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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Yonkers Joe Los Angeles Times	01/09/09	Fair	"Robert Celestino conjures a milieu, but not an atmosphere or a solid sense of place. It's like being inside a casino, without a glimpse of sky or a clock on the wall..."
2.	Tracing Cowboys Los Angeles Times	01/09/09	Fair	"Shot on HD with evocative locations in California and Mexico, the imagery does have a certain impressionist grace, but the film's romantic ideal of the road -- lonely diners, vintage cars and seaside shanties -- seems misplaced, oversimplified and overused."
3.	My Bloody Valentine 3-D Los Angeles Times	01/17/09	Weak	"Wooden performances by forgettable, generic actors -- again, just like in the original -- don't aid in making things any less leaden."
4.	Luck By Chance Los Angeles Times	02/02/09	Outstanding	"Something of an old-fashioned backstage musical... a sharp look at how stardom is both desired and created and the personal and professional toll it can take on those who pursue it. And it's fun too."
5.	Chocolate Los Angeles Times	02/06/09	Good	"...final credits include behind-the-scene footage of bloody foreheads and slow-motion replays proving the gritty bona-fides on this placeholder for hard-core action junkies."
6.	Friday the 13th (2009) Los Angeles Times	02/13/09	Weak	"MIA: The bad old Jason Voorhees. A remake of 'Friday the 13th' misses the point: Slasher flicks should be gory, giddy and full of lusty teens."
7.	Fired Up! Los Angeles Times	02/20/09	Moderate	"...sturdy... tries to put its loutish behavior in ironic quotation marks, but being smart enough to know when you're being an idiot still doesn't make the behavior welcome."
8.	Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Los Angeles Times	02/27/09	Fair	"The band's concert footage and off-stage moments are jumbled together in a three-dimensional free-for-all designed for teen fans."
9.	Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Chicago Tribune	02/27/09	Weak	"...awkwardly stitched together from candy-gloss arena concert footage and somewhat grimier-looking backstage/limo/hotel room moments."
10.	The Objective Los Angeles Times	03/13/09	Weak	"The scenes of servicemen feel somehow false, a screenwriter's idea of military life... Myrick does an admirable job of spinning tension from a group of guys mostly standing around, but too often the film's portentous tone seems more silly than suspenseful."
11.	The Last House on the Left (2009) Los Angeles Times	03/13/09	Poor	"...a shockingly mundane disappointment taken on its own and a deeply misguided refraction of the original.... includes plenty of patently unnecessary back story."
12.	Tokyo! Los Angeles Times	03/20/09	Excellent	"By turns playful and melancholy... A fun jaunt around the city and a quick tour of the preoccupations of three leading directors? Now there's a bargain."
13.	The Haunting in Connecticut Los Angeles Times	03/27/09	Moderate	"...sort-of spooky, sort-of stupid... Part of what makes 'Connecticut' oddly watchable even as it drags is the oil-and-water mix of acting styles of the leads."
14.	The Cross (2009) Los Angeles Times	03/30/09	Fair	"The film about Arthur Blessitt, who has walked around the world to spread his message of evangelical Christianity, could have provided a bigger, fuller story..."
15.	I Love You, Beth Cooper Los Angeles Times	07/10/09	Poor	"A flat, tired rehash of teen movie story tropes, the film attempts to have it both ways by winkingly acknowledging its secondhand origins."
16.	Wonderful World Los Angeles Times	01/08/10	Moderate	"...promising but uneven.... Broderick's sad-sack misanthropy is often taken as a given... the film never quite explores the hidden corners of his character's psyche."
17.	Blood Into Wine Los Angeles Times	02/25/10	Moderate	"...intriguing.... The film's biggest problem is that it can never decide exactly what it wants to be -- a portrait of Keenan, a look at winemaking or a blatant promotional effort for Arizona wine valley tourism."
18.	Mystery Team Los Angeles Times	03/12/10	Good (Not Great)	"...a pleasant, charming knockabout with a playfully imaginative sense of wit... There is enough naive charm to the leads to keep the film's central gag from running out of gas."
19.	45365 LA Weekly	03/18/10	Very Good	"It may seem that Bill and Turner Ross are crafting a real-world analogue to David Lynch's creepy visions of American life... at once both mysterious and celebratory."
20.	Stolen (2010) Los Angeles Times	03/19/10	Poor	"A leaden murder mystery with a clunky structure... The back-and-forth between the time periods is an uninvolving device... wastes the talents of a reasonably good cast."

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