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1/5	"*There are no laughs to be found in writer-director Michael Traeger's would-be comedy The Amateurs, but there is one big mystery: how actors of this caliber could have been convinced to take part." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Amateurs (2007)	14%
2.5/5	"The script's subtler nuances are too often drowned out by awkward histrionics." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 8, 2007	Memories of Tomorrow (2006)	82%
1.5/5	"Has nowhere near the conceptual sophistication of Rear Window, where the protagonist's absorption in what he's watching mirrors the viewer's. The problem with Disturbia is that for most of the film you'll wish you weren't watching at all." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2007	Disturbia (2007)	68%
2.5/5	"Zippy if forgettable." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 29, 2007	Meet the Robinsons (2007)	66%
2/5	"A wholly predictable bit of slasher unpleasantness and a muddled cautionary tale on the American propensity for foreign misadventures." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 30, 2006	Turistas (2006)	15%
	"It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when it becomes clear that this lurid, steroidal neo-noir is certifiably insane (or at least a lot funnier than it means to be), but it's pretty early on." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2006	Shadowboxer (2006)	20%
	"Time to Leave winds up a tiresome affirmation of man's biological duty to procreate; the position is simplistic verging on obnoxious, especially after 5x2's attack on the hetero family model." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006	Time to Leave (2006)	76%
	"Painfully literal/ironic soundtrack choices add to the general unpleasantness, and the nods to Fassbinder's great In a Year of 13 Moons only emphasize what this scattershot satire most decidedly is not." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2006	Agnes and His Brothers (2006)	42%
	"In Cuesta's cynical formulation, the pretense of empathy is simply license to mock, gawk, and vulgarize." -- Village Voice Posted May 17, 2006	12 and Holding (2006)	73%
	"*The plot, already mired in nonsensical backstory, collapses with the late-inning introduction of a tired metafictional device (not to mention a wildly lunging Usual Suspects twist)." -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 4, 2006	Basic Instinct 2 (2006)	7%
	"The destination is a pageant that will demonstrate, in grotesque, stomach-churning detail, that beauty is skin-deep and that you don't have to win to be a winner." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	91%
	"The hyperactive juvenile whimsy and the stoner dream theories are out of control -- and fascinatingly close to pathology." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006	The Science of Sleep (2006)	69%
	"It's hard to fathom why anyone would voluntarily endure a holiday family reunion movie (hereafter HFRM) -- a genre devised solely to demonstrate how grotesque and how heartwarming families can be." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 13, 2005	The Family Stone (2005)	53%
	"*A would-be cross between Showgirls* and Raise the Red Lantern, too dumb to cause offense though falling short of the oblivious abandon that could have vaulted it into high camp.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Dec 6, 2005	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)	35%
	"John Madden's competent, monotonous film version, not exactly stagebound but hardly freewheeling, only underscores its mechanical nature." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2005	Proof (2005)	64%
	"For Bay, restraint means not dropping a fireball on a large urban center within the first act." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 19, 2005	The Island (2005)	40%
	"A braver movie would have seen the couple's standoff through to its logical conclusion -- the eventual insistence on happily ever after seems more than a little weaselly." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 7, 2005	Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)	59%
	"Rock School ends up being a movie about just how little fun rock 'n' roll can be." -- Village Voice Posted May 31, 2005	Rock School (2005)	82%
	"The hero's condition, which goes unconnected to the amnesia of war, instead becomes an allegory for a filmmaker forgetting his roots." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2005	The Jacket (2005)	43%
	"*In somewhat bad faith, In Good Company* abandons its satire of corporate culture to focus on male bonding.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Dec 28, 2004	In Good Company (2004)	83%
	"*As pedestrian as its marital and parental conflicts may be, Spanglish* utterly crumbles when it probes matters of cultural identity.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Dec 14, 2004	Spanglish (2004)	53%
	"Drowning in accidental subtext, it's both queasy psychodrama and earnest ego trip, a stunt so bravely defiant of commonsense realism that it borders on the avant-garde." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 14, 2004	Beyond the Sea (2004)	42%
