Movie Reviews Published by Village Voice - Page 173 of 427

3,441-3,460 of 8,525 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Pretty One (2014)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Feb 2014

Kazan holds together a decent coming-of-age script that's emotionally sincere if tonally unfocused…

Read Review

Review of Love & Air Sex (2014)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Feb 2014

What's remarkable is that despite the sweaty overdetermination of the film's dude-bro interactions and the whole prefabricated concept of performance…

Read Review

Review of Alphaville (1965)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Feb 2014

Iconic in its very grain, the film toggles effortlessly between toast-dry farce and vogueing postwar hipitude, and like the balletic swimmers…

Read Review

Review of A Field in England (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Feb 2014

It's sweaty, disorienting, thrilling…

Read Review

Review of 7 Boxes (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Feb 2014

The film surges by, powered by high spirits, well-plotted surprises, and the directors' admirable attention to both the real and romantic…

Read Review

Review of Stardust (2007)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Feb 2014

This is just a silly movie about silly things starring famous people acting all silly…

Read Review

Review of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

By Jerry Tallmer (1) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Feb 2014

Has no one else found it highly peculiar that damn near everybody's choice for the best movie of (let's say) the decade should be dedicated,…

Read Review

Review of That Awkward Moment (2014)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Feb 2014

While it's easy to tease first-time writer-director Tom Gormican's raunchy rom-com, the trio has a shaggy chemistry, and most of the jokes hit…

Read Review

Review of Towheads (2013)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2014

Penelope's depression eventually turns into a mild breakdown or an explosion of imagination -- it's smartly unclear which…

Read Review

Review of The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Jan 2014

The net effect would be doze-inducing if in fact the Dolby didn't attempt to wake the dead…

Read Review

Review of Best Night Ever (2013)

By Heather Baysa (13) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jan 2014

At best a fascinating sociological document of what happens when an all-male writing and production team portrays a girls' night out, Best…

Read Review

Review of Brightest Star (2013)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jan 2014

It's either much smarter and more profound than it's letting on, or it doesn't add up to anything at all. Or maybe both — it's all relative…

Read Review

Review of The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

By Calum Marsh (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jan 2014

For all the violations it suffered, The Lady From Shanghai seems strangely coherent in its extant form -- or rather, coherently incoherent,…

Read Review

Review of Labor Day (2013)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jan 2014

Labor Day is so self-conscious and phony, it must be the work of a pod person…

Read Review

Review of Charlie Victor Romeo (2014)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jan 2014

Charlie Victor Romeo shows us how much of life's weight and meaning can be packed into one second of thought or action; it's a work of shivery…

Read Review

Review of Love Is in the Air (2013)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jan 2014

Wrapped in slick direction (including plenty of split-screen), this goes down easy, but it's wholly unbelievable. Worse, it's instantly forgettable…

Read Review

Review of The Other City (2010)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Jan 2014

In her absorbing, alarming investigation into the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the nation's capital, Koch cuts a cross-section through a bitter D.C…

Read Review

Review of Love Me If You Dare (2003)

By David Ng (26) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Jan 2014

The movie's hyperactivity eventually yields to such revelations as Life Isn't a Game and The Biggest Dare Is Love, but the ultimate measure…

Read Review

Review of The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Jan 2014

Too emotionally slick to work, too visually glib to have an impact, made by people who think grit is something that's brought in by the prop…

Read Review

Review of Sleepover (2004)

By Kris Wilton (2) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Jan 2014

Nussbaum's attempt to capture the 'tween zeitgeist fails: The Spice Girls–infused soundtrack is dated, and the feel-good progressiveness forced…

Read Review

Page 173 of 427

Village Voice features reviews by:

Top publishers this month:

Popular Movies Right Now

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

The Invitation

2022

47%33 Reviews

Oppenheimer

2023

85%310 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews

Gone Girl

2014

81%1,229 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

Love

2015

54%174 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Upgrade

2018

76%696 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews