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2007 Stories by L.A. Weekly Film Critics

• Film Reviews: Goya’s Ghosts, Cashback, Captivity

  published July 19, 2007

  GO CAPTIVITY Captivity’s credits bill it as “a Russian-American coproduction,” and it damn near wa... More >>

• Love & Frustration

  published July 12, 2007

  Every summer, I jump at the chance to review Outfest films because it’s a festival that still feels very local, which is a lovely thing,... More >>

• Film Reviews: Interview, My Best Friend and More

  published July 12, 2007

  GO  CAPTIVITY Captivity's credits bill it as "a Russian-American coproduction" and it damn near warms the cockles of one's... More >>

• Film Reviews: Dynamite Warrior, License to Wed

  published July 5, 2007

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• Film Reviews: Gypsy Caravan and Strike

  published June 28, 2007

  EVENING See film featurePICK GYPSY CARAVAN Don’t wai... More >>

• LAFF 2007, From A to Y

  published June 21, 2007

   GO AUGUST EVENING (USA) UCLA film school grad Chris Eska’s accomplished debut feature provides a welcome throwback to a time... More >>

• Prisons, Punks and Don Quixote

  published June 21, 2007

  Taking its title from a 1964 Artforum article linking the rebellious spirit and bop attitudes of West Coast art to those of West Coast... More >>

• Film Reviews: Black Sheep, 1408, You Kill Me

  published June 21, 2007

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• Film Reviews: Fantastic Four, Fido, Amu

  published June 14, 2007

  GO AMU Born in India, but raised in America after being orphaned at age 3, 21-year-old Kaju (Konkona Sensharma) has returned to New Delhi as... More >>

• Film Reviews: Surf's Up, Memories of Tomorrrow, Flanders

  published June 7, 2007

  CRAZY LOVE As tabloid babies go, Burt Pugach and Linda Riss were a pretty conventional 1950s incompatible couple. Their pathologies,... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Day Watch, Mr. Brooks, Paprika

  published May 31, 2007

  BAMAKO Drawing equally from declamatory African traditions and European modernist procedures, Bamako stages a kind of Third World Epic... More >>

• Film Reviews: Poison Friends, Angel-A

  published May 24, 2007

  ANGEL-A What if you took It’s a Wonderful Life, replaced George Bailey with a scruffy Parisian con man and swapped Henry Travers’ dodderi... More >>

• Film Reviews: Delta Farce, Hollywood Dreams, Fay Grim and more

  published May 17, 2007

  BROOKLYN RULES As a longtime series writer on The Sopranos (his credits include the classic “Pin... More >>

• Film Reviews: Chalk, The Ex, 28 Weeks Later and Delta Farce

  published May 10, 2007

  PICK 28 WEEKS LATER The story thus far: Seven months have gone by since the Rage virus passed from chimp fang to British bloodstream in an... More >>

• Film Reviews: Lucky You, Waitress, Rock the Bells

  published May 3, 2007

  AMERICANIZING SHELLEY A romantic comedy set in the world of Hollywood agents and wannabe actors, More >>

• Film Reviews: Diggers, Next and Banished

  published April 26, 2007

  AMERICAN CANNIBAL Even more desperate than reality TV these days might be the indie film, its audience thinned to near nonexistence by... More >>

• Film Reviews: Diggers, Next and Banished

  published April 26, 2007

  AMERICAN CANNIBAL Even more desperate than reality TV these days might be the indie film, its audience thinned to near nonexistence by... More >>

• Film Reviews: Hot Fuzz, Redline and More

  published April 19, 2007

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• Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

  published April 12, 2007

  ADAM’S APPLES The prolific Danish screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen (Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself... More >>

• Film Reviews: The Reaping, Are We Done Yet? and More

  published April 5, 2007

  ARE WE DONE YET? One year (in movie time) on from the action of 2005’s More >>

• Film Reviews: Meet the Robinsons, Blades of Glory

  published March 29, 2007

  AFTER THE WEDDING There’s trouble in Denmark, but Shakespeare has left the building. The stuff of soa... More >>

• Film Reviews: First Snow, The Last Mimzy, Dead Silence

  published March 22, 2007

  BOY CULTURE Boy Culture is a film made by people just smart enough to acknowledge that the tropes of modern queer filmmaking have been... More >>

• Film Reviews: Premonition, I Think I Love My Wife and Others

  published March 15, 2007

   BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON The postmodern trend of self-reflexive horror movies — itself a cliché by now ­— comes bac... More >>

• Film Reviews: 300, East of Havana

  published March 8, 2007

  Spartans, ripped and ready for battle (Warner Bros. Pictures)300 Long ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing, militaristic... More >>

• Film Reviews: Black Snake Moan, Wild Hogs and more

  published March 1, 2007

  THE ABANDONED A punishing dose of zombie Chekhov for lifetime Fangoria subscribers, the first feature... More >>