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      Love's Labour's Lost (2000) The result is good-natured enough to withstand both an uneven cast (Alessandro Nivola and Adrian Lester are standouts, while Alicia Silverstone and Matthew Lillard struggle gamely) and its own limited novelty value. - Out Magazine
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2022
      Set Me Free (1999) Vanasse gives a performance of unaffected grace, and Pool reveals a keen eye for the formative moments of adolescence. - Out Magazine
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2022
      Not One Less (1999) Wei sets off on a rescue odyssey that derives humor from the young heroine's alarmingly steely determination and pathos from the film's stark depiction of life on the street. - Out Magazine
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2022
      Beau travail (1999) Ardent and unflinching, Beau Travail looks beyond homoeroticism to the subtle, savage power games of an all-male world. - Out Magazine
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2022
      Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) Its unending California dream is the expression of a palpable, deeply poignant yearning. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jun 03, 2019
      Freedom (2019) Liberté more than lived up to its title, suggesting that a truly free cinema is one that still believes in the possibility of subversion. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jun 03, 2019
      Pain and Glory (2019) ... an autumnal memory piece that arrives at a state of hard-won grace and serenity. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jun 03, 2019
      Zombi Child (2019) ...functioning equally as a delirious teen-horror reverie, a serious study of the zombie myth, and an open-ended riff on the persistence of the colonial past. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jun 03, 2019
      Parasite (2019) Parasite puts a wickedly literal spin on the notion that there is always someone lower on the socioeconomic ladder. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jun 03, 2019
      Atlantics (2019) The potent, hallucinatory moods of Diop's previous work are beautifully assimilated here into an oneiric fable of migration and transmigration-suspended between realism and fantasy, the living and the dead, here and elsewhere. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jun 03, 2019
      Bacurau (2019) Far from a one-to-one political allegory, Bacurau is a work of powerfully inchoate despair and rage. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jun 03, 2019
      Viola (2012) If many recent art films have made prominent use of nonactors, typically cast as some version of themselves, Pineiro's beguiling, hyperverbal movies revel in the transportive potential -- and sheer pleasure -- of actors acting. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jun 08, 2017
      The Devil, Probably (1977) Thirty-five years on, The Devil, Probably can still trigger a shock of recognition. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted May 22, 2014
      Story of My Death (2013) Against a backdrop of candlelit conversation and barnyard carnality, Serra sets in motion contrasting ideas about pleasure and desire, alternating between winding philosophical dialogue and wordless passages of savage beauty. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Sep 15, 2013
      Nosferatu (1922) Less frightening than haunting, Murnau's film conjures a persistent atmosphere of dread and decay, thanks in part to Max Schreck's immortal performance as Orlok. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Aug 21, 2013
      No (2012) No concludes Larrain's trilogy on the Pinochet years, a series of films that suggest the usefulness of oblique angles when braving the minefields of fictionalizing recent history. The filmmaker comes by this sidelong view naturally. - Artforum
      Read More | Posted Jul 01, 2013
      3.5/5
      Frozen River (2008) Courtney Huntâ(TM)s somber film Frozen River ventures deep into the trenches where hard-working Americans struggle to put food on the table. - New York Times
      Read More | Posted Aug 01, 2008
      The Exiles (1961) Despite its compact time frame the film conjures a powerful sensation of purgatory: a night like many others. - New York Times
      Read More | Posted Jul 07, 2008
      1/5
      The Amateurs (The Moguls) (Dirty Movie) (2005) There are no laughs to be found in writer-director Michael Traeger's would-be comedy The Amateurs, but there is one big mystery: how actors of this caliber could have been convinced to take part. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Dec 07, 2007
      4/5
      4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) Never surrendering its grip on the viewer, 4 Months is the rare film with gravity and speed -- a moral tale in the form of a suspense thriller. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Nov 02, 2007
      4/5
      No End in Sight (2007) No End in Sight, the latest Iraq documentary, is the first to attempt a detailed historical overview and probably the only one with the potential to reach across partisan lines, a true rarity in the sphere of political filmmaking. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Aug 02, 2007
      2.5/5
      Memories of Tomorrow (2006) The script's subtler nuances are too often drowned out by awkward histrionics. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Jun 08, 2007
      1.5/5
      Disturbia (2007) Has nowhere near the conceptual sophistication of Rear Window, where the protagonist's absorption in what he's watching mirrors the viewer's. The problem with Disturbia is that for most of the film you'll wish you weren't watching at all. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Apr 12, 2007
      4/5
      Grindhouse (2007) Setting aside the dubious coherence and suspect nostalgia of the enterprise, Grindhouse is a fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Apr 05, 2007
      2.5/5
