Diana Clarke
Diana Clarke's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Village Voice
| Publications: | Village Voice |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 55% | The Human Surge (El auge del humano) (2017) |
Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams' globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Feb 28, 2017
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| 95% | The Settlers (2017) |
Of course the film plods; this story is exhausting, drawn-out, decades of fear and violence so familiar that they hardly even shock.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Feb 28, 2017
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| 91% | Speed Sisters (2017) |
Although Speed Sisters is not comprehensive, it's vital.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Feb 7, 2017
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| 85% | Harry Benson: Shoot First (2016) |
The images are augmented by commentary from Benson, his subjects, and his critics, who include his own family.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Dec 7, 2016
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| 100% | Disturbing The Peace (2016) |
The film is a space for listening, for trying to understand.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Nov 11, 2016
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| 90% | Do Not Resist (2016) |
In this new and vital documentary, Craig Atkinson interrogates what is happening in American police departments and why cops' presence on the streets looks more and more like war.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Oct 4, 2016
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| 94% | Among the Believers (2016) |
It insists on seeing its subjects' humanity - something rare in the Western press, particularly when reporting on Islam, and especially fundamentalism.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Sep 29, 2016
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| 100% | The Ruins of Lifta (2016) |
Vital, complicated and flawed ... necessary viewing.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Sep 22, 2016
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| 78% | Dying To Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014) |
Though sometimes clumsy or nostalgic, the film is an engaging oral history of Leary and Dass's friendship.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Aug 10, 2016
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| 58% | Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil (Jheronimus Bosch, Touched By The Devil) (2016) |
The high-resolution images of Bosch's twisted work are gorgeous, but it's hard not to feel like the doc is a poor substitute for seeing the art in person.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2016
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| 75% | Ants on a Shrimp (2016) |
Like a well-executed fine-dining experience, this sleek documentary entertains, delights, and makes viewers comfortable without evident sweat.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jul 27, 2016
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| 97% | Hooligan Sparrow (2016) |
[A] tremendous documentary ...‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jul 20, 2016
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| 88% | Indian Point (2016) |
Someone needs to ask questions; here they are.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jul 6, 2016
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| 78% | The Kind Words (2016) |
Zissman-Cohen's subtle features and the way they flood with repressed feeling make each moment a separate, fully formed shard in a disjointed mosaic of emotional truth.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jun 23, 2016
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| 100% | From This Day Forward (2016) |
The complex family dynamics are fascinating, and they make for an engaging (if sometimes troubling) film.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jun 23, 2016
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| 100% | Germans & Jews (2016) |
For a film encompassing generations of fraught history, Germans & Jews is awfully short, but hardly superficial.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jun 8, 2016
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| 94% | Tikkun (2016) |
Shot like a photo album, gorgeous frame after gorgeous frame, it continually suggests that crisis and struggle can be beautiful when viewed from the right angle.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jun 7, 2016
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| 78% | Princess (2014) |
It's hard to keep watching. Don't stop.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted May 25, 2016
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| 100% | Pervert Park (2015) |
The film is a softly gleaming counternarrative to the conventional news cycle of panic and fear.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted May 18, 2016
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| 100% | Rabin In His Own Words (2016) |
Rabin's consistent, thoughtful self-criticism and colorful storytelling animate what might otherwise be a pat, or at least familiar, history of Israel in the 20th century. By making it specific, Laufer makes it new.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted May 6, 2016
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| 75% | Sworn Virgin (Vergine giurata) (2016) |
Cutting between present, childhood, and recent past, Bispuri constructs a subtle, richly emotional collage.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2016
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| 57% | Streit's: Matzo And The American Dream (2016) |
This gripping documentary about unleavened bread and the people who need it asks us to consider what we in the world owe one another - and demands that we do better.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2016
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| 94% | Colliding Dreams (2016) |
How can everyone go home? It's an impossible question, but a vital one. By listening deeply, Dorman and Rudavsky suggest that, even if there might not be an answer, we can always change the story; see how it already has changed, so many times?‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Mar 1, 2016
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| 68% | Rabin, the Last Day (2016) |
By glamorizing struggle and ideology across the Israeli-Jewish political spectrum, it once more invites identification with only half of those locked in the conflict Rabin was trying to solve.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jan 26, 2016
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| 89% | The Tainted Veil (2015) |
