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45%
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Filly Brown (2013) |
"
More heartfelt, humanistic, and entertaining than such a clichéd showbiz cautionary tale has any right to be."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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It Takes A Man And A Woman (2013) |
"
Apes Hollywood rom-com formulas with a personality so affably lobotomized it wouldn't dare frighten delicate tastes."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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Love Sick Love (2013) |
"
Attempts to transform meet-cute romance into an absurdist fatal-attraction thriller, but ends up neither fish nor fowl."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2013
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42%
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Paris Manhattan (2013) |
"
[A] shallow, witless but pretty enough French ode to Woody Allen, couched in a loose revision of 1972's Play It Again, Sam."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City - 1900-1922 (2013) |
"
Maria Ilioú's uninspired flake of talking-head Wikipedia cinema focuses on the forgotten Anatolian port city's post-World War I years."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
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8%
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K-11 (2013) |
"
Like an on-the-nose parody of Lee Daniels directing an episode of Oz, K-11 is a pulpy, tone-deaf mess of confused directorial intent ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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Thinly Veiled (2013) |
"
The entire overacting ensemble of former Hootie & the Blowfish videographer Adolfo Doring's 2009 multi-threaded, NYC-set drama seems escaped from Tommy Wiseau's cult trainwreck The Room."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 6, 2013
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92%
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11 Flowers (2013) |
"
More sensitive than disaffected, too gentle to resonate more than mildly."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 22, 2013
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57%
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Kai Po Che! (2013) |
"
The dramatic stakes are so puny that every obstacle can be overcome with a simple work-it-out montage, a cheap device prevalent enough in this movie to start a drinking game."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 19, 2013
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88%
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Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
"
Demme and five other camera operators expertly capture an intense, pared-down 2011 solo show at Toronto's Massey Hall in the absorbing new Neil Young Journeys."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 26, 2012
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70%
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The Loneliest Planet (2012) |
"
Julia Loktev's marvelous, slow-burning follow-up to her minimalist thriller Day Night Day Night somehow manages to be both audacious and subtle."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 21, 2012
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58%
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Red Hook Summer (2012) |
"
Ambitious, uncompromising, and musically charged... the generational and ideological clashes become palpable, as do the community's frustrations after the darkest of plot twists."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 21, 2012
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46%
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The Comedy (2012) |
"
Transgressively brilliant... an itchy critique of entitlement starring avant-garde comedian Tim Heidecker as one of Williamsburg's overprivileged."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 21, 2012
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89%
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Compliance (2012) |
"
Among the highlights [of BAMcinemaFest]... Provocative!"
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 21, 2012
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90%
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Gayby (2012) |
"
A hilariously bitchy but sweet comedy that serves as Gotham's answer to Portlandia."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 21, 2012
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57%
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Safe (2012) |
"
Yakin's sleek, visually witty direction elevates his undeniably dopey script."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 24, 2012
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20%
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Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012) |
"
Flatly shot and lit like a cable-TV movie, with a mismatched Franken-score of flowery flourishes and suspense-feigning propulsion, On the 7th Day sadly contains some fine, earnest acting..."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2012
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Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009) |
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 28, 2012
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50%
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An Encounter with Simone Weil (2012) |
"
Julia Haslett's absorbing if patchy ode to Weil, an advocate for the rights of the disadvantaged, confronts her subject's ideas of moral responsibility through surprisingly personal and experimental means."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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92%
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Gerhard Richter Painting (2012) |
"
Gerhard Richter Painting artfully and convincingly immerses us into the world of one of the greatest, painting."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 13, 2012
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37%
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) |
"
In every swelling musical cue, Billion Dollar Movie displays open contempt for friendship, family, love, sex, heroism, and everything lofty and beautiful that multiplex movies have reduced to cant."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 22, 2012
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92%
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The Fairy (2012) |
"
While every scene is art-directed with zest and innovatively staged, The Fairy rarely inspires outright laughter. At least it respects its influences more than does The Artist."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 21, 2012
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94%
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The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
The otherworldliness that is Miyazaki's trademark has been tamped down into naturalistic textures, but the look is still as meticulous and confident as the master's handiwork."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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90%
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Cirkus Columbia (2012) |
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[A] decidedly old-fashioned, quasi-satirical drama that is a bit on the nose with its indictments of post-communist animosities and opportunism."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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44%
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Private Romeo (2012) |
"
A pandering coming-of-ager about sexual identity and equality."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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50%
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Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus (2012) |
"
Grameen empowers budding entrepreneurs and lends to one out of every thousand people on the planet, which ain't no thrill ride in cinematic form."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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—
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85%
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Chronicle (2012) |
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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85%
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Chronicle (2012) |
"
Chronicle, with its found-footage storytelling and superpowered teens, at least playfully transcends its "Cloverfield meets Heroes" pitch."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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13%
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After Fall, Winter (2012) |
"
Another sanctimonious dose of talk-therapy cinema."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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12%
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I Melt with You (2011) |
"
Stylish cinematography and an awesome punk-and-new-wave soundtrack make the early, music-video-like montages of debauchery at least trashy entertainment, but the film's second half couldn't be more contemptible..."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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9%
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Answers to Nothing (2011) |
"
The most embarrassing project on co-star Barbara Hershey's resume."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2011
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100%
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Grandma, a Thousand Times (2011) |
"
It's at least enough to inspire a phone call to your own grandparents."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2011
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2/5
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61%
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The Joneses (2010) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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1/5
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9%
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Harlem Aria (1999) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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2/5
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42%
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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2/5
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28%
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Dear John (2010) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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2/5
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81%
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Disgrace (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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1/5
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21%
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Leap Year (2010) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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100%
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Urbanized (2011) |
"
Hustwit gorgeously enhances the talking-head commentaries of architects, policymakers, and other progressive thinkers with spatially clean, static-camera compositions -- this time in God's-eye panoramas of earth's ant farm."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 25, 2011
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70%
|
Elevate (2011) |
"
An upbeat but never sugarcoated look at how cultural diversity can provide as many roadblocks as it does opportunities."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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71%
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OKA! (2011) |
"
Oka!, a loose-limbed tapestry of cultural nuances, atmosphere, and song, is a tuneful tribute to the Bayakan spirit."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 11, 2011
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82%
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Dolphin Tale (2011) |
"
By the end of the movie, Winter has become a mascot for human disability, especially for children, and Dolphin Tale has enough depth and sensitivity to tap into emotion without feeling manipulative."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 20, 2011
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83%
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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011) |
"
Respectful, loving, but never lionizing, Carl's thorough investigation transcends his personal catharsis to become an enduring treatise on how character flaws affect policy."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 20, 2011
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40%
|
Granito (2011) |
"
Granito becomes both a humanitarian legal thriller and a quest to find justice through cinema."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 13, 2011
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50%
|
Grave Encounters (2011) |
"
True terror needs at least some authenticity. That's perhaps too much to ask of a faked movie about a faked reality show that still can't scare up a fresh idea."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 6, 2011
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50%
|
The High Cost of Living (2011) |
"
Ridiculously implausible yet still predictable."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 6, 2011
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77%
|
The Last Circus (2011) |
"
Baroquely sinister and grotesquely funny."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 16, 2011
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17%
|
Flypaper (2011) |
"
The ensemble's amped-up histrionics rub against each other without ever catching fire."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 16, 2011
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61%
|
Final Destination 5 (2011) |
"
So tapped into its audience's giddy schadenfreude that beyond a kinkier-than-usual jolt of black humor and some clever red herrings, the formula remains rote..."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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