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1/5
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76%
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Afterschool (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
Staten Island (Little New York) (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
22%
|
Staten Island (Little New York) (2009) |
"
Staten Island is not without surprises -- nor is it any good."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Nov 18, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
76%
|
Afterschool (2008) |
"
If you've ever balked at drifty solitude or video meta-hell in the films of Gus Van Sant or Michael Haneke, this pale imitation will drive you batty."
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Time Out New York
Posted Sep 30, 2009
|
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1/5
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34%
|
The Burning Plain (2009) |
"
For all the pretenses of roiling or suffocated desires, the cast appears to have been ordered to deaden all sensation (except for Basinger, who frets away in an underwritten part)."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 16, 2009
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|
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20%
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Convention (2009) |
"
The film's frustrating treatment is actually more like the local reporter who is shown struggling to stay in the loop."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 1, 2010
|
|
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84%
|
The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2010) |
"
Kim's filmmaking is generally cartoonish in a bad sense, as he squanders his set pieces, flashbacks, and other attention-getting with sometimes downright wretched staging."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 20, 2010
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|
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91%
|
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) (2010) |
"
Say what you will, but the lead actors in Argentine director Juan José Campanella's latest film do have lovely (or at least handsomely shot) peepers. But the secrets you ultimately find therein are hilarious."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 14, 2010
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|
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27%
|
After.Life (2010) |
"
What might have played well as a multipage Poe rumination gradually gets pulled to bits by thudding Ricci-Neeson face-offs in the poster-ready funeral-prep chamber."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 6, 2010
|
|
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34%
|
Formosa Betrayed (2010) |
"
Neither the investigation nor the suspense (hobbled by editorializing) have much impact; the movie, necessarily shot in Thailand, plays like secret-history tourism."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 23, 2010
|
|
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82%
|
Storm (Sturm) (2009) |
"
The writing by director Hans-Christian Schmid and Bernd Lange is more stilted and righteous than even the U.N. environs, with its humanity-embracing procedural-speak, calls for."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 27, 2009
|
|
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22%
|
Looking for Palladin (2008) |
"
Requiring cuts, some sense of direction, and dialogue that doesn't either declare or dither, the film looks like it was fun to make."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 27, 2009
|
|
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48%
|
Ong Bak 2 (2009) |
"
The movie would work better as a highlight reel."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 20, 2009
|
|
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39%
|
The Little Traitor (2009) |
"
Set during a fascinating and hard-to-reduce moment in history, the movie steers clear of any but the most basic conflicts and resolutions."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 14, 2009
|
|
|
40%
|
Donne-moi la main (Give Me Your Hand) (2009) |
"
It's usually a dangerous sign when a director casting about for an idea gets fascinated by twins."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 8, 2009
|
|
|
90%
|
Wolke Neun (Cloud 9) (2008) |
"
The film comes to feel curiously incomplete, like one long fretful afternoon."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 11, 2009
|
|
|
80%
|
Bandslam (2009) |
"
Todd Graff's film is written with a desperate cleverness that clamors for attention over the brainless against-the-odds music-competition plot."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 11, 2009
|
|
|
74%
|
I Sell the Dead (2008) |
"
It's rather hard for anyone who has ever chanced upon a Poe anthology on cable and only lasted through one or two cheeky tales."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 4, 2009
|
|
|
33%
|
Máncora (2008) |
"
Despite dramatic pretenses, De Montreuil has essentially made a piece of sex-and-sun tourism cinema."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 18, 2009
|
|
|
69%
|
BLAST! (2009) |
"
While the portrayal of collaboration is respectable, and the balloon enchanting as it shimmers skyward, jellyfish-like, the doc is too flat for its own good."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 10, 2009
|
|
|
64%
|
The Merry Gentleman (2009) |
"
The repetitive material hobbles the actor's energies."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 28, 2009
|
|
|
65%
|
Is Anybody There? (2009) |
"
Even Crowley, who seems to have a knack with overloaded material, can't quite bring the thing in for a safe landing in all the slush."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 14, 2009
|
|
|
92%
|
Etz Limon (Lemon Tree) (2009) |
"
The direction is stubbornly flat-footed."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 14, 2009
|
|
|
63%
|
Wherever You Are (Lifelines) (2008) |
"
The film's befuddling direction and tone, queasy HD interiors, and tin-eared, often preposterous, screenplay prove disastrous."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 1, 2009
|
|
|
27%
|
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"
Fast & Furious reconfirms that car-chase movies -- good, bad, or mediocre -- all assume the future employment of the quaint old fast-forward button."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 1, 2009
|
|
|
32%
|
Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2009) |
"
The spectacle of two dudes mucking about in the primal forest becomes tedious..."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 10, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
The Sublet (2008) |
"
The asexual, adopt-a-fogey impulse is a well-established one, but Simon's oldster act, glasses a-perched and dawning comprehension at the ready, is mannered and tiresome."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 14, 2009
|
|
|
72%
|
Kærlighed på Film (Just Another Love Story) (2007) |
"
Bertelsen's puffy sheepishness isn't involving enough to distract from the routine plot perforations."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 6, 2009
|
|
|
65%
|
What Doesn't Kill You (2008) |
"
Ruffalo draws on his knack for summoning an incongruous brooding bulk from within, and the result almost sucks the air from Hawke's rangy routine of nerves and sinewy smiles."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 9, 2008
|
|
|
82%
|
The End of America (2008) |
"
Despite the totalitarian drumbeating and the Constitution love, the movie feels strangely ahistorical and lacks real systemic analysis."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2008
|
|
|
78%
|
Slingshot (Tirador) (2010) |
"
With Mendoza averaging two features a year, if you don't like what you see now, just wait a few months."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 22, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
31%
|
Detention (2012) |
"
In this universe people seem composed of 1 percent water and 99 percent '90s references and genre expectations."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
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
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Chéri (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
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
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
Severe Clear (2010) |
"
Everything zips by our eyes, thanks to the director's penchant for editing together footage of mutilated corpses and tense gunfire way too snappily."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 10, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
68%
|
The Yellow Handkerchief (2010) |
"
A wispy story of revelation that's blessed with gorgeously photographed Southern discomfort, and beset by on-the-nose dialogue and awkward time-shifting."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Feb 24, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009) |
"
No Impact Man eventually runs out of gas -- or rather, pedal-power -- as the filmmakers grope for how to cap the Beavans' story."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 9, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
57%
|
Mutluluk (Bliss) (2009) |
"
The movie could use more genuinely thorny moments, like when a bikini-clad student visits the prof and his flustered fugitives. Instead, Bliss gets a cheapening thriller climax that presses the cruel family patriarch into villain duty."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 5, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin) (2009) |
"
Our sense of the treacherous and tender relations between occupiers and occupied is hampered by turbulent direction that's more intent on displaying shrill face-offs and canted angles than getting deep into a scene."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jul 15, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Chéri (2009) |
"
With its disconnected tones, Chéri really feels like a film that can't do more than one thing at a time."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jun 25, 2009
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
67%
——
98%
