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Review of Apocalypto (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 07 Dec 2006

The whole thing is absorbing, first as a glimpse into a lost culture, then as a traditional Good Guy Hunted by Bad Guys film…

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Review of Waltzing Anna (2006)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 06 Dec 2006

Cowriters Bollinger and Capelli may have sincere intentions, but they're too immature and unpolished to pull off what they're attempting…

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Review of Flannel Pajamas (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 30 Nov 2006

it's hard to warm to characters this flawed without some humorous leavening. The result is dreary, particularly at slightly more than two hours…

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Review of Happy Feet (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 30 Nov 2006

The sight of flocks of animated dancing penguins is pretty much irresistible; and Wood and the animators make Mumble irresistible as well…

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Review of The Fountain (1934)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 22 Nov 2006

Like Pi, Aronofsky's first feature, The Fountain combines spiritual mumbo jumbo with vaguely scientific concerns, only even more pretentiously…

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Review of Déjà Vu (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 22 Nov 2006

[T]he plot opens up the standard can of wormholes that plague time-travel stories…

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Review of The Fountain (1988)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 22 Nov 2006

Like Pi, Aronofsky's first feature, The Fountain combines spiritual mumbo jumbo with vaguely scientific concerns, only even more pretentiously…

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Review of The Fountain (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 22 Nov 2006

Like Pi, Aronofsky's first feature, The Fountain combines spiritual mumbo jumbo with vaguely scientific concerns, only even more pretentiously…

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Review of A Good Year (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 10 Nov 2006

When I think of humor and lightness of touch, Scott is about the last director to leap to mind, and Crowe nearly the last actor…

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Review of Unknown (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 10 Nov 2006

Director Simon Brand and screenwriter Matthew Waynee have constructed a fairly efficient little B movie from bits of Reservoir Dogs, Cube,…

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Review of Unknown (2015)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 10 Nov 2006

Director Simon Brand and screenwriter Matthew Waynee have constructed a fairly efficient little B movie from bits of Reservoir Dogs, Cube,…

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Review of Copying Beethoven (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 10 Nov 2006

what sinks the film -- almost to the point of risibility -- is the combination of the preposterous script and the casting of Kruger…

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Review of Unknown (1972)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 10 Nov 2006

Director Simon Brand and screenwriter Matthew Waynee have constructed a fairly efficient little B movie from bits of Reservoir Dogs, Cube,…

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Review of Unknown (2011)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 10 Nov 2006

Director Simon Brand and screenwriter Matthew Waynee have constructed a fairly efficient little B movie from bits of Reservoir Dogs, Cube,…

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Review of Volver (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 02 Nov 2006

The characters' situations may be dire, but Almodóvar knows how to present them in a way that is humorous without ever seeming condescending…

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Review of Flushed Away (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 02 Nov 2006

by every [criterion other than the animation quality], Flushed Away is marvelous, with an unbeatable cast bringing the most to a script…

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Review of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 02 Nov 2006

one of the funniest films in years and surely the most laugh-provoking…

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Review of To Return (1982)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 02 Nov 2006

The characters' situations may be dire, but Almodóvar knows how to present them in a way that is humorous without ever seeming condescending…

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Review of Volver (2009)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 02 Nov 2006

The characters' situations may be dire, but Almodóvar knows how to present them in a way that is humorous without ever seeming condescending…

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Review of Babel (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 25 Oct 2006

all his films feel overly directed in the worst sense of the word: the jumbled chronology...and the plotting feel arbitrary: Bad things…

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