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Peter L'Official

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Village Voice film critic.

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ATL (2006) 63% EDIT “It unpretentiously serves class consciousness and conflict with its Cadillac music, attempting to capture -- not capitalize on -- the Atlanta scene that's spawned an aesthetic and a mythology all its own.” – Village Voice Mar 28, 2006 Full Review Mirage (2004) 82% EDIT “Marko's story is far from novel, but its wicked evocation of hopelessness transcends any familiarities.” – Village Voice Mar 14, 2006 Full Review Eight Below (2006) 73% EDIT “The plot's slavish schmaltz proves as oppressive as the harsh winter that descends upon the dogs.” – Village Voice Feb 21, 2006 Full Review Curious George (2006) 70% EDIT “Misanthropic toddlers will be rolling in the aisles.” – Village Voice Feb 7, 2006 Full Review The Tollbooth (2004) 13% EDIT “The question of whether Sarabeth will make it as a big-city artist is less fascinating than wondering when she'll discover that her art is terrible.” – Village Voice Jan 31, 2006 Full Review Tristan & Isolde (2006) 31% EDIT “I dub thee tolerable.” – Village Voice Jan 17, 2006 Full Review The Car (2003) 80% EDIT “First-timer Luis Orjuela paint-rollers on soupy layers of humor and emotion while mixing in measured shots of class commentary.” – Village Voice Jan 3, 2006 Full Review Zathura (2005) 77% EDIT “Let's play Jumanji! No, let's not, but say we did -- in space!” – Village Voice Nov 8, 2005 Full Review G (2002) 26% EDIT “No green light but the one mistakenly given to start production.” – Village Voice Nov 1, 2005 Full Review The Dark Hours (2005) 62% EDIT “[A] taut '70s throwback thriller.” – Village Voice Oct 11, 2005 Full Review Life, Translated (2006) EDIT “Kiefer Liu's eccentric bit of teen sigh candy is veined with enough chewy oddities to give it texture, but its sappy center isn't sustainable over 100 minutes.” – Village Voice Oct 7, 2005 Full Review EDIT “Wolfe's anecdotal musicology succeeds precisely because of its bare-bones, bawdy yet beautiful approach -- just like the music Vargas makes.” – Village Voice Sep 27, 2005 Full Review Into the Fire (2005) 0% EDIT “If there's an element of Into the Fire that isn't rank and offensive, I've failed to find it.” – Village Voice Sep 20, 2005 Full Review Below the Belt (2004) 0% EDIT “Watch it with your eyes closed.” – Village Voice Sep 13, 2005 Full Review Green Street Hooligans (2005) 45% EDIT “Hooligans loses the plot late though -- in the filmic and Brit-speak sense -- revealing Hollywood, not hooligan, roots.” – Village Voice Sep 6, 2005 Full Review Margaret Cho: Assassin (2005) 38% EDIT “Her embrace of controversial political topics might be welcome if her jokes weren't so predictable.” – Village Voice Aug 30, 2005 Full Review The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) 14% EDIT “Prepare to witness an amazing feat of filmmaking: Shocked and delighted will you be to see real Hollywood actors and real musicians outperformed by your favorite inanimate objects!” – Village Voice Aug 2, 2005 Full Review Cronicas (2004) 71% EDIT “Oscillating between furor and languor, rage and repose, Crnicas mixes ethnography with media critique.” – Village Voice Jul 6, 2005 Full Review The War on Kids (2009) 22% EDIT “Ineptitude is so thorough here that War on . . . could only make sense as a sinister governmental smear campaign to justify the war on drugs and total sobriety.” – Village Voice Jun 22, 2005 Full Review POV (2005) 92% EDIT “Weisberg, whose stripped-down style seems refreshing amid the current spate of super-produced docs, gives you what you want, if what you want are dismally deferred American Dreams and harsh economic realities. And you should.” – Village Voice Jun 22, 2005 Full Review After You (2003) 57% EDIT “As genre fare, Aprs Vous is saved by its irresistibly sympathetic performances.” – Village Voice May 31, 2005 Full Review Bomb the System (2003) 32% EDIT “A needlessly circuitous plot twist leaves a bitter taste, but not before the film's scruffy charm does its work.” – Village Voice May 24, 2005 Full Review Red Passport (2003) EDIT “I'm in jail. Whoops! Now I'm not.” – Village Voice May 10, 2005 Full Review XXX: State of the Union (2005) 17% EDIT “Explosions abound, along with expository dialogue and a ham-tastic triad of performances from Sam Jackson, Willem Dafoe, and Peter Strauss.” – Village Voice May 3, 2005 Full Review Death of a Dynasty (2003) 50% EDIT “In Dynasty, even caricature becomes commodity.” – Village Voice Apr 26, 2005 Full Review
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