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Review of Pickup on South Street (1953)

By Charles Taylor (365) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2015

As good as are Widmark, with his proto-Method grin, and Peters, with her tawny, untutored naturalism, this is Thelma Ritter's movie…

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Review of Club Life (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2015

Ferrara, best known as Turtle on HBO's Entourage, plays what is essentially a muted version of that character…

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Review of Heaven Knows What (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2015

In the thinly veiled version of her life that appears onscreen, the actress unforgettably shows the deadening toll of always being on the move,…

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Review of The True Cost (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2015

Even if, like me, you agree with the points that it's fumbling toward, The True Cost will likely read as dopey and insulting…

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Review of Barely Lethal (2015)

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

Barely Lethal's combination of bawdy humor and earnest affection for its high-school-aged protagonists is surprisingly well-balanced…

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Review of Poltergeist (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 May 2015

The remake grows less interesting as it goes, with final scares dipping into surprising lameness…

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Review of Away We Go (2009)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 May 2015

The road-trippers of Away We Go harbor no discernible ambitions whatsoever, which may make them true to Gen-Y life, but also renders them fatally…

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Review of The Most Dangerous Man in America (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 May 2015

Makes a few distracting embellishments--re-enactments (some shabbily animated), melodramatic cloak-and-dagger scoring--but in the main, it's…

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Review of The House of the Devil (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 May 2015

Pumping the audience with inhale-exhale zooms and out-of-the-way close-ups, director Ti West's ratcheting of suspense in this alone-in-an-empty-house…

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Review of Absolution (2015)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 May 2015

Absolution is an unconvincing showcase for Byron Mann, a new action star to whom Steven Seagal halfheartedly tries to pass a torch…

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Review of Aloft (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2015

The writer-director's ideas about our connection to the land and the many other animals roaming it may well be profound, but they're buried…

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Review of Güeros (2014)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2015

What makes Güeros fascinating, besides the joyous invention of Ruizpalacios's craft, is how the director emphasizes rather than hides his…

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Review of Sunshine Superman (2015)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2015

You may not leave Sunshine Superman wanting to emulate Carl and Jean, but you will feel like you've vicariously bonded with them…

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Review of Absolution (2015)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2015

Absolution is an unconvincing showcase for Byron Mann, a new action star to whom Steven Seagal halfheartedly tries to pass a torch…

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Review of The Farewell Party (2014)

By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2015

[Depicts] the end of life not as an isolated horror (as in Michael Haneke's Amour) or as the contested site of legal and political factions,…

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Review of Love at First Fight (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2015

Rejuvenating the romantic comedy through its unusual premise — in which training for an elite army unit releases a flood of pheromones —…

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Review of Confidence (2003)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2015

Cynically accumulates plot twists while showing little regard for suspense or audience sophistication…

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Review of It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

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

Warped keyhole-size images stack atop one another in a Frankenstein-ian collage that evokes the films of Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Stan…

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Review of Amy (2015)

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

A surprisingly seamless biographical documentary, one that, even though it's been constructed largely from found elements, feels gracefully whole…

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Review of Amy (2015)

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

A surprisingly seamless biographical documentary, one that, even though it's been constructed largely from found elements, feels gracefully whole…

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