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69%
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Life During Wartime (2010) |
"
Daring the discomfited viewer to laugh at shame and suffering, and then wonder why we're laughing, Todd Solondz is back."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 20, 2010
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100%
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L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno) (2010) |
"
For all the irrationality that fueled Clouzot's project, it's reasonable to assume that the finished Inferno would never have been any better or more evocative than this arrangement of its shards."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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93%
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The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
The actresses are loose and funny, trading off big scenes and clearly enjoying themselves throughout."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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91%
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Winnebago Man (2010) |
"
Was it all an act--or is this? Pay your money and find out."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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78%
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2010) |
"
A feature-length portrait of a pop music genius as (pre-)convicted murderer, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector lives up to its grandiose title"
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 29, 2010
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89%
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Red Cliff (Chi Bi) (2009) |
"
The director's magnum opus."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 29, 2010
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100%
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Law (2000) |
"
A movie of cartoon-like mass formations, singing urchins, and operatic outbursts."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 23, 2010
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100%
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Le Amiche (1955) |
"
An unexpected treasure."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 15, 2010
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100%
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Nightfall (1957) |
"
Not only a nifty late noir but a model of economical filmmaking -- well-sketched atmosphere, deft characterizations, and a 78-minute running time."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 8, 2010
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Visionaries () |
"
Visionaries' heedless montage brought back the sense of crazy possibility that excited me when, as a teenage kid from Queens, I first encountered Mekas's world."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 1, 2010
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83%
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Daddy Longlegs (2010) |
"
A funny, fantastic, genuinely alarming quasi-autobiographical cheapster by twentysomething New York brothers Josh and Benny Safdie."
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Village Voice
Posted May 11, 2010
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100%
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Punishment Park (1971) |
"
Shot during the post-Kent State "law and order" election of 1970, Punishment Park can seem so outrageous as to verge on camp, but few other movies capture so painfully the rhetoric and desperation of the times."
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Village Voice
Posted May 11, 2010
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100%
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DDR/DDR (2010) |
"
[An] astute, precise, self-regarding piece of work."
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Village Voice
Posted May 4, 2010
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56%
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Trash Humpers (2010) |
"
It's ultimately less a celebration of impulse behavior than a celebration of the parodic impulse to record."
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Village Voice
Posted May 4, 2010
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87%
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Please Give (2010) |
"
Holofcener's humorous interest in yupscale entitlem.ent and its discontents mark her as a descendant of Woody Allen"
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 27, 2010
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83%
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Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010) |
"
In any case, The Duel is the most successful literary adaptation I've seen since Pascal Ferran's 2006 Lady Chatterley."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 27, 2010
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95%
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No One Knows About Persian Cats (Les Chats Persans) (2010) |
"
Cconsidering that everything the movie shows -- including two women singing a folk song -- is illegal, bravado is a given."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 14, 2010
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89%
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Alle Anderen (Everyone Else) (2010) |
"
More fascinating than enjoyable. Placing a youngish, newly formed couple under relentless observation, Ade's two-hour squirmathon gets a bit more intimate on the subject of intimacy than the viewer might wish."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 6, 2010
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63%
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When You're Strange (2010) |
"
For a couple of years, Morrison was the best act in American show business. And the best thing about it: It wasn't an act."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 6, 2010
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50%
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Chloe (2010) |
"
The grotesque finale aside, it's all too soigné to be truly risible, but, thanks to Egoyan's trademark mix of detachment and prurience, the fun is more cheesy than queasy."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 24, 2010
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78%
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Bluebeard (2010) |
"
Psychologically rich, unobtrusively minimalist, at once admirably straightforward and slyly comic."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 24, 2010
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75%
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Greenberg (2010) |
"
The style is observational, the drama is understated, and, when the time comes, it knocks you out with the subtlest of badda-booms."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 16, 2010
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100%
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The Prowler (Cost of Living ) (1951) |
"
The Prowler may be the creepiest of classic noirs."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 16, 2010
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53%
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Green Zone (2010) |
"
You catch your breath only to have the wind knocked out by the mirage of the carefree scene around the Green Zone swimming pool."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 9, 2010
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95%
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Mother (Madeo) (2010) |
"
[A] subtle, yet no less visceral, horror-comedy, fully worthy of its primal title."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 9, 2010
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85%
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The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) |
"
It's his best ever."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 30, 2009
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70%
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"
[Downey] brings a wry conviction to even the most hackneyed part or ridiculously written role."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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79%
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Politist, adj. (Police, Adjective) (2009) |
"
[A] remarkably self-effacing and highly intelligent comedy."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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81%
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Panique au village (A Town Called Panic) (2009) |
"
A Town Called Panic, which has more strident colors and less synopsizable action than a year's worth of comic-book adventures, embodies a sensibility that might be termed "extreme quirk.""
