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The World Before Her (2013) |
"
With extraordinary access, Pahuja illuminates extraordinary conflicts and contradictions facing modern girls in a country even less ready for them than ours."
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Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2013
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Occupy Love (2013) |
"
Vague as all this is, the photography is beautiful, the scenes of crowds and their signs arresting, and the interviews with individual protesters-in Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, teargassed Oakland, and even melting Greenland-are often inspiring."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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83%
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What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
The film is admirably committed to simulating the messy experience of life as a real Maisie might live it."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic () |
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Zenovich has assembled better-than-usual talking heads, all sympathetic even when dishing the worst bad behavior."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 29, 2013
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Dark Touch () |
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For all its soaring cutlery, Dark Touch, like much of the best horror, works the fears that connect to real life."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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42%
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Midnight's Children (2013) |
"
So lavish and unwieldy is the book, Rushdie's best, that a film of it can't help but feel like a helpless reduction, like a bucket of water passed off as an ocean."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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Mortem (2013) |
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Atlan films it with such black-and-white brio that complaints that none of its depths really to warrant your plumbing seem beside the point."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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98%
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Mud (2013) |
"
McConaughey, of course, is excellent."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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87%
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Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) |
"
What sticks with you is Jay, supremely calm, his body's every stray movement natural and normal even as you come to suspect that they're anything but."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2013
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56%
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Oblivion (2013) |
"
Director Kosinski proves himself talented in ways his Tron: Legacy didn't suggest."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2013
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77%
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42 (2013) |
"
A likable hagiography as nuanced as a plaque at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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76%
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It's a Disaster (2013) |
"
Perhaps the first great indie apocalypse potluck comedy."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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68%
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Disconnect (2013) |
"
While well-crafted and at times moving, screenwriter Andrew Stern's cautionary tales can't help but feel behind the curve, the news they're so urgently sharing already fully absorbed by the culture."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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92%
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Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
That T. rex is worth the wait, but the wait itself is even more memorable."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
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9%
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The Host (2013) |
"
The Host's infelicities-drab dialogue, ridiculous plotting, more emotional crises than there is story-are enlivened by its thematic eccentricities."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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28%
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
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It's not enough to call this the rare franchise action movie to bring the goods; it's the even rarer one whose creators seem to understand what the goods even are."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 27, 2013
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70%
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Wrong (2013) |
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The film's heady buzz is invigorating, and there are substantial pleasures-and laughs-to be found in all its real-life-just-gone-sour strangeness."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 27, 2013
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59%
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Detour (2013) |
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During the best sequences, Detour feels like three heady improvisations all happening at once ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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90%
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My Brother The Devil (2013) |
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A tender, bracing fraternal drama of London's gang life, the immigrant experience, and questions no smaller than what "manhood" might mean to young men whose traditional cultures are colliding with the worst-and the best-of the secular west."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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45%
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Leonie (2013) |
"
"Love is one of life's most spiritual and beautiful chapters," Mortimer is forced to purr. Later: "It seems I am fated to move wherever it is I seek to build my dream.""
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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92%
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Top of the Lake (2013) |
"
Jane Campion's smart, bracing, hugely enjoyable mystery rural noir ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 13, 2013
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67%
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Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013) |
"
Roth was dashing, charming, a little dangerous, one of his college friends tells us, but she doesn't need to say it. It's manifest, and it's still true."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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38%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Carell again plays oblivious in the fitfully inspired magician comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, but he doesn't play human."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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50%
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Clip (2013) |
"
Maja Milos's aggressive and upsetting first film ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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Citizen Hearst (2013) |
"
Sometimes Citizen Hearst feels as breezy and electric as the newsreels Hearst pioneered; other times it feels like the video they'll make you watch during orientation on your first day at 300 West 57th."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 6, 2013
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40%
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The Other Side of the Ice (2013) |
"
Too much of the movie is just people being crabby (or, later, dumb!) in fascinating places, which is less enthralling than the places themselves."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 6, 2013
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63%
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The Monk (2013) |
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The finale, in which godly rites are juxtaposed against the vilest of sins, builds to an unholy power."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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35%
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Dark Skies (2013) |
"
Stewart has some lofty ambitions, some of which he almost fulfills."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 24, 2013
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15%
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A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
No two viewers will assemble the same narrative from this Rorschach of running men, crashing glass, and hollered exposition."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 13, 2013
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45%
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Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
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Its primness aside, the movie is terrific fun and much more affecting than Twilight or Supernatural."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2013
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27%
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Saving Lincoln (2013) |
"
Imagine the stiffness of a Star Wars prequel but without the bravura technique."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2013
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20%
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Identity Thief (2013) |
"
McCarthy gets bashed about like a Stooge, and she bashes back with riotous abandon. Sadly, the rest of the movie is a shambles."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2013
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100%
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Sound City (2013) |
"
Grohl treats us to just more than an hour celebrating the history of Sound City, the Van Nuys dump where a clutch of rock's great records were bashed out-but the movie's 107 minutes long."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2013
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87%
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
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It's fitting that this film of people making do with what they have should itself look somewhat humble, without lyricism, a work not of beauty but of work-which is the thing that makes it beautiful, no matter who directed it."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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100%
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Stolen Seas (2013) |
"
This drama is couched in illuminating context ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2013
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50%
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Clandestine Childhood (2013) |
"
A charming, involving first feature, Clandestine Childhood muscles its familiar coming-of-age material into something more vibrant and urgent than the usual."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 9, 2013
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47%
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Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (2012) |
"
The rare movie whose title serves as an accurate indicator of whether you will enjoy seeing it."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 19, 2012
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95%
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West of Memphis (2012) |
"
This is a movie that can stun you."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
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52%
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This is 40 (2012) |
"
Much like marriage, This Is 40 is somewhat formless, and it almost never hurries up. But life is improved by having the option."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
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37%
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Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
It plays out like you would fear."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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88%
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Tchoupitoulas (2012) |
"
Questions about the literal truth of Tchoupitoulas are thorny and perhaps besides the point. After all, the filmmakers aren't hiding the artifice."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 5, 2012
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38%
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
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It's dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie of mistresses, should exhibit so little interest in what engaged its hero ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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80%
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Wagner & Me (2012) |
"
This sprightly doc considers one of the tougher questions of morality and aesthetics ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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27%
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Addicted To Fame (2012) |
"
Cheap-o, disingenuous ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 27, 2012
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89%
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Lincoln (2012) |
"
Lincoln is the work of a different director, one truly fascinated by why his subjects do what they do, one who invests each moment with the artistry he has often reserved for setpieces."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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79%
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Miami Connection (2012) |
"
Absurd, yes, but director Richard Park and his game and guileless cast have the highest of spirits, and the nonsense bubbles like a bottle uncorked."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2012
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45%
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The Details (2012) |
"
As if to justify its own title, The Details is familiar in its plotting but uproarious in its incidents."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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25%
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Dinotasia (2012) |
"
If they're never fully convincing as photo-realistic figures, they're certainly as much good gory fun to watch as any old-school monster kids had to stick with dreary first acts to see."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2012
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90%
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Bad 25 (2012) |
"
Spike Lee has given the world the first tribute that fully measures up to Jackson the artist. Come on and get you sham on."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 17, 2012
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