Some of what the interviewees say will be offensive, no matter your point of view. Go and listen. Bring a friend so you can keep the discussion going after the credits roll.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Dec 8, 2015
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| 93% | Censored Voices (2015) |
Oz is the best-known novelist in Israel, notorious for supporting a two-state solution. If you don't yet understand why he does, watch this film. If you're already on Oz's side, keeping the wound open might be worth it.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2015
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| 89% | What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy (2015) |
Despite a melodramatic title, the film is keen and measured. Drama builds in the small moments.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Nov 5, 2015
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| 100% | Of Men And War (2015) |
Disregard your personal feelings about the military, U.S. involvement in foreign wars, or a French director making a movie about Americans. This film is raw in the truest sense, yet refined in its sympathy and scope.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Nov 3, 2015
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| 100% | India's Daughter (2015) |
[A] disturbing, vivid documentary ...‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Oct 20, 2015
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| 92% | Dukhtar (2015) |
Dukhtar is an issues film with the twisted, heart-pounding feel of a road-trip thriller ...‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2015
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| 92% | In My Father's House (2015) |
In My Father's House doesn't spend much time on politics, examining why rates of fatherlessness are so high among black American families, but it doesn't need to.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2015
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| 98% | Welcome To Leith (2015) |
[A] fascinating, unnerving documentary.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Sep 8, 2015
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| 60% | Paul Taylor Creative Domain (2015) |
A dance is not only motion, but emotion. This fascinating film reminds us how closely the two are linked.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Sep 8, 2015
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| No Score Yet | The Lost Key (2015) |
A mightily silly but occasionally insightful, and certainly entertaining, film.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Aug 11, 2015
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| 88% | A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile (2015) |
A serious, fascinating, slightly lurid documentary for devoted Al Jazeera viewers and fans of the movie Her.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jul 23, 2015
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| 86% | Tap World (2015) |
It's rare to find a film that portrays dancers of all shapes, colors, ages, and sizes as beautiful, which they are.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jul 7, 2015
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| 93% | Mala Mala (2015) |
This film does not pander. Rather, it demands that the viewer rise to the occasion.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2015
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| 63% | Felt (2015) |
This strange, quiet film takes social narratives about romance and gender and upends them, often seeming like one thing until it's another.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jun 23, 2015
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| 69% | The Wanted 18 (2015) |
It's beautiful and important and very strange.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jun 16, 2015
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| 81% | The Yes Men Are Revolting (2015) |
Pretty funny and only kind of sad ...‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Jun 10, 2015
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| 94% | I Believe in Unicorns (2015) |
Vack is sexy and charming, but Dyer carries the film, the camera holding her expressive face in close-up, wavering between pain and wonder.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted May 27, 2015
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| 100% | One Cut, One Life (2015) |
As intuitive as its structure, as natural as the processes of dying and mourning that make up its core.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted May 12, 2015
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| 93% | The Hand That Feeds (2015) |
López is a singularly tender, compelling, and articulate campaigner in this high-stakes struggle for justice, filmed with the urgency and suspense of a Hitchcock thriller.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2015
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| 40% | Secret of Water (2015) |
It's laugh-out-loud silly if you're in the mood, but mostly embarrassing.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Mar 17, 2015
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| 89% | Eastern Boys (2015) |
What a relief to watch this small, expert film - a pane of glass in a concrete wall - that whispers, that dares to stand still and witness ordinary human pain.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Feb 24, 2015
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| 78% | Farewell to Hollywood (2015) |
A deeply human reminder that there's plenty of beauty around us right now.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Feb 24, 2015
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| 40% | A Small Section Of The World (2014) |
A delicious, compact viewing experience - like a rich, smooth shot of espresso.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Dec 16, 2014
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| 18% | Free the Nipple (2014) |
It's too rare for movies to depict women working together as friends to effect political change, and this one makes it seem righteous, loud, and fun as a rock concert.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2014
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| 45% | Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks (2014) |
Rowlands is an interesting, engaging actor, but she's constrained by Richard Alfieri's flat script and Jackson's manic, dogged affect.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2014
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| 87% | Monk With a Camera (2014) |
Like a good photograph, or a wise abbot, it only presents the evidence and allows us to arrive at truth.‐ Village Voice
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2014
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