      Meet the Robinsons (2007) Zippy if forgettable. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Mar 29, 2007
      4/5
      The Namesake (2006) An intimate, melancholy look at the isolation and disorientation common to the immigrant experience. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Mar 08, 2007
      2/5
      Turistas (2006) A wholly predictable bit of slasher unpleasantness and a muddled cautionary tale on the American propensity for foreign misadventures. - Los Angeles Times
      Read More | Posted Nov 30, 2006
      The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) The film is alarming, endearing, and utterly unflappable. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2006
      (undefined) Finn's deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Aug 03, 2006
      Brothers of the Head (2005) The golden-hued footage is lovingly faked by ace cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, and the straight-faced result is as improbably touching as the Farrelly brothers' underrated Stuck on You. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jul 25, 2006
      Shadowboxer (2005) It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when it becomes clear that this lurid, steroidal neo-noir is certifiably insane (or at least a lot funnier than it means to be), but it's pretty early on. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jul 18, 2006
      Gabrielle (2005) At once robust and ethereal, this is an existential ghost story, with fresh blood pulsing through its veins. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jul 11, 2006
      Time to Leave (2005) Time to Leave winds up a tiresome affirmation of man's biological duty to procreate; the position is simplistic verging on obnoxious, especially after 5x2's attack on the hetero family model. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jul 11, 2006
      Urbanscapes (2005) Urbanscapes analyzes urban blight as a recurring phenomenon, with economic, social, and moral dimensions. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jul 07, 2006
      Agnes and His Brothers (2004) Painfully literal/ironic soundtrack choices add to the general unpleasantness, and the nods to Fassbinder's great In a Year of 13 Moons only emphasize what this scattershot satire most decidedly is not. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jun 06, 2006
      Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) Fatih Akin's rich documentary follow-up, Crossing the Bridge, digs deeper into Istanbul's musical and social history. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jun 06, 2006
      Cavite (2005) A paragon of guerrilla resourcefulness and a model citizen of the global village, Cavite is a more anxious and vivid experience than most movies with budgets literally a thousand times bigger. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2006
      X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) ... thanks to lowered expectations ... and in a season of economically disastrous disaster movies, the mere fact that this Memorial Day juggernaut is not a catastrophe should spell good news for a depressed industry. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted May 23, 2006
      Twelve and Holding (2005) In Cuesta's cynical formulation, the pretense of empathy is simply license to mock, gawk, and vulgarize. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted May 17, 2006
      United 93 (2006) Like most memorials, it is respectful, premised on competing obligations to the dead and the living, and eager to stress that the deaths were not in vain. It not only tells us we should never forget but also illustrates how we should remember. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Apr 18, 2006
      Basic Instinct 2 (2006) The plot, already mired in nonsensical backstory, collapses with the late-inning introduction of a tired metafictional device (not to mention a wildly lunging Usual Suspects twist). - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Apr 04, 2006
      Half Nelson (2006) Sardonic yet moving, Half Nelson deftly outlines the perils of youthful idealism without lapsing into knee-jerk cynicism. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Mar 22, 2006
      In Between Days (2006) Painful, funny, unsentimental, perfectly measured in its ambiguities, it's exemplary low-budget filmmaking, the rare DV movie with an assured visual style and a strong sense of place. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2006
      Man Push Cart (2005) Bahrani and his DP Michael Simmonds illuminate the murky beauty -- and hardscrabble economics -- of New York's all-night shadowland. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2006
      Old Joy (2006) A film of microscopic mood shifts, at once open-ended and precise. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2006
      Little Miss Sunshine (2006) The destination is a pageant that will demonstrate, in grotesque, stomach-churning detail, that beauty is skin-deep and that you don't have to win to be a winner. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2006
      The Science of Sleep (2006) The hyperactive juvenile whimsy and the stoner dream theories are out of control -- and fascinatingly close to pathology. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2006
      Art School Confidential (2006) A satisfyingly bilious satire. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2006
      The Intruder (2004) This mysterious object may be Denis's most gorgeous film (which is saying something), but more than that, it's a fearless filmmaker's boldest experiment yet, a direct line from her unconscious to yours. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Dec 20, 2005
      The Family Stone (2005) It's hard to fathom why anyone would voluntarily endure a holiday family reunion movie (hereafter HFRM) -- a genre devised solely to demonstrate how grotesque and how heartwarming families can be. - Village Voice
      Read More | Posted Dec 13, 2005
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