has all the failings we expect...but Enemy of the State also has enough wit, talent and narrative thrust to mostly transcend…

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Review of In My Skin (2002)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 06 Nov 2003

The movie surely owes something to Polanski, Cronenberg, et al., in its use of an apparently placid, upper-middle-class setting as the background…

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Review of Gloomy Sunday (1999)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 06 Nov 2003

There's a whiff of exploitation about any movie that claims the Holocaust as a 'backdrop,' and Rolf Schübel's treacly tale of three men lovesick…

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Review of Love Actually (2003)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 05 Nov 2003

If you’re going to have your emotional responses shunted around like a gear stick, it might as well be by someone who writes dialogue…

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Review of Elf (2003)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 05 Nov 2003

The movie allows Favreau to gently tweak cutesy Mouse House production values without abandoning the concept, and it proves a splendid sandbox…

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Review of Girl, Interrupted (1999)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 04 Nov 2003

Mangold can't escape the fact that instead of someone in the throes of a genuine existential crisis, his star comes off as -- to paraphrase…

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Review of The Flower of Evil (2003)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 29 Oct 2003

Although impeccably acted and absorbing enough as a family drama, the movie is superfluously littered with broad hints as to its deeper meanings…

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Review of House of the Dead (2003)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 29 Oct 2003

A derivative shock-horror exercise desperately in need of an IV…

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