LAURA KERN
Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.
Publications: New York Times
Total Reviews: 102
LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES
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| Brothers at War (2009) | |
| N/A | 13B (2009) | |
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| The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008) | " Exposes itself as a technically deficient bore with little on its agenda." |
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| Allah Made Me Funny (2008) | |
| N/A | Unspooled (2008) | |
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| The Lucky Ones (2008) | |
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| My Best Friend's Girl (2008) | There are no surprises here, but speedy pacing and a smattering of laughs along the way, as well as a knowing turn by Alec Baldwin as Tank’s even more piggish father, make My Best Friend’s Girl a date not entirely to be skipped. |
| N/A | Quilombo Country (2008) | |
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| Amexicano (2007) | Realistic performances and genuine emotions make Matthew Bonifacio's quiet charmer Amexicano much more than just another preachy treatise on illegal immigration. |
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| The Tree of Life (2008) | |
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| College (2008) | Pity today’s teenage audience. Their latest cinematic temptation is yet another tiresome fraternities-are-wild offering. |
| N/A | Wicked Lake (2008) | |
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| Refusenik (2008) | |
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| Bloodline (2008) | |
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| Bomb It (2008) | What distinguishes Jon Reiss’s lively, sure-handed film from the rest is that it widens the spectrum by taking a comprehensively international viewpoint. |
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| Zombie Strippers (2008) | Those excited by the words Zombie Strippers alone won’t be disappointed by Jay Lee’s unabashedly schlocky film, which he wrote, directed, shot and edited. |
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| Chaos Theory (2008) | A predictable romantic dramedy that isn’t particularly tender, moving or amusing, Chaos Theory suffers first and foremost from featuring the least engaging couple to headline a movie in some time. |
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| Remember the Daze (2008) | Ultimately, the ensemble of more than 20 featured characters seems as vapid as the intentionally caricatured adults who pop up on occasion. Where are this decade’s John Hugheses? Or even the Cameron Crowes? |
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| Stalags (2008) | |
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| Towards Darkness (2007) | That someone is kidnapped in Colombia every three hours is a startling statistic that offers many cinematic possibilities. But Towards Darkness fails to use any of them to advantage. |
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| Many lonely children yearn for a pet to call their own. In The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep based on a novel by Dick King-Smith, a boy finds not only that, but a best friend as well. | |
— | N/A | Total Denial (2007) | No article or quote available |
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| Strength and Honour (2007) | Mr. Madsen fails to elevate this earnest morality tale, written, produced and directed by Mark Mahon, above excessive banality. |
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| This Christmas (2007) | This Christmas includes more family melodrama than all the holiday-homecoming flicks from the past decade combined. |
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| Crispin Hellion Glover’s planned trilogy of blatant weirdness continues with a second installment, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. | |
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| What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) | At the very least, the documentary What Would Jesus Buy? might make a viewer think twice about that next purchase at the Gap. |
| N/A | The Sacred Family (2004) | The off-putting, sometimes dizzying visual style of The Sacred Family settles down enough to reveal elements of absorbing drama. |
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| Toots (2007) | Cheers to Ms. Jacobson for keeping alive the memory of New York nightlife’s golden era, and a man who embodied it. |
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| Sydney White (2007) | Ms. Bynes, with her cherubic face, expressive eyes and comic timing, helps create a positive, pleasing diversion that caters to the geek in all of us. |
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| Milarepa (2007) | Milarepa fails to infuse freshness into the timeworn lesson that violence doesn’t pay; perhaps its subject’s path to goodness will provide a more enlightening cinematic outlet. |
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| Vanaja (2007) | Vanaja is a coming-of-age tale that is engrossing, if slightly overlong, and absolutely timeless. |
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| Closing Escrow (2007) | No matter how ridiculous the characters come off, they’re more than just punch lines. In fact, despite their quirks, [they're] improbably endearing. |
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| Scrap Heaven (2007) | |
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| Hostel: Part II (2007) | Sports glossier production values, but its driving motivation -- to push the boundaries of exploitative nastiness -- remains just as low. |
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| Four Eyed Monsters (2006) | |
| N/A | Shinobi: The Movie (2006) | |
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| What Is It? (2006) | His directorial debut, What Is It? -- which plays as part of a double bill with a live, enthusiastically performed slide show in which Mr. Glover displays pages from his recent series of books -- is just as unclassifiable as he is. |
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| The Great Warming (2006) | |
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| Unknown (2006) | Brisk pacing and an excellent cast of mostly B-list actors can’t make up for the commonplace premise and execution of Simon Brand’s twisty thriller Unknown. |
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| 20 Centimeters (2005) | Size plays a major role in this brash, vivacious concoction of dark comedy, light drama and musical performance. |
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| Masai: The Rain Warriors (2006) | Set in the highlands of Kenya, a timeless place untouched by modernity, Masai: The Rain Warriors, is the debut fictional film of Pascal Plisson, a devoted nature documentarian. |
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| Nearing Grace (2006) | Bursting with hormones, angst, humor and heartbreak, Rick Rosenthal's Nearing Grace, set during the late 1970's in suburban New Jersey, follows a teenager's efforts to survive both the recent loss of his mother and his senior year of high school. |
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| Reportedly made for less than $2,000, this 1970s-style horror oddity could pass for a perverse experiment masterminded by a mad scientist. | |
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| One Third (2006) | |
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| Open Season (2006) | Periodic bursts of cleverness and eye-popping imagery cant disguise that this is just another movie full of jive-talking computer-generated animals with little new to say. |
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