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"...The quality of the cast and LaBute's hilariously savage touches make this movie well worth seeing." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...LaBute achieves a bracing originality....The actors are flat-out wonderful, biting eagerly into juicy roles..." Rolling Stone "...Bleak, scathing, and utterly compelling....Mesmerizingly miserable..." -- Rating: A Entertainment Weekly "...It sustains a psychic ferocity that commands attention..." New York Times "...Neil LaBute is a ferociously talented filmmaker....An awfully funny film, and it features scathingly intelligent dialogue delivered by a talented cast..."Box Office55.72091

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This is the best comedy since THE HANGOVER....It's funnier than the original..."Chicago Sun-Times "[Rock] has assembled a stellar cast....LaBute moves his cast and crew well in and around a handsome set designed by Jon Gary Steele."Hollywood Reporter "[E]ven the movie's more slapstick moments are handled with a dash of elegance..."Movieline 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's the sensibility that makes this version superior, its atmosphere of anarchy preferable to the original's gallows humour..."Total Film55.46977

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This is the best comedy since THE HANGOVER....It's funnier than the original..."Chicago Sun-Times "[Rock] has assembled a stellar cast....LaBute moves his cast and crew well in and around a handsome set designed by Jon Gary Steele."Hollywood Reporter "[E]ven the movie's more slapstick moments are handled with a dash of elegance..."Movieline55.37327

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This is the best comedy since THE HANGOVER....It's funnier than the original..."Chicago Sun-Times "[Rock] has assembled a stellar cast....LaBute moves his cast and crew well in and around a handsome set designed by Jon Gary Steele."Hollywood Reporter "[E]ven the movie's more slapstick moments are handled with a dash of elegance..."Movieline55.37327

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This is the best comedy since THE HANGOVER....It's funnier than the original..."Chicago Sun-Times "[Rock] has assembled a stellar cast....LaBute moves his cast and crew well in and around a handsome set designed by Jon Gary Steele."Hollywood Reporter "[E]ven the movie's more slapstick moments are handled with a dash of elegance..."Movieline 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's the sensibility that makes this version superior, its atmosphere of anarchy preferable to the original's gallows humour..."Total Film55.37327

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This is the best comedy since THE HANGOVER....It's funnier than the original..."Chicago Sun-Times "[Rock] has assembled a stellar cast....LaBute moves his cast and crew well in and around a handsome set designed by Jon Gary Steele."Hollywood Reporter "[E]ven the movie's more slapstick moments are handled with a dash of elegance..."Movieline55.37327

"...[NURSE BETTY] produces that shivery feeling when your heart melts but at the same moment you want to burst out laughing....Ms. Zellweger's Betty [is] a perfectly blended mixture of sweetness, innocence, and stubborn determination....A triumph..." New York Times "...Allows [Rene Zellweger] to pull out the emotional stops in a way that audiences can't help but find irresistible....Observing Zellweger as she dispenses her brand of movie magic definitely is good for what ails you." USA Today "...Deserving of accolades....NURSE BETTY is alternately funny, scary and deeply poignant, and it confirms LaBute as one of the most exciting new talents to galvanize the movies..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Zellweger is muffin-fresh....The lines between reality and fantasy, goodness and violence, have rarely been so beatifully drawn as in this tangy dark comedy..." -- Rating: A Entertainment Weekly Ranked #6 in Entertainment Weekly's "Lisa Schwarzbaum's BEST MOVIES OF 2000" Entertainment Weekly "...Zellweger is a dream -- funny, touching and vital in a role that lets her talents blossom....As ever, Freeman delivers miracles; he's as good as it gets..."Rolling Stone "...LaBute sidesteps cliches like a broken-field runner....NURSE BETTY is one of those films where you don't know whether to laugh or cringe, and find yourself doing both. It's a challenge..." Chicago Sun-Times "...Original and unusually humane....A compelling oddity..." Total Film55.27677

"...Intelligent...wickedly funny..." -- 4 out of 5 stars Total Film "..A radical, alternative and deeply disturbing feminist movie..." Sight and Sound "...A provocative dissection of human dynamics..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...Remarkable....Its psychological conflation of sexual and professional frustration is astute..." Film Comment "...[A] stunning, unsettling, beautifully written drama....LaBute lets poisons flow..." Entertainment Weekly "...Tremendously gutsy....A fascinating, divisive conversation piece..." New York Times "...It's convincingly acted, and writer-director LaBute has a gift for a certain kind of comic-scabrous dialogue as well as a sure idea of what he wants to accomplish..." Los Angeles Times "...IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is the kind of bold, uncompromising film that insists on being thought about afterward..." Chicago Sun-Times55.27677

"[The film] does exert an eerie power....THE WICKER MAN has just enough enigma and weirdness that it gradually stirs to life."Entertainment Weekly55.22852

"[The film] does exert an eerie power....THE WICKER MAN has just enough enigma and weirdness that it gradually stirs to life."Entertainment Weekly55.22852

