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Review of Saint Laurent (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

It's rare to see process — the making of anything — dealt with as clearly and poetically as it is in Saint Laurent…

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Review of Preggoland (2014)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

There's satiric comedy to be mined from the conflicting messages society still sends about pregnancy, motherhood, and women's worth, but the…

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Review of 5 Flights Up (2014)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

What starts as a somewhat charming — if prosaic — story of love in the time of gentrification inexplicably spends most of its third act…

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Review of Playing It Cool (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

Proving that its chosen genre is best when its tropes are treated with a balance of sincere sweetness and wink-wink absurdity, Playing It Cool…

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Review of Noble (2014)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

The movie works because Christina's desire to help these kids feels natural, and because she herself shoulders burdens that would drive most…

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Review of The D Train (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

The D Train has one great idea, a couple strong jokes, and a void at its center — a man who is only believable when he briefly becomes specific…

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Review of 1001 Grams (2014)

By Zachary Wigon (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

This portrait of an introverted soul brought out of her shell is not without its charms…

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Review of Maggie (2015)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

While zombie drama Maggie seems intended as a showcase for Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting range, the star's performance is smothered by the…

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Review of The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

The 100-Year-Old Man's equal-opportunity irreverence doesn't often translate to cleverness…

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Review of Bravetown (2015)

By Danny King (66) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2015

Aside from a showy opening (a tracking shot that snakes through a club, cribbing freely from Carlito's Way, Boogie Nights, etc.), the movie…

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Review of Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

By Jessica Winter (193) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2015

The poised Vega and pleasingly phlegmatic Sabara are resolutely uncute performers, and the reach-out-and-touch-it gadgetry carries a homey…

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Review of Hyena (2015)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Apr 2015

Hyena's convoluted tale is given a fresh coat of grime by Johnson's direction, which favors handheld cinematography -- often tracking its protagonists…

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Review of Far from Men (2015)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Apr 2015

Its plotting is often a tad too plodding, but with the charismatic Mortensen exuding understated internal crisis (in a French- and Arabic-speaking…

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Review of Hyena (2015)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2015

The film's convoluted moral trajectory to hell may be as unoriginal as quoting Taxi Driver, and the pervasive violent menace can be needlessly…

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Review of Iris (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2015

Like all good documentaries, Iris is about much more than what we see on the surface, no matter how dazzling that surface may be…

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Review of Gerontophilia (2013)

By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2015

Though its imagery is tame by LaBruce's standards, Gerontophilia follows his fascination with taboo sexual behavior…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2015

As written by Hardy, Bathsheba is bracingly whole and human; here she’s been outlined, and thus circumscribed, by an eager student’s highlighter…

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Review of Marie's Story (2014)

By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2015

To play Marie today, Améris found the non-actor Ariana Rivoire at the Institute for the Deaf…

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Review of Welcome to Me (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2015

This spiky, pushy, sometimes upsetting comedy finds Wiig creating something whole and alive out of her apparent contradictions…

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Review of Iris (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2015

Like all good documentaries, Iris is about much more than what we see on the surface, no matter how dazzling that surface may be…

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