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Review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

The voiceover gives Vicky Cristina Barcelona the feeling of a fairy tale; while it might take place in a fairy tale world, the story is driven…

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Review of Hamlet 2 (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

Coogan is a master at playing jerks, but Dana is too silly, too stupid, and too unappealing to enlist us on his side…

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Review of Tropic Thunder (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

Stiller is terrific, and Downey is somewhat better than terrific -- inspired…

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Review of An American Carol (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

the jokes are lame and the caricatures too removed from any defensible reality…

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Review of The Exiles (1961)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

Mackenzie imposes no obvious attitude or mediating outsider's perspective on the material; he just presents it to us, a snapshot of an otherwise…

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Review of Ping Pong Playa (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

Ace documentarian Jessica Yu's fictional feature debut…

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Review of Religulous (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

while he tries not to look snarky, his comic impulse sometimes overwhelms him…

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Review of Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

for all its virtues, Sukiyaki Western Django is a one-gimmick film that eventually wears out its welcome…

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Review of Righteous Kill (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

Russell Gewirtz's script is built around a trick, one that is simultaneously too clever by half and not clever at all (which itself is quite a trick)…

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Review of Synecdoche, New York (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

It's really quite brilliant. But it's also so difficult and so emotionally downbeat that it's hard to characterize it as entertaining…

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Review of Rachel Getting Married (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

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Review of What Women Want (2000)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

English's attempts to fit The Women into a modern setting are intelligent, but that, unfortunately, does not suffice, because the film is so…

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Review of Lakeview Terrace (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

Lakeview Terrace is well enough made to partly overcome my general distaste for films ... that are unpleasant, yet without catharsis or edification…

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Review of Soul Men (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

This may not be a great movie, but I still couldn't help falling in love with it…

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Review of Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

This is not so much a documentary ... as a recruiting tool…

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Review of Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 12 Nov 2008

It might have been easily trimmed by a half hour, which is a shame, because there are so many good moments buried in there -- a proverbial…

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Review of What Just Happened (2008)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 15 Oct 2008

Even when popping pills, the characters come across about as glamorous as a car salesman with a flask in his drawer…

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Review of Flash of Genius (2008)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 05 Oct 2008

As Ralph Nader learned, it's tough to make car-safety stimulating…

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Review of Dare Not Walk Alone (2006)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 27 Aug 2008

Directed by Jeremy Dean, Dare Not Walk Alone successfully avoids the trappings of many well-meaning civil rights docs that serve chiefly as…

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Review of Man on Wire (2008)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 07 Aug 2008

Beautifully put together, it is every bit as suspenseful as even the best Hollywood heist films, which is even more remarkable when you consider…

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