"...The movie raises interesting questions about the power exerted in relationships and the amount of control a person can or should have over another..." USA Today "...LaBute has that rarest of attributes, a distinctive voice. You know one of his scenes at once....He also has a distinctive view of life....It is the surface normality of the characters and their worlds that is scary..." Chicago Sun-Times "...[LaBute's] ideas on art and humanity will make you hoot, holler, curse the actors, damn LaBute and argue like hell with your date. What else do you want from a movie?..." Rolling Stone "...LaBute, adapting his 2001 play, entwines the four in some skillfully intense dialogue..." Entertainment Weekly "...Rudd is a consistent charmer..." Los Angeles Times "...LaBute is one of the most gifted writers to emerge over the last decade, and THE SHAPE OF THINGS is full of tantalizing ideas..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Let's just say it's spectacular and a repeat viewing confirms just how cleverly -- not to mention cheekily -- the writer/director clicks all his pieces into place..." Total Film "Rachel Weisz's brilliantly layered performance as Evelyn -- barbed, vehement and oddly sorrowful -- keeps all options open." Sight and Sound55.22852

"Jackson modulates Abel's internal turmoil and heated exchanges with enough shades of loneliness, steely generosity and wicked playfulness to give the actor firm control of our fascination and growing unease."Los Angeles Times "[LAKEVIEW TERRACE] delves often unflinchingly into issues of race, politics and class. Jackson's performance is mesmerizing."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "LaBute keeps the focus firmly on building up and paying off the tension in the film's swiftly unravelling showdown."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "LAKEVIEW TERRACE is a canny, effective mix of personal concerns with commercial storytelling..."Empire54.98727

"Jackson modulates Abel's internal turmoil and heated exchanges with enough shades of loneliness, steely generosity and wicked playfulness to give the actor firm control of our fascination and growing unease."Los Angeles Times "[LAKEVIEW TERRACE] delves often unflinchingly into issues of race, politics and class. Jackson's performance is mesmerizing."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "LaBute keeps the focus firmly on building up and paying off the tension in the film's swiftly unravelling showdown."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "LAKEVIEW TERRACE is a canny, effective mix of personal concerns with commercial storytelling..."Empire54.98727

"Jackson modulates Abel's internal turmoil and heated exchanges with enough shades of loneliness, steely generosity and wicked playfulness to give the actor firm control of our fascination and growing unease."Los Angeles Times "[LAKEVIEW TERRACE] delves often unflinchingly into issues of race, politics and class. Jackson's performance is mesmerizing."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "LaBute keeps the focus firmly on building up and paying off the tension in the film's swiftly unravelling showdown."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "LAKEVIEW TERRACE is a canny, effective mix of personal concerns with commercial storytelling..."Empire54.98727

"...Hauntingly directed..." Rolling Stone "...POSSESSION turns out to be a treat for literate moviegoers....It's a teasingly intellectual detective story, a taut comedy on the egotism of academics and a surprisingly affecting romance..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...[LaBute] juggles the two storylines beautifully.....He's a distinctive artist whose vision just continues deepening..." Premiere "...An unusually smart and credible example of the genre..." New York Times "...Paltrow again proves her facility with an English accent....Ehle masterfully portrays the enigmatic LaMotte....Northam, who always strikes the right tone in period films, is dashing and earnest..." USA Today "...Ehle, an actress of dazzling grace, and Northam, an actor born of Byronic romance, bring real fire to their roles..." Rolling Stone "...[Northam] brings an ardent spirit and considered tone to the role....The superb Ehle is the picture of 19th Century English beauty..." Variety "...What LaBute has retained is his acute depiction of a complicated couple....[The writers] demonstrate a true love for the written word..." Box Office39.51787

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Billboard (p.60) - "[T]he eight songs are layered in sustained distortion and electronic effects and feature heavy delays on Young's recognizable tenor."Mojo (Publisher) (p.52) - Ranked #31 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[M]ostly electric, always raging, LE NOISE delivers ghostly resonance and cathartic thrills..."Uncut (magazine) (p.78) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he guitar sounds engineered here by Young and Lanois are astonishing, almost terrifying at times in their elemental beauty..."Uncut (magazine) (p.37) - Ranked #2 in Uncut's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[A] solo guitar album, recorded intimately but given reverberant scale by Daniel Lanois."18.42544

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Spin (p.92) - "[Young] is a cracked angel with an endless stream of brilliant songs."Down Beat (p.59) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Disc 4 balances] powerful songs of sadness and loneliness with upbeat, stirring melodies and lush harmonies."Pitchfork (Website) - "For Neil Young, the years of 1963 to 1972 were marked by a rapid maturation and a series of successful stylistic reinventions that rivaled the Beatles."12.13778

Magnet (4-5/01, p.76) - "...Referencing touchstones of the past, from classic new wave to brightly hued Krautrock to minimalist psychedelia....NMH turns out to be a gas."Mojo (Publisher) (5/01, p.106) - "...Weird, exploratory and self-indulgent...his riffy virtousity is offset against tootling organ/vocal melodies for a garage sound that ranges from '60s psychedelic pop to full-blown prog..."NME (Magazine) (4/7/01, p.43) - 7 out of 10 - "...As far from conventional rock'n'roll as ever - rhythms are arhythmic, songs are dominated by deceptively clumsy, reverb-heavy guitar solos..."11.28381

