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Review of Dear Dictator (2018)

By Tatiana Craine (32) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Mar 2018

Although the filmmakers name-check and appear to draw inspiration from Mean Girls, they’ve missed the mark on truly biting satire, leaving…

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Review of Keep the Change (2018)

By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (115) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Mar 2018

Keep the Change, despite David’s knack for making offensive jokes, is a charming, sensitive picture that embraces the characters as they…

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Review of Love, Simon (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Mar 2018

Here is a movie made for and about the people who believe they are the essence of American normalcy, a movie that dutifully flatters and celebrates…

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Review of The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Mar 2018

The Strangers: Prey at Night, co-written by Bertino and Ben Ketai and directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) has a slow and rather grim…

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Review of Innocent Voices (2005)

By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Mar 2018

For more than an hour, schmaltzmeister Luis Mandoki (Message in a Bottle) directs as if on assignment for Miramax…

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Review of The Hurricane Heist (2018)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Mar 2018

The Hurricane Heist delivers what it promises on some basic level; it’s got plenty of hurricane, and it’s got plenty of heist…

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Review of Itzhak (2017)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Mar 2018

The makers of the irresistible character-study doc Itzhak capture Itzhak Perlman’s characteristic warmth and bravado through short, anecdote-centric…

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Review of The Leisure Seeker (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Mar 2018

For all its occasional familiarity, this first English-language feature from Italian director Paolo Virzì (Human Capital, Like Crazy) is at…

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Review of The Forgiven (2018)

By Craig D. Lindsey (161) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Mar 2018

Unfortunately, this movie has so many damn things percolating all through it that it ultimately seems unfocused and painfully earnest…

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Review of The Death of Stalin (2017)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Mar 2018

The Death of Stalin would be a brilliant, harrowing film even without all that contemporary resonance…

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Review of The Work (2017)

By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Mar 2018

What’s terrifying about The Work is that this introspection is merely the first step…

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Review of They Remain (2018)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Mar 2018

They Remain wants to unsettle us and invade our brains. Instead, what little power it has vanishes long before the credits roll…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Mar 2018

I was transported by DuVernay’s adaptation to the mind-set of my girlhood — embarrassing insecurities and all…

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Review of Thoroughbreds (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Mar 2018

Working with Lyle Vincent as director of photography, Finley continually offers up striking, emotionally resonant compositions, including a…

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Review of Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Mar 2018

Leaning Into the Wind is a study in seeing, in subordinating one's self to the elements, in creating with nature rather than from it…

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Review of Vampire Hunters (2003)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Mar 2018

The finale is a near-abstract mess (decapitation, impalation, Alien birth) -- in an empathic gesture, the filmmakers end it all with a few…

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Review of Mind Game (2004)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Mar 2018

The exhilarating Japanese animated coming-of-age fantasy Mind Game plays out like a hallucinogen-fueled shaggy-dog joke that only ends after…

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Review of Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Mar 2018

Straub and Huillet invite us to ponder, as the music washes over us, what we can know and what we can't - and to wonder at what here is also false…

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Review of Mohawk (2018)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2018

Mohawk takes its time revealing all its generic elements, but at its high point dares to vault toward something grander and more mythic than…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2018

With Lawrence (the director) and Lawrence (the actor) so professionally in tune over the course of three Hunger Games films, you might have…

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