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Review of Salma (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Dec 2014

With Selma, DuVernay has pulled off a tricky feat, a movie based on historical events that never feels dull, worthy, or lifeless; it hangs…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Dec 2014

With Selma, DuVernay has pulled off a tricky feat, a movie based on historical events that never feels dull, worthy, or lifeless; it hangs…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Dec 2014

This is a dense, multilayered picture, one firmly rooted in a specific landscape, a dramatic coastal spot dotted with the carcasses of decrepit…

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Review of Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border (2013)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Dec 2014

Reyes brings a smart visual artist's compositional eye to capturing the people and environment on the Mexican side of the divide…

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Review of Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Dec 2014

Perry's vaudevillian shamelessness and indifference to committee-approved taste are energizing and frequently jaw-dropping…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Dec 2014

The more desperately a comedy tries to be outrageous, the less likely it is to be outrageous -- or even just funny…

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Review of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Dec 2014

The third installment, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb may be the best, and even the generally wound-too-tight Ben Stiller — once…

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Review of Winter Sleep (2014)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Dec 2014

This patient, beautiful, painful, engrossing film pits husband and wife against each other and their world in a series of extended…

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Review of If You Don't, I Will (2014)

By Zachary Wigon (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Dec 2014

While you may be left craving more emotional fireworks than you get, Fillières's intelligent film is accomplished in its portrayal of a marriage…

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Review of Song of the Sea (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Dec 2014

The picture is beautifully rendered in pencils and watercolors, with some CG, giving it an appropriately timeless storybook look, even though…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Dec 2014

Rob Marshall simply cuts from one tale to the next, isolating his actors…

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Review of Mr. Turner (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Dec 2014

Leigh, Spall, and cinematographer Dick Pope — who borrows lots of lighting tricks from Vermeer and Ingres and even Turner himself, to glorious…

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Review of Goodbye to All That (2014)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Dec 2014

The title indicates a major transition, but despite assertions that the dissolution of a marriage is a life-altering event, divorce doesn't…

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Review of Annie (2014)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Dec 2014

It presumes that children care a great deal about cellphone towers, political campaigns, and Twitter…

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Review of Cloverfield (2008)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Dec 2014

Cloverfield never stops to identify the why, whence, or whereto of its rampaging meanie—this relentless thriller stops for nothing—but…

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Review of Take Care (2014)

By Kate Conger (3) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Dec 2014

It's only in the closing moments when Tuccillo lets up, delivering a skip-into-the-sunset ending that seems a bit canned…

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Review of A Little Game (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Dec 2014

A Little Game is an OK children's movie that can only be appreciated by kids, who have not yet been callused by the awfulness of both chess…

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Review of The Captive (2014)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Dec 2014

When it isn't TV-movie familiar, Egoyan's film is bughouse crazy, mixing in campy pulp elements that bleed pressure away from the story…

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Review of Top Five (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Dec 2014

Chris Rock couldn't have planned it this way, but his exuberant and wondrous comedy Top Five, opening at just the right time, is like an airdrop…

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Review of Free the Nipple (2014)

By Diana Clarke (52) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Dec 2014

It's too rare for movies to depict women working together as friends to effect political change, and this one makes it seem righteous, loud,…

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