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Julia Wallace

Julia Wallace's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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A Very British Gangster (2007) 71% EDIT “It would have been nice to hear a small something about Noonan's very British victims.” – Village Voice Jul 16, 2008 Full Review Holding Trevor (2007) 25% EDIT “Such an anomie-filled nothing of a movie that it wouldn't even be a pleasure to savage it.” – Village Voice Jul 1, 2008 Full Review Meet Bill (2007) 20% EDIT “It tries hard to mimic the arch tone of the best suburban tragicomedies (American Beauty, et al.), but a surfeit of stock characters, double-wide plot holes and heavy-handed symbolism ruins the effect.” – L.A. Weekly Jun 12, 2008 Full Review On the Rumba River (2007) 85% EDIT “As a filmmaker, Sarasin has an extraordinarily light touch.” – Village Voice Jun 4, 2008 Full Review Before the Rains (2007) 51% EDIT “Director Santosh Sivan imparts a vastness and a sense of wonder to the film, qualities reminiscent of a Thomas Cole painting: They remind you why the Brits thought conquering India was a good idea in the first place.” – Village Voice May 8, 2008 Full Review What Happens in Vegas (2008) 25% EDIT “The stars, despite having only a fraction of the charm and talent of classic sparring-but-meant-for-each-other duos, know how to mug for the camera and well up on cue, and somehow that turns out to be enough to carry this trifle.” – L.A. Weekly May 8, 2008 Full Review Savage Grace (2007) 38% EDIT “The lurid plot, based on a very true story, isn't the problem here...stilted dialogue), and not nearly enough coaxing Moore out of her habit of clenching her face at the camera.” – Village Voice Apr 23, 2008 Full Review Four Minutes (2006) 77% EDIT “Although the tone of the film drifts precariously toward the self-serious, writer/director Chris Kraus redeems himself with snatches of dark jailhouse humor and a quiet attentiveness to minute gradations of human feeling.” – Village Voice Apr 16, 2008 Full Review The Dhamma Brothers (2008) 83% EDIT “There's no doubt that the Brothers are a compelling bunch, but their story isn't well served here.” – Village Voice Apr 8, 2008 Full Review Beyond Belief (2007) 85% EDIT “What started as an exercise in essentialism is quickly revealed to be just the opposite, and this film would have been more interesting had Murphy delved into the complexity of the Afghan women's lives rather than focusing on the Americans' generosity.” – Village Voice Feb 27, 2008 Full Review City of Men (2007) 74% EDIT “Paulo Morelli directs capably, with a heavy dash of MTV-generation flair: hyper-saturated colors, close-ups of skin glittering with sweat, and a constant patter of gunfire that undergirds the soundtrack like a steady heartbeat.” – Village Voice Feb 27, 2008 Full Review Praying With Lior (2007) 82% EDIT “This doc is a hardcore tearjerker.” – Village Voice Jan 29, 2008 Full Review Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006) 57% EDIT “I'm sure the pot-laced antics of these trashy dudes are, like, totally hilarious on Canadian TV, but they don't translate well to America or the big screen.” – Village Voice Jan 22, 2008 Full Review Alice's House (2007) 89% EDIT “Alice's House is an utterly average foreign art-house film, with all the strengths and flaws that label implies.” – Village Voice Jan 22, 2008 Full Review Summer Palace (2006) 72% EDIT “Combines flashes of insight and scintillating cinematography -- grainy, fumbling, light-blinded -- with stretches of inscrutable mediocrity.” – Village Voice Jan 15, 2008 Full Review The Business of Being Born (2007) 81% EDIT “Epstein and Lake have crafted an absorbing, thought-provoking inquiry into what modern birth has become and how to make it better.” – Village Voice Jan 8, 2008 Full Review The Bucket List (2007) 40% EDIT “[Nicholson and Freeman] are skilled at squeezing emotion from a cheeseball script (as is Reiner, who, knowing the score, doesn't try to rein them in).” – Village Voice Dec 18, 2007 Full Review Flakes (2007) 22% EDIT “Despite a few good one-liners, the dialogue is overwritten.” – Village Voice Dec 18, 2007 Full Review The Perfect Holiday (2007) 19% EDIT “The actors distinguish themselves mainly by their ability to make the material, directed and co-written by Lance Rivera, seem even more painfully awkward and unfunny than it already is -- which is very.” – Village Voice Dec 11, 2007 Full Review Dirty Laundry (2006) 50% EDIT “Cheesy crockpot of a film.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 6, 2007 Full Review Undoing (2006) 31% EDIT “[Director Chris Chan] Lee tries to innovate, but he relies on so many tricks -- woozy overexposures, rapid-fire slideshows -- that his movie looks like the product of a teenager playing with the camera on his new MacBook.” – Village Voice Dec 4, 2007 Full Review Billy the Kid (2007) 82% EDIT “I have seen more than 25 documentaries this year, and after a while they all start to run together, both structurally and thematically. Billy the Kid is utterly original in both respects.” – Village Voice Dec 4, 2007 Full Review Who Is Norman Lloyd? (2007) 60% EDIT “I'm still not convinced that Norman Lloyd "should" be a household name.” – Village Voice Nov 28, 2007 Full Review Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding (2004) 25% EDIT “The not-exactly-long-awaited movie version is here, trading in stereotypes just as ineptly as the original.” – Village Voice Nov 27, 2007 Full Review Everything's Cool (2007) 56% EDIT “Gratingly condescending toward its audience and sorely lacking in any substantive information about the problem or the solution.” – Village Voice Nov 20, 2007 Full Review
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