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Review of Becoming Jane (2007)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 01 Aug 2007

Becoming Jane turns into a presentable Harlequin romance, with hurdle after hurdle succeeded by an eleventh-hour turnaround…

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Review of Laura Smiles (2006)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 01 Aug 2007

It casts an increasingly hypnotic spell, thanks in no small measure to Wright -- a fearless actress (and the real-life wife of writer-director…

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Review of Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 28 Jul 2007

While it can't have been easy to find action points for a drama about vocabulary drills, Atchison comes up with a steady stream of plot-propelling…

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Review of Sueño (2005)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 26 Jul 2007

Chabria lacks the effervescent touch, in both his clichéd, logic-challenged writing and his leaden direction, to make you care…

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Review of No End in Sight (2007)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 25 Jul 2007

his [Ferguson's] brilliant and riveting documentary about the Bush administration's failures in Iraq, is at once the most devastating cinematic…

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Review of Arctic Tale (2007)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 25 Jul 2007

A smarmy score, some orgiastic farting from a herd of walruses, and a modicum of cutesy anthropomorphism from narrator Queen Latifah prove…

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Review of One to Another (2006)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 25 Jul 2007

An uncommonly sensual and disquieting take on a familiar youth-movie theme: how the cocoon of adolescent sexual awakening can be torn apart…

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Review of That Darn Cat (1997)

By Paul Malcolm (112) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 23 Jul 2007

Kusturica's always masterful orchestration of chaos, coincidence and caricature really pays off as a sweet, soulful celebration of old friends,…

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Review of Find Me Guilty (2006)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 19 Jul 2007

Shot quickly and cheaply in high-definition video and almost entirely on one set, the movie has almost zero visual energy, but it teems with…

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Review of Sunshine (1999)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 18 Jul 2007

the most ravishingly atmospheric movie I've seen all year…

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Review of Ten Canoes (2006)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 18 Jul 2007

To watch this movie (shot in breathtaking widescreen by cinematographer Ian Jones) is to enter into a whole new language of symbols and meaning,…

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Review of Captivity (2007)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 18 Jul 2007

Roland Joffé creates a visually interesting and aurally unsettling vibe, and the story from B-movie maestro Larry Cohen keeps it simple…

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Review of Sunshine (2007)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 18 Jul 2007

The most indelible moment I took away from Sunshine, in which a tiny figure in a golden space suit floats away from the ship into the gravitational…

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Review of Best in Show (2000)

By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 16 Jul 2007

Guest begins -- but doesn't end -- with caricatures, then peels away at our preconceptions until we see the heart and soul beneath…

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Review of Waiting for Guffman (1997)

By F. X. Feeney (104) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 14 Jul 2007

Yet Waiting for Guffman is never mean-spirited…

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Review of The Thing About My Folks (2005)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 13 Jul 2007

Raymond De Felitta's directing is straightforward, tactful, lyrical where necessary and never mawkish, and though Reiser's script offers no…

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Review of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (2007)

By Julia Wallace (30) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 11 Jul 2007

Although the segments featuring Bronner's son Ralph veer uncomfortably toward hagiography, first-time director Sara Lamm balances out the love-fest…

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Review of Gloria (1999)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 08 Jul 2007

It’s hard to know what’s more depressing -- a senseless remake or the idea of a once-great director doing such shockingly slack work…

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Review of Johnson Family Vacation (2004)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 08 Jul 2007

The picture shows vital signs only in a few scenes where Cedric takes on the additional role of his own lecherous uncle, but it's too little too late…

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Review of Dust to Glory (2005)

By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 06 Jul 2007

Absolutely exhilarating...Pound for pound, it's more kinetically thrilling than anything Hollywood has produced in years, not least of all…

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