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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE            Paper Heart (2009)      "Ask a stupid question and you get a stupid movie." [movie review]      The L Magazine       A-      Paprika (2007)      "Ostensibly, Paprika's a muddled science fiction tale, but below its manga-esque surface it's a penetrating exploration of spectatorship and a celebration of cinematic spectacle." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      Paranoid Park (2008)      "The backgrounds, not coincidentally where the parents often are to be found, are usually blurred to emphasize Van Sant's distaste for context. As with Elephant and Last Days, he is directly concerned only with the what and not the why." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Paranormal Activity (2009)      "The haunting is a metaphor for the challenges young couples face in building successful relationships..." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Paris (2009)      ""Ritzy, shabby, trashy Paris," as one character describes it, told through ditzy, flabby, flashy filmmaking." [movie review]      The L Magazine       2/5      Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)      "Its heart is in the right place for these dark recession-depression days, defending the consumer at the expense of the corporation." [movie review]      The L Magazine            A Perfect Getaway (2009)      "The first throwback to that Kevin Williamson era of winking genre pieces too smart for their own structural strictures..." [movie review]      The L Magazine       1/4      The Perfect Sleep (2009)      "The Perfect Sleep is an empty homage to a bygone genre." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       B-      Persepolis (2007)      "Less the tale of Iran told through one woman than the tale of one self-absorbed woman incidentally set in Iran" [movie review]      Cinepinion       B+      The Piano Teacher (2002)      "The Piano Teacher is a character piece, a veritable gift to Huppert who gives everything she's got into her performance as a prim and proper pianist with a deviant desire for penis." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B+      Pineapple Express (2008)      "Homoerotic undertones bubble much closer to the surface here than in most straight male American comedies--and not even (always) for gross-out effect!" [movie review]      Cinepinion       4/5      The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)      "A gentrification allegory, the film features neo-New Yorkers who view the city as their playground by right...With bemused detachment, [it] observes the freedom from consequences afforded to New York's free, white & 21 population." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Police, Adjective (2009)      "Vertigo-esque [but] not so much concerned with the politics of cinema as it is with simple politics." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Ponyo (2009)      "Such blatant cynicism would rarely be found in an American cartoon. But Miyazaki isn't afraid of going past the limits with which his intended audience is accustomed..." [movie review]      Cinepinion       3/5      The President's Analyst (1967)      "An unwieldy allegory for the freewheelin' '60s' ethos of responsibility shirking and self-discovery, The President's Analyst feels hopelessly dated, from the title (who says "analyst" anymore?) to its central villain (what's a "phone company"?)" [movie review]      The L Magazine       B-      Private Property (2006)      "When it's all over there seems something pointless about having gone through the whole thing." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B      Public Enemies (2009)      "You've seen it before, but may as well see it again, given the sturdiness of the storytelling%u2014and how handsome it looks." [movie review]      Cinepinion

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