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2/5 EDIT “There's something especially frustrating about small, personal independent movies that adhere to the stodgy conventions of small, personal, independent movies as if compelled by a cadre of militant MFA candidates.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 20, 2018 Full Review Let the Right One In (2008) 98% EDIT “Sinister but gorgeous and compelling.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 7, 2013 Full Review Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (2011) 12% 1/5 EDIT “Atlas Shrugged: Part I is in many ways charmingly oblivious to its inherent contradictions and the fact that its capitalist titans appear to be squatting in old, abandoned Dynasty sets, eating food-court baked potatoes.” – New York Times Apr 28, 2011 Full Review Bill Cunningham New York (2010) 99% 4/5 EDIT “If the film suggests that there's something bittersweet about a life dedicated to a single pursuit cultivated with an almost religious fervor, it also stands in awe of its subject's... capacity to remain attuned to the expression of others.” – New York Times Mar 16, 2011 Full Review The Spirit (2008) 14% EDIT “Good comic books suggest action through abstraction, but The Spirit plays like an overproduced diorama.” – Washington Post Dec 29, 2008 Full Review Synecdoche, New York (2008) 69% 3.5/5 EDIT “[A] sprawling, awe-inspiring, heartbreaking, frustrating, hard-to-follow and achingly, achingly sad movie.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 24, 2008 Full Review Pride and Glory (2008) 35% 1.5/5 EDIT “A plodding, formulaic police drama bathed in bluish light, Pride and Glory displays very little of either.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 24, 2008 Full Review Baby Mama (2008) 63% 3/5 EDIT “Baby Mama adheres fairly closely to the conventions of the studio comedy, although it's never actually predictable, probably because the characters and subject matter are so novel.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2008 Full Review The Children of Huang Shi (2008) 29% 3/5 EDIT “If you can get past the Eurocentric focus, there are worse ways to pass the time than to see The Children of Huang Shi, if only because the glimpse into the time and place are captivating and the images are gorgeous.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Then She Found Me (2007) 50% 3.5/5 EDIT “Unexpectedly sharp, light and appealing; a testament to Hunt's skills behind the camera.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Noise (2008) 59% 3.5/5 EDIT “How can you resist a hero who gets worked up because a car alarm disrupts his extremely tenuous grasp on a difficult but life altering passage of Hegel?” – Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Blindness (2008) 44% 2/5 EDIT “Stilted, claustrophobic and more stylish than substantial.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008) 68% 4/5 EDIT “There's a note of mourning in this otherwise celebratory film -- for punk rock, for New York, for reality, for a time when popular music was animated by something other than money.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 17, 2008 Full Review What Just Happened? (2008) 49% 4/5 EDIT “The movie is brilliant at portraying the incredibly high stakes of the seemingly inconsequential and the tremendous amounts of money spent on it.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 17, 2008 Full Review The Secret Life of Bees (2008) 60% 2.5/5 EDIT “What's being sold here is the movie equivalent of the honey-drenched sweet potato biscuits that are forever being passed around on-screen. Their nutritional value may be nil, but they sure look comforting.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 17, 2008 Full Review Good Dick (2008) 48% 4/5 EDIT “Good Dick carries its messed-up, highly improbable premise so lightly and gracefully that it ultimately comes off as a sweet, plausible and curiously grounded love story.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 10, 2008 Full Review Savage Grace (2007) 38% EDIT “For that particular someone, Savage Grace could be the perfect summer chiller.ca” – Los Angeles Times Jun 27, 2008 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% 4.5/5 EDIT “Shampoo, made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 20, 2008 Full Review The Go-Getter (2007) 46% 2.5/5 EDIT “There are moments of beauty here, but not enough to make up for the mannered dialogue and hamstrung performances.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 6, 2008 Full Review Kung Fu Panda (2008) 87% EDIT “The message -- believe in yourself even when all evidence suggests you shouldn't -- is annoyingly familiar and frankly overdue for a serious debunking, but it's not about to happen here.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 6, 2008 Full Review Miss Conception (2008) 8% 2/5 EDIT “Miss Conception isn't so much a movie as an extended sitcom -- it looks like one, it acts like one, it reduces everything to the lowest common denominator like one.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 6, 2008 Full Review The Edge of Heaven (2007) 90% 4/5 EDIT “It's a beautiful, unexpectedly enrapturing story about a world in transition and both the closeness and unbridgeable divide between generations and cultures.” – Los Angeles Times May 30, 2008 Full Review Bigger, Stronger, Faster (2008) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's a fascinating and unexpectedly profound and melancholy meditation on what we have become as a country and on the misguided obsessions that made us this way.” – Los Angeles Times May 30, 2008 Full Review Sex and the City (2008) 49% 4/5 EDIT “A vision of which doesn't require its characters being frozen in amber after a fairy tale ending and allows life to go on, happily and unconventionally.” – Los Angeles Times May 30, 2008 Full Review War, Inc. (2008) 29% 3/5 EDIT “Somehow, what starts as a series of cheap shots in a barrel develops into something more, thanks largely to warm, engaging performances by Cusack and Tomei. War, Inc. is both right-on and somehow off, but it gets points for trying.” – Los Angeles Times May 23, 2008 Full Review
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