bubble

You don't always have to agree with a critic to appreciate his perspective on a film. Take Bubble , a movie that I think works more as a...

music as more than just something to pass the time

Sometimes reading a glowing review about a piece of work is more colorful and evocative than experiencing the actual work itself. I still re...

why nobody has heard of hou hsiao-hsien or jia zhangke, part two

The recent redesign of the LA Weekly website has made it a little tricky to find a lot of archived articles at the moment, but thankfully I ...

why nobody has heard of hou hsiao-hsien or jia zhangke

Recently, a friend's father lamented that today's cinema has no Bergman, no Fellini, no Antonioni. Where, he wondered, were all the ...

a great start to 24

Glowing reviews of Kiefer Sutherland's hit show, Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine , and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ...

glory road

Another January, another inspirational true-life basketball story. Here's my review of Glory Road .

springsteen, without cliches

Bruce Springsteen is such an instutition -- more icon now than man -- that it's hard for a reviewer to judge anything beyond the mystiqu...

two takes on munich

Mine . And David Thomson's .