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
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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
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| 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
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| Posted Feb 28, 2017
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92% | Speed Sisters (2017) |
Although Speed Sisters is not comprehensive, it's vital. - Village Voice
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| 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
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| 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
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| Posted Nov 11, 2016
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91% | 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
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| Posted Oct 4, 2016
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95% | 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
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| Posted Sep 29, 2016
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100% | The Ruins of Lifta (2016) |
Vital, complicated and flawed ... necessary viewing. - Village Voice
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| 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
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| Posted Aug 10, 2016
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62% | 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
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| Posted Jul 28, 2016
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78% | 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
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| Posted Jul 27, 2016
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97% | Hooligan Sparrow (2016) |
[A] tremendous documentary ... - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 20, 2016
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88% | Indian Point (2016) |
Someone needs to ask questions; here they are. - Village Voice
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Posted Jun 8, 2016
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95% | 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
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| Posted Jun 7, 2016
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82% | Princess (2008) |
It's hard to keep watching. Don't stop. - Village Voice
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| 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
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| 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
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| Posted May 6, 2016
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71% | Sworn Virgin (Vergine giurata) (2016) |
Cutting between present, childhood, and recent past, Bispuri constructs a subtle, richly emotional collage. - Village Voice
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Posted Dec 8, 2015
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90% | 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
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| Posted Nov 18, 2015
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87% | 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
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| 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
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| Posted Nov 3, 2015
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100% | India's Daughter (2015) |
[A] disturbing, vivid documentary ... - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 20, 2015
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93% | Dukhtar (2015) |
Dukhtar is an issues film with the twisted, heart-pounding feel of a road-trip thriller ... - Village Voice
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| 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
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| Posted Oct 6, 2015
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96% | Welcome To Leith (2015) |
[A] fascinating, unnerving documentary. - Village Voice
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| 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
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| 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
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| Posted Aug 11, 2015
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89% | 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
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| 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
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| Posted Jul 7, 2015
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95% | Mala Mala (2015) |
This film does not pander. Rather, it demands that the viewer rise to the occasion. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 3, 2015
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62% | 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
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| Posted Jun 23, 2015
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69% | The Wanted 18 (2015) |
It's beautiful and important and very strange. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 16, 2015
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81% | The Yes Men Are Revolting (2015) |
Pretty funny and only kind of sad ... - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 10, 2015
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84% | 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Posted Dec 9, 2014
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50% | 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
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| Posted Dec 9, 2014
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82% | 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
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| Posted Nov 18, 2014
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