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Review of The House of Magic (2013)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

Thunder and the House of Magic is That Touching Cat Chase Cartoon You've Been Looking For…

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Review of Frontera (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

Berry isn't afraid to use melodrama as a tool to highlight injustice. It's his very un-flashiness that makes Frontera effective…

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Review of The Longest Week (2014)

By Katherine Vu (8) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

Lacking any significant character arc or motivation, The Longest Week is little more than a series of insipid conversations between bored aristocrats…

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Review of As Above, So Below (2014)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

As Above, So Below is sometimes creepy but mostly silly, which is too bad because the film's cramped subterranean setting is inherently unnerving…

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Review of Gringo Trails (2014)

By Diana Clarke (52) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

Vail's film earnestly interrogates authenticity even as her camera lingers on a beach without footprints, inviting the viewer to walk…

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Review of No No: A Dockumentary (2014)

By Rob Staeger (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

There's enough diamond lore here to please baseball diehards, but Ellis's outsize life will grip even casual fans…

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Review of Last Days in Vietnam (2014)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

Vital, illuminating, and terrifying, Rory Kennedy's Last Days in Vietnam probes with clarity and thoroughness one moment of recent American…

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Review of God Help the Girl (2014)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

Browning captures Eve's weariness and enthusiasm, and her lovely voice and crisp delivery gives Murdoch's labored lyrics a vulnerable immediacy…

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Review of Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the 1979 Revolution (2001)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Aug 2014

The doc is also fat with film clips from before and after the 1979 revolution, but innocent of sensationalism as they are, Iranian films aren't…

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Review of Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Aug 2014

There are too many vaguely defined interpersonal dynamics and marginal characters (hi, Liv Tyler and Judy Greer…

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Review of The November Man (2014)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Aug 2014

As far as escapist fluff laced with totally unnecessary real-world horror goes, The November Man isn't wretched…

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Review of The Betrayal – Nerakhoon (2008)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Aug 2014

Impressionistic and lyrical, as well as somber and gripping, The Betrayal conveys a ceaseless flow…

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Review of Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

With its harmonica-heavy score and rousing shots of these horse-riding antiheroes, Kundo's early and late scenes resemble a Western as much…

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Review of Shadows from My Past (2014)

By Daphne Howland (70) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

The Kaufmans are amateurs, in the sense that this is a labor of love but also in that the film lacks the technical and storytelling caliber…

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Review of Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

Would that Harris had simply let the images and their historical context speak for themselves…

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Review of The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2014)

By Sam Weisberg (60) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

Without characters whose fates we care about, nor fully comprehend, even the most visceral shocks are just that: impressive moments with no…

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Review of Last Weekend (2014)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

Last Weekend is too enamored of this nouveau riche household to be satirical, instead offering unexpected moments of genuine warmth as a calling…

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Review of Starred Up (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

This is an unsparing picture, one whose violence, though deftly handled, is bone-crunchingly rough…

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Review of The Damned (2014)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

It's all well acted and expertly crafted — quick edits that play mind and visual games with the viewer, music that heightens tension, some…

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Review of Patema Inverted (2013)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

Yoshiura keeps the story fairly linear, while playing with perspective and composing many stunning, vertiginous images that consider the different…

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