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David Lamble

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Spider-Man (2002) 90% EDIT “Willem Dafoe gives a campy muscularity to Spider-Man’s Green Goblin arch-rival, allowing fans of a darker bent the vicarious thrill of seeing a little spider-blood shed.” – Bay Area Reporter Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Y tu mamá también (2001) 90% EDIT “The most surprisingly pleasurable thing to report about Y Tu Mama Tambien is... the blithe way the actors and filmmakers dispense political correctness and alter the art of storytelling. ” – Bay Area Reporter Sep 7, 2023 Full Review Ratcatcher (1999) 85% EDIT “Ratcatcher is a prime example of what film schools aspire to from their graduates -- life captured in a visual poetic language rendering James a universal slum-child Ulysses.” – Bay Area Reporter Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 77% EDIT “It's manically staged, good clean fun until the whole enterprise dissolves into a repetitive-motion syndrome, continuous loop of a story that just stops trying to make any sense at all.” – Bay Area Reporter Apr 12, 2023 Full Review Surveillance 24/7 (2007) EDIT “Enlivened by a major Simon Callow guest-turn as a preachy spymaster, the film bogs down when its cat-and-mouse game loses its oomph by the third act.” – Bay Area Reporter Oct 27, 2022 Full Review Girlfight (2000) 87% EDIT “Director Kusama keeps Girlfight from falling into the clichés of boxing films, unearned sentiment and cheap melodrama, with bits of subversive humor.” – Bay Area Reporter Mar 24, 2021 Full Review The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) 85% EDIT “Stephen Chbosky's decision to translate his MTV cult novel into a movie where "the gay kid is the coolest kid" pays huge dividends...” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 23, 2020 Full Review Salvation Army (2013) 77% EDIT “...benevolent but still painful...” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 23, 2020 Full Review Life of Pi (2012) 86% EDIT “Among its many virtues, this beautiful fable of a teen boy holding a grown tiger at bay for 277 days at sea makes a strong case for the superiority of live-action drama over animation...” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Lincoln (2012) 89% EDIT “In a truly epic first act, the equal of anything in the David Lean canon, Steven Spielberg and his screenwriting collaborator, playwright Tony Kushner, frame the awful dilemma Lincoln faced in what would prove to be the last four months of his life.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Django Unchained (2012) 87% EDIT “A loose-cannon Best Picture pick.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Silver Linings Playbook (2012) 92% EDIT “David O. Russell's eccentric Philly-cheesesteak screwball comedy leaves me cold, but may prove to be his big crossover hit.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Argo (2012) 96% EDIT “Who would have thought that anyone could have pulled off an audience-friendly comedy/drama on the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis?” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) 87% EDIT “In Benh Zeitlin's audacious post-Katrina, African American folk story, a female Huck Finn fights to survive the storm with a grouchy, drunken, difficult daddy.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Amour (2012) 93% EDIT “Veteran Austrian auteur Michael Haneke eschews his trademark polarizing story tropes to produce a moving and complex portrait of the final months of a marriage between two retired Parisian music-teachers.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review The Great Gatsby (2013) 49% EDIT “[It] allows a modern audience to see Leo's stylized Gatsby as more than a petulant nouveau riche interloper, to grasp that Gatsby is at heart a story of class warfare, disguised as a doomed love affair.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Before Midnight (2013) 98% EDIT “In the brilliant third part of Richard Linklater's two-decade spanning trilogy, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy stroll through a paradise-on-earth slice of Greece.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 92% EDIT “Goofy plot digressions and a Kerouac-worthy subplot deliver the season's most original comedy/drama...” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013) 84% EDIT “It's a tribute to the leads and the strong hand of Silva that we can be enchanted and repulsed by both.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review C.O.G. (2013) 69% EDIT “In Kyle Patrick Alvarez's funny adaptation of David Sedaris' essay, out actor Jonathan Groff channels a prideful sissy-boy on the verge of hilarious pratfalls...” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Blue Jasmine (2013) 90% EDIT “Cate Blanchett is over the moon in the best Woody Allen drama since Match Point.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Fruitvale Station (2013) 94% EDIT “Coogler provides a suspenseful moral parable overflowing with the kind of incongruities that pepper the lives of our martyrs: Harvey, Matthew and Tyler Clementi.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) 88% EDIT “Both Cannes' award-winning female leads deliver naturalistic performances that transcend their much-ballyhooed extended sex scenes.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Enough Said (2013) 95% EDIT “Enough Said keeps us laughing and rooting for this season's top romantic odd couple: Julie Louis-Dreyfus and the late James Gandolfini...” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Test (2013) 82% EDIT “This entertaining time capsule, set in SF's modern-dance world, makes playful use of that fateful moment when the first blood test for the HIV virus debuted.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 19, 2020 Full Review
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