Fresh
| N/A | Punctured Hope: A Story About Trokosi and the Young Girls' Slavery in Today's West Africa (2009) | "
Despite near-fatal drawbacks, Punctured Hope fulfills the stated ambitions of Pischiutta and producer Daria Trifu to teach and inspire discussion." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Under the Eightball (2009) | "
Angry passion and visual energy define this extraordinary muckraking documentary." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Mr. Sadman (2009) | "
The film is impeccably cast; it’s shot and cut well. Unfortunately, the secret of comedy is that it’s the highest form of suspense, and Mr. Sadman is just too bleakly episodic." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Victory Day (2009) | "
Nearly ever word out of the characters’ mouths is either an arch piece of exposition or a clanging, nail-on-the-head expulsion of emotion." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | From Mexico with Love (2009) | "
Whatever its surface predictabilities, From Mexico With Love has the virtue of coaxing you to care about its people." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Janky Promoters (2009) | "
Everything builds to a fairly careless climax." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 35%
| Adam Resurrected (2008) | "
One cannot recommend this film strongly enough." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Eden (2008) | "
This portrait of an imploding marriage is remarkable for every reason that counts in a good film." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
— | Rotten 20%
| Eden (1997) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Captain Abu Raed (2008) | "
Such a subtle yet global view of human struggle -- the whole world viewed through the prism of a single poor neighborhood -- is a mark of extraordinary promise from this remarkable new filmmaker." — Village Voice Posted Nov 6, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Vice (2008) | "
Writer-director Raul Sanchez Inglis tries to do several ambitious, honorable things with Vice, but for much of the action, they cancel each other out." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Last Stop For Paul (2008) | "
Mandt directs and acts with great zest and contagious, unpretentious good cheer." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 39%
| Full Grown Men (2008) | "
Lyrical and funny, Full Grown Men is a tough-minded film about the need to grow up." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 7, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| Park (2007) | "
[Makes] the most of thrifty means to highly entertaining effect." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 33%
| Berkeley (2007) | "
Roth’s gift for unlocking the best in each of his actors does bring those long-ago times to life." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 11, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| G.I. Jesus (2006) | "
... Colpaert has so vividly seized the contemporary moment, and explored it with his own eyes and conscience." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 2%
| Baby Geniuses (1999) | "
There are ticklish moments, but no real laughs." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 5, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Commune (2006) | "
It's good to hear people talking about openheartedness without irony." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 9, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Color of The Cross (2006) | "
A too-specific tale of historic injustice rather than one of divinely benevolent sacrifice on everybody’s behalf." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 9, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| The Great New Wonderful (2006) | "
Writer Sam Catlin and director Danny Leiner have fashioned an alert, shrewdly observed portrait of a moment in time." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 20, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs & Blockbusters () | "
A feel-good movie about failure." — Variety Posted May 19, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 52%
| Down in the Valley (2006) | "
Jacobson has an excitingly clear-eyed, unsentimental feel for the intensity of adolescent passion." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 11, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Proposition (2006) | "
The Proposition is a very hard and harsh movie, but it also has a hypnotic, lyrical velocity." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| The Promise (2005) | "
The story it tells, measured strictly in terms of emotional power and overall fun, is as moving and pleasurable as any matinee item by Ford, Hawks or Raoul Walsh." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 3, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Little Manhattan (2005) | "
[It's] as if the filmmakers (maybe without even realizing it) are mocking his emotions, implying that kids are just kids, and only think they feel what they’re feeling." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 1, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| New York Doll (2005) | "
Whitely, to his great credit, unfolds this tale simply, just as it was lived." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 27, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Innocent Voices (2004) | "
A howl of grief and outrage that all middle paths were torched in this tragic war." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 13, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| A Sound of Thunder (2005) | "
The barometer of the film’s undoing is Burns’s super low-key performance, which starts out as a poker-faced spoof on heroic cool, but takes a misstep more fatal than mere time-travel can undo." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Touch the Sound (2006) | "
We’re led to experience her life as she does -- as an adventure in which setbacks are not challenges, but illuminations of untracked paths." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 31%
| November (2005) | "
A one-woman Rashomon that plays and replays the same traumatic incident, with shifts in nuance." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Cronicas (2005) | "
Leguizamo's strengths and limitations fit snug with the reporter's own -- the comedic sizzle the actor brings to his best work translates smoothly into hardhearted aggression." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 7, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | Unwanted Woman (2005) | "
The film does disintegrate into big speeches as it rounds to its climax — but through these characters, Milani hauntingly maps the souls of men and women at odds in a theocracy." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 24, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 21%
| The Deal (2005) | "
A riveting thriller full of good scares and learned, muckraking insight into the global labyrinth of oil and politics." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 16, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) | "
Originally written in the 1970s. That figures, in the best sense: It is worthy of comparison to the lifelike, character-rich films we cherish from that era, and is certainly one of the finest films to come out this year." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 12, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| The Dreamers (2004) | "
A wise, high-energy conjuring of 1968." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 5, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Dinner Rush (2001) | "
Fiery energy, swift, character-driven chitchat and a tough, upbeat sense of how the world works." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 20, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Innocence (2001) | "
Cox's own directorial style is innocent, in the sense of being original without ever straining for effect." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 9, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Faithless (2001) | "
Bergman has reached for a woman's insight his whole career. Ullmann completes this for him." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 21, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Amadeus (1984) | "
This dark, exuberant epic is nearly 18 years old, yet remains the most popularly successful film ever to render the inner life of an artist." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 3, 2002 |
— | Fresh 69%
| Afterglow (1997) |
Click here to read article — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 2, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Aberdeen (2001) | "
Moland ... has a fine eye for landscapes, but an even surer touch with actors." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 1, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| 101 Reykjavik (2001) | "
Kormakur ... balances tones with a smooth, mature confidence." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 30, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Scarlet Diva (2000) | "
This is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it’s hard to know what to praise first." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 19, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Lagaan (2001) | "
It works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film’s length becomes a part of its fun." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 19, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) | "
Khouri manages, with terrific flair, to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 10, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| Murder by Numbers (2002) | "
We're less in suspense over how (or if) the killers will be caught than we are over the question of just who this tough, hedonistic detective is." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 1, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Return to Never Land (2002) | "
Less a formulaic continuation than a witty set of themes and variations that fit the earlier picture like a glowing outer ring." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 16, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Unforgiven (1992) | "
...for once, a much-praised movie is actually as great as everybody says it is." — Movieline Posted Jan 24, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Unforgiven (1992) | "
Eastwood has cast his lot with one of the finest screenplays to have come along in many years, and the result stands him, unembarrassed, in the company of greatness." — Movieline Posted Nov 12, 2001 |
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