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71%
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The Source Family (2013) |
"
With some focus and critical perspective, The Source Family might have documented more than a spectacle of its time."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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0%
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Silver Circle (2013) |
"
A crude valentine to Ron Paul and his extended family."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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100%
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The Revolutionary Optimists (2013) |
"
Change may be elusive, Optimists confirms, but the will to make it blazes."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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66%
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The We and the I (2013) |
"
At its finest and most affecting, The We and the I is a window onto youth's forever moments ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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92%
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Night Across the Street (2013) |
"
These are the dreams of a man stepping out of this world, perhaps never more lucid and full of life."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2013
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92%
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The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
[A] searching, engrossing, and stylish inquiry ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2013
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46%
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Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2013) |
"
An obstructive, agitprop style detracts from the important, singularly American story buried in Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2013
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83%
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Uprising (2013) |
"
Heavy on smartphone and news footage, Uprising offers but a few slivers of new light on its subject ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 9, 2013
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82%
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Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (2012) |
"
Jesse Vile's expertly measured, emotional look at the life of a guitar prodigy cut down by ALS ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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87%
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Trashed (2012) |
"
The form is straightforward, if a little meandering, as is the message: We have to fix this."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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100%
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The Loving Story (2012) |
"
A thoughtful, terrifically intimate account of the case that dismantled this country's anti-miscegenation laws 100 years after the abolition of slavery."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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67%
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Parked (2012) |
"
[An] elegant, engaging meditation on displacement and the modern man."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 27, 2012
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Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed (2012) |
"
The sublime beauty of her subject cannot fail to move; less steady is this presentation of their plight."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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80%
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Hitler's Children (2012) |
"
Hitler's Children is a powerful and well-judged presentation of the stories and their impossibilities."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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86%
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Who Bombed Judi Bari? (2012) |
"
Mary Liz Thomson's tough and intriguingly well-told account of the fight between environmentalists and corporate raiders ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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86%
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The Law In These Parts (2012) |
"
The Law in These Parts applies a cold anger to one of the geopolitical world's most passionate discords."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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Here I Learned to Love (2012) |
"
A slight but powerful entry in the family-history-as-world-history archives ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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94%
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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012) |
"
A finely sketched portrait of the artist's unlikely pursuit of perfection."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 26, 2012
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71%
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We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012) |
"
Former Frontline producer Brian Knappenberger's fascinating, incisive social history of the online network known as Anonymous ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2012
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98%
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Brooklyn Castle (2012) |
"
We ... gain a keen sense of how chess in particular helps otherwise academically challenged kids find a way into their own brains."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2012
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Unmasked Judeophobia (2012) |
"
Greenfield works against her own interests with absurdly selective arguments and sloppy filmmaking."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2012
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100%
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A Whisper To A Roar (2012) |
"
An expertly drawn primer on the soft dictatorships that constrained five different countries and the peaceful revolutions that sought to expunge them ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2012
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Primum Non Nocere -- First Do No Harm (2012) |
"
Clearly designed to wake up the whole red-blooded world, Primum Non Nocere plays like an underground video for radical med students."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2012
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Dear Mandela (2012) |
"
Triumph follows tragedy as the case unfolds and history is caught repeating, but the larger, more complicated story underlying this brief but bracing missive still feels untold."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 18, 2012
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Blinky & Me (2012) |
"
Tomasz Magierski's lovely and lovingly made portrait of Gross's life and career ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 18, 2012
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50%
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Switch (2012) |
"
A methodical, occasionally remedial survey of the energy crisis and its possible solutions, Switch fits a subject often treated polemically into a more benign, continuing education mold."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 18, 2012
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93%
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Girl Model (2012) |
"
The radiant sadness of its two subjects-one a soulfully impassive stripling, one a symmetrical husk-forms the center of Girl Model, and that is enough."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 4, 2012
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95%
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Side by Side (2012) |
"
Even disinterested viewers will have complicated feelings about the aesthetic, practical, and philosophical questions director Chris Kenneally poses about his subject."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 28, 2012
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93%
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Wild Horse, Wild Ride (2012) |
"
We get some sense of the horses' range of personalities; clearer is the nature of each trainer's attachment."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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94%
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Neighbouring Sounds (2012) |
"
Writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho's arresting, energetically oblique debut."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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87%
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The Matchmaker (2012) |
"
The Matchmaker combines the tender tone of a film like Cinema Paradiso with a clear-eyed, street-level vantage on Israel's summer of the Six-Day War."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2012
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17%
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This Time (2012) |
"
Director Victor Mignatti's engaging but near fatally bifurcated dispatch from the fringes of the floundering music industry."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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7.5/10
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96%
|
Searching for Sugar Man (2012) |
"
Sugar Man is most interesting when it touches on the conditions that combined to draw a cult hero out of some decent music and a generously enabled, imagination-firing mystique."
