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DAVID CHUTE
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" [A] finger-wagging slog through the Mumbai high-fashion scene." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 6, 2008
 
Fashion (2008)n/a
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" Lisa Ray is a magnificent actress, but she’s still waiting for her first great role." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 6, 2008
 
The World Unseen (2008)40%
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" You’d think the free-for-all atmosphere of the best Bollywood romps would be a perfect fit in the CG realm." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 30, 2008
 
Roadside Romeo (2008)n/a
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" Despite the gritty urban setting, there are episodes of Gilmore Girls that have more 'edge.'" -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Nana (2005)60%
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" We recommend sleeping in." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Sunday (2008)n/a
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" The team of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and A-list-choreographer-turned-director Farah Khan have pushed the Main Hoon Na gentle masala movie parody to repetitive extremes." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Om Shanti Om (2007)83%
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" The movie works so hard to transform its shocking subject into acceptable material for middlebrow melodrama that it never deals with it." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag - Journey of a Woman (2007)n/a
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" It’s a beautifully shot and staged period reconstruction, and is at times impressively acted, at least in the secondary roles. What it lacks is fresh insight." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 2, 2007
 
Gandhi, My Father (2007)40%
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" The movie [is] interesting to talk about afterward, but not necessarily any more fun to watch." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 31, 2007
 
Cheeni Kum (2007)n/a
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" The film is so single-mindedly determined to be light and comfortable, to not raise a sweat, that it forgoes even the mildest surprises. The only things that get heavy here are the viewer’s eyelids." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 3, 2007
 
Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)60%
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" Kabul Express is the first foreign production shot in Afghanistan since the war, but [writer-director Kabir] Khan makes surprisingly little of his unique opportunity." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 22, 2006
 
Kabul Express (2006)n/a
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" In the end, Curse also looks alarmingly like a dry run for the opening and closing ceremonies Zhang has been hired to direct for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 20, 2006
 
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)65%
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" At three and a half hours, J.P. Dutta's lugubrious period melodrama Umrao Jaan defeated me. It feels endless." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
Umrao Jaan (2006)n/a
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" Viewers who are not already Bolly-heads are likely to be appalled." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
Jaan-E-Mann (2006)50%
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" Squanders most of the goodwill generated by Part 1, banishing nearly all of its supporting characters to the Shadow Zone and starting all over again from scratch." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2006
 
Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006)n/a
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" Every gesture feels synthetic, from the back story about North-South separation to massage the emotions of the home audience, to the 24-style globe-hopping nuclear-terrorism premise." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 1, 2006
 
Typhoon (2006)22%
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" Zinda (Alive) isn't quite as gripping or as flamboyant as it should be." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 19, 2006
 
Zinda (2005)n/a
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" Not even a third-act rescue from a burning building can prevent the tension from going up in smoke." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 5, 2006
 
Shikhar (2005)n/a
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" The normally sharp instincts of Yash Chopra, the executive producer and distributor of this strident sex comedy, seem to have deserted him this time." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 15, 2005
 
Neal 'n' Nikki (2006)n/a
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" The movie never finds the right balance between momentum and exposition, and way too much historical information has been crammed into voice-over narration." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 18, 2005
 
The Rising (2005)89%
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" An earnest also-ran." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 31, 2005
 
Schizo (2005)78%
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" The premise of the first Miss Congeniality is unrepeatable by definition, and Gracie is much less interesting as a now-fashion-savvy agent in Las Vegas." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 24, 2005
 
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)14%
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" The supposedly human face of our metal-plated robocop's partner -- the inevitable curvy female in a leather jump suit -- is an inexpressive, glossy doll mask, untouched by human hands." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 12, 2005
 
Appleseed (2004)19%
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" A soulless piece of product, an ungainly hybrid of sketchy hand-drawn characters in blocky CGI environments, derivative at just about every level." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 30, 2004
 
Sky Blue (2005)55%
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" This man without qualities is a concept rather than a man, an ambitious rich actor's condescending fantasy of a colorless suburban schmo." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 30, 2004
 
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)69%
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" Feels like a big-budget Dharma & Greg episode with toilet jokes." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 16, 2004
 
Meet the Fockers (2004)39%
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" Instantly forgettable." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 11, 2004
 
After the Sunset (2004)19%
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" Skip the movie, stay home, read the book and say three Hail Marys." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 1, 2004
 
Thérèse (2004)11%
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" This sophomoric stuff is pure self-indulgence, a drone to accompany the admittedly eye-popping sound-and-light show." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 15, 2004
 
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)63%
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" The various disruptions Miike visits upon his stories, and upon his audience, serve mainly to focus attention on the manipulating intelligence behind the scenes. They're a fancy way of yelling, 'Look at me!'" -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 12, 2004
 
Gozu (2004)72%
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" A fourth-generation Terminator hand-me-down." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 22, 2003
 
Returner (2002)35%
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" Feels cramped and constrained at just about every level." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 2, 2003
 
Bollywood/Hollywood (2003)41%
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" The only real-life situations the movie evokes vividly are the circumstances of its own production: underrehearsed actors in hastily staged scenes speaking page after page of awkward expository dialogue." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 12, 2003
 
Controlled Chaos (2003)0%
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" Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake's coy, flabby script is woefully lacking in the one indispensable ingredient of urbane comedy -- great banter." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 14, 2003
 
Down With Love (2003)60%
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" ... a plot that would be old hat as a two-parter on a sitcom ..." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 1, 2003
 
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)39%
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" There are so many good ideas at the visual level that you can't help wishing the narrative elements had been more cleverly worked out." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 3, 2003
 
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003)70%
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" The movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 23, 2003
 
Charly (2002)20%
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" A puffy-faced Steven Seagal, as an undercover Fed posing as a convict, ties on a doo-rag, exchanges longing buddy-movie glances with a couple of jaunty rap artists (Ja Rule and Kurupt) and goes lumbering off to battle." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 14, 2002
 
Half Past Dead (2002)2%
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" In the final reel, the tension dissipates with a flabby hiss, as the film devolves into a banal, conventional ghost story." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 17, 2002
 
The Ring (2002)72%
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" Incoherence reigns." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 17, 2002
 
Naqoyqatsi (2002)48%
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" At times the deck is egregiously stacked." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
ABCD (2001)65%
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" The overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent, like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 19, 2002
 
The Burning Sensation (2002)29%
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" It's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel, but the result is more puzzling than unsettling." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 19, 2002
 
Ted Bundy (2002)38%
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" [Evans is] a fascinating character, and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 25, 2002
 
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)91%
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" As if to compensate for this lack of focus, all the spats are enacted at maximum volume, pitched so high that we often don't know how to take them." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 12, 2001
 
Double Take (2001)12%
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" [Dracula is] never a force of evil of mythic proportions; he seems small-minded and even whiny." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 25, 2000
 
Dracula 2000 (2000)15%
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" Man on the Moon doesn't really try to get to the bottom of the sadness in Kaufman; it takes his desperation for granted and milks it for sniffles." -- IFilm
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Man on the Moon (1999)60%
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" As garishly uninspired as an average UPN sitcom episode." -- IFilm
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Next Friday (1999)21%
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" The movie is dismaying enough; thinking about its huge potential audience is downright terrifying." -- IFilm
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)26%
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" So relentlessly unpleasant that it could have been knowingly designed as the reductio ad absurdum of the heartless, empty, violence-as-sideshow thriller." -- IFilm
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Reindeer Games (2000)25%

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