Sam Adams

L.A. Times

Sam Adams is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Onion A.V. Club, and a Contributing Editor at Philadelphia City Paper, where he served as Film Editor from 1999 to 2007. His writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, the Boston Globe, the Hollywood Reporter and Film Comment. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics, and his essays on Two Lane Blacktop and Greendale appear in the NSFC anthology The B List. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.

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Films

35 Shots of Rum B+

A Serious Man A-

Adam B-

Adventureland B+

Amelia D (Review)

Amreeka B (Review)

An Education B

Antichrist A- (Review)

Anvil! The Story of Anvil B

Away We Go D

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans C+

Big Fan B-

Bright Star B+

Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) B+

Bronson A- (Review)

Bruno B- (Review)

Capitalism: A Love Story C+ (Review)

Cheri B-

Coco Before Chanel B-

Dare B- (Review)

Drag Me to Hell B

Fantastic Mr. Fox A-

Gentlemen Broncos B-

Goodbye Solo B+

Humpday B+

In the Loop A- (Review)

Inglourious Basterds B- (Review)

It Might Get Loud B- (Review)

Julia B+

La Danse B (Review)

Life During Wartime B-

Lymelife C+

Me and Orson Welles C+

Micmacs A-

Moon B (Review)

Outrage B

Passing Strange A-

Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked) C- (Review)

Police, Adjective B

Ponyo A-

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire B+

Summer Hours B+

Sunshine Cleaning C+ (Review)

Taking Woodstock C-

Tetro B+ (Review)

The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d’Agnès) B

The Brothers Bloom F (Review)

The Cove B+

The Girlfriend Experience B (Review)

The Hurt Locker A- (Review)

The Informant A- (Review)

The Limits of Control A-

The Men Who Stare at Goats C+

The Messenger B

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee C-

The Road B

The September Issue C+

The Sun (Solntse) A

The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) B+

Thirst (Bakjwi) B+

Trash Humpers B

Up B (Review)

Up in the Air A-

We Live in Public C+

Whatever Works B+ (Review)

Whip It B-

White Material B+

World’s Greatest Dad B

9 A- (Review)
AFI Fest
AFI Fest '09
BROKEN EMBRACES
A Film By Almodovar, Starring Penelope Cruz
Opens New York 11/20, Opens Los Angeles 12/11
Opens additional cities 12/25
Where is it opening by you?
www.sonyclassics.com/brokenembraces/dates.html
"Astonishing! A Masterpiece!"
Jeffrey Lyons, KNBC Weekend Today
"Cruz with Almodovar makes BROKEN EMBRACES soar!"
Richard Corliss, TIME
Written and Directed by Pedro Almodovar
www.brokenembracesmovie.com
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