The Watermelon Woman (1996)
92%
“What could have been dry and didactic hums with humor, wit and laser-sharp insight.” –
L.A. Weekly
Jan 22, 2022
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Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008)
42%
“Polk's heavy-handed political sloganeering is lifted straight from pamphlets, while his character development and plotting are clumsy and filled with holes. The ensemble acting is, putting it kindly, wildly uneven.” –
Village Voice
May 22, 2020
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Strike a Pose (2016)
96%
“Unexpectedly moving.” –
CraveOnline
Feb 7, 2017
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Stuff (2015)
“The cast knocks the script out of the park, but Guacci also deserves kudos for casting Yvonne Jung as Deb.” –
CraveOnline
Nov 15, 2016
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Jason and Shirley (2015)
88%
“Mercifully, it's never too pedantic (it skirts close a few times) and is often quite funny - as when she gets in digs at Andy Warhol. But the film never really gets at the hostilities lobbed at Jason.” –
CraveOnline
Nov 15, 2016
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In the Grayscale (2015)
“Uses tropes familiar from queer and hetero films alike: an uninhibited, unconventional, pot smoking wild child slowly liberates the uptight, straight-laced, teetotaling object of affection.” –
CraveOnline
Nov 15, 2016
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The Amina Profile (2015)
89%
“It's a gripping film, even with the knowledge of how it ends.” –
CraveOnline
Nov 15, 2016
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Beautiful Something (2015)
50%
“Graham pulls off a nimble hat-trick, fusing throwback, unapologetic queerness (frank sexuality; a world of tricks, one-night stands, and no moralizing about any of it) and unbridled romanticism.” –
CraveOnline
Nov 15, 2016
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How to Cheat (2010)
80%
“It's not groundbreaking stuff, but the ample time spent on the husband's pain and frustration creates an unexpectedly complex portrait of an ordinary, often annoying man trying to avoid being crushed by the upheavals in his ordinary life.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 7, 2016
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Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home (2010)
100%
“The film Napper has delivered adds necessary layers to a conversation that is only becoming more urgent as the gap between L.A.'s have and have-nots widens at a frightening pace.” –
Village Voice
Aug 31, 2016
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Someone Else (2015)
“A tense, unexpectedly moving psychological study of a man's unraveling that initially seems a much simpler tale.” –
L.A. Weekly
May 10, 2016
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Hockney (2014)
85%
“The documentary isn't intellectually rigorous or academically minded, but it is engrossing, buoyed by the charm of Hockney and his cohorts.” –
CraveOnline
Apr 26, 2016
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Love Thy Nature (2014)
30%
“Though the heavy-handed score is emotionally manipulative, Rokab alternates between hopeful and grim prognoses, mercifully providing a measure of hope and possibility that many films of this ilk do not.” –
Village Voice
Apr 19, 2016
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Sold (2014)
56%
“Such a solid example of film-industry liberalism's shortcomings that it warrants only the faintest praise.” –
Village Voice
Mar 29, 2016
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Of Mind and Music (2014)
71%
“The whole thing is held together by performances that are superb across the board, Adams' assured direction and delicate, beautiful work by both director of photography Tom Lembcke and composer Carlos Jos Alvarez.” –
L.A. Weekly
Mar 1, 2016
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1982 (2013)
78%
“1982 is a ham-fisted morality tale about love, marriage and the fallout of the '80s crack epidemic as though told by someone whose intel on all three came primarily from pulp sources.” –
L.A. Weekly
Feb 25, 2016
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The Fourth Noble Truth (2015)
83%
“Because the film is centered on fully fleshed-out characters - flaws, weaknesses and all - it works in the same way any good religious emissary does: weaving a captivating tale to get the spiritual message across.” –
L.A. Weekly
Feb 25, 2016
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Seahorses (2007)
“Here's a character- and dialogue-driven drama in which the characters are stock and the dialogue creaky.” –
L.A. Weekly
Feb 25, 2016
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Forever (2015)
“The film twists tension in the viewer's gut as the clock ticks toward a day of reckoning. But the script could be tougher-minded, especially when a love-saves-the-day coda adds sugar to what would have been more powerful left bitter.” –
L.A. Weekly
Jan 14, 2016
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Dream/Killer (2015)
“The fact that viewers, like the Fergusons, can muster only bittersweet relief at Ryan's release from prison is the film's whole point: The legal system itself is so damningly captured.” –
Village Voice
Dec 1, 2015
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Frame by Frame (2015)
93%
“Informative, revelatory, and full of astonishing photography.” –
Village Voice
Nov 17, 2015
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Ayanda and the Mechanic (2015)
86%
“The film has the urgency and magnetism of an assured youth-culture manifesto, only stumbling a bit when the balance between dramatic and comic elements leans too heavily toward the former.” –
Village Voice
Nov 10, 2015
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Heneral Luna (2015)
78%
“A hagiographic, testosterone-driven war film heavy on macho posturing, gunfire and explosions, bodies falling, and a stoic hero at the center of it all.” –
Village Voice
Oct 27, 2015
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Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)
87%
“The Tab Hunter of today, as shown in the numerous segments where he is interviewed about his life and career, is the epitome of effortless cool, deserving of his hard won respect.” –
CraveOnline
Sep 29, 2015
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Forgotten (2014)
“Captures the visceral terror of torture so powerfully that it jars the viewer.” –
Village Voice
Sep 17, 2015
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