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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | Posted May 5, 2005
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| 15% | Smile (2005) |
All the shallow, self-absorbed denizens of Malibu seem relieved.‐ L.A. Weekly
Read More | Posted Apr 6, 2005
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| 31% | The Forgotten (2004) |
A pleasantly nonsensical roller-coaster ride.‐ L.A. Weekly
Read More | 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
Read More | Posted Sep 15, 2004
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| 60% | Vlad (2004) |
It all adds up to pleasantly nonsensical mayhem.‐ L.A. Weekly
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | Posted Mar 18, 2004
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| 13% | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | Posted Feb 11, 2004
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| 12% | Catch That Kid (2004) |
A parade of missed opportunities.‐ L.A. Weekly
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | 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
Read More | Posted Jan 16, 2003
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| 61% | El Juego de la Banca (2002) |
Never amounts to more than a glossy comic book.‐ L.A. Weekly
Read More | 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
Read More | Posted Nov 27, 2002
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| 55% | Ararat (2002) |
If all this sounds impossibly turgid, it is.‐ L.A. Weekly
Read More | Posted Nov 14, 2002
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| 55% | 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
Read More | Posted Oct 31, 2002
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