Jon Strickland

Jon Strickland's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
L.A. Weekly
Publications:
L.A. Weekly
Movie Reviews Only
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80% | Lost (2005) |
An assured first film. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted May 12, 2005
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92% | Up for Grabs (2005) |
If Wranovics is somewhat too noncommittal in his presentation, he still shows a great eye for detail. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted May 12, 2005
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63% | Fighting Tommy Riley (2005) |
Anchored by Eddie Jones' passionate performance as the trainer dragged from mysterious retirement, the film also benefits from its convincing milieu. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted May 5, 2005
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15% | Smile (2005) |
All the shallow, self-absorbed denizens of Malibu seem relieved. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Apr 6, 2005
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32% | The Forgotten (2004) |
A pleasantly nonsensical roller-coaster ride. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Sep 22, 2004
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48% | Silver City (2004) |
Fails to allow the talented ensemble ... time to develop Sunshine State's fine, Altmanesque ensemble feel, again and again missing the human and leaving cartoons that satisfy only as agitprop. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Sep 15, 2004
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60% | Vlad (2004) |
It all adds up to pleasantly nonsensical mayhem. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Sep 9, 2004
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94% | Imelda (2009) |
Diaz's portrait of Imelda Marcos attempts to get beyond the shoe thing, into the gothic heart of 40 years of Philippine politics. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Aug 19, 2004
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19% | She Hate Me (2004) |
Targets 'the decline of ethics ... from the boardroom to the bedroom,' and misses on both fronts. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Jul 28, 2004
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7% | Kaena: The Prophecy (2004) |
If Kaena's alternate universe isn't nearly as fully realized as Fantastic Planet's, the 3-D imagery is often gloriously turbocharged. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Jul 8, 2004
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50% | America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
Louis Schwartzberg both surprises and frustrates with this schizophrenic feature debut. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Jun 30, 2004
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No Score Yet | Bought & Sold (2004) |
Charms with its scruffy characters and nuanced multiculturalism. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Jun 30, 2004
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No Score Yet | After Freedom (2002) |
Where so many Scorsese wannabes jettison sociology in favor of mayhem, Babaian burrows into the hearts of these first- and second-generation immigrants. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted May 12, 2004
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25% | Off the Lip (2004) |
Surfer farce that chafes like sand in a wetsuit. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted May 6, 2004
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22% | Lana's Rain (2004) |
The titular precipitation in Lana's Rain is a manifestation of the badness in the world -- but here, badness is pure Lifetime Channel. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Apr 15, 2004
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31% | A Thousand Clouds of Peace (2004) |
If first-time writer-director Julian Hernandez lets his knotted narrative get away from him too often, he nevertheless shows a miraculous sense of style for a 31-year-old. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Apr 15, 2004
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46% | Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2003) |
Japanese art collective t.o.L. (Tree of Life) have taken the hipster kitsch of Hello Kitty to a delirious extreme. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Mar 31, 2004
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87% | Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2004) |
Hickenlooper can't contain Bingenheimer's incredibly generous spirit -- so generous that, while obviously uncomfortable, he lets the director into his most private moments. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Mar 25, 2004
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22% | Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
The filmmakers are once again able to attract comic talent to languish in underwritten villain roles (Peter Boyle), and Scooby Doo still looks more like a bobble-head doll in the rear window of a Gremlin than a dog or a cartoon. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Mar 25, 2004
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47% | Everybody Says I'm Fine! (2001) |
Bose deserves credit for the wide-eyed verve of his highly original, if over-the-top, storyline. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Mar 19, 2004
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52% | The Gatekeeper (2001) |
This earnest, shoestring indie that makes use of some sharp location shooting and sympathetic performances to rise above its often awkward staging and writing. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Mar 18, 2004
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14% | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
The first Cody Banks worked by playing on the immense gap between secret-agent sophistication and hormonal teenage awkwardness; volume 2 never finds a similar conceit to milk. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Mar 11, 2004
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No Score Yet | Tube (2004) |
Some critics are touting Korea as the new Hong Kong, but Baek never gets out from under his H.K. precedents. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Feb 26, 2004
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33% | La Mentale: The Code (2004) |
If the plot comes off more like a reworking of Scorsese's tales of Italian-American mobsters, Boursinhac nevertheless shows a sure hand with his story. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Feb 11, 2004
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13% | Catch That Kid (2004) |
A parade of missed opportunities. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Feb 5, 2004
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27% | Paycheck (2003) |
Too smart for a mindless actioneer, and too slick to capture the full moral weight of Dick's dystopia. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Dec 23, 2003
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24% | Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
Nobody here, especially Martin, looks as if he's having much fun, apart from a dizzy cameo by Ashton Kutcher. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Dec 23, 2003
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95% | Suddenly (Tan de repente) (2003) |
The 26-year-old Argentine director Diego Lerman shows a sure hand in his debut, from his contrasty black-and-white compositions to his sly, jumpy edits, reminiscent of Godard. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Oct 30, 2003
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No Score Yet | Blue Hill Avenue (2001) |
The film is naive in its glorification of violence and vengeance. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Sep 24, 2003
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8% | The Order (2003) |
All the fine cinematography can't hide the sad fact that the second half of the film delivers none of the shocks and starts required of atmospheric horror. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Sep 11, 2003
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100% | Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands Off the Loot) (1954) |
A meditation on what we are left with when life has let us down, played out in the haunted eyes of Jean Gabin. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Sep 4, 2003
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94% | Manito (2003) |
Eric Eason's assured debut succeeds in the way Larry Clark's Kids succeeded -- through a feel for the rhythms of street life, and some extraordinary casting. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Jun 12, 2003
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27% | Daddy Day Care (2003) |
Daddy Day Care feels like a movie cribbed together from outtakes of other hapless Hollywood comedies. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted May 8, 2003
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8% | Kangaroo Jack (2003) |
Camel-fart jokes, 'local color' dialogue from those Paul Hogan Qantas ads, computer-generated flora and fauna, and a criminal waste of the talented Anderson. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Jan 16, 2003
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61% | The Bank (2002) |
Never amounts to more than a glossy comic book. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Jan 3, 2003
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69% | Treasure Planet (2002) |
It's doubtful the 'tweens' they're aiming at here still embrace Disney, and little kids don't care about back story. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Nov 27, 2002
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55% | Ararat (2002) |
If all this sounds impossibly turgid, it is. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Nov 14, 2002
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56% | The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
While the film is not entirely successful, it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Oct 31, 2002
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