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Review of Infamous (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Oct 2006

[It] makes for a warmer movie about stone-cold killers and the sometimes icy realms of the upper crust…

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Review of The War Tapes (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Oct 2006

Informative as most of the partisan-produced, anti-war documentaries that we've seen in the last several years have been, none match this one…

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Review of The Marine (2006)

By Evan Henerson (54) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Oct 2006

There's not much about The Marine that's even slightly diverting. Including, alas, John Cena, the film's villain-dispatching star…

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Review of Shortbus (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 05 Oct 2006

Well-stocked with witty lines, funny situations and credible, intelligent character insights…

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Review of School for Scoundrels (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Sep 2006

The writing, by Phillips and his usual collaborator, Scot Armstrong, doesn't give either comic performer much that's interesting to do…

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Review of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Sep 2006

All in all, Saints is a good, tough memory piece and an above-average directing debut…

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Review of Open Season (2006)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Sep 2006

The film's barely-there lesson of teamwork will ring familiar to parents and children, but it's delivered with humor and simplicity…

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Review of Jesus Camp (2006)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Sep 2006

The filmmakers are out to demonize, not humanize, which means their movie ends up preaching to the liberal choir instead of shedding any real…

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Review of School for Scoundrels (1960)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Sep 2006

The writing, by Phillips and his usual collaborator, Scot Armstrong, doesn't give either comic performer much that's interesting to do…

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Review of Open Season (1974)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Sep 2006

The film's barely-there lesson of teamwork will ring familiar to parents and children, but it's delivered with humor and simplicity…

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Review of The Last King of Scotland (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 26 Sep 2006

It would all be for naught without Whitaker, who makes Amin fun, funny, vulnerable and poignant while never letting us forget his murderous monomania…

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Review of Renaissance (1967)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 21 Sep 2006

Artistic as it undeniably is, the two-tone effect grows tedious fast…

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Review of Jackass Number Two (2006)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 21 Sep 2006

Some segments hit, some miss, but watching these casually captured shenanigans is, in a sense, refreshing, because it makes us realize how…

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Review of Renaissance (1964)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 21 Sep 2006

Artistic as it undeniably is, the two-tone effect grows tedious fast…

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Review of Renaissance (1970)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 21 Sep 2006

Artistic as it undeniably is, the two-tone effect grows tedious fast…

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Review of Renaissance (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 21 Sep 2006

Artistic as it undeniably is, the two-tone effect grows tedious fast…

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Review of The Last Kiss (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Sep 2006

I found it trite, loud and overheated, although not without insight into how that generation behaves…

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Review of The Black Dahlia (2006)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Sep 2006

What on paper seems to be the perfect marriage of maker and material turns out to be a bust in its finished form, a stagnant movie that revisits…

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Review of Gridiron Gang (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Sep 2006

[Screenwriter Jeff Maguire] reduces practically every scene to an oversimplified emoticon…

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Review of The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Sep 2006

Rarely have we seen Lennon so unguarded, impassioned and thoughtful as we do again and again here…

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