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Movieline
Posted Jul 27, 2012
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5.5/10
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16%
|
The Watch (2012) |
"
It's one of those smoke bomb comedies that seems to disappear even while you're watching, leaving no trace of itself behind."
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Movieline
Posted Jul 26, 2012
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6.5/10
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77%
|
Killer Joe (2012) |
"
To its own detriment, William Friedkin's splattery, southern gothic return to the screen seeks to amuse as well as shake and stir."
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Movieline
Posted Jul 26, 2012
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7.5/10
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87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
A frequently, unnervingly glorious triumph of brawn over brains."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 19, 2012
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8/10
|
75%
|
Alps (2012) |
"
The tone is one of deadpan discombobulation, a world turned 45 degrees to the left but presented with a clear, dry perspective."
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Movieline
Posted Jul 13, 2012
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7/10
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63%
|
Union Square (2012) |
"
With its small cast and focus on performance, Union Square promises to be a welcome showcase for Sorvino, and the early rhymes with Miss Linda are intriguingly open-ended."
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Movieline
Posted Jul 12, 2012
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8/10
|
75%
|
Collaborator (2012) |
"
What takes shape is a character piece that makes a literary job of deconstructing the hostage thriller."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 6, 2012
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7/10
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77%
|
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) |
"
Perry is no dancer and not much of a mover; she's a more mannequin-ish presence, but an energizer mannequin, expressive and ever connecting."
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Movieline
Posted Jul 5, 2012
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5.5/10
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76%
|
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012) |
"
The latest from brothers Mark and Jay Duplass (who co-wrote and directed) seems to expose the limits of a certain kind of realism by stretching them one man-child too far."
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Movieline
Posted Jul 5, 2012
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7.5/10
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88%
|
Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
"
At 65, as Demme emphasizes with his clamp-like focus on the performer, Young can still smash it up."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 29, 2012
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|
8.5/10
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
At times it feels like not much holds this world together; at others it seems nothing could possibly tear it apart."
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Movieline
Posted Jun 28, 2012
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——
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Busong (Palawan Fate) (2012) |
"
Director Auraeus Solito generates too little of the magic that holds a story as tenuous as this one together."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 26, 2012
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91%
|
Gypsy (2012) |
"
You might call it an old story with higher stakes, but a keen sensitivity to its moral difficulties and enlivening details sets Gypsy urgently apart."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 26, 2012
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——
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UFO in Her Eyes (2012) |
"
A mixture of droll political satire, lyrical visuals, and dolorous mood make for an uneven but lingering sketch of a China that feels increasingly present yet still rarely seen."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 18, 2012
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96%
|
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012) |
"
Rap confirms the art of the form from the inside. Only time can sort out the rest."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 18, 2012
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8/10
|
83%
|
Your Sister's Sister (2012) |
"
Finally, the writer-director has become known for effacing a high concept plotline with naturalistic performances and shooting styles."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 14, 2012
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8/10
|
95%
|
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012) |
"
The picture gives a sense of life's fragments aligning, finally, to form a coherent story."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 14, 2012
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86%
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