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4/5
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100%
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Indie Game: The Movie (2012) |
"
"Indie Game: The Movie" lays bare the passion behind the pixels, revealing the sweat, tears and sleep deprivation that go into trying to make the latest gaming sensation."
—
New York Times
Posted May 18, 2012
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87%
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Cropsey (2010) |
"
The latest Cinema Purgatorio release is really a scary story told in the dark, in the get-this whisper of documentary."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 1, 2010
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90%
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Ghost Bird (2009) |
"
Backed by an eclectic soundtrack, Crocker's 2009 doc traces the hubbub around the decades-departed ivory-billed woodpecker, purportedly rediscovered near Brinkley, Arkansas."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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84%
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The Ghost Writer (2010) |
"
What actually happens is less important than the barest glimmers of that old Polanski magic."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 16, 2010
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91%
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Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig) (2010) |
"
Cedergren is a little too bland, but that works with Hansen's air of haplessness and sets him apart from the colorful locals."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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100%
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Still Bill (2010) |
"
Though he's ready with easy charm, [Withers'] sensibly jaded edge makes things interesting (both tendencies may be reactions to stuttering since childhood)."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 26, 2010
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60%
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Loot (2009) |
"
The bleakness and resignation running through the film can be gut-wrenching."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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81%
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Collapse (2009) |
"
By faithfully documenting Ruppert's long-simmering analysis, Smith lets us experience the feeling of a world gone to pot, whether or not the claims are factually accurate."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 3, 2009
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Babi buta yang ingin terbang (Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly) (2008) |
"
The resulting experience could very easily be described as off-putting -- which well suits the uneasiness of the subject."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 8, 2009
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84%
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Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love (2009) |
"
The performance excerpts, starting with the head-clearing invocational introduction, are by far the most interesting part of the show."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 10, 2009
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The Moon and the Sledgehammer () |
"
True escapism this summer is to be found with the Page family in Philip Trevelyan's 1970 steam-engine idyll-doc."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 3, 2009
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95%
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Munyurangabo (2009) |
"
Without proselytizing, what's left in this machetes-to-ploughshares tale is, unexpectedly, a powerfully Christian film."
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Village Voice
Posted May 27, 2009
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100%
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I Can See You (2008) |
"
The sensory disorientation climaxes in a freakout that wipes all your troubles away, as well as anything else lying around in your head."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 29, 2009
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77%
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Üç Maymun (Three Monkeys) (2008) |
"
The heavy mood of indolence and rage, calibrated with ellipses in action, is stifling -- everyone seems to move in a queasy haze."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 28, 2009
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98%
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Avaze gonjeshk-ha (The Song of Sparrows) (2009) |
"
The film is pleasingly meandering, till the more typically Majidian soulful and teary-eyed climax."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 1, 2009
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92%
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Z (1969) |
"
The military junta that ensued in Greece gave the film a sense of urgency approved by Cannes and Oscar alike."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 10, 2009
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Tôyô's Camera (Toyo's Camera) (2010) |
"
Bumpy transitions and organization, along with New Age composer Kitaro's temperamental soundtrack, prevent a sense of polish, but this Japanese-produced doc, which includes Reagan's 1988 reparations, testifies with dignity and restraint."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 5, 2009
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100%
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Great Speeches from a Dying World (2009) |
"
In a sense, Phillips's mission is a variation on the tradition of semi-orchestrated socially conscious documentary that stretches back through Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery and beyond."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 11, 2009
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93%
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Aanrijding in Moscou (Moscow, Belgium) (2008) |
"
We're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 16, 2008
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Henry May Long (2008) |
"
The production makes the most of shoestring means, however, with many a candlelit colloquy, though the apparent background reading in Lowlife and New York by Gas-Light is more alluded to than illustrated."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 20, 2008
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100%
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L' Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child) (1970) |
"
Rather than present a clichéd fall from grace, Truffaut elicits ambivalence by closely tracking the Enlightened scientist's optimism; after the fascination, our inchoate sadness seeps in."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 5, 2008
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94%
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Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre) (1979) |
"
Between the hordes of stowaway rats that accompany Dracula's arrival, and a town-plaza dance of folly by doomed survivors (a Herzog addition), it's like being present at the birth of a medieval legend."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 29, 2008
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100%
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Antonio Gaudí (1986) |
"
Something of a passion project, completed decades after an earlier visit by the director, the film is given over to an eager, rolling catalog of Gaudí's fin de siècle works sans much voiceover or any explanatory text."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 29, 2008
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3.5/5
|
86%
|
Oki's Movie (2012) |
"
Mr. Hong's casually brilliant feat of storytelling, akin to an ingeniously wrought suite of literary short fiction."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 15, 2012
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3.5/5
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——
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Your Brother. Remember? (2012) |
"
A good-humored exploration of fraternal bonds that is often touching."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
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3/5
|
100%
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Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012) |
"
A kind of excavation and investigation of Mr. Wright's actions as a piece of civil rights history."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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3/5
|
50%
|
How to Grow a Band (2012) |
"
Mr. Meatto's framing tends to catch the musicians' give-and-take, merging and dueling notes onstage, especially at a Manhattan concert that is the film's highlight."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
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3/5
|
64%
|
Kimjongilia (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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3/5
|
37%
|
The Other End of the Line (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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3/5
|
93%
|
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (2010) |
"
Those jumps between missions are confusing, but the in-field kvetching and no-holds-barred shots of wounds make this a vivid dispatch from the frontlines."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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3/5
|
64%
|
Kimjongilia (2009) |
"
A horrifying-fascinating peek into a "hermit kingdom" that's a bigger mystery than life on other planets."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 17, 2010
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3/5
|
57%
|
Barefoot To Timbuktu (barfuss Nach Timbuktu) (2010) |
"
Like a good after-dinner story, the film's charm comes from casual storytelling, enhanced by gently barbed interviews with Aebi's family and ex-wife."
