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Review of The Most Dangerous Man in America (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 May 2015

Makes a few distracting embellishments--re-enactments (some shabbily animated), melodramatic cloak-and-dagger scoring--but in the main, it's…

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Review of The House of the Devil (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 May 2015

Pumping the audience with inhale-exhale zooms and out-of-the-way close-ups, director Ti West's ratcheting of suspense in this alone-in-an-empty-house…

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Review of Speed-Dating (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 May 2015

Likable enough to wear you down with its eager-to-please capering…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 May 2015

Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road is a hammer-down, cast-iron-plated, diesel-exhaust-belching manifesto on the physics of screen action, a metamechanics…

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Review of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 23 Apr 2015

Roy Andersson is a single-panel absurdist who subverts the traditional set-up and knockdown gag structure, landing his punchlines like rimshots…

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Review of Run All Night (2015)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Mar 2015

The talking point today will be about how Run All Night is one of many Neeson action movies, but what will be remembered years later is that…

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Review of Edge of Darkness (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Feb 2015

Onscreen much of the time, thicker and more creased than you remember, Gibson can make this rather unshapely movie seem taut…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 30 Jan 2015

The thing Inherent Vice has going is its sense of always plucking at the fringe, the conviction that the central characters aren't necessarily…

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Review of Extraordinary Measures (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Jan 2015

Fraser is open and appealing, and Ford, his acting mostly isolated in the right corner of his mouth, does well enough with a secondary part…

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Review of Manakamana (2013)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 11 Dec 2014

Though its subject matter doesn't seem particularly fun on the surface, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez's Manakamana is a sort of structural…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 06 Nov 2014

A movie that feels like being tangled up in a pile of infinitely-unfolding some-assembly-required instructions in the watching, full of dialogue…

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Review of The Last Exorcism (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Sep 2014

With a small, well-chosen cast, sly script, and slippery, ambivalent characters, The Last Exorcism gives a welcome titty-twist to the demonic-possession…

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Review of The Simpsons Movie (2007)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Stop Smiling (70) on 23 Aug 2014

The consensus is right: It's only pretty funny, which is all it needed to be…

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Review of The Missing Person (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jul 2014

The film has been gesturing toward a profundity that isn't there…

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Review of Penelope (2007)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 May 2014

Ricci is appealingly human, and some acknowledgement of the importance of female friendship, in addition to romance, is faintly touching…

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Review of Rolling Thunder (1977)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 May 2014

Performances are made crystalline through a sixth sense for camera placement and curt cutting from director John Flynn, whose 2007 passing…

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Review of It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 29 Apr 2014

Every gag is smothered by the prevailing tone of labored zaniness and generic, plucky mischief music alerting discerning viewers to abandon…

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Review of Barabbas (1961)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Apr 2014

Like Fleischer's oeuvre as a whole, it's ripe for reconsideration-the Greatest Story Ever Told has been Retold and Retold, but Barabbas brings…

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Review of A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Stop Smiling (70) on 05 Mar 2014

It's remarkable how charitable, on the whole, this movie feels; in all of the previous examples, the vision of pop and people is at best tangled,…

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Review of The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Feb 2014

Will disappoint anyone looking for transport from a movie--being a time traveler's wife, it turns out, is mostly a drag…

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