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Alice's House (2007)
"Documentarian Chico Teixeira's first narrative film is casual but busy, and though it seems somewhat longer than its 90-minute running time, the quiet characterizations soon get their hooks into you."
Annie Wagner
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Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
"It's a Wonderful Life is no longer the most depressing Christmas movie ever made."
Andrew Wright
American Gangster (2007)
"Everyone involved seems to be coasting ... Scott's gift for composition and the occasional flash of wickedness from Washington keeps this from being a bad film, precisely, just a disappointing one."
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
"Sustained passages of eerie, Malickian beauty (an early sequence involving a train robbery feels like one of the reasons that film was invented), mixed with increasing stretches of self-conscious artiness ... It casts a spell, but only intermittently."
The Architect (2006)
"Skids mightily in the transition from three to two dimensions."
A Tout de Suite (2005)
"Opaque stares and pregnant pauses can only pull so much weight, no matter how snazzy the packaging."
Alone in the Dark (2005)
"Attains a level of awe-inspiring Velveeta dunderheadedness."
Ask the Dust (2005)
"Towne gets L.A. (that strange combination of wide-open spaces and close-quarter moral rot) like nobody else. Still, there's a persisting dreariness at the film's center. "
Asylum (2005)
"Although wonderfully acted and often compelling on a scene-to-scene basis, it can't quite distinguish itself from the large shadow of its impressively dank environment."
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
"Lingers clammily in the back of your head ... A long, slow, downward plummet that's honestly tough to watch."
Animation Show - Volume 1 (2003)
"For fans of ink and paint, we're talking nirvana."
Animaniacs - Vol. 1
"The cartoon equivalent of Pop Rocks: fast, funny, and savvy about pop-culture without relying on the audience's recognition of same for easy laughs."
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