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Review of After Words (2015)

By Meave Gallagher (12) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2015

Feldman, having established all his stereotypes, refuses to push them beyond the motions you know they have to go through from the first scene…

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Review of The Mend (2014)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2015

It's a tough film to shake, a slice-of-life that slices, knifelike…

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Review of Some Kind of Beautiful (2014)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2015

Anti–romantic comedy Some Kind of Beautiful starts with a dialogue scene that baldly explains to viewers what kind of casually chauvinistic…

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Review of She's Funny That Way (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2015

There are some modest pleasures to be mined from Peter Bogdanovich's romantic caper She's Funny That Way, which at least strives for buoyancy…

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Review of Learning to Drive (2014)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2015

The filmmakers' hearts might be in the right place, but the film's doesn't kick in until well after you might already have declared it dead…

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Review of Slow Learners (2015)

By Abbey Bender (99) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2015

While it has a few funny moments (including the uncomfortable date that begins the film), Slow Learners mostly feels like a collection of exaggerated…

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Review of The Second Mother (2015)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2015

As we switch sympathies from scene to scene, Muylaert forces us to think big about the clash between idealism and acceptance, a philosophical…

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Review of Grandma (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2015

It gradually settles and deepens into something nuanced and moving, a character study that's not so much about aging, specifically, as it is…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Aug 2015

Though it's made with lots of modern tricks and technology, it's old-fashioned in the best sense, and not just because it's set in the Sixties…

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Review of People, Places, Things (2015)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Aug 2015

People Places Things crackles to life whenever the camera turns to one of Will's students, Kat (The Daily Show's Jessica Williams), and her…

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Review of The Last House on the Left (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Aug 2015

This new House tries to sustain a grave, heavy sense of threat. It fails, through its villainy…

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Review of Return to Sender (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Aug 2015

Even with the dramatic buildup, Mikati hesitates to make Return to Sender an all-out revenge fantasy, and the characters are too sketchy for…

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Review of The Boy (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Aug 2015

While the score goes out of its way to make his every action feel sinister, the picture doesn't fulfill its horrific potential until the third act…

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Review of Big Sky (2015)

By Meave Gallagher (12) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Aug 2015

Jorge Michel Grau's Big Sky masquerades as a psychological thriller, but underneath it's a meditation on the worthlessness of men…

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Review of Tom at the Farm (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Aug 2015

That the most vicious homophobes are often closet cases is not news, but Dolan seems less concerned with that self-evident fact and more about…

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Review of Air (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Aug 2015

Walking Dead isn't the model, here — it's Lost, specifically the business involving that buried bunker with the outdated tech and the mystery…

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Review of One & Two (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Aug 2015

[Palermo] demonstrates an affinity for all things ethereal, even as he occasionally struggles to make space for himself in the long shadow…

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Review of Rosenwald (2015)

By Daphne Howland (70) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Aug 2015

Kempner's film, which has an eat-your-vegetables quality, runs long and suffers from a lack of focus…

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Review of The Lost Key (2015)

By Diana Clarke (52) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Aug 2015

At least the filmmakers are Jewish — and in their admirable quest for an understanding of what makes good sex and relationships, they've…

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Review of Meru (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Aug 2015

This is a crowd-pleaser, and it's no surprise it snagged the audience award for documentaries at Sundance last winter…

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