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4.5/5
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75%
|
Pierrepoint - The Last Hangman (2007) |
"
At once desperately grim and unnervingly gripping, providing an exacting sense of the detail and procedure that went into death by hanging."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 1, 2007
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4/5
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100%
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Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012) |
"
"Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story" is in equal measure a look at two families, the ongoing legacy of America's recent past and an essay on one man's moment of transformative courage."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 25, 2012
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4/5
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64%
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2012) |
"
The film takes the viewer not just into the world of Genesis and Lady Jaye, but somehow, as a true ballad should, into their hearts."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
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4/5
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57%
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Film socialisme (2011) |
"
With its rich, layered storytelling, "Film Socialisme" is, in its broadest sense, about nothing less than the history, present and future of Western civilization, up to and including Internet videos of cats."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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4/5
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81%
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Outrage (2011) |
"
So low-key and offhanded in its mastery that it becomes something like a pulp sleight-of-hand trick."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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4/5
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83%
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Hipsters (2011) |
"
Raucous and vibrant."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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4/5
|
70%
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Margaret (2011) |
"
A fascinating, deeply felt film of wild, untamed emotions and probing insights."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 3, 2011
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4/5
|
59%
|
El Bulli: Cooking In Progress (2011) |
"
Offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at the Spanish restaurant hailed as the most influential eatery in the world."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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4/5
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90%
|
Attack the Block (2011) |
"
Pulsing with a rowdy energy, the film works as both a sci-fi horror flick and a teen adventure film."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
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4/5
|
91%
|
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (2011) |
"
The film serves both as a welcome document and reminder of the group in its prime, while also creating a portrait of lives still in motion, grown men trying to move on from yet respect the work of their younger selves."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 7, 2011
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4/5
|
90%
|
Love Exposure (2011) |
"
Would the film be easier to take in a more condensed form? Of course it would, but then it wouldn't be the singularly overwhelming oddity that it is."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 12, 2011
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4/5
|
57%
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The Red Chapel (2010) |
"
Things might not go quite as Brügger planned, but as is so often the case, that seems to have been for the best."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 4, 2011
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4/5
|
93%
|
Harmony and Me (2009) |
"
Represents much of what is wonderful and fresh about the recent wave of ultra-low-budget American independent filmmaking."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 25, 2010
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4/5
|
69%
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Red (2008) |
"
An elegant and deceptively straightforward dramatic thriller."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 29, 2008
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|
4/5
|
94%
|
Encounters at the End of the World (2007) |
"
The images captured by Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger are dazzling all on their own, finding the disorienting psychedelia that is nature at its weirdest."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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|
4/5
|
87%
|
Bomb It (2008) |
"
A remarkably compact and engaging overview of the history and ideology of this urban outlaw art form."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
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4/5
|
52%
|
The Foot Fist Way (2006) |
"
The saga of small-town strip mall taekwondo instructor Fred Simmons, The Foot Fist Way is the sort of nimble oddball discovery that one wishes would come along more often."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 30, 2008
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4/5
|
76%
|
OSS 117: Le Caire Nid d'Espions (OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) (2008) |
"
A pleasant sorbet to wash away the aftertaste of the pre-summer clunkers."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 9, 2008
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4/5
|
60%
|
Them (Ils) (2007) |
"
Moreau and Palud play on the way our minds fill in the gaps of the unknown and the very primal fear of things going bump in the night."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 20, 2007
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|
4/5
|
92%
|
Short Life of Jose Antonio Guiterrez (2007) |
"
Mournful and engrossing."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 11, 2007
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
Flushed Away (2006) |
"
The film mixes rousing kid-friendly adventure with surprisingly savvy grown-up wit and charm."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 2, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
The War Tapes (2006) |
"
Arguably the most vital and eye-opening documentary yet made regarding the United States' current military entanglement."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 12, 2006
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Handmade Nation (2009) |
"
Though its excessive cheerleading is a major flaw, Faythe Levine's quietly uplifting Handmade Nation functions as an inspirational snapshot of current craft culture, a series of scenes from a scene more than a definitive document."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted May 4, 2010
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|
|
94%
|
45365 (2009) |
"
Strange, disorienting and unexpectedly affectionate."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 25, 2010
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|
|
39%
|
The Favor (2008) |
"
The Favor is that rare film that at every turn exhibits good taste and a sense of restraint."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 5, 2008
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|
|
85%
|
El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007) |
"
Director Juan Antonio Bayona and screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez ratchet up the tension to such excruciating heights that, while you're watching the film, your impulse is to scream out loud just to feel some sense of release."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 20, 2007
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3/4
|
57%
|
The Hip Hop Project (2006) |
"
Will the music of The Hip Hop Project album change your life? Likely, no. Did the process of making it change the lives of those involved in its creation? Undoubtedly. And that, perhaps, is inspiration enough."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 11, 2007
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|
|
67%
|
Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy (1984) |
"
Recut and reassembled at just a little over two hours, the new version of the film is a staggering and bracing object, stylistically bold and hypnotically captivating."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 6, 2006
|
|
|
50%
|
Shoujyo: An Adolescent (2005) |
"
The film is perhaps best thought of as part cultural curiosity, part obscurantist's delight."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 10, 2005
|
|
|
61%
|
Shopgirl (2005) |
"
It's a film filled with hope and yearning, love misdirected and truer feelings found."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 20, 2005
|
|
|
83%
|
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) |
"
Among the biggest surprises of the year."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 20, 2005
|
|
|
68%
|
May (2003) |
"
Exactly the kind of unexpected delight one hopes for every time the lights go down."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 18, 2003
|
|
|
72%
|
Intacto (2002) |
"
Writer-director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 19, 2002
|
|
|
76%
|
The Virgin Suicides (2000) |
"
If missteps hold the film back from achieving the full grandeur it aims for, there is no denying the way it conjures a magic-realist American suburbia, rarely before brought so convincingly to life."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Dec 2, 2002
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|
|
43%
|
The Rules of Attraction (2002) |
"
Writer-director Roger Avary comes into his own with The Rules of Attraction."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 10, 2002
|
|
|
72%
|
Happy Times (2002) |
"
Anchored by two fine performances, this bittersweet comedy about second chances just might signal a new beginning for the director as well."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 25, 2002
|
|
|
77%
|
Undercover Brother (2002) |
"
The film works no matter which side of the racial divide you're on, because nothing unites an audience quite like making fun of everyone."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 10, 2002
|
|
3.5/5
|
68%
|
The Hunter (2012) |
"
The film is really Dafoe's show, and he reminds once again why he is such a tremendous actor and also one so easy to underestimate and take for granted."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
50%
|
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012) |
"
Ferrara movingly celebrates connection, cooking life down to just its barest essence: a man, a woman and a need."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
89%
|
The Yellow Sea (2011) |
"
A breakneck mix of bone-crunching freneticism and bloody close-quarters knife-fighting with a strand of romantic melancholy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) |
"
It seems telling just how many other musicians were willing to participate in the documentary to attest to the outfit's influence."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
67%
|
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) |
"
Far and away the sharpest, most wildly aware film in the series."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
79%
|
I Saw the Devil (2011) |
"
Even at its most chaotic, the film never loses sight of the human toll of the increasingly over-the-top events it portrays."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 3, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
72%
|
We Are What We Are (2011) |
"
An unexpectedly rich exploration of family bonds, blood rituals and the oftentimes zombie-like desire to assume the roles proscribed to each of us, played out with a sharp undertow of political allegory and darkly comic sensibility."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 24, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
Lemmy (2011) |
"
Fun for fans and a healthy primer for those previously unaware, the film's overall air of fawning worship makes it feel softer than befits such a gruff, roguish figure."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 20, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
53%
|
Mystery Team (2009) |
"
A pleasant, charming knockabout with a playfully imaginative sense of wit and a pleasingly assured visual style."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 12, 2010
|
|
3.5/5
|
73%
|
Tokyo! (2008) |
"
By turns playful and melancholy, provocative and sentimental, all three of the shorts that make up Tokyo! seem like direct responses to the city itself as well as being jumping-off points for each director's personal quirks."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 20, 2009
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
Dostana (2008) |
"
By turns exuberant and goofy and mushy and yearning."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 20, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
65%
|
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) |
"
The HSM series has always been playful and high-spirited, with a refreshing emphasis on collective action and the importance of group effort over the individual, and there's nothing in High School Musical 3: Senior Year to upset the formula."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
Heavy Metal in Baghdad (2008) |
"
More than just another Iraq-doc, Heavy Metal is a surprisingly up-close look at the toll of the war on young people, and how they still have dreams and still want to jam, party and get down."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 23, 2008
|
68%
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