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3/5
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88%
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Informant (2013) |
"
Celebrated on the right and pelted with death threats from the radical left, Darby seems like nothing more than a pilot fish: apolitical and self-justifying."
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Time Out New York
Posted Sep 11, 2013
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3/5
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78%
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Good Ol' Freda (2013) |
"
White's revelation-free, nostalgia massage of a film works the archivals with genuine fondness."
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Time Out New York
Posted Sep 11, 2013
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3/5
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52%
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Thérèse (2013) |
"
The movie may look pretty and may plod, but it also leaves a bruise."
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Time Out New York
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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3/5
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89%
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The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) |
"
If you weren't there at the time, it's hard to believe American celebrities ever burned this bright."
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Time Out New York
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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2/5
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81%
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Una noche (One Night) (2013) |
"
Everything feels fake except the Centro Habana barrios themselves."
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Time Out New York
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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75%
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Paradise: Faith (2013) |
"
Hofstätter's performance comes off as an unselfconscious tour de force, painfully real and culturally lost."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 20, 2013
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4/5
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La Beauté du Diable (Beauty and the Devil) (1950) |
"
Essential movieness."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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3/5
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80%
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Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer () |
"
Ahearn hits all of the usual suspects, from Fab 5 Freddy on down, but his celebration of Shabazz inevitably takes on the tone of requiem."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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97%
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Drug War (2013) |
"
It doesn't attempt to raise the stakes on its genre, but instead fully exploits what's there, piecing together an elaborate narc campaign tale out of classic clichés and tight-knot plotting ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 23, 2013
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37%
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Dealing With Idiots (2013) |
"
The whole project is mean-hearted and lazy, and it dawdles in repetition and dead air as if it's got a 14-show TV season to spin out."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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33%
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Beneath () |
"
A proudly lowbrow, low-budget monster movie that sees nothing wrong with the cheap-and-dirty shortcuts of yesteryear. "
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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1/5
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40%
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The Secret Disco Revolution (2013) |
"
Kastner's history is simplistic, his pacing is glacial and his film is laboriously constructed ..."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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89%
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In the Fog (2013) |
"
In the Fog has the inevitability of an avalanche, and only our overfamilarity with Nazi-tribulation scenarios, and perhaps its excessively punctuated ending, could slow it down."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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83%
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Berberian Sound Studio (2013) |
"
Berberian Sound Studio may scan as a psychological thriller, but it's really a lavish gift to film geeks in a lovely matryoshka box."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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3/5
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91%
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Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2013) |
"
Ungerer is certainly an irrepressible force, but beyond his surreal erotica getting him blacklisted from picture books in the early '70s, his life isn't very dramatic, and Bernstein's film pads it with historical footage and precious animations."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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1/5
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64%
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Tiger Eyes (2013) |
"
Merely an insufferable YA lint trap ..."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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3/5
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88%
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Hannah Arendt (2013) |
"
Being accused of rationalizing the Third Reich and disowned by Zionist friends doesn't provide a lot of drama, but the relentless focus on figuring out how we are to think about the Final Solution can be compelling."
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Time Out New York
Posted May 28, 2013
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Fragments of Kubelka (2013) |
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Martina Kudlacek's portrait pretty much lets Kubelka, now a merry, avuncular septuagenarian, run away with the show ..."
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Village Voice
Posted May 2, 2013
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4/5
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Memories Look at Me (2013) |
"
Sweet and fiercely humane, Song's layered family portrait is decidedly Buddhist: silent when it needs to be and steadfast about approaching inevitable tragedy with care and patience."
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Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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3/5
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74%
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The Source Family (2013) |
"
Baker's cult was both progressive and decadent, and its story makes for a juicy saga-even if directors Maria Demopoulos and Jodi While reduce the collective's rise and fall to a mere talking-heads testimonial."
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Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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60%
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The Happy House (2013) |
"
The only surprises in D.W. Young's tiny low-budget debut are how mildly he satirizes this thinnest of genres and how sincerely he treats his clichéd characters."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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90%
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Voyage in Italy (1992) |
"
Voyage to Italy is close to watching actual strangers suffer loneliness despite being together. It can leave an aching bruise, but only if you're paying attention."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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71%
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Paradise: Love (2013) |
"
It might be the most lonesome film about a tropical vacation we've seen, and the greatest film ever made about the weird socioeconomics of tourism."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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55%
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The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
Given the finger-wagging suggestion of its title, it's actually no surprise to find that The Company You Keep turns out to be politically chicken-hearted ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
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3/5
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73%
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Violeta Went to Heaven (2013) |
"
A rare Chilean film that doesn't mention either the Allende or Pinochet regimes, Violeta Went to Heaven is a love letter to a lost 20th-century goddess. It's hard to resist her."