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 15, 2009
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50%
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) |
"
Herzog has gone beyond Good and Evil to reinvent himself as a candidate for the wiggiest director of comedy in America today."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 8, 2009
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83%
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FILM IST. a girl & a gun (2009) |
"
Film Ist. a Girl & a Gun is not subtle, but its literalism -- which refines the avant-primitivism of older Viennese artists -- is its strength."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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85%
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Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"
Deft, affectionate, and unexpectedly enjoyable."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 25, 2009
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87%
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"
Instead of plumbing the depths of spiritual degradation, Herzog's movie is -- largely due to Cage's performance -- almost fun."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 17, 2009
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92%
|
Solntse (The Sun) (2005) |
"
Though he successfully humanizes Hirohito, who is shown happily shedding his divinity, Sokurov doesn't entirely exonerate him."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 17, 2009
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100%
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Rembrandt's J'accuse (2008) |
"
Peering beneath the painted surface and searching in the shadows, tracking that which was cut from the canvas and mapping the network of glances that remain, the filmmaker uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 20, 2009
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100%
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Wild River (1960) |
"
Sympathetic to both sides, the movie pits tradition against progress, rugged individualism against the greater good."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 14, 2009
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79%
|
The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) |
"
The anti-globalist performance guys who call themselves the Yes Men are masters of forging corporate rhetoric and media protocols."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 6, 2009
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76%
|
Afterschool (2008) |
"
Afterschool, the almost frighteningly accomplished first feature made by Antonio Campos when he was 24, is high school as horror show."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 29, 2009
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82%
|
Bright Star (2009) |
"
England 1818 seems like a Fragonard garden, the pastoral height of civilization. Conversation is witty; summer feels eternal."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 15, 2009
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100%
|
Fat City (1972) |
"
The movie is crafty work and very much a show. In one way or another, right down to the percussively abrupt open ending, it's all about being hammered."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 15, 2009
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100%
|
Liverpool (2008) |
"
Liverpool opens with a big blast of neo surf, and coasts on that energy for the movie's 84 minutes, ending with a shot of corresponding impact."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 1, 2009
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94%
|
Suspiria (1977) |
"
A movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .)."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 1, 2009
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63%
|
Extract (2009) |
"
Here for Labor Day -- a comedy about the hilarity and heartbreak of running a small business."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 1, 2009
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85%
|
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex) (2008) |
"
The movie has an undeniable sweep, increasing in intensity once the principals are arrested in June 1972."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 18, 2009
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88%
|
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment -- rich in fantasy and blithely amoral."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 18, 2009
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72%
|
La Mujer sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) (2008) |
"
As dense and fluid as Martel's movie is, the viewer -- like the protagonist -- is compelled to live in the moment. And a rich moment it is."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 11, 2009
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77%
|
Voy a Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode) (2008) |
"
I'm Gonna Explode dramatizes even as it demonstrates the maxim that you can't go home again."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 11, 2009
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72%
|
Beeswax (2009) |
"
Bujalski has always been good at making closeness feel exotic, and awkwardness seem natural."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 4, 2009
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97%
|
In a Lonely Place (1950) |
"
The grayest, most morally ambiguous of film noirs -- and arguably the most self-reflexive."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 15, 2009
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67%
|
Brüno (Bruno) (2009) |
"
Outrage is entertainment!"
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 8, 2009
|
67%
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98%
