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Review of Electric Slide (2014)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Mar 2015

Patterson seems more concerned with getting the surfaces right (costume design, production design) than tapping any of the adrenaline that…

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Review of Woman in Gold (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Mar 2015

What Woman in Gold has over nonfiction portrayals is emotion, and director Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) milks every scene for its heart-tugging…

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Review of Ned Rifle (2015)

By Zachary Wigon (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Mar 2015

Hartley's humor and intellectual musings are, as always, fully present, but by anchoring them to a genuinely compelling story of familial retribution,…

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Review of Boychoir (2015)

By Zachary Wigon (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Mar 2015

Hoffman, naturally, makes his character interesting in the way that genius actors always do…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Mar 2015

For all the full-throttle dazzle of Furious 7, the best scenes are the quietest ones, in which these characters make observations about love,…

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Review of The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Mar 2015

Sampled old newsreel and security-camera footage flesh out the narrative, and the film's visually arresting, but it's the performances that…

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Review of Make It Funky! (2005)

By R. Emmet Sweeney (27) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Mar 2015

A love letter to New Orleans, Make It Funky! reminds us of what has been lost in the flood, and of an artistic spirit that will never dissipate…

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Review of American Hardcore (2006)

By Rob Nelson (320) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Mar 2015

The story of American punk rock (1980–1986) isn't a lot easier to summarize than that of any other major war, but it's quite a bit funnier,…

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Review of The Ringer (2005)

By Akiva Gottlieb (16) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

An uncomfortable intermingling of message movie and gross-out comedy, a sporadically funny vehicle that indicts its audience for laughing…

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Review of Tracers (2015)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

Tracers is a tedious, clichéd slog from start to finish, and only briefly enlivened by two prolonged chases in which handheld cameras maintain…

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Review of The Riot Club (2014)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

Director Lone Scherfig’s stagings of these suspenseful set pieces are masterful, but the rest of the thriller is a fairly predictable manifesto…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

Baumbach has made some fine pictures (Frances Ha) and some deadening, hermetic ones (Margot at the Wedding), but it's While We're Young that…

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Review of A Girl Like Her (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

A Girl Like Her focuses on the characters' emotional traumas while eschewing moral panic about how Kids These Days are so wrapped up in their…

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Review of The Barber (2015)

By Ashley Clark (57) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

Only Glenn, whose taciturn performance is punctuated by flashes of genuine menace, lifts The Barber to watchable…

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Review of Serena (2014)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

Screenwriter Christopher Kyle touches on hot-button issues of class conflict, land use, and no-holds-barred capitalism…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

If director Tim Johnson -- adapting Adam Rex's book The True Meaning of Smekday -- can't do much with the story's confused, if well-intentioned,…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

If director Tim Johnson -- adapting Adam Rex's book The True Meaning of Smekday -- can't do much with the story's confused, if well-intentioned,…

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Review of Marfa Girl (2012)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

The film is as shallow as its characters' oversexed conversations…

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Review of The Salt of the Earth (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

The movie Wenders and Juliano have made is a tribute that feels both grand and modest in scale: Just as Salgado's photographs do, it extends…

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Review of Ghoul (2015)

By Rob Staeger (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Mar 2015

Ghoul rewards attention for much of its running time with subtle scares and growing unease, before squandering it in a shaky chase through…

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