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42%
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
Screenwriters Brian and Mark Gunn still have trouble scripting action sequences or dialogue that rises above "Let's do this" level."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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77%
|
The Hunter (2012) |
"
Filmed during the months leading up to the 2009 presidential election in Iran, The Hunter still seethes with fury -- and anticipates the blood that would spill after the vote."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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64%
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The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
About as scary as the haunted house your big cousins made in the basement..."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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73%
|
Big Miracle (2012) |
"
While rooting for the marine mammals (and wishing for more footage of them-and even of their animatronic incarnations), your heart will also go out to the cast, stuck even more pitiably in syrupy manufactured crises."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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86%
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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012) |
"
Dori Berinstein's desultory, fawning profile of the nonagenarian performer devotes many of its padded 88 minutes to Channing's greatest success, playing the title yenta in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway in the 1960s."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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2%
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One for the Money (2012) |
"
Punitively dull."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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—
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65%
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Cherry Tree Lane () |
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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82%
|
Crazy Horse (2012) |
"
Every shot and edit in Wiseman's film also suggests without over-explaining, allowing a viewer to lose herself in pleasure..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 17, 2012
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—
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9%
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The Bounty Hunter (2010) |
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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|
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73%
|
Domaine (2012) |
"
Dalle, with a mouth that could devour the world, unravels inexorably but with decadent dignity, and Chiha's singular film never relies on cliché in its examination of illness, disappointment, and abandonment."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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94%
|
Sing Your Song (2012) |
"
A moving if occasionally wearying hagiography."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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33%
|
Lula, the Son of Brazil (2012) |
"
Forget Son of Brazil: This syrupy origin story/biopic on the nation's beloved reformist president, whose second term ended in 2010, should be titled Mama's Boy."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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—
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55%
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The Hunter (1980) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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80%
|
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2012) |
"
The played-out scenarios in Olnek's first feature, such as Jane's sessions with her therapist, are soon outnumbered by inspired silliness, like tears shed over a revolving dessert tray in a diner."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 3, 2012
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96%
|
Pariah (2011) |
"
Funny, moving, nuanced, and impeccably acted..."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 27, 2011
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63%
|
Miss Minoes (2011) |
"
[Conveys], with a light touch, important lessons for kids on the necessity of civic engagement, the perils of edit-ad conflicts, and the need to honor difference..."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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53%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
The result of [Close's] passion project? Getting to look like Bruce Jenner in a bowler and high starched collar."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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95%
|
Pina (2011) |
"
Pina gives us the supreme pleasure of watching fascinating bodies of widely varying ages in motion, whether leaping, falling, catching, diving, grieving, or exulting."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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82%
|
Addiction Incorporated (2011) |
"
With a name that not even the PR team at Smokefree America could dream up, Victor DeNoble emerges as the hero of Charles Evans Jr.'s mostly muscular documentary on the 1990s campaign to expose Big Tobacco."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 13, 2011
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22%
|
The Sitter (2011) |
"
Hill plays Noah with just the right amount of self-loathing, deep down convinced of his own merit, not needing to humiliate anyone to prove it."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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8%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
Mayans might have predicted the end of the world in 2012, but could they have known that the countdown to eternal hellfire would begin with Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve?"
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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|
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100%
|
Daguerréotypes (1976) |
"
Varda has shown an extraordinary gift for capturing the theatricality of the mundane, particularly in her documentaries."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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50%
|
Sleeping Beauty (2011) |
"
Sharp and precise as its tableaux might be ... Sleeping Beauty never burrows into the brain, and its tenuous provocations fizzle out quickly."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2011
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97%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie since the days of the Gish sisters. It might also be the first silent film many of its viewers have ever seen."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
Desperately trying to appeal to not just the Gen Xers who grew up with Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Dr. Teeth, but also the tykes who've never even heard of Jim Henson, The Muppets has none of the easy confidence of the original TV show or the 1979 movie."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
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4/5
|
94%
|
Milk (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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3/5
|
88%
|
Derek (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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1/5
|
93%
|
Lake of Fire (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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5/5
|
97%
|
Persepolis (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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4/5
|
86%
|
L' Avocat de la Terreur (Terror's Advocate) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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1/5
|
33%
|
Self Medicated (2006) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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2/5
|
33%
|
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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5/5
|
77%
|
Paranoid Park (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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3/5
|
73%
|
Private Property (Nue propriete) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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2/5
|
7%
|
Bratz: The Movie (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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3/5
|
85%
|
Six in Paris (Paris vu par...) (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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4/5
|
93%
|
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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5/5
|
86%
|
W. R.: Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. - Misterije organizma) (1971) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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2/5
|
45%
|
One to Another (Chacun sa nuit) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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3/5
|
65%
|
Brick Lane (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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2/5
|
40%
|
Otto; or Up with Dead People (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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4/5
|
89%
|
Auf der Anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven) (On the Other Side) (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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4/5
|
100%
|
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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2/5
|
89%
|
The Visitor (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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2/5
|
44%
|
Why Did I Get Married? (2007) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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3/5
|
63%
|
Baby Mama (2008) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Wild Style (1983) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
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3/5
|
25%
|
El Cantante (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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