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Review of We Are Still Here (2015)

By Rob Staeger (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

Early scenes overplay the shock of these phantasms, but just as you expect Geoghegan to crank up the effects, the film mixes in some subtler scares…

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Review of Survivor (2015)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

The overarching sense is of a thriller awkwardly stitched together in the editing room, and still failing to fix its many flaws…

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Review of Love & Mercy (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

The beauty, and the horror, of Bill Pohlad's exhilarating and inventive Love & Mercy...is the sense it gives us of the world passing through…

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Review of Entourage (2015)

By Lara Zarum (23) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

It may be not much more than a heavily branded romp through a Hollywood fantasyland, but it’s got a pulse. It’s easy fun…

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Review of The Nightmare (2010)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

A film that reveals the probes-and-saucers narrative as an of-its-era re-skinning of an even more pervasive phenomenon, one all mental: sleep…

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Review of Hungry Hearts (2015)

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

Hungry Hearts owes much to early Polanski (especially Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby), but Costanzo prizes ambiguity over tension…

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Review of Spy (2015)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

It's a comedy of exasperation where, for once, the joke isn't on McCarthy, but on everyone who can't see her skills…

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Review of Testament of Youth (2015)

By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), simultaneously poignant and powerful as Vera Brittain, the writer who fought her way into Oxford then chucked…

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Review of Wild Horses (2015)

By Dan Gvozden (7) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

Despite the hogtied narrative momentum, Duvall has crafted a lifelike portrait of rural Texas life…

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

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

Some critics find Andersson's latest redundant, arguing that its sketches lack the freshness of those in Songs From the Second Floor…

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Review of The Other Sister (1999)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 May 2015

Plunging headfirst into mush at every opportunity, Marshall brings out the worst in his actors…

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Review of Kids in America (2005)

By Drew Tillman (8) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 May 2015

Nicole Richie loyalists are sure to be confounded (along with the rest of us) by Kids in America, the weirdly anti-Bush high school satire…

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Review of Protocols of Zion (2005)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 May 2015

This absorbing essay amply demonstrates that, as with any sort of racial-nationalist paranoia, anti-Semitism has very little to do with actual…

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Review of John's of 12th Street (2014)

By Danny King (66) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 May 2015

A mere hour long, the movie could stand to be more discerning with its material…

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Review of Sunset Edge (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 May 2015

The way the two story lines come together, involving paintball guns and morphsuits, is more mundane and less spooky than the tone up to that…

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Review of I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

By Diana Clarke (52) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 May 2015

Vack is sexy and charming, but Dyer carries the film, the camera holding her expressive face in close-up, wavering between pain and wonder…

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Review of Dawn of the Dead (2004)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 May 2015

It is, like most, an unnecessary remake, but the new, digitally boosted Dawn of the Dead brings it on with a 10-minute overture that might…

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Review of Results (2015)

By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2015

While the polish of good-looking Hollywood types shot in clean, well-lit spaces doesn’t quite connect with Bujalski’s writing style, the…

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Review of Unfreedom (2015)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2015

Though it starts off as a cautiously optimistic conversion narrative, the pseudo-progressive, banned-in-India LGBT drama Unfreedom quickly…

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Review of San Andreas (2015)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2015

San Andreas can't wait for the carnage. The problem is, it's too chicken to ask us to comprehend it…

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