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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Tennessee Los Angeles Times	12/05/08	Fair	"...having one of the biggest music stars on the planet as the third lead doesn't upset director Aaron Woodley's visually arresting but overly self-conscious glum-fest."
2.	Chandni Chowk to China Los Angeles Times	01/16/09	Good (Not Great)	"...can't help but connect occasionally with a winking gag, cleverly staged fracas, toe-tapping musical detour or welcome loitering on Deepika Padukone's radiant features."
3.	The Lodger Los Angeles Times	01/23/09	Weak	"...has neither the glamour of Brian De Palma's referential nightmares or even the narrative fuel of the serial-killer-obsessed procedurals that dominate television."
4.	Donkey Punch Los Angeles Times	01/23/09	Good (Not Great)	"It's got enough formulaic flair to make it a guilty-pleasure cousin of seaborne nailbiters 'Knife in the Water' and 'Dead Calm.' "
5.	Sherman's Way Los Angeles Times	03/13/09	Moderate	"It's lost-in-life meets lust-for-life... most moviegoers could hand this emotionally stranded odd couple a road map of where they'll be by the closing credits."
6.	Explicit Ills Los Angeles Times	03/20/09	Weak	"...undone by a deadly twofer: lack of trust in characterization coupled with single-minded faith in spelled-out messages.... a lost opportunity."
7.	The Education of Charlie Banks Los Angeles Times	03/27/09	Good (Not Great)	"Durst's direction is overly earnest, heavy in long takes, atmosphere wise but scene foolish.... handsomely presentational but mostly an experiment in playing grown-up."
8.	American Swing Los Angeles Times	04/03/09	Moderate	"A meat purveyor becomes a sex club entrepreneur: It sounds like a bad joke, but it's the real-life story of Larry Levenson, a doughy, committed hound..."
9.	Skills Like This Los Angeles Times	04/03/09	Weak	"Seeming 10 years out of date... mixes navel-gazing slackerdom with amateur criminal high jinks to energetic if incoherent effect."
10.	The Escapist Los Angeles Times	04/10/09	Excellent	"...an unexpectedly welcome form of dramatic escape... the psychological and physical grittiness becomes a coalescing power."
11.	The Butterfly Tattoo Los Angeles Times	04/17/09	Fair	"...a handsomely shot low-budget film, flush with the moody pull of adolescent romance but as sputtering as an awkward teen in how it lays out its second-rate thriller elements.... begins to feel like a genre home invasion..."
12.	Chasing the Green Los Angeles Times	04/18/09	Poor	"...a hopelessly slipshod, witless and repetitive business tale about the rise and fall of two fortune-seeking brothers..."
13.	The Informers Los Angeles Times	04/24/09	Poor	"...conjures up plenty of debauched tableaux with its photogenic, jaded showbiz denizens and hangers-on, but nary a reason for existing."
14.	Lemon Tree (Etz Limon) Los Angeles Times	05/01/09	Good	"...a sober-hearted take on the righteous blow-back from whittled-away souls... rights itself with each return to the beautifully steely gaze of Abbass."
15.	Empty Nest (El Nido vacio) Los Angeles Times	05/01/09	Good	"Burman may not be Fellini but he has an enjoyably frisky eye for comic detail and never takes his protagonist's dilemma so seriously that we lose the playfulness..."
16.	Lemon Tree (Etz Limon) Chicago Tribune	05/01/09	Very Good	"Abbass can suggest more about the weight of the world with each tying on of a head scarf than many actors armed with reams of dialogue."
17.	Rudo y Cursi Los Angeles Times	05/08/09	Excellent	"...pulses with life... a kind of travelogue of ambition and loserdom, from the rural clarity of a dirt pitch to the dangerous allure of the literal and figurative green."
18.	Love N' Dancing Los Angeles Times	05/08/09	Weak	"...you'll mostly be tapping your feet as a waiting measure for the next time 'Love N' Dancing' needs two people to step out on the floor."
19.	The Brothers Bloom Los Angeles Times	05/15/09	Fair	"...outside of the manufactured oddities, Rachel Weisz's performance is the best thing in the movie: an old-school screwball turn of hypercurious pep."
20.	The Girlfriend Experience Los Angeles Times	05/22/09	Good	"...an exquisitely filmed piece of urban impressionism... a compelling monotony... one that's never quite pleasure, never quite pain and, therefore, never quite an experience."

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