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Review of The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Mar 2012

This impressionistic approach eschews traditional biography, instead giving the viewer the feeling of being inside a moment, without necessarily…

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Review of Footnote (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Mar 2012

Something between a comedy of everyday absurdity and a family tragedy pushed into the realm of the hyper-real, Footnote uses its characters…

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Review of Being Flynn (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Feb 2012

What the actors are unable to get across emotionally (which is a lot - Dano and De Niro, both of them all big actorly tics, often seem like…

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Review of This Is Not a Film (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Feb 2012

It's a political statement, an act of defiance, a master class in one auteur's body of work and process, and a document of a life unseen…

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Review of The Swell Season (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Feb 2012

To viewers without a preexisting emotional relationship to the couple and their saga, that everyday angst is just banal…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Feb 2012

[A] scattered but not totally disagreeable CIA conspiracy thriller…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Feb 2012

[A] scattered but not totally disagreeable CIA conspiracy thriller…

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Review of Miss Bala (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jan 2012

The character is intentionally lightly drawn: Laura's suffering is symbolic, a surrogate for the suffering of a society helplessly caught in…

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Review of The Iron Lady (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Dec 2011

Despite the story's conceit of placing the viewer inside Thatcher's head, she never feels like a real person - but this is more the fault of…

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Review of In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Dec 2011

The denouement that sorts it all out moves from predictable tragedy to ludicrous redemption; closing titles confirm that the motivating intent…

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Review of Carnage (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Dec 2011

In the final stage of the film's programmatic chaos, Alan announces that he believes in the god of carnage and cops to the pleasure he gets…

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Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Dec 2011

By treating Kevin's evil as a mystery to be solved, Ramsay only succeeds in making what was once allusive banal…

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Review of My Week with Marilyn (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Nov 2011

You never forget that you're watching a talented living actress laboring to mimic a long-gone movie star who - on-screen, at least - never…

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Review of Hugo (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Nov 2011

Perfunctorily mounted as a children's adventure, Hugo is weirdly staid in its pacing, and the screenplay, by Scorsese's Aviator collaborator…

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Review of Garbo: The Spy (2009)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Nov 2011

Some of this footage feels like filler, but Roch's concept is strong: He's creating a dialogue between the fictions Pujol created to help win…

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Review of Cop Out (2010)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Nov 2011

Working with a full-on studio budget for the first time in his decade-and-a-half career, Smith is still making movies about guys just like him…

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Review of Dragonslayer (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Nov 2011

Nothing like a traditional social-issue doc, Patterson's one-of-a-kind hybrid captures a socio-historical moment with the kind of charged authenticity…

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Review of The Skin I Live In (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2011

The film deflates in its final third, with crude matter-of-fact set pieces, dumb explanatory psychology, and bursts of intentional camp overwhelming…

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Review of Footloose (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2011

Nothing in Footloose comes close, in this respect, to the best moments of Brewer's previous, vibrant if uneven films Hustle & Flow and Black…

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Review of The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Oct 2011

It's perhaps the sequel we deserve…

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