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2007 Stories by L.A. Weekly Film Critics

• Movie Reviews: Honeydripper, Half Moon

  published December 27, 2007

  ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM Hey, Fox marketing people? If you have a cinematic franchise that you... More >>

• Movie Reviews: The Bucket List, Persepolis, The Great Debaters

  published December 20, 2007

  4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS See film... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Look, The Perfect Holiday

  published December 13, 2007

  ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS The only way a Chipmunks movie could be even remotely interesting would be if it deconstructed the characters... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Secret Sunshine, Awake, The Amateurs

  published December 6, 2007

  AAJA NACHLE If history has taught us anything, it’s that the effectiveness of a proposition such a... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Badland, Divine Intervention, Forfeit, He Was a Quiet Man

  published November 29, 2007

  AWAKE A medical thriller with a noggin full of novocaine, this shocker about botched heart surgery evidently suffered brain surgery to... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Enchanted, August Rush, Hitman, Holly

  published November 22, 2007

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• Film Reviews: Smiley Face, Beowulf, Confessions of a Superhero, Om Shanti Om

  published November 15, 2007

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• Film Reviews: Choking Man, Fred Claus, P2, Steal a Pencil for Me

  published November 8, 2007

  CHOKING MAN Remember that classic 1985 music video for a-ha’s “Take On Me” — the one where that ... More >>

• AFI: The Rest of the Fest

  published November 8, 2007

  CYRANO FERNANDEZ (Spain/Venezuela) Cyrano de Bergerac with a Latin flavor, writer-director Alberto Arvelo’s amalgam of Third World crime... More >>

• Critics' Picks

  published November 1, 2007

  THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS (France) This exquisite new film by the ever-youthful Jacques Rivette (who turned 79 this year) adapts the titular... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Bee Movie, Darfur Now, Primo Levi's Journey

  published November 1, 2007

  AMERICAN GANGSTER See film feature.BEE... More >>

• Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

  published October 25, 2007

  BELLA The People’s Choice Award winner at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival is alrea... More >>

• Movie Reviews: 30 Days of Night, Canvas, Futbaal

  published October 18, 2007

  THE BEACH PARTY AT THE THRESHOLD OF HELL Jonny Gillette and Kevin Wheatley’s “futuristic historic... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Berkeley, The Heartbreak Kid, Lust, Caution

  published October 11, 2007

  BERKELEY Because the story is set in the late ’60s, the grandeur of the title Berkeley leads us to anticipate something epic. What we hav... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Michael Clayton

  published October 4, 2007

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• Film Reviews: Angels in the Dust, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Trade

  published September 27, 2007

  PICK  ANGELS IN THE DUST It’s not just children whom Marion Cloete and her family are rescuing in the de facto orphanage and schoo... More >>

• Film Reviews: The Last Winter, The Jane Austen Book Club

  published September 20, 2007

  GO ANTONIA Set on the outskirts of São Paulo, this engaging, female-centric melodrama concerns four s... More >>

• Film Reviews: King of California, Mr. Woodcock, Shadow Company

  published September 13, 2007

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• Film Reviews: 3:10 to Yuma, Exiled, Hatchet

  published September 6, 2007

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• Film reviews: Summercamp!, Self-Medicated, The Nines and More

  published August 30, 2007

  BALLS OF FURY See film... More >>

• Film Reviews: War, Mr. Bean's Holiday, Closing Escrow, The Last Legion

  published August 23, 2007

  BLOOD AND TEARS: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT Unless you’ve thrown up your hands and butted out of al... More >>

• Film Reviews: Delirious, Death at a Funeral, 7 Dias

  published August 16, 2007

  THE 11TH HOUR See film featureGO CHAK DE INDIA The... More >>

• Film Reviews: Daddy Day Camp, Stardust

  published August 9, 2007

  2 DAYS IN PARIS See film... More >>

• Film Reviews: Bratz, El Cantante, Hot Rod and more

  published August 2, 2007

  BECOMING JANE See film... More >>

• Film Reviews: Arctic Tale, One to Another, Punk's Not Dead

  published July 26, 2007

  ARCTIC TALE A smarmy score (“We Are Family” when it ought to be “Stayin’ Alive”), some orgiastic farting from... More >>