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Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2010
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3/5
|
64%
|
The Missing Person (2009) |
"
Though Ryan Samul's textured cinematography makes the stubble and shadows seem nearly 3-D, the story chokes on a dull twist from Rosow's past."
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Time Out New York
Posted Nov 18, 2009
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3/5
|
73%
|
The Good Soldier (2009) |
"
An explicitly antiwar conclusion unwisely makes the grim focus feel like a bias, but the power of the interviews makes one wish for more stories, not fewer."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Nov 11, 2009
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3/5
|
83%
|
Nollywood Babylon (2008) |
"
The kicks come from some over-the-top clips and Imasuen's disarming mix of bombast and shrewdness when he appears on set or as a commentator."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jul 1, 2009
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3/5
|
78%
|
The End of the Line (2009) |
"
Through graph-wielding scientists, picturesque seascapes and Ted Danson's voiceover, director Rupert Murray lays out the facts about the ongoing decimation of world fishing stocks, which could mean the end of tuna as we know it."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 17, 2009
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2.5/5
|
89%
|
Portrait of Wally (2012) |
"
The film's single-minded treatment puts property issues over other nuances of the affair, not least the art itself and the artist."
—
New York Times
Posted May 10, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
92%
|
Headhunters (2012) |
"
Brown's panic is capably rendered, but his ordeals are not worth enduring to the bitter end."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
44%
|
Restless City (2012) |
"
Mr. Dosunmu seems to have directed all his actors to pause before delivering lines, giving a languor to the film that comes to feel studied."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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2.5/5
|
15%
|
My Way (2012) |
"
The bloody chaos can be suitably overwhelming, but you're too aware of the whizzing camerawork, helter-skelter editing and bombastic score."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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2.5/5
|
73%
|
Inside Hana's Suitcase (2012) |
"
It would be odd not to feel something about Hana and the Brady family, but "Inside Hana's Suitcase" feels more like a historical teaching aid than like a great movie."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 17, 2012
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2.5/5
|
38%
|
The Beat Hotel (2012) |
"
Mr. Govenar's textbook history of the scene (from around 1957 to 1963) is twinklingly delivered by surviving former residents and scholarly chroniclers."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 30, 2012
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2/5
|
24%
|
Mansome (2012) |
"
It feels like a bunch of television segments slapped together, with sparing use of Mr. Spurlock himself."
—
New York Times
Posted May 17, 2012
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2/5
|
7%
|
Losing Control (2012) |
"
If you want to enjoy watching a confused scientist grappling with life choices, stick with "The Nutty Professor.""
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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2/5
|
98%
|
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) |
"
Like many other such portraits, it wastes valuable time declaring its subject's excellence that could be spent fleshing out demonstrations, explanations, context."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
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2/5
|
——
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Jess + Moss (2012) |
"
Mr. Jeter, who has made his feature-length debut with this film, tries to capture the loose feel of childhood's open-ended summers. But the vocabulary of his imagery feels worn out, and the ambience feels handed down."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 16, 2012
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2/5
|
51%
|
Chéri (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
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2/5
|
81%
|
No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin) (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
89%
|
Hubble 3D (2010) |
"
Audiences expecting a blissout of swirling galaxies will wonder why so much time is spent on astronauts sweating over screws and bolts."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 17, 2010
|
67%
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98%
