|
3.5/5
|
71%
|
Return (2012) |
"
With its modest scale and sharp observations, writer-director Liza Johnson's first feature has the quiet impact of a short story."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
39%
|
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2012) |
"
A self-indulgent pilgrimage to the shrine of '70s fabulousness, "Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston" assembles a fine assortment of archival material but falls far short of its stated goal."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
64%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
If the story is laid out none too subtly, its straightforward purity is, finally, its greatest strength."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
2%
|
One for the Money (2012) |
"
An ungainly mix of flat-footed gumshoeing and strained attempts at hilarity, all delivered with an unconvincing Joizy vibe."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 30, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Lula, the Son of Brazil (2012) |
"
Glossing over such inconvenient facts as out-of-wedlock fatherhood, this unabashed encomium skimps on complexity and insight in the name of veneration."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
—
|
65%
|
Cherry Tree Lane () |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 24, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
77%
|
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2011) |
"
"Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow" is that rare art documentary - one that places the art front and center, not as an adjunct to its maker's biography."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
46%
|
The Flowers of War (2011) |
"
"Flowers" abounds with well-worn movie archetypes and slathers on schmaltz."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
—
|
——
|
Target (Mishen) () |
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 17, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
84%
|
Garbo: The Spy (2011) |
"
Director Edmon Roch makes some smart conceptual choices that honor his subject's self-invention and mystery."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
—
|
——
|
Spark Of Being () |
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
80%
|
Incendiary: The Willingham Case (2011) |
"
Alarming viewing for anyone who cares about the American justice system."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 19, 2011
|
|
|
89%
|
Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
A disquieting, heartbreaking look at American crime and punishment."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
Dog Sweat (2011) |
"
Whatever personal risks first-time director Hossein Keshavarz took to make the film, there's little sense of danger in the finished product, which offers snapshots of middle-class Iran but falls flat on the dramatic front."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
A documentary as gentle as its subject: the story of a boy who realized his dream and, on the film's evidence, received a lot of encouragement and support along the way."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
79%
|
The Skin I Live In (2011) |
"
If theory ultimately outstrips drama in this semi-serious inquest into identity, gender and love, the filmmaking is often thrilling."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
|
100%
|
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) |
"
Sharp, insightful look at the ups and downs of one of L.A.'s most influential alternative bands."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
80%
|
The Way (2011) |
"
The father-son dynamic is played just right, Tom's sightings of his deceased son arriving at key moments. If only that resonance carried into the rest of the story's episodic progression."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
Thunder Soul (2011) |
"
Though it sometimes overplays the sentimentality, "Thunder Soul" gets not just the music but also the sense of possibility for this post-civil-rights generation."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Take Shelter (2011) |
"
There's a specificity to his film that roots it in the here and now, acknowledging not just free-floating unease but everyday fears over the price of gas and insurance co-pays."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
The Whale (2011) |
"
Thoughtful and moving, if often heavy-handed..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
|
67%
|
Margaret (2011) |
"
Nearly every scene is acutely observed, a strong cast fully inhabiting Lonergan's symphonic collision of ideas and in tune with his ear for the harsh poetry of New York language, variously hyperbolic and sparing, engaged and self-protective."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 28, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
Jane's Journey (2011) |
"
Positivity has its limits in "Jane's Journey," a portrait of primatologist Jane Goodall that's long on adulation and short on spark."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 23, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
57%
|
House Of Boys (2011) |
"
Against the odds, the indulgent mash-up of sex, old-fashioned corn, romance-novel fantasy and AIDS tragedy is a mostly winning combo."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
Berlin 36 (2011) |
"
Whatever the facts of the case, "Berlin 36" doesn't clear the bar for dramatic impact."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
37%
|
Restless (2011) |
"
The film errs on the side of formula even as it carries the sheen and delicacy of something handmade."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 16, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
47%
|
3 (2011) |
"
A sensuous intellectual romp whose strong casting makes it involving, even when sentimentality creeps into the story or ideas present themselves in boldface."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
Love Crime (2011) |
"
It is a bit of dark fun before it turns preposterous and unsatisfying, piffle dressed up in steely sang-froid."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 5, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
12%
|
Seven Days In Utopia (2011) |
"
There are no real bumps in that road, and though the drama has its heartfelt moments, it unrolls as flat as the Texas terrain, cast in an idyllic summer glow."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
Amigo (2011) |
"
Uneven but ultimately affecting..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
|
73%
|
Mozart's Sister (2011) |
"
The story of the other prodigy named Mozart is brought to life with insight and a deft blend of historical fact and fiction."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) |
"
The storytelling is straightforward, with a classical sheen, even as mischief and hallucination puncture the serene surface."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
The Harvest (La Cosecha) (2011) |
"
A straightforward, intimate and heartbreaking chronicle of the 2009-10 farm seasons for three teens, smart and sensitive, who have been following the crops with their parents for as long as they can remember."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 5, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2011) |
"
Some grace notes and riffs ring true, but mainly it plays like a familiar tune on a broken record."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 5, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
The Sleeping Beauty (2011) |
"
Sly and playful, it's a beauty."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 29, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Nine Nation Animation (2010) |
"
For dabblers and aficionados alike, the compilation "Nine Nation Animation" is an eye-opening movie and a rare treat..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 29, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Life, Above All (2011) |
"
Manyaka gives the character a gaze so true it could only open hearts and minds."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 22, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
The Tree (2011) |
"
Bertuccelli uses the scrubbed topography of Queensland, Australia, to mostly eloquent effect, although her mystical symbols can be as on-the-nose as her dialogue."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 21, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
A Little Help (2011) |
"
If the film takes too long to reach its rather soft denouement, Fischer makes Laura's awakening convincing."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 21, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer (2011) |
"
Too bad, then, that there's no real joy in all the physical business filling the screen, not even in Judy's animated daydreams. Bummer."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 9, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
89%
|
Crime After Crime (2011) |
"
Potash's closeness to it, and sense of healthy outrage, invigorate the film and make the saga's central participants impossible to forget."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 8, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
73%
|
Turtle: The Incredible Journey (2011) |
"
A solitary long-distance traveler with prehistoric cachet, the loggerhead turtle makes a compelling subject for a nature film, as the spectacularly shot, aptly named Turtle: The Incredible Journey demonstrates, if at times too feverishly."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 30, 2011
|
|
|
56%
|
Vincent Wants to Sea! (2011) |
"
The picture's quiet performances and occasionally surprising moments take it just far enough off the beaten path to make it more than a transparently formulaic feel-good story."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 24, 2011
|
|
—
|
82%
|
Self Made () |
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
The Last Mountain (2011) |
"
A damning look at Big Coal and its landscape-decimating practices, a litany of disheartening statistics and enraging testimony."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 14, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
96%
|
Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff (2011) |
"
The lack of personal detail can be frustrating. Yet it suits its subject's gentlemanly reserve."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
The Abduction Of Zack Butterfield (2011) |
"
Subscribing to the philosophy that creepy equals interesting, the film contains barely a moment that isn't flat-footed, ludicrous or both."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Bloodworth (2011) |
"
Kris Kristofferson, Val Kilmer and Dwight Yoakam are compelling in beautifully lived-in, vanity-free performances, but the drama's escalating dread fizzles in a farcical pileup of disaster."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
13%
|
The Big Bang (2011) |
"
Even with Antonio Banderas leading a cast of familiar faces, the movie never rises above a style-over-substance exercise."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 12, 2011
|
