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Review of Bone Tomahawk (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Oct 2015

Bone Tomahawk is an odd duck, a bowlegged western with slasher influences, a penchant for lengthy conversational meanderings, and a genuine…

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Review of All Things Must Pass (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Oct 2015

The director's native warmth and sympathy are extended here to the store and the personalities that made it a billion-dollar, globe-bestriding…

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Review of Brand: A Second Coming (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2015

Though it includes parts of a live comedy performance, the film is a documentary with an attention span about as long as its subject's…

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Review of Pay the Ghost (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Sep 2015

The script doesn't know the difference between being something scary and pointing at something scary…

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Review of Zipper (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Aug 2015

Wilson is a charismatic and underused actor, perfect here as a guy with a talent for convincing others of his virtue…

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Review of Extinction (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Aug 2015

Sometimes, Extinction is a zombie apocalypse story; mostly, it's a meditation on isolation, redemption, and family that could, in its basic…

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Review of 6 Ways to Die (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Jul 2015

In its execution, the film becomes a cascading-failure scenario that proceeds from Soumah's intention to bait-and-switch the audience, coupled…

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Review of Animals (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 May 2015

Schiffli and Dastmalchian deliver a sweet, elegiac concluding moment that offers a measure of hope without making a lot of unbelievable promises…

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Review of The Squeeze (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Apr 2015

Like many, many films starring Christopher McDonald, the best thing about The Squeeze is Christopher McDonald…

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Review of Dial a Prayer (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Apr 2015

Director Kiley is mostly successful at keeping Hallmark banalities at bay, relating Cora's crime in a series of tense flashbacks, and populating…

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Review of Buzzard (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Mar 2015

Potrykus and Burge make this transformation — from funny, oddball character study to darker portrayal of desperation — more naturally than…

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Review of Deli Man (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Mar 2015

Chinese and Italian cuisines in America recall the traditions of homelands to which their practitioners can return…

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Review of Match (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jan 2015

Writer-director Stephen Belber's inspiriting, generous Match is so good that it's like some kind of trick…

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Review of Vice (2015)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jan 2015

The film unspools with a momentum that mitigates its artless brutality, kinda, but it's a high-pressure firehose of stupid…

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Review of A Little Game (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Dec 2014

A Little Game is an OK children's movie that can only be appreciated by kids, who have not yet been callused by the awfulness of both chess…

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Review of Love Hunter (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2014

Love Hunter probably counts as a musical, the film's a sad, gentle valediction for a young artist’s dream…

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Review of Sex Ed (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Nov 2014

Mildly funny and about 15 minutes too long, Sex Ed has a funny cast, particularly a kid played by Isaac White, who gets some hilariously rude…

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Review of Fugly! (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Nov 2014

It's a comedy that's so broad and cartoony that the occasional dramatic pivots seem diminished and ridiculous, like performing a soliloquy…

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Review of Fugly (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Nov 2014

It's a comedy that's so broad and cartoony that the occasional dramatic pivots seem diminished and ridiculous, like performing a soliloquy…

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Review of Hit by Lightning (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Oct 2014

It's a black-comedy plot without any blackness or actual comedy, unless mugging and bro-heiming by Mad TV's Will Sasso counts as hilarious…

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