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100%
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The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well) (1962) |
"
Opening with a bravura wedding sequence and ending with a sycophantic bow to a replaced telephone receiver, the film has its longueurs, but Mifune's buttoned-down avenger is a compelling portrait of righteous obsession foundering on unpredictable reality."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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86%
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) |
"
Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 2, 2008
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98%
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Rosemary's Baby (1968) |
"
Superbly acted (especially by bone-thin Farrow and Ruth Gordon as the ultimate neighbor from hell), it's a satantango in the land of Is-this-real-or-am-I-crazy?, with a luridly literal ending that doesn't negate the previous, more interior terrors."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 19, 2007
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92%
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The Parallax View (1974) |
"
It's an astringently cynical take on official history, with Warren Beatty as a muckraker investigating the strange aftershocks of a senator's killing."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 7, 2007
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Slow Jam King () |
"
Enthusiastically scored to the titular quiet storms, ersatz c&w, and hip-hop textures, the anti-rockist Slow Jam King is more fun to listen to than watch..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 6, 2006
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73%
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Nathalie (2003) |
"
Nathalie is intricate, provocative, cleanly acted, but it's never entirely convincing -- and never more so than in the table-turning climax."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 11, 2006
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60%
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Game 6 (2005) |
"
A gratifying playground of high-wire language."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 7, 2006
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14%
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London (2006) |
"
Syd's emotional tailspin is embarrassingly banal, and his assertion that 'everybody here hates me' quickly applies to the audience as well."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 7, 2006
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50%
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The White Countess (2005) |
"
Irredeemably dull."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 20, 2005
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88%
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"
To this viewer and reader, the decade-old juggernaut is as deeply felt as it is flawed, dense and illogical and laudably weird."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 15, 2005
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95%
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"
A whimsical success of a very high order: The pace never lags, the invention is incessant, and it makes you want to have a bite of cheese afterward."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 4, 2005
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Rodnees: We Mod Like Dat! () |
"
We're going to trot out the mandatory one-word Beatles-album-derived closer: Help!"
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 27, 2005
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33%
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The Baxter (2005) |
"
The Baxter nods to better-behaved comedies of the past."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 23, 2005
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89%
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A State of Mind (2005) |
"
One leaves the film with the Twilight Zone sense that the place isn't quite the hellhole prior reports have suggested."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 9, 2005
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63%
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Saint Ralph (2005) |
"
Ralph Walker is no Max Fischer, and his monomania gets dull fast."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 2, 2005
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77%
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
"
Though the film lacks some of the paper incarnation's subtlety, Dai's infidelity to his own text keeps things interesting."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 26, 2005
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82%
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"
Fun and nourishing, Charlie's the topsy-turvy equivalent of a three-course dinner in a single stick of gum."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 12, 2005
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94%
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Wheel of Time (2003) |
"
Patient and fascinated, but never succumbing to abstraction."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 14, 2005
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77%
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) |
"
The multiple story lines can feel choppy, but the dialogue has snap, and the pants' powers never distract from the teenagers' emotions."
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Village Voice
Posted May 31, 2005
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87%
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Saving Face (2005) |
"
Despite a fairly explicit lesbian boobfest (projected attendance just went up!), the film is more good-natured than provocative."
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Village Voice
Posted May 24, 2005
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33%
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2009: Lost Memories (2002) |
"
The amped-up Dickian scenario features too many frame-filling fireballs."
