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Review of Trash Fire (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Nov 2016

Bates (Suburban Gothic) plays with horror tropes, juggling black comedy and suspense in scenes that tease a gory release but ultimately only…

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Review of Tampopo (1985)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Oct 2016

A biting satire of Japanese culture and its uneasy incorporation of Western influences…

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Review of Blue Jay (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Oct 2016

Lehmann shot Blue Jay in a gorgeous black-and-white that looks like silver gelatin prints (a photographic process that captures boundless gradations…

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Review of Blue Jay (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Oct 2016

Lehmann shot Blue Jay in a gorgeous black-and-white that looks like silver gelatin prints (a photographic process that captures boundless gradations…

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Review of Milton's Secret (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 02 Oct 2016

Bain's film functions as a delivery system for Tolle's spiritual philosophy, and might have been the New Age equivalent of a stilted faith-based…

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Review of Girl Asleep (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Sep 2016

The sparkling debut feature of Australian theater director Rosemary Myers and playwright Matthew Whittet plays like the love child of Jane…

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Review of Giant (1956)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Sep 2016

Sweeping saga of American prosperity that reveals its racist underbelly; glorious star vehicle that upends rigid gender roles; modern western…

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Review of Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Sep 2016

As much as this latest installment draws on affection for the snappy first film, it's the differences that make Bridget Jones's Baby the warmest…

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Review of Free to Run (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2016

The philosophical underpinnings of Swiss director Pierre Morath's well-paced documentary about the evolution of long-distance running evoke…

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Review of The Phenom (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Jun 2016

The Phenom unfolds as a series of quiet, incisive conversations that showcase subtle, insightful performances…

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Review of Cash Only (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2016

Cash Only features many familiar action movie markers, but it's distinguished by a raw energy and strong sense of place…

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Review of The Adderall Diaries (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Apr 2016

Franco seems the ideal interpreter of The Adderall Diaries, but he's reduced the memoirist's tough introspection to misery porn…

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Review of One More Time (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Apr 2016

The characters are overburdened by backstories that constrict rather than inform their behavior…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2016

Budreau's variation on the theme of Chet Baker doesn't play out as an inspired improvisation, settling instead into the familiar grooves of…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2016

Budreau's variation on the theme of Chet Baker doesn't play out as an inspired improvisation, settling instead into the familiar grooves of…

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Review of Mavis! (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Feb 2016

Edwards is content with presenting Mavis as she sees herself: as the conduit for a song's message, and a voice to uplift the weary…

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Review of Bad Hurt (2016)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Feb 2016

Grief unleashes the possibility of change in this wrenching drama, allowing for an unexpected emotional thaw that rewards both stubborn optimism…

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Review of Almost There (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Dec 2015

After guiding his fate, the filmmakers step back and dispassionately capture a series of frustrated caregivers passing the baton, each nudging…

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Review of The Letters (2014)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Dec 2015

Riead's reverential portrait belies Teresa's thorny complexities and turns her into a single-minded proponent of work hard, pray hard…

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Review of The Letters (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Dec 2015

Riead's reverential portrait belies Teresa's thorny complexities and turns her into a single-minded proponent of work hard, pray hard…

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