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Rolling Stone (4/29/93, pp.62-63) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Young tries to show how the emotional impulses behind his songwriting, performing and recording methods remain constant as his styles vary....lays out the crucial reasons why Neil Young perseveres and triumphs..." Village Voice (3/9/93, p.80) - "...just about every one of these 13 selections is a good song..." - Rating: A-Entertainment Weekly (1/15/93, p.52) - "...This sampling from Neil Young's mid-'80s Geffen stint reminds us how many of his experiments actually worked....Young ricochets from style to style like a crazed cue ball, but more often than not he finds his pocket..." - Rating: B+Q (2/93, p.94) - 3 Stars - GoodDown Beat (4/93, p.52) - 3.5 Stars - Good Plus - "...[an] ambitious project..."10.04663

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Rolling Stone (1/25/96, p.41) - Ranked #6 in the 1996 Critics' Poll.Spin (9/95, p.109) - 8 - Very Good - "...Young, like today's grunge kids, has always seen anomie as sufficient unto itself....MIRROR BALL...suggests another parallel: Sometimes it's easier to string together some...power chords and a few forlorn references to religion, fame and suicide than to actually write songs. And sometimes that's just fine..."Entertainment Weekly (6/30-7/7/95, pp.96-97) - "...mostly three-chord stompers, and Pearl Jam seems content to kick out the jams behind him....aims for that anthemic mode of the Neil Young of old, and despite a few muddled chords and even more muddled lyrics, the collaborative magic works..." - Rating: A-Q (8/95, p.128) - 3 Stars - Good - "...a rough and ready collection of Young songs, alive with studio ambience and, well, grungy..."Melody Maker (6/17/95, p.37) - Recommended - "...VS. meets ON THE BEACH at ARC/WELD volume....What gets you first is the throb--the mantra-like whack of the hooks and the circular propulsion of the chord progressions....these aren't conventional songs, they're thunderclap soliloquies, raw grooves set to telegraphic narratives..."Musician (9/95, pp.85-86) - "...Part of what makes MIRROR BALL so moving is [a] sense of being unstuck in time, not so much musically--though the combination of Pearl Jam's uncompromised attack with Young's folk melodicism...suggests the spanning of generations--but by Young's vision..."Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #5 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.NME (Magazine) (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23) - Ranked #41 in NME's 'Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.NME (Magazine) (6/24/95, p.56) - 9 (out of 10) - "...as shabby, as unrehearsed, as rugged and raw as anything he's released. But it is another fine Neil Young album....the record's sound is...big, woolly, live and booming..."10.01532

Rolling Stone (11/26/92, p.71) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...sounds like the calm after the storm, with a hushed musical landscape at times populated only by a ghostly harmonica, a few spooky bass lines and Young's cracked tenor...within these spare settings, Young's search for shelter from the storm resonates like a heartbeat..."Spin (12/92, p.89) - Highly Recommended - "...HARVEST MOON is all strummed acoustic chords, scenic choral overdubs, melodies cruising smooth as an air-conditioned limo on a two-lane blacktop. Underneath the tranquility and cosmic platitudes, there's a human highway..."Entertainment Weekly (11/13/92, p.78) - "...In both music and tone, HARVEST MOON is wistful and elegiac....it's the classic-rock equivalent of a late-period Sinatra saloon-song album....comfortable, reassuring, and proudly old wave..." - Rating: B+Q (12/99, p.74) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."Q (1/93, p.69) - Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992.Q (12/92, p.141) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...he has surrounded his meditations in some of his simplest, most gorgeous melodies in years..."Musician (12/92, p.93) - "...this unadorned folk music exudes real weight....Young at his best..."Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5) - Ranked #17 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.Audio Magazine (2/93, p.92) - Sound: B / Performance: A- - "...simple and subtle..."Vox (12/92, p.62) - 10 - Classic - "...Though essentially a warm, emotional album, it doesn't flinch from a realization that innocent idealism is no longer a viable commodity on mankind's futures market...HARVEST MOON may be the best work he's ever done..."(3/93, p.52) - "...HARVEST MOON has the same haunted sound as its predecessor....vintage Neil Young..."Mojo (Publisher) (11/01, p.151) - "...It's a more mature, contented record, with a good deal of gentle nostalgia..."10.00309

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Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.114) - Ranked #78 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Americana - steel, guitar, slide guitar, banjo - stripped down and rebuilt with every jagged edge exposed..."Q (7/00, p.141) - Included in Q's "The Best Male Angst Albums Of All Time" - "...The showcase for [his] most affecting artistic devices..."Mojo (Publisher) (11/01, p.150) - "...If he was laid-back at this time it was simply because spinal surgery had made him literally so..."NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #60 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #22 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of The '70s.'9.973577

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Down Beat (p.82) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The four Euclidians exploit Young's simple and engaging melodies, sounding totally involved and assured."9.973577

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Q (4/02, p.142) - "...It's definitely the sound of an artist struggling to find his way..."9.973577

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