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Lance Goldenberg

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Ocean of Pearls (2008) 38% EDIT “Rest assured that all is resolved with a minimum of muss, fuss and imagination.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 17, 2009 Full Review The Perfect Sleep (2008) 33% EDIT “An ungainly fusion of dutiful homage and snarky send-up.” – L.A. Weekly Mar 12, 2009 Full Review Fanny and Alexander (1982) 100% EDIT “A sprawling, ornately constructed entertainment.” – Village Voice Dec 3, 2008 Full Review Amarcord (1973) 88% EDIT “What positions the film among Fellini's greatest are its punctuation points of mysterious beauty.” – Village Voice Dec 3, 2008 Full Review We Are Wizards (2008) 50% EDIT “Ignore the scattershot approach, however, and there's considerable pleasure to be had in spending time with these bizarre enthusiasts and watching the creative ways they find to express their obsessions.” – Village Voice Nov 12, 2008 Full Review Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) 41% EDIT “Craig's shaken-but-not-stirred charisma makes the most of an underwritten part, but the movie nearly flat-lines when the actor's not onscreen, which is often.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 16, 2008 Full Review The Pink Conspiracy (2007) EDIT “The Pink Conspiracy's solitary gag posits female bonding as a process so deeply malevolent it might give the most embittered misogynist pause.” – L.A. Weekly Sep 18, 2008 Full Review Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) 15% 1/5 EDIT “...a passion play with a guy in drag (who could ask for anything more?)...” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 Full Review Bad Education (2004) 88% 4/5 EDIT “...Almodovar's meta-movie teases us with Big Ideas about those of us who love our fantasies so much that we turn them into our realities.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 Full Review Off the Map (2003) 70% 4/5 EDIT “...eloquently written but not overwritten, with a story that ultimately feels less like a literary construct and more like a spontaneous celebration of a few lived lives...” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 Full Review Millions (2004) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “...Millions pulls off the neat trick of affirming that money can't buy happiness, even as it has a ball pretending that it can.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 Full Review In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) 69% 4.5/5 EDIT “...a fascinating sort of connect-the-dots that allows us to essentially piece together our very own personalized portrait of this most curious of artists.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 Full Review Sin City (2005) 76% 4/5 EDIT “...might just be the most extravagantly brutal live-action cartoon ever made.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 7, 2005 Full Review The Brown Bunny (2003) 48% 1/5 EDIT “...M. Knight Shyamalan trapped in a pornorgraphic art flick.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Oct 15, 2004 Full Review A Home at the End of the World (2004) 50% 2/5 EDIT “The naughty bits were eventually cut (so to speak) for being too "distracting," but the publicity surrounding the deletion may be the best thing the movie has going for it.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Sep 2, 2004 Full Review She Hate Me (2004) 19% 1/5 EDIT “...a movie that spews so much random, senseless, undigested matter that it seems more like projectile vomiting than filmmaking.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Sep 2, 2004 Full Review The Saddest Music in the World (2003) 79% 4.5/5 EDIT “...a little bit like what Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle might have been without the illusions of grandeur or pretentious aftertaste.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 Full Review Before Sunset (2004) 94% 4/5 EDIT “For all the talk, there's always something unspoken bubbling away in the space between these two ex-lovers...” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 Full Review Open Water (2003) 71% 2.5/5 EDIT “...Daniel and Susan just float around bitching at each other, so the movie frequently seems like a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in scuba gear.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 Full Review The Door in the Floor (2004) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “...a film both fluid and hermetically sealed, inviting multiple interpretations and yet ultimately reluctant to give up its secrets.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 Full Review Hero (2002) 94% 4/5 EDIT “...an astonishingly graceful ballet performed with swords, arrows and fists.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 Full Review Talk to Her (2002) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “Almodovar continues to refine the form of melodrama ... without sacrificing one iota of emotional texture or resonance.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 Full Review City of God (2002) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “We've seen this story before, more or less -- the blood, the budding psychopaths, the all-too-young victims of urban decay -- but never quite like this.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 Full Review Dogville (2003) 70% 4/5 EDIT “...an experience that's both grueling and, in its way, glorious.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 Full Review Mean Girls (2004) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “...a lean, mean entertainment that manages to be both playful and subversive while exhibiting plenty of mainstream appeal.” – Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 Full Review
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