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Time Out New York
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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2/5
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71%
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013) |
"
The time-killing universe Byington has created makes sure we never forget how absurd he thinks the whole movie is. Fun for him, perhaps."
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Time Out New York
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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92%
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Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
Leon's grungy résumé indie is a modest deal, with a sweet, mumblecore-style ending, but it glows with unmistakable star power."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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79%
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Reality (2013) |
"
Garrone is in complete control of his thematic plutonium."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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3/4
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Far From Afghanistan () |
"
It remains something of a definitive statement on a runaway global disaster."
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Boston Phoenix
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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3/5
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63%
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The Monk (2013) |
"
There's always room for another adaptation of Matthew Lewis's 1795 scandal-igniting ur-Gothic novel, and this lavish French turn positively seethes with the strain of Christian sex-dread and debauchery."
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Time Out New York
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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96%
|
L'Argent (1983) |
"
A harrowing scour of ideological cinema."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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100%
|
Kurutta Kajitsu (crazed Fruit) (1956) |
"
The deep hurt and despair of the climactic passage, set against a milieu of unrelenting leisure, sun, and affluence, is still stunning."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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56%
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The End of Love (2013) |
"
It's the kind of indie in which shrugging naturalism means nobody has a distinctive personality or energy, and the claustrophobic sense of young Industry workers collarbone-deep into their own navels is hard to shake."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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89%
|
Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013) |
"
Patronizing from toe to chin, the film opts continually for self-congratulation and cheesy aphorism, and could've-should've been comfortable slotted into a half hour of airtime on TJC."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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3/5
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25%
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Phantom (2013) |
"
As far as such potboilers go, Phantom is literate, tense and, thankfully, modest."
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Time Out New York
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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3/5
|
100%
|
Pavilion (2013) |
"
A lovely sonatina of a movie, brief and aching."
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Time Out New York
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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2/5
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0%
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The Condemned (2013) |
"
Despite a lavish dose of gothic style (and the occasional inspired flourish, as when surveillance monitors are overcome with home movies of dead children), The Condemned's trek toward absolution is pretty familiar."
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Time Out New York
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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80%
|
Hangmen Also Die! (1943) |
"
The two-and-a-quarter-hour film has the iconic thrust of a silent; the pro-sacrifice resistance cant has an oddly jihadist tenor today."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 25, 2013
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2/5
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47%
|
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2013) |
"
More hagiography than history."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jan 29, 2013
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3/5
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87%
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
"
[It's] all interesting and quite Nanook-ish, and the summertime mosquito assault can haunt your dreams. But don't expect the payloads of cosmic irony and mystery Herzog has had occasion to find wherever he goes."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jan 23, 2013
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3/4
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94%
|
Nothing But a Man (1963) |
"
Roemer had little more than his wits and good intentions to work with, and that DIY attitude makes the movie reverberate like a blues chord."
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Boston Phoenix
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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100%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
As pop anthropology, the series is unchallenged."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 2, 2013
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40%
|
Yelling to the Sky (2012) |
"
Little more than a résumé film for all involved, it certainly feels more Park City than Bushwick."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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42%
|
Heleno (2012) |
"
You're stuck daydreaming about a far, far better movie."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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67%
|
Otelo Burning (2012) |
"
This South African ditty is even framed as a scrapbook, mushily remembering childhood traumas and exaltations."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 27, 2012
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81%
|
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) |
"
As intensely expressionistic as any film since Caligari, and at the same time a veritable nova of springtime élan, the movie inhabits a unique puppet-theater universe, and could seduce a eunuch."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 26, 2012
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59%
|
La Rafle (2012) |
"
Treading on a shameful piece of French history, Bosch bizarrely intercuts scenes of Hitler, Himmler, and Hess working out the logistics of the exportations, in vignettes that smack of Inglourious Basterds farce ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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33%
|
Buffalo Girls (2012) |
"
Buffalo Girls hews close to the experience at hand, which sometimes feels a little too much like a normal leading-up-to-the-big-game Undefeated-style sports doc."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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47%
|
The First Time (2012) |
"
Something of a wonder, a palm-size ball of banter and irony and earnestness that never stops rolling and almost never misses the sweet spots."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2012
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