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Review of Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 24 May 2005

Intriguing, then, mainly for historical and comparison purposes…

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Review of Another Road Home (2004)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 20 May 2005

Elon shines a light on Israeli-Palestinian relations in ways that are profound, human and hopeful…

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Review of Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 19 May 2005

Mad Hot Ballroom gets a passing grade based on the precocious charms of its pint-size subjects and filmmakers' palpable enthusiasm for their subjects…

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Review of House of Wax (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 May 2005

Fright films that deliver the shocking goods with noticeable dashes of wit and style are so hard to find these days, even a flawed one such…

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Review of Modigliani (2004)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 May 2005

Director Mick Davis shows little if any imagination in presenting the troubled genius or the remarkable Montparnasse art scene of the World…

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Review of The Holy Girl (2004)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 May 2005

Martel achieves a distinctive marriage of realism and spirituality…

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Review of Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 05 May 2005

Reinforces the oft-made argument that sketches that work in quick doses on the small screen can get repellent fast in feature-length format…

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Review of Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 05 May 2005

Another in a recent line of sword-swinging epics that insists on adding ideas to bloody spectacle…

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Review of xXx: State of the Union (2005)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Apr 2005

This sequel careens wildly between the uninspired and the absurd, building up to an earsplitting, freakishly over-the-top finale that seems…

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Review of The Amityville Horror (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Apr 2005

It doesn't exactly just lie there -- it's too smash-edited and over-cameraworked for that -- but it does represent just how flavorless commercial…

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Review of Assisted Living (2005)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Apr 2005

A blend of fact and fiction that feels like a breath of fresh air in a medium that too often trivializes the hard realities of age…

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Review of Palindromes (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Apr 2005

Remarkably, Solondz gets a consistent character out of the numerous players…

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Review of Fever Pitch (2005)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 07 Apr 2005

The Farrellys, good New England boys that they are, revel in the baseball minutiae, right down to an opening flashback scene at Fenway Park…

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Review of Fever Pitch (1985)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 07 Apr 2005

The Farrellys, good New England boys that they are, revel in the baseball minutiae, right down to an opening flashback scene at Fenway Park…

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Review of Sin City (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 31 Mar 2005

It's tempting to describe Sin City as high adolescent art…

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Review of Dust to Glory (2005)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 31 Mar 2005

The film gives us some amazing footage of seemingly sane people doing crazy things interspersed with a lot of shallow filler that is as illuminating…

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Review of The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Mar 2005

The sheer talent of the great Daniel Day-Lewis carries the film through its rough patches, making the movie, first and foremost, another showcase…

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Review of Guess Who (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Mar 2005

Not afraid to draw real blood, both on the ethnic clash and, perhaps more unusual for a studio romantic comedy these days, relationship fronts…

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Review of D.E.B.S. (2005)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Mar 2005

It's not easy to make an unwatchable movie about too-skinny girls in too-short skirts packing big guns. Somehow, though, D.E.B.S. gets it all wrong…

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Review of Don't Move (2004)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 18 Mar 2005

It's romanticized male delusion, regardless of its source…

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