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Review of Offside (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 22 Mar 2007

Panahi is exceedingly clever at keeping things varied and deftly drawing characters…

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Review of 300 (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 08 Mar 2007

a perfect combination of moral wrongheadedness and inept filmmaking. On any level beyond the pictorial, Snyder makes clunky Cecil B…

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Review of The Ultimate Gift (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 08 Mar 2007

there's nothing new about the devices the film uses to tug at our heartstrings, but that doesn't make them any less effective…

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Review of Black Snake Moan (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 01 Mar 2007

The disturbing aspect of the film's sexuality provides exactly the frisson that the style never conveys…

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Review of Zodiac (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 01 Mar 2007

Fincher has crafted a completely engrossing true crime saga that holds our attention consistently for more than two and a half hours…

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Review of Blood Tea and Red String (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 01 Mar 2007

utterly idiosyncratic, in the best sense of the word. ... Very trippy and sometimes strangely disturbing, this is a quintessential midnight movie…

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Review of Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 11 Feb 2007

Chernick's film ends up being far more accessible than Barney's…

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Review of The Messengers (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 11 Feb 2007

While [the Pangs] display some of the visual style that has distinguished their Asian films, nothing could compensate for the derivative, ill-plotted…

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Review of The Hitcher (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 05 Feb 2007

misbegotten and pointless, even by the generally debased standard of horror-film remakes…

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Review of Because I Said So (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 05 Feb 2007

It's inadequate to say that this film stars Keaton; more accurately, it has befallen her, and it's hard to imagine what she did in a previous…

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Review of Blood and Chocolate (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 05 Feb 2007

Despite a few shock cuts and some decently staged shootouts, Blood and Chocolate is rarely thrilling and never scary…

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Review of Smokin' Aces (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 05 Feb 2007

Frenetic to the point of assaultive, Smokin' Aces resembles nothing so much as last year's Lucky Number Slevin, except with even more plot…

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Review of Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 11 Jan 2007

it's not merely that the script is a sloppy, by-the-numbers action farce; it's more the leaden hand of director Les Mayfield…

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Review of The Queen (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 03 Jan 2007

It's easy to think of this as nothing more than a setting for Helen Mirren's performance…

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Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 28 Dec 2006

This wicked comedy from Brit director Richard Eyre and screenwriter Patrick Marber could have been called The Prime of Miss Butch Brodie…

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Review of Inland Empire (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 21 Dec 2006

either vastly complex or simply chaotic ... two states that are not always easy to distinguish…

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Review of The Painted Veil (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 21 Dec 2006

Maugham ... still translates to the screen perfectly.... Watts, Norton, and Toby Jones are fully convincing…

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Review of Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 21 Dec 2006

[F]or sheer visual beauty and epic sweep, you can't do better; fans of Zhang's other big productions may wish there were more one-on-one fights here…

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Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 14 Dec 2006

[Minghella] is once again working from his own original screenplay, and it seems to bring out the best in him…

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Review of The Good German (2006)

By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 14 Dec 2006

If you can manage to reset your internal clock to the '40s, you might find enjoyment here; but that's a pretty big if…

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