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2006 Stories by L.A. Weekly Film Critics

• Film Reviews

  published July 20, 2006

  GO CLERKS II See film feature.THE CELESTINE PROPHECY MOVIE... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published July 13, 2006

  GO 4 Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s first feature is an immediate attention grabber. A quartet of dogs loung... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published July 6, 2006

  STRANGERS WITH CANDY For its first two seasons, the cable series Strangers With Candy was never less than good, and was often quite... More >>

• Out and Proud

  published July 6, 2006

  In movie years great and mediocre, one thing remains true and fine about the Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published June 29, 2006

  GO WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? Chris Paine’s lively investigation into the demise of General Motors’ zero-emission EV1, Who Killed the Electr... More >>

• Critics' Picks

  published June 22, 2006

  OLD JOY (USA) Kelly Reichardt’s adaptation of Jonathan Raymond’s short story about two longtime friends who embark on a weekend... More >>

• Rest of the Fest

  published June 22, 2006

  BEFORE BORN (China) The Godot-like Li Chonggao is who the hard-bitten traveler with the suitcase (Tommy Wai) and the attractive young beach... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published June 22, 2006

  SAY UNCLE You’ll be begging for mercy well before the end of this self-righteous, thoroughly unsavory “farce” about a lonely... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published June 15, 2006

  COASTLINES No one can seem to think ill of regional humanist Victor Nuñez (Ruby in Paradise, Ulee’s Gold), but this low-budget... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published June 8, 2006

  AUTUMN In this elegantly stylized but emotionally strained first feature by Francophile American writer-director Ra’up McGee, the highly... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published June 1, 2006

  GO PICK YANG BAN XI: THE EIGHT MODEL WORKS This enthralling documentary, a Dutch production by Hong Kong–born female director Yan Tin... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published May 25, 2006

  GO PICK CAVITE Co-directors Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon’s jugular thriller plays like a no-budget, guerrilla-style variant o... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published May 18, 2006

  GO FOLLOWING SEAN Better titled The Making of a Counter-Counterculture, Ralph Arlyck’s documentar... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published May 11, 2006

   GO PICK DOWN IN THE VALLEY  “Tobe” (Evan Rachel Wood), short for October, is a San Fernando Valley teen w... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published May 4, 2006

  AN AMERICAN HAUNTING Despite their appeal to patriotic horror fans, the makers of An American Haunting end up doing more harm than good to... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published April 27, 2006

   GO AKEELAH AND THE BEE This review, it must be said, is being written with the assistance of spell check, a computer tool... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published April 20, 2006

  ABOMINABLE Not quite aptly titled, but close, writer-director Ryan Schifrin’s cheapo horror opus pits everyone’s favorite hirsute... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published April 13, 2006

  THE BENCHWARMERS The Bad News Bears starring man-children,... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published April 6, 2006

  THE BENCHWARMERS The Bad News Bears starring man-children,... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published March 30, 2006

  GO ADAM & STEVE A bad date can come back to haunt you, a phenomenon that may derail the blossoming romance between Adam (Craig Chester)... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published March 23, 2006

  AMERICAN GUN In a leafy Oregon suburb, a factory worker (Marcia Gay Harden) tries to move on with her life three years after her teenage... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published March 16, 2006

  DON’T TELL Nominated for best foreign-language film at this year’s Oscars, this breathless adaptation by Italy’s Cristina... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published March 9, 2006

  GO COACHELLA Just as SoCal was ripe for a multigenre, Euro-style music festival, so was Coachella ready... More >>

• Film Reviews

  published March 2, 2006

  GO AQUAMARINE Undemanding, unsurprising and really quite charming within conventional limits, Elizabeth Allen’s tween-coming-of-age... More >>

• New Film Reviews

  published February 23, 2006

  GO C.S.A.: THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Kevin Willmott’s bristling faux doc re-imagines 150 year... More >>