Ed Park
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Village Voice
Movies reviews only
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The Bad Sleep Well (1960) |
Opening with a bravura wedding sequence and ending with a sycophantic bow to a replaced telephone receiver, the film has its longueurs, but Mifune's buttoned-down avenger is a compelling portrait of righteous obsession foundering on unpredictable reality. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) |
Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 02, 2008
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Rosemary's Baby (1968) |
Superbly acted (especially by bone-thin Farrow and Ruth Gordon as the ultimate neighbor from hell), it's a satantango in the land of Is-this-real-or-am-I-crazy?, with a luridly literal ending that doesn't negate the previous, more interior terrors. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 19, 2007
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The Parallax View (1974) |
It's an astringently cynical take on official history, with Warren Beatty as a muckraker investigating the strange aftershocks of a senator's killing. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 07, 2007
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Slow Jam King (2004) |
Enthusiastically scored to the titular quiet storms, ersatz c&w, and hip-hop textures, the anti-rockist Slow Jam King is more fun to listen to than watch... - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 06, 2006
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Nathalie... (2003) |
Nathalie is intricate, provocative, cleanly acted, but it's never entirely convincing -- and never more so than in the table-turning climax. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 11, 2006
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Game 6 (2005) |
A gratifying playground of high-wire language. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 07, 2006
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London (2005) |
Syd's emotional tailspin is embarrassingly banal, and his assertion that 'everybody here hates me' quickly applies to the audience as well. - Village Voice
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| Posted Feb 07, 2006
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The White Countess (2005) |
Irredeemably dull. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 20, 2005
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
To this viewer and reader, the decade-old juggernaut is as deeply felt as it is flawed, dense and illogical and laudably weird. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 15, 2005
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
A whimsical success of a very high order: The pace never lags, the invention is incessant, and it makes you want to have a bite of cheese afterward. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 04, 2005
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Rodnees: We Mod Like Dat! (2005) |
We're going to trot out the mandatory one-word Beatles-album-derived closer: Help! - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 27, 2005
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The Baxter (2005) |
The Baxter nods to better-behaved comedies of the past. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 23, 2005
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A State of Mind (2004) |
One leaves the film with the Twilight Zone sense that the place isn't quite the hellhole prior reports have suggested. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 09, 2005
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Saint Ralph (2004) |
Ralph Walker is no Max Fischer, and his monomania gets dull fast. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 02, 2005
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The Little Chinese Seamstress (2002) |
Though the film lacks some of the paper incarnation's subtlety, Dai's infidelity to his own text keeps things interesting. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 26, 2005
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
Fun and nourishing, Charlie's the topsy-turvy equivalent of a three-course dinner in a single stick of gum. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 12, 2005
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Wheel of Time (2003) |
Patient and fascinated, but never succumbing to abstraction. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 14, 2005
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) |
The multiple story lines can feel choppy, but the dialogue has snap, and the pants' powers never distract from the teenagers' emotions. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 31, 2005
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Saving Face (2004) |
Despite a fairly explicit lesbian boobfest (projected attendance just went up!), the film is more good-natured than provocative. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 24, 2005
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2009: Lost Memories (2002) |
The amped-up Dickian scenario features too many frame-filling fireballs. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 17, 2005
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3-Iron (2004) |
The change in tone, from swiftly destabilizing drama to outright fantasy, feels less like Kim provocatively switching gears, and more like he's painted himself into a corner. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 26, 2005
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House of D (2004) |
Marred by a rambling voice-over at one end and a pat therapeutic resolution on the other, the film has a nice half-hour patch somewhere in the middle. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 12, 2005
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The Ring Two (2005) |
The let's-travel-through-the-TV-screen sequence was better in Fat Albert. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 22, 2005
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Millions (2004) |
Feels contrived. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 07, 2005
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Bigger Than the Sky (2005) |
Bigger lopes along endlessly, a no-surprises foray into backstage high jinks and the notion of life as the best acting coach there is. - Village Voice
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| Posted Feb 22, 2005
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Wonderful Days (2003) |
Most of the action is tedious, and the less you pay attention to the dialogue, the less you'll feel your hand inadvertently twitching as if with joystick. - Village Voice
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| Posted Feb 15, 2005
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2004) |
Several sharp jolts give the doc its dramatic shape, and one episode in particular, caught with a neighbor's lens, will make you gasp with grief. - Village Voice
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| Posted Feb 08, 2005
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White Noise (2005) |
Vigorously pushes the supernatural line throughout, but unfortunately its final movement is so incoherent that the whole thing collapses. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 11, 2005
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A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) |
Exasperating Southern-lit seminar. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 28, 2004
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Fat Albert (2004) |
The overall approach is to throw preordained movie sequences (rap number, shopping spree) together and hope for the best. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 21, 2004
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In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) |
Jessica Yu's elegant new doc In the Realms of the Unreal is a spry, creative response to his oceanic talent and claustrophobic life. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 21, 2004
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Amnesia (2004) |
So true to its title that I've forgotten many of the details already -- and I just saw it this morning. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 30, 2004
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National Treasure (2004) |
National Treasure gets more entertaining as the preposterousness rises. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 23, 2004
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) |
Could SpongeBob, all gangly goodwill and ice cream appetite, be the anarchic savior for our stressed-out times? - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 23, 2004
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Jandek on Corwood (2003) |
Chad Friedrichs's doc has too many rock-crit talking heads, too often saying the same thing based on scant information -- a clumsy portrait of the artist that inadvertently serves as a mirror of the critical faculty itself. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 16, 2004
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The Polar Express (2004) |
Unnervingly smooth, mouths moving in strange, even frightening formations, the Polar people are the least convincing things on-screen, glaring impostors amid the otherwise painstakingly rendered scenery. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 09, 2004
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Enduring Love (2004) |
Razor-walking self-consciousness (or just plain braininess) is perhaps impossible to depict coherently on-screen, and the someone's-watching-me vibe is otherwise overfamiliar to moviegoers. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 26, 2004
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Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (2002) |
Styles range from cabaret to barbershop to toe-tapping bubblegum, and the rainy-day serenade at the start nods Cherbourgward, with a soupon of Low Countries sass. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 26, 2004
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Stella Street (2004) |
Stella Street goes from can-I-laugh- yet? to wanna-go- home in about three minutes. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 20, 2004
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Untold Scandal (2003) |
E J-Yong's transposition illuminates, with satisfying crispness, the hyper-Confucian high society of the time, as well as the underground Catholic movement. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 12, 2004
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Shark Tale (2004) |
The filmmakers don't have enough faith in the world they've created. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 28, 2004
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) |
His nostalgia enabled by technology, Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 21, 2004
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Head in the Clouds (2004) |
I remember best [Gilda's] mutable hair, which went from a bob to a wave to a longish Angelina Jolie coif. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 14, 2004
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Evergreen (2004) |
Though the acting is tentative at times, with performances not quite landing on the same page, Evergreen is a compassionate slice of Pacific Northwest misery. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 07, 2004
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) |
In the rare moments when a rifle, grenade, howitzer, bayonet, dagger, fist, land mine, or flamethrower isn't being deployed, the film pushes its melodramatic plotline with soap operatic shamelessness. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 31, 2004
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) |
Scenes end abruptly, laughs are as rare as yetis, and the overarching question seems to be: Can we turn this into a franchise? - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 17, 2004
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Bright Young Things (2003) |
Aside from cameos by Jim Broadbent (as the drunken major) and Peter O'Toole (as Nina's reclusive, eccentric father), much of the acting strains for a sophistication that quickly becomes annoying. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 17, 2004
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Garden State (2004) |
Stormy twentysomething emotions seethe under a deft quirkfest. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 27, 2004
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Planet Earth: Dreams (2004) |
Foreman aficionados may want to keep the curtains of this theater drawn, and listen as his fertile lines suggest what could have been: 'The space between the trees is blank enough for something interesting to happen in it.' - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 13, 2004
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