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68%
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Unfinished Song (2013) |
"
Williams uses a sledgehammer to drive [his] message home, but the velvet touch of his cast (particularly Redgrave) almost salvages this."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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97%
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Call Me Kuchu (2013) |
"
Equally gut-wrenching and inspiring, the documentary Call Me Kuchu beams right from Uganda, the global hypocenter in the ongoing and intensifying struggle over LGBT rights."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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97%
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20 Feet From Stardom (2013) |
"
An exquisitely rendered look at the dialectics of celebrity and artistry, luck and hard work, its conversation laced with smart observations about race and gender."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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78%
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Dirty Wars (2013) |
"
Dirty Wars is essential viewing for anyone who wants to know how we wage war right now; it's also a chilling prologue for what's likely a global future of endless war and blowback."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus (2013) |
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In dulcet tones, the audience is served a healthy portion of age-old spiritual beliefs that have been contemporarily gummed into New Age triteness ..."
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Village Voice
Posted May 28, 2013
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11%
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I Do (2013) |
"
Ross's on-the-nose script offers little subtext or nuance, and the film-for all the inherent drama of the situation-has very little real-life grit."
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Village Voice
Posted May 28, 2013
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79%
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Augustine (2013) |
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The film is something of a paradox, simultaneously passionate and dispassionate, its ending tethered to both bruised triumph and a sense of things falling apart."
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Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
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Valentino's Ghost (2013) |
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A crash course in history, politics, and social science, Valentino's Ghost is both sobering and illuminating, and its execution is thrilling."
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Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
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100%
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Khyi rgan (Old Dog) () |
"
Old Dog has the look and feel of a documentary, which adds senses of urgency and immediacy to a tale that moves at a languid, but never boring, pace."
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Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
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76%
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Venus And Serena (2013) |
"
The film works best as a primer, as it would take a miniseries to do justice to all that the sisters have accomplished in the face of obvious obstacles and naked double standards."
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Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2013
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80%
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An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (2013) |
"
What saves the film-and grandly-is Nance's wildly ambitious visual imagination."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 28, 2013
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85%
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Graceland (2013) |
"
Writer-director Ron Morales just misses equilibrium in the visually arresting Filipino thriller Graceland."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013) |
"
Accessible without sacrificing nuance or intelligence."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2013
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100%
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This Ain't California (2013) |
"
Martin Persiel's splendid "documentary" could well be subtitled "And It Ain't the Truth.""
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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Tattoo Nation (2013) |
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The images of the style as it evolves, and especially those that fill the last 15 minutes of Tattoo, are so beautiful and often majestic that they overshadow the film's small shortcomings."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
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92%
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Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) |
"
Prisoners is captivating from start to finish."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
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100%
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Rescue in the Philippines (2013) |
"
A well-crafted if structurally generic documentary ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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Better Mus Come (2013) |
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A gorgeous (if at times overripe) melodrama set during the deadly political unrest of late-'70s Jamaica."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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65%
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Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (2013) |
"
It's a moving tale made more so because even after he's "won," Pineda maintains a clear-eyed pragmatism about what living a fairy tale costs."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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31%
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Language of a Broken Heart (2013) |
"
Today's romantic comedies may be the most dire product being rolled off American filmmaking assembly lines."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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83%
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Genius On Hold (2013) |
"
A far-reaching narrative of government venality and big-business greed that's all mapped succinctly but substantively."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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60%
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Rubberneck (2013) |
"
Unsettling [and] tough-minded ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 19, 2013
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17%
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Brief Reunion (2013) |
"
[A] well-acted but rather slack drama ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2013
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35%
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Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012) |
"
The costumes are gorgeous, and the settings are plush, but the acting is merely serviceable, and the film lacks either the wit or the energy of its predecessors."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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The King (2012) |
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Beautifully shot, the film is unapologetically a crowd-pleaser whose gentleness of tone flows from its subject."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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68%
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Barrymore (2012) |
"
A wistful look at faded dreams and opportunities lost due to both the vagaries of the business and self-sabotage."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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100%
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Lunch (2012) |
"
The appeal of Lunch might be limited to Hollywood-nostalgia buffs, but they will be enthralled not only by the stories told, but also how they're told. These guys are still some of the sharpest wits in town."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2012
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31%
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A Man's Story (2012) |
"
The result often plays more like a satire of the fashion industry than a serious look at one of the humans inside it."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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100%
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High Ground (2012) |
"
[An] impressively restrained documentary ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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100%
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The American Scream (2012) |
"
Though not must-see cinema, it is entertaining and affecting."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 19, 2012
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67%
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All Together (2012) |
"
Well-acted and directed, with melancholy grooved insights that will only be news to the young and narcissistic, Together is a pleasant way to while away an afternoon and see some old pros in great form."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2012
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83%
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Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012) |
"
The whole thing can be hard to follow, but the energy (and pulchritude) of the cast make it a perfectly fine bit of popcorn escapism."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2012
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34%
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
Timothy flings grown-up ideas at the viewer but rips the teeth from them rather than risk our discomfort."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2012
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20%
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Craigslist Joe (2012) |
"
Craigslist Joe is sweet, moving, and frustrating."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 31, 2012
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90%
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Family Portrait In Black And White (2012) |
"
Riveting viewing."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 11, 2012
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Double Trouble (1967) |
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 6, 2012
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14%
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Double Trouble (2012) |
"
Young Chan does his father proud with his fighting prowess, but also on a much more superficial level, he fits right in with all the eye candy, male and female, that fills the screen."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 5, 2012
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54%
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Wallander: The Revenge (2012) |
"
An old-fashioned, taut, well-crafted thriller-complete with several wonderful twists."
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Village Voice
Posted May 29, 2012
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8%
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Battlefield America (2012) |
"
Although it's grotesque to see pre-teens stomping in underground warehouse-battle settings, at least Battlefield America's racial politics are interesting."
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Village Voice
Posted May 29, 2012
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47%
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Cellmates (2012) |
"
It's all grimly, predictably plotted without ever once being interesting."
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Village Voice
Posted May 29, 2012
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54%
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Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story (2012) |
"
It is pure hagiography."
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Village Voice
Posted May 15, 2012
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82%
|
Bill W. (2012) |
"
A loving, exhaustive, warts-and-all look at the man who spent years battling his own alcoholism before a spiritual experience in the hospital set him on the course to help others."
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Village Voice
Posted May 15, 2012
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48%
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The Perfect Family (2012) |
"
Renton's competing tones and intentions result in a film at odds with itself and its lead performance."
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Village Voice
Posted May 1, 2012
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71%
|
The Giant Mechanical Man (2012) |
"
Fischer ... imbues Janice with a wounded soulfulness that cuts right through the clichés."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 24, 2012
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45%
|
Restless City (2012) |
"
Told in an elliptical style with a pacing and jagged rhythms that take some getting used to, the thrust and power of the film lies in its poetic imagery..."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 24, 2012
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93%
|
Deadline (2004) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 11, 2012
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92%
|
A Simple Life (2012) |
"
Gingerly peels layer after layer of sharp insights into the dynamics of familial love, using compassion and droll humor as its tools."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 10, 2012
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0%
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Deadline (2012) |
"
The fact that real-life deadly racial animus in America is often cartoonish in its manifestation doesn't excuse Deadline's cliché-ridden characterizations of bigotry."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 10, 2012
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75%
|
Surviving Progress (2012) |
"
The anticapitalism prognosis is grim, and the hope offered is slim indeed."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2012
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89%
|
Love in the Buff (2012) |
"
Buff gels into a surprisingly moving look at the machinations of the heart."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 27, 2012
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