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Review of Sex Drive (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 16 Oct 2008

The film is generally well-staged and adequately acted (Seth Green stands out as a sarcastic buggy-driver)…

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Review of W. (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 16 Oct 2008

The psychological picture the movie paints is as yawningly incomplete as its historical one -- and can be yawningly tedious, too…

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Review of The Little Red Truck (2008)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 09 Oct 2008

It looks like a great program, but this documentary is too scattered to be all that interesting. Too many kids, too much action, not enough time…

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Review of Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 09 Oct 2008

Happy-Go-Lucky doesn't condemn the optimistic way Poppy approaches life. It's wondering why there aren't more people like her…

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Review of Body of Lies (2008)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 09 Oct 2008

A well-crafted but curiously generic spy thriller that, for its final hour at least, comes off as formulaic as its title…

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Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 02 Oct 2008

Overall, it's a smart movie that even makes apt, respectful references to the greatest film on this subject, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita…

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Review of Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 02 Oct 2008

It's good the film exposes his methods, especially with the final stretch of our current election cycle upon us…

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Review of Flash of Genius (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 02 Oct 2008

The most gripping movie about engineering windshield wipers you will ever see. Take that any way you care to…

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Review of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 02 Oct 2008

Nothing great, but enough laughs and moments of genuine emotion to give it a pass…

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Review of Rachel Getting Married (2008)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 02 Oct 2008

In Rachel Getting Married, Jonathan Demme takes what could have been another routine trip to dysfunction junction and turns it into a truthful…

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Review of Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Sep 2008

Richard Gere and Diane Lane engage themselves fully with the flimsy material, making their one-note characters engaging, sympathetic and always…

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Review of Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Sep 2008

Unsuccessfully ambitious, the movie is nonetheless unique and creative enough to be worth sitting through -- or would be had it been about…

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Review of Days and Clouds (2007)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Sep 2008

Little is surprising about either characters' behavior, but there isn't a single anguished expression that plays forced or false…

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Review of August Evening (2007)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Sep 2008

August Evening creates a complete world, with all of its practical limitations and emotional possibilities, for Jaime and Lupe to hunt for…

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Review of Battle in Seattle (2007)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Sep 2008

The film's default position is to always fall back on anti-capitalist rhetoric whenever dialogue and drama grow too banal…

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Review of Towelhead (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 11 Sep 2008

Towelhead is tough stuff. It's also brilliant stuff. Proceed, with caution, accordingly…

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Review of Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 11 Sep 2008

Japanese spaghetti Western that's both faithful to its Italian antecedents and way out on its own wacky wavelength…

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Review of I Served the King of England (2007)

By Martin Wolf (1) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Aug 2008

A comedy-drama with a lot of slapstick, combined with a history lesson about an important chapter of World War II and beyond…

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Review of Beautiful Losers (2008)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Aug 2008

This is a pleasant enough visual romp with surprisingly few down notes…

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Review of Beautiful Losers (1997)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Aug 2008

This is a pleasant enough visual romp with surprisingly few down notes…

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