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Alicia Potter

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Down in the Delta (1998) 76% 3/4 EDIT “The film serves up many clunky moments, in part the result of Angelou's green camerawork and the story's earnest attempt to cram in too many issues... As in Angela's verse, however, the themes of heritage and humanity resound. ” – Boston Phoenix Jan 5, 2023 Full Review The Story of Us (1999) 25% EDIT “Banal and maddeningly cliched.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 6, 2020 Full Review Friends With Kids (2011) 66% 1.5/4 EDIT “This retread of recent rom-coms, with yakky aspirations to Woody Allen, is none the edgier for Westfeldt's indie roots and hip cast. In fact, it's maddeningly conventional and clichd.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 8, 2012 Full Review Declaration of War (2011) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “Taken as an assault against self-pity and sentimentality, this War puts up an involving, and ultimately thought-provoking, fight.” – Boston Phoenix Feb 16, 2012 Full Review Young Adult (2011) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “[A] surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a bitch on the brink.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 13, 2011 Full Review Dolphin Tale (2011) 81% 2/4 EDIT “Winter may be a moving symbol of resiliency, but Smith's film unfortunately sticks to shallow waters.” – Boston Phoenix Sep 21, 2011 Full Review African Cats (2011) 73% 2/4 EDIT “This G-rated Disney documentary about two wild feline "families" plays like Saw for six-year-olds.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 27, 2011 Full Review Leaving (2009) 67% 2/4 EDIT “[Thomas] remains a mesmerizing mix of carnality and class, and through richer and poorer, she keeps director/co-writer Catherine Corsini's bourgeois fantasy from overheating.” – Boston Phoenix Jan 12, 2011 Full Review Yogi Bear (2010) 13% 1.5/4 EDIT “Boring, pointless, and instantly forgettable, this return to Jellystone Park is no picnic.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 15, 2010 Full Review You Again (2010) 20% 2/4 EDIT “Flashbacks of the hazing go down like meta-torture, as Bell overacts and the clichs stack up.” – Boston Phoenix Sep 29, 2010 Full Review Fresh (2009) 67% 3/4 EDIT “If the images of poultry without beaks don't inspire a trip to Whole Foods, the mouth-watering harvest of an organic farm in downtown Milwaukee will.” – Boston Phoenix Jun 16, 2010 Full Review Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Revelations that the 75-year-old comic is needy, hard-driving, and relentlessly self-flagellating aren't all that surprising.” – Boston Phoenix Jun 16, 2010 Full Review Marmaduke (2010) 9% 0/4 EDIT “Crammed with more recycled offal than a can of Alpo, Marmaduke exults in fart jokes, offensive stereotypes (the cat, voiced by George Lopez, laps guacamole), and sloppy storytelling. Bad, bad dog.” – Boston Phoenix Jun 10, 2010 Full Review Babies (2010) 67% 2/4 EDIT “Cuts from rich nation (birthday cake) to poor (tub of viscera) are predictably pointed but not always thematically coherent. Still, the film stops short of it's-a-small-world platitudes to elicit awe -- and awwws.” – Boston Phoenix May 5, 2010 Full Review Furry Vengeance (2010) 8% 0.5/4 EDIT “Snicker all you want at the unfortunate title of director Roger Kumble's horrible family film, for that's the only thing funny about it.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 28, 2010 Full Review The Cartel (2009) 48% 1.5/4 EDIT “The topic may be urgent, and the fallout heartbreaking, but this clumsy treatment barely passes.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 28, 2010 Full Review The Back-up Plan (2010) 18% 1.5/4 EDIT “As a pregnant single woman, Jennifer Lopez glows spectacularly. Director Alan Poul's bland baby comedy, however, appears to have been a light labor.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 28, 2010 Full Review Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) 54% 1/4 EDIT “Middle-school antihero Greg Heffley may depict himself as a comic illustration in Jeff Kinney's bestselling kids' books, but director Thor Freudenthal turns him into an outright caricature.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 24, 2010 Full Review The Art of the Steal (2009) 85% 3/4 EDIT “The gripping yet hyperbolic drama examines the ownership of art and the public's right to it.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 10, 2010 Full Review Saint John of Las Vegas (2009) 22% 2/4 EDIT “The indie trifecta of clunky voiceover, scrambled chronology, and dream sequences can't fatten the slight story.” – Boston Phoenix Feb 10, 2010 Full Review Coco Before Chanel (2009) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “By the end, the film has slipped into TV-ready hagiography while nonetheless inducing the urge for a crisp white collar and French cuffs.” – Boston Phoenix Sep 30, 2009 Full Review Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) 85% 1.5/4 EDIT “Throughout, the terrible script and garish, pointlessly 3-D visuals distract -- why do all the women, among them Flint's weather-girl crush (Anna Faris), look anorectic?” – Boston Phoenix Sep 17, 2009 Full Review Post Grad (2009) 9% 2/4 EDIT “Though supporting players Jane Lynch, Michael Keaton, and Burnett make a valiant go of it, the film, perhaps a casualty of its own meandering aspirations, never graduates to anything special.” – Boston Phoenix Aug 19, 2009 Full Review I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) 14% 1/4 EDIT “Hayden Panettiere provokes many emotions as the title object of desire in Chris Columbus's dreadful teen romance. Love is not one of them.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 16, 2009 Full Review Herb and Dorothy (2008) 96% 3/4 EDIT “As director Megumi Sasaki's leisurely yet absorbing documentary tells it, the crusty postman and the mild librarian emerged as the Fred and Ethel Mertz of modernism, championing the early careers of such artists as Sol LeWitt and Christo.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 16, 2009 Full Review
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