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LA WEEKLY Movie Reviews

2,347 reviews, averaging 52.2% positive
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1. 05/09/13 Poor "You feel for these co-stars, but it's the only genuine feeling the picture affords."
2.

Aftershock (2013)

Chuck Wilson
05/09/13 Poor "Should we laugh? Is this a comedy? If so, are we also expected to giggle when a gang of escaped convicts chase down and rape one of the women?"
3.

Scary Movie V

Pete Vonder Haar
04/18/13 Poor "...terrible. For an alleged comedy, it's remarkably laugh-free; as insta-parody, it already feels dated ('Inception' references?)."
4.

Come Out and Play

Scott Foundas
03/21/13 Poor "The lurid premise is clearly predicated on one potential outcome -- seeing some grown-up go apeshit on these prepubescent psychos..."
5.

A Haunted House

Sherilyn Connelly
01/17/13 Poor "Are the movie's half-dozen genuine laughs there just to tease the audience? What can we do to keep 'A Haunted House 2' from happening?"
6. 11/01/12 Poor "...less a nightmare than an afternoon nap.... a film whose early warning to Heather should be heeded: 'Don't go to Silent Hill.' "
7.

Alex Cross

Eric Hynes
10/25/12 Poor "Now a master of the smugly inept line reading, Ed Burns is the key to appreciating the film as an unintentional but thoroughgoing parody of itself."
8.

30 Beats

Nick Pinkerton
07/19/12 Poor "...boasts a distinctly mid-90s funky, sex-positive vibe... structured around a roundelay of sexual liaisons."
9.

Cellmates (2012)

Ernest Hardy
05/31/12 Poor "...there was a time when Tom Sizemore was considered one of America's most promising actors.... 'Cellmates' won't trigger memories of that promise."
10.

Detention (2012)

Nick Pinkerton
04/12/12 Poor " 'It's called post-irony,' says one character of the swarming references. I can think of another word for it."
11.

The Decoy Bride

Michael Atkinson
03/08/12 Poor "The supposedly frothy tone is tarry and flavorless, and the drill is painfully familiar..."
12. 02/09/12 Poor "There's a good film to be made about Halston, the dashing man who went from Iowa-born milliner to revered fashion designer... but dear Lord, 'Ultrasuede' is not it."
13.

One for the Money (2012)

Melissa Anderson
02/02/12 Poor "...allows the actress to finally stretch: Her hair is brown, not blond; her Jersey accent roams freely all over the tristate area."
14.

New Year's Eve (2011)

Melissa Anderson
12/08/11 Poor "Mayans might have predicted the end of the world in 2012, but could they have known that the countdown to eternal hellfire would begin with Garry Marshall's 'New Year's Eve'?"
15.

Answers to Nothing

Aaron Hillis
12/01/11 Poor "Nudging past two lengthy hours, 'Answers to Nothing' also answers to nobody, oblivious to how far-fetched and emotionally fraudulent its lost-soul crises are."
16. 10/06/11 Poor "Once director Tom Six's conceptual project becomes clear, his escalating audience-mocking torture is increasingly pointless."
17. 08/25/11 Poor "Having already struck the 3D barrel's bottom with its last, third installment, this film goes the extra step to deliver a new gimmicky way to repel: '4-D.' "
18.

Zookeeper

Nick Schager
07/14/11 Poor "...it's unclear if this is the crazy Nick Nolte's career apex or nadir."
19.

Fading of the Cries

Andrew Schenker
07/07/11 Poor "...convoluted mess sets new lows in underimagined, overplotted narrative -- not to mention grade-Z thesping and dimly portentous dialogue."
20.

The Art of Getting By

Melissa Anderson
06/16/11 Poor "...makes the great -- and even the mediocre -- teen movies of 30 years ago, like 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' 'Fame,' and 'Foxes,' look even more radical..."

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