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Review of Meadowland (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Oct 2015

The filmmakers take great pains not to stack the deck or overstate the couple's self-evident trauma, but watching the movie is ultimately like…

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Review of A Ballerina's Tale (2015)

By Amy Brady (15) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Oct 2015

In A Ballerina's Tale, director Nelson George paints a moving portrait of Copeland that underscores her triumphs over bodily and historical…

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Review of 35 Shots of Rum (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Oct 2015

35 Shots is Denis's warmest, most radiant work, honoring a family of two's extreme closeness while suggesting its potential for suffocation…

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Review of Fearless (2006)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2015

This is an action movie, and people don't come to be preached to; the Terminator flicks also favored world peace but didn't pause the action…

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Review of Rendition (2007)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2015

Unlike Hood's far more persuasive gangster picture Tsotsi, Rendition feels generic and lackluster…

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Review of Easy A (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2015

As far as teen comedies informed by 10th-grade English syllabi go, Easy A, partly inspired by The Scarlet Letter, is remedial ed compared with…

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Review of Trash (2015)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2015

Trash's creators never say anything thoughtful or useful about the extreme violence they liberally — and irresponsibly — use to characterize…

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Review of The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story (2000)

By Edward Crouse (15) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2015

A grassroots refutation of Discovery Channel/National Geographic dispassion, The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story is hot and sweaty with fetching curves…

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Review of Roma (2018)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Oct 2015

The director is all at sea with the choppy Manhattan Romance, finding nothing new in New York while self-consciously making a blander version…

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Review of A Woman Like Me (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Oct 2015

In Sichel's inspired conceit, the self-reflexive truth-through-fiction ethos of the Iranian New Wave meets a sensitive documentary exploration…

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Review of Knock Knock (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Oct 2015

The best villains are those whose motivations prove uncomfortably persuasive, and Knock Knock's drop-dead-gorgeous home invaders predicate…

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Review of Victoria (2015)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Oct 2015

This sparse marvel leaves the audience rattled by how small decisions lead to big consequences…

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Review of The Final Girls (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Oct 2015

The heart of this mostly bloodless picture is Max's relationship with her mother's film character, and there are some genuinely touching moments…

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Review of Reversion (2015)

By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Oct 2015

Though mildly engaging, this Reversion doesn't delve deep enough to distinguish itself…

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Review of Manhattan Romance (2013)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Oct 2015

The director is all at sea with the choppy Manhattan Romance, finding nothing new in New York while self-consciously making a blander version…

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Review of Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Oct 2015

The Parondis' lives are difficult but gorgeous; boxing is terrible but riveting; the city offers everything even as it takes everything away…

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Review of Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Oct 2015

If you can get on its wacko wavelength, it's a uniquely crazed, compelling midnight-movie whatsit…

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Review of Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Oct 2015

Winter on Fire's thrilling rebellion is neither the beginning nor the end, but it is at least a truly heartening middle…

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Review of Manhattan Romance (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Oct 2015

The director is all at sea with the choppy Manhattan Romance, finding nothing new in New York while self-consciously making a blander version…

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Review of The Forbidden Room (2015)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Oct 2015

The experience is two-thirds thrilling to one-third enervating, a winning ratio for what's essentially a tightly curated anthology film…

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