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68%
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Bad Milo! (2013) |
"
Bad Milo! meets your expectations right where you left them."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde (2013) |
"
Through photos and family lore, but mostly through Dayton's own eloquence, Mitchell assembles a biographical portrait that's inspiring in the best possible way."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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Babygirl (2013) |
"
You learn everything about the principal characters in the film's opening moments, a tight haiku of inner-city domesticity ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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17%
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The Secret Lives Of Dorks (2013) |
"
The Jim Belushi of high-school romantic comedies: indifferent, kind of exhausted."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 24, 2013
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92%
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Sample This (2013) |
"
The music is incredible, and through interviews with Rosey Grier, Afrika Bambaataa, Questlove, and a squadron of old-school studio musicians, director Dan Forrer unearths some of the hidden history of American pop."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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90%
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Hawking (2013) |
"
Finnigan wisely seizes on the gentle strength and charisma of Hawking's first wife, Jane Wilde. She imprints on the film as fully as her former husband, whose presence is still considerable."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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0%
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Mission Park (2013) |
"
You probably saw the ensuing narrative of betrayal, murder, and undercover investigation on Silk Stalkings, Miami Vice, 21 Jump Street, Hardcastle and McCormick, Profiler, or The Cosby Mysteries."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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51%
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Blood (2013) |
"
The characters never manage to connect with one another, separated by gulfs of melodramatic angst and the plot demands of a boringly unspooled police procedural."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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14%
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R.I.P.D. (2013) |
"
R.I.P.D. does offer a pretty good idea of what the afterlife might look like to someone suffering macular degeneration."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 19, 2013
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85%
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Terms And Conditions May Apply (2013) |
"
A wide-ranging, if shallow, exploration of intrusive government surveillance practices. "
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2013
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58%
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Stuck in Love (2013) |
"
Writer-director Josh Boone populates Stuck in Love with smart characters breaking from emotional holding patterns of varying contours."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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47%
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Maniac (2013) |
"
The genre is adolescent as hell, reckless and pre-empathetic, picking on girls just to see what their reactions might be."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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84%
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Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
With its interrogations of gender, feminism, and marriage, Shakespeare's comedy is an apt vehicle for Whedon's own storytelling agenda. "
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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19%
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The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
Phillips is zero percent interested in exploring the narcissism of his characters, as long as they arrive back exactly at the point of departure."
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Village Voice
Posted May 21, 2013
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0%
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How Sweet It Is (2013) |
"
An extraordinarily undistinguished comedy from director Brian Herzlinger."
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Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2013
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50%
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At Any Price (2013) |
"
The film does have its warm, beating heart."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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25%
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Phantom (2013) |
"
What is up with combinations of Ed Harris, water, and unbelievably hokey endings?"
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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89%
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A Place at the Table (2013) |
"
Through their stories, Jacobson and Silverbush lens a broader picture of rampant hunger in a country that actually produces astounding amounts of food."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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55%
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The Playroom (2013) |
"
The Playroom jettisons all things cute, but still takes flight by portraying the characters, adult and juvenile, under direct lighting, and asking you if you care about them."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2013
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81%
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Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
The film's intentions are way too good for its own good, producing bloodless romance and more shamefully bloodless carnage."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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22%
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The Taste of Money (2013) |
"
Is there such a thing as "tastefully smutty"? Director Im Sang-soo's moody and semi-Shakespearian The Taste of Money walks that line with some artfully lit humping and cross-generational seduction."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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82%
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The Tall Man () |
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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Tall Man (2010) |
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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8%
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A Dark Truth (2013) |
"
The film's heart is in exactly the right place, but there's not a brain in its pretty little head."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 2, 2013
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18%
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Parental Guidance (2012) |
"
An extended "in my day" joke intended to convey the superiority of old people over a lot of supposedly contemporary behavior that doesn't actually exist in real life."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 27, 2012
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38%
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The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
Pairing Rogen and Streisand turns out to be inspired."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
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53%
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The Girl (2013) |
"
Hernandez is soulful and affecting ... and Cornish embodies Ashley's self-centered character with nuance and subtlety."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
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42%
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Let Fury Have The Hour (2012) |
"
The film joyfully surveys the evolution of a politically informed artistic movement, set to a soundtrack that includes MC5, Rage Against the Machine, DJ Spooky, and others."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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64%
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The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012) |
"
Burns's job as director is differentiating and spotlighting everyone in this large ensemble, a storytelling challenge to which he responds with a brisk pace and an eye for revealing moments."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 5, 2012
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50%
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) |
"
Against the prevailing cheerlessness, these intensively choreographed fights, many shot in audacious, roving single takes, are like glimpses into a dream world."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 27, 2012
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74%
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Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
At times, it approaches some of Pixar's best."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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Seeds of Resiliency (2012) |
"
Nothing in the film is new or particularly revelatory, but it brings these individual firsthand stories to the table."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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67%
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Price Check (2012) |
"
Although Posey renders Susan's instability and dominance with gusto, the character's vulnerability and pain are manifest."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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89%
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Lincoln (2012) |
"
This Lincoln, stunningly portrayed by Spielberg and Day-Lewis, is real and relatable and so, so cool."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2012
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5%
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Nature Calls (2012) |
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The unmitigated disaster of the camping trip just stays disastrous, the story never really finding its way from adversity to heroic redemption."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2012
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80%
|
North Sea Texas (2012) |
"
A soulful, slightly hyperreal comedy ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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66%
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This Must Be The Place (2012) |
"
Penn is astonishing, creating a funny, guileless waif, infusing a faded celebrity figure with tactility and humor."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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64%
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My Worst Nightmare (2012) |
"
Whether this is an argument for or against marriage probably depends on the viewer's own experience."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2012
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86%
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Madrid, 1987 (2012) |
"
Miguel uses her beauty and placid demeanor as a screen against which to project his memories of past adventures and the ghost of his libido."
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Time Out New York
Posted Oct 9, 2012
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88%
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The Big Picture (2012) |
"
For most of the film, Lartigau creates the tension of a Hitchcockian thriller solely through Paul's interior struggle ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2012
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15%
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Special Forces (2012) |
"
Could have been hilariously subversive if director Stéphane Rybojad had pushed it further."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2012
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87%
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Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
Tight and brief, hitting all the marks you'd expect from an animated kid's film, and enlivened by Burton's visual style. The man should make more small movies like this one."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2012
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9%
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012) |
"
These 2-D characters might as well be wearing T-shirts that say things like "Predatory College Professor" and "Self-Obsessed Father" on them."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2012
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33%
|
The Oranges (2012) |
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Kind of like a takedown of the suburbs written by the people who designed the menu at Olive Garden: It's inoffensive, forgettable, and you don't actually have to chew anything."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2012
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54%
|
Bel Borba Aqui (2012) |
"
Practically a montage of color, music, and Borba's constant laughter ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2012
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BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012) |
"
The film is funny, weepy, and hairy all the way to the barrel-chested-and utterly predictable-end."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2012
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78%
|
Tales of the Night (2012) |
"
Animated with fluidity and deliberateness that nearly excuses the film's slightness."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2012
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50%
|
Vulgaria (2012) |
"
Either the golden height of human imaginative endeavor or as profane and crazy as a meth-addicted stripper."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2012
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22%
|
Three Stars (2012) |
"
Hachmeister's understatement results in a narrative plateau somewhere in the last third of the film, and viewers who showed up hungry may become impatient."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 18, 2012
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