	"*More than three decades after the frank sex-talk of Nichols's early triumphs, Closer* offers only a cozy and barely fashionable cynicism.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Nov 30, 2004	Closer (2004)	69%
	"It's depressing to think that this morsel of glib effrontery could pass as a serious critique of conservative Islam -- and horrifying to realize that it provoked someone to murder." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 16, 2004	Submission: Part 1 (2004)	n/a
	"As its stricken hero's prominently posed copies of Kafka and Dostoyevsky suggest, the movie takes itself more seriously than it should." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 19, 2004	The Machinist (2004)	73%
	"The director's leaden touch and the plot's insistent banality obscure any conceptual resonance." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 12, 2004	The Final Cut (2004)	37%
	"Simply a stunt -- hopelessly literal-minded and cheap in every sense." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 3, 2004	Open Water (2004)	72%
	"A coy sexual-awakening vignette acquires home-movie texture and sociological flavor." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2004	The Road to Love (2002)	40%
	"No amount of fidgety editing and anxious soundtrack atonality can distract from the creakingly implausible scenario." -- Village Voice Posted May 11, 2004	24th Day (2004)	21%
	"A parable on cine-enchantment that itself fails to enchant." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 21, 2004	Rhinoceros Eyes (2004)	45%
	"The movie's idiotic fascination with the senselessness of its central act is scarily close to a fetish." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 30, 2004	The United States of Leland (2004)	31%
	"Adapted from a Stephen King novella, the film lurches tiredly through the author's favorite masochistic-narcissistic fantasy, subjecting a woebegone writer to a gauntlet of abuse." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 16, 2004	Secret Window (2004)	46%
	"*Dreary and overfamiliar -- a strained bid for Donnie Darko* cult cred on the part of its star.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jan 20, 2004	The Butterfly Effect (2004)	34%
	"Largely innocuous and forgettable." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 13, 2004	Along Came Polly (2004)	27%
	"As toilet-mouthed, puke-encrusted, and liver-damaged as it may be, the movie's a traditional Scrooge story at heart." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 25, 2003	Bad Santa (2003)	76%
	"A gluttonous buffet of Sundance clich�s, with an acid-reflux aftertaste of condescension and unexamined racism." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2003	Pieces of April (2003)	84%
	"*While Strand's gay-shorts series took a tentative step toward maturity with 2000's Boys Life 3, this fourth anthology represents a full-blown regression." -- Village Voice* Posted Jul 29, 2003	Boys Life 4: Four Play (2003)	40%
	"Perhaps too toothless for its subject." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 22, 2003	Mondays in the Sun (2003)	79%
	"At best irrelevant and at worst obscene." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 15, 2003	September 11 (2003)	77%
	"In an effort to keep the plates spinning, the movie quickly devolves from risque to risible." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 9, 2003	Confusion of Genders (2003)	18%
	"*Devoid of originality, Gasoline* is at least a model of modesty -- a road movie that goes nowhere slowly, and ends up where it began.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jul 1, 2003	Gasoline (2001)	42%
	"Swimming Pool is as lulling as a dead man's float, but you come up for air realizing there's no deep end." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2003	Swimming Pool (2003)	85%
	"The movie epitomizes the problems inherent in attempting to depict new (and constantly morphing) media -- the inevitable obsolescence, the intangible particularities that resist or get lost in translation." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2003	On_Line (2002)	38%
	"Ironically, the stretch marks are what you notice most." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2003	May (2003)	68%
	"An uninspired addition to the generally endearing subgenre." -- Village Voice Posted May 27, 2003	Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters (2002)	29%
	"Mawkishly clich�d." -- Village Voice Posted May 27, 2003	Together (2003)	73%
	"The cheerful how-to aspect ('cut and file your nails!') adds to the sense that the whole thing seems to have drifted in from some late-night infomercial netherland." -- Village Voice Posted May 13, 2003	Beyond Vanilla (2001)	60%
	"Compulsively horrible and full of unintentional poignant hilarity." -- Village Voice Posted May 6, 2003	The Trip (2003)	39%
	"*A nihilist project in Usual Suspects* mode: Nothing is as it seems, because nothing matters in the least.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 29, 2003	Identity (2003)	63%
	"*Watching the film is like reading a Times* Portrait of Grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 1, 2003	The Guys (2002)	73%

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