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Village Voice
Posted May 17, 2005
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87%
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3-Iron (2004) |
"
The change in tone, from swiftly destabilizing drama to outright fantasy, feels less like Kim provocatively switching gears, and more like he's painted himself into a corner."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2005
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10%
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House of D (2004) |
"
Marred by a rambling voice-over at one end and a pat therapeutic resolution on the other, the film has a nice half-hour patch somewhere in the middle."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 12, 2005
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20%
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The Ring Two (2005) |
"
The let's-travel-through-the-TV-screen sequence was better in Fat Albert."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 22, 2005
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87%
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Millions (2005) |
"
Feels contrived."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 7, 2005
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13%
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Bigger Than the Sky (2005) |
"
Bigger lopes along endlessly, a no-surprises foray into backstage high jinks and the notion of life as the best acting coach there is."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 22, 2005
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55%
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Wonderful Days (Sky Blue) (2004) |
"
Most of the action is tedious, and the less you pay attention to the dialogue, the less you'll feel your hand inadvertently twitching as if with joystick."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 15, 2005
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95%
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) |
"
Several sharp jolts give the doc its dramatic shape, and one episode in particular, caught with a neighbor's lens, will make you gasp with grief."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 8, 2005
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9%
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White Noise (2005) |
"
Vigorously pushes the supernatural line throughout, but unfortunately its final movement is so incoherent that the whole thing collapses."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 11, 2005
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42%
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A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) |
"
Exasperating Southern-lit seminar."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 28, 2004
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23%
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Fat Albert (2004) |
"
The overall approach is to throw preordained movie sequences (rap number, shopping spree) together and hope for the best."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 21, 2004
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70%
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In the Realms of the Unreal - The Mystery of Henry Darger (2005) |
"
Jessica Yu's elegant new doc In the Realms of the Unreal is a spry, creative response to his oceanic talent and claustrophobic life."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 21, 2004
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AmnesiA (2004) |
"
So true to its title that I've forgotten many of the details already -- and I just saw it this morning."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 30, 2004
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44%
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National Treasure (2004) |
"
National Treasure gets more entertaining as the preposterousness rises."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 23, 2004
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68%
|
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004) |
"
Could SpongeBob, all gangly goodwill and ice cream appetite, be the anarchic savior for our stressed-out times?"
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 23, 2004
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89%
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Jandek on Corwood (2004) |
"
Chad Friedrichs's doc has too many rock-crit talking heads, too often saying the same thing based on scant information -- a clumsy portrait of the artist that inadvertently serves as a mirror of the critical faculty itself."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 16, 2004
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56%
|
The Polar Express (2004) |
"
Unnervingly smooth, mouths moving in strange, even frightening formations, the Polar people are the least convincing things on-screen, glaring impostors amid the otherwise painstakingly rendered scenery."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 9, 2004
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59%
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Enduring Love (2004) |
"
Razor-walking self-consciousness (or just plain braininess) is perhaps impossible to depict coherently on-screen, and the someone's-watching-me vibe is otherwise overfamiliar to moviegoers."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 26, 2004
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47%
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Ja zuster, nee zuster (Yes Nurse! No Nurse!) (2004) |
"
Styles range from cabaret to barbershop to toe-tapping bubblegum, and the rainy-day serenade at the start nods Cherbourgward, with a soupçon of Low Countries sass."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 26, 2004
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12%
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Stella Street (2004) |
"
Stella Street goes from can-I-laugh- yet? to wanna-go- home in about three minutes."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 20, 2004
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87%
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Untold Scandal (2004) |
"
E J-Yong's transposition illuminates, with satisfying crispness, the hyper-Confucian high society of the time, as well as the underground Catholic movement."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 12, 2004
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36%
|
Shark Tale (2004) |
"
The filmmakers don't have enough faith in the world they've created."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 28, 2004
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72%
|
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) |
"
His nostalgia enabled by technology, Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 21, 2004
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15%
|
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"
I remember best [Gilda's] mutable hair, which went from a bob to a wave to a longish Angelina Jolie coif."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 14, 2004
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44%
|
Evergreen (2004) |
"
Though the acting is tentative at times, with performances not quite landing on the same page, Evergreen is a compassionate slice of Pacific Northwest misery."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 7, 2004
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80%
|
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) |
"
In the rare moments when a rifle, grenade, howitzer, bayonet, dagger, fist, land mine, or flamethrower isn't being deployed, the film pushes its melodramatic plotline with soap operatic shamelessness."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 31, 2004
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26%
|
The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (2004) |
"
Scenes end abruptly, laughs are as rare as yetis, and the overarching question seems to be: Can we turn this into a franchise?"
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 17, 2004
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66%
|
Bright Young Things (2003) |
"
Aside from cameos by Jim Broadbent (as the drunken major) and Peter O'Toole (as Nina's reclusive, eccentric father), much of the acting strains for a sophistication that quickly becomes annoying."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 17, 2004
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86%
|
Garden State (2004) |
"
Stormy twentysomething emotions seethe under a deft quirkfest."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 27, 2004
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