Email Author L.A. Weekly Film Critics

2010 Stories by L.A. Weekly Film Critics

• Movie Reviews: Chloe, Hot Tub Time Machine, Waking Sleeping Beauty

  published March 25, 2010

  CHLOE Atom Egoyan's Chloe is posh, cool and never less than obvious. Work for hire, the movie was adapted by Erin Cressida... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Stolen, Severe Clear, The Bounty Hunter, The Killing Jar

  published March 18, 2010

  THE BOUNTY HUNTER You've followed their packaged romance in the supermarket checkout Christine Baranski — now see the... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Children of Invention, Mother, The Art of the Steal

  published March 11, 2010

  AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Liverpool, Dreamkiller, Brooklyn's Finest, Alice in Wonderland

  published March 6, 2010

  ALICE IN WONDERLAND One wonders what Walt Disney would've made of his studio's 21st-century, 19-year-old Alice — a... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Zombie Girl, The Yellow Handkerchief, Defendor

  published February 26, 2010

  A PROPHET (UN PROPHÈTE) Agreeing at the insistence of a Corsican mob boss to suck and then slash a fellow inmate, newly... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Blood Into Wine, Bulletproof Salesman, The Girl on the Train, My Name Is Khan

  published February 18, 2010

  GO  AJAMI A contemporary crime drama edged with Greek tragedy, Ajami is an untidy, despairing, oddly... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Ajami, Order of Chaos, The Wolfman

  published February 11, 2010

  DEAR JOHN Special Forces soldier John (Channing Tatum) and privileged altruist Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) aren’t Abelard... More >>

• Movie Reviews: When in Rome, Edge of Darkness, Legion

  published January 28, 2010

  EDGE OF DARKNESS “Did you shoot my daughtah?” is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Crazy on the Outside, 44 Inch Chest, The Spy Next Door

  published January 14, 2010

  CRAZY ON THE OUTSIDE After an impressive dramatic turn against type in David Mamet’s Redbelt, tool fetishist Tim Allen... More >>

• Movie Reviews: Crazy On the Outside, Daybreakers, Leap Year

  published January 7, 2010

  BITCH SLAP Touted as a cross between Russ Meyer, Blaxploitation and Memento, director Rick Jacobson’s Bitch Slap is the... More >>