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2006 Stories by L.A. Weekly Film Critics

• Film Reviews

  published December 28, 2006

  ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES The wildly uneven French writer/director/producer Luc Besson has a fondness for worlds and lifestyles that lie... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published December 21, 2006

  BLACK CHRISTMAS was not screened in advance of our print deadline, but a review will appear here next week and can be found on our Web site at... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published December 14, 2006

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• Film Reviews

  published December 7, 2006

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• Film Reviews

  published November 30, 2006

  GO EL AURA When the 47-year-old Argentine filmmaker Fabián Bielinksy died of a heart attack in June of t... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published November 23, 2006

  BROKEN SKY If you’ve ever observed a couple in public staring impassively at one another and wondered what the story was behind their... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published November 16, 2006

  BOBBY 1968, the Ambassador Hotel, filled with guests and service workers whose lives bear no connection except that they breathe the same air... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published November 9, 2006

  CLIMATES  See film... More >>

• Critics’ Picks

  published November 2, 2006

  {mosimage}DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (USA) By Peter Bogdanovich’s own admission, he was never entirely happ... More >>

• AFI Fest, A to Y

  published November 2, 2006

  Unless otherwise noted, all films screen at ArcLight Cinemas, 6360 W. Sunset Blvd., Hlywd. To purchase tickets, go to... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published November 2, 2006

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• Film Reviews

  published October 26, 2006

  BABEL See film featureTHE BRIDGE Eric Steel’s Th... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published October 19, 2006

  PICK 51 BIRCH STREET Worms crawl slowly and gently out of the can in Doug Block’s marvelous home movie about the underground life of hi... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published October 12, 2006

  ALEX RIDER: OPERATION STORMBREAKER When his uncle (Ewan McGregor) dies unexpectedly on an alleged... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published October 5, 2006

  PICK SHORTBUS Hedwig and the Angry Inch star/creator John Cameron Mitchell’s eagerly awaited sophomore effort has already generated ream... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published September 28, 2006

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• Film Reviews

  published September 21, 2006

  AL FRANKEN: GOD SPOKE Early on in the documentary Al Franken: God Spoke, a Harvard undergrad asks the visiting Franken if he claims that... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published September 14, 2006

  THE BLACK DAHLIA See film... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published September 7, 2006

  PICK MUTUAL APPRECIATION The latest from Funny Ha Ha director Andrew Bujalski — the cinema’s reigning poet laureate of postcollegia... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published August 31, 2006

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• Film Reviews

  published August 24, 2006

  BEERFEST Connoisseurs of le cinéma de Broken Lizard can take modest consolation that this ode to “cold, fresh... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published August 17, 2006

  ACCEPTED Or, Ferris Bueller gets his B.A. In this amiable but undernourished campus comedy — the directorial debut of screenwriter Steve... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published August 10, 2006

  GO CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN Not quite drama, not quite comedy, not quite romance, this gossamer... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published August 3, 2006

   GO BARNYARD Even an advanced case of critter fatigue shouldn’t stop you from rushing out to see this delightfully cheeky... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published July 27, 2006

  ANOTHER GAY MOVIE Much like Mel Brooks’ unfunny later films, writer-director Todd Stephens’ gay reinvention of the straight teen... More >>