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Review of Frank the Bastard (2015)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Jul 2015

Overlong and slack in suspense, the film is most noteworthy for its patchy accents and the late Ellen Albertini Dow (the rapping granny from…

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Review of A Hole in My Heart (2005)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Jul 2015

An unrelentingly crass and confrontational barf bomb that makes Lars von Trier's The Idiots look like the philosophical experiment that it is…

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Review of 12 (2009)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Jul 2015

Miklahkov keeps 12 tops spinning at all times in the school gymnasium that serves as their deliberation room, and though the speech/conversion…

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Review of Unexpected (2015)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2015

Unexpected isn't about, but rather a product of, class-based condescension in America…

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Review of Dark Was the Night (2014)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2015

The narrative strikes a mostly sensible (if overly earnest) ratio of inner-turmoil human theater to B-movie monster hunt, before ultimately…

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Review of Samba (2014)

By Abbey Bender (99) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2015

Samba's relationship with Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a volunteer at an immigration advocacy center, has moments of sweetness, but is painted…

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Review of Big Significant Things (2015)

By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2015

Reisberg assumes we'll believe that in real life (as in, when he's not deceiving anyone about his whereabouts) Craig isn't this selfish, but…

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Review of Five Star (2014)

By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2015

New York onscreen is often a fantasy of hustlers, hardened cops, and the spoiled urban yuppies of the Baumbach and Dunham universes…

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Review of Only You (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2015

Only You is mostly engaging for the ways in which it shows that prophecies reveal more about the receiver's interpretive biases than they do…

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Review of Dark Was the Night (2015)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2015

The narrative strikes a mostly sensible (if overly earnest) ratio of inner-turmoil human theater to B-movie monster hunt, before ultimately…

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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2015

Southpaw is an exhausting brutalist melodrama, but if nothing else, Fuqua always works with fine actors, and he's got a passel of them here…

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Review of Bright Leaves (2004)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Jul 2015

Continuing the autobiographical torrent begun nearly 30 years ago, Bright Leaves is an utterly mundane miracle, a sampling of gentle insight…

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Review of Tristan & Isolde (2006)

By Peter L'official (21) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jul 2015

Myles deserves better, but acquits herself as admirably as one can mired in medieval muck…

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Review of Lottery Ticket (2010)

By Dan Kois (100) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jul 2015

The theme of this formulaic but vibrant ensemble comedy could best be described as a paraphrase of Biggie's well-worn credo: Mo' money, mo…

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Review of Twinsters (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Jul 2015

Twinsters is a heartwarming true story that might not have happened without social media, so score one for modern technology…

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Review of Famous Nathan (2015)

By Sam Weisberg (60) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Jul 2015

Terrific documentaries are a dime a dozen; ones this multifaceted are to be cherished…

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Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Jul 2015

This is blockbuster porn absent even the suggestion of care or concern for anything that might resemble a point, save the obvious one to move…

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Review of Trainwreck (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jul 2015

Schumer, writing and performing a character close to the one she’s been presenting to the public, may never be this funny again, but funny she is…

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Review of Lilith (1964)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jul 2015

The story of Lilith - a man's love for a manipulative madwoman makes him go insane - may not be especially gripping, but the way that it's…

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Review of Stung (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jul 2015

Though quite silly, none of this feels self-reflexive or -satisfied…

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