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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Big Screen

Will Public Enemies Be Just Another Hollow Michael Mann Movie?

6:06AM Richard Lawson | So Public Enemies, writer/director Michael Mann’s slick new crime drama, is getting pretty decent reviews, but reading them doesn’t exactly make us excited to see the damn thing. Mann is just so uneven—a technical wizard who ignores everything else. More »
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

‘Jackie Brown,’ and Other Glaring Mistakes on the LA Times’s Top 25 Films List

8:46AM STV | There’s a place and time for discussing the inanity of movie lists — usually early January, right when the radius of critics’ annual Top 10 circle jerk is at its widest. But a few prime exhibits pop up throughout the year as well, such as last weekend’s Los Angeles Times feature selecting the top 25 Los Angeles films of the last 25 years. While we wouldn’t begrudge the contributors’ right to close out the late-summer news cycle as energetically as possible (we’ve all seen what happens when John Horn gets bored), the tactical and intellectual errors that occurred along the way are an unfortunate example of zeal gone horribly wrong.
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