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Review of Shaft (1971)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Aug 2013

As an action flick, Shaft is clumsy out of the gate and overfond of hurtling stuntmen through windows…

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Review of The Tuxedo (2002)

By Ed Park (107) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Aug 2013

The only possible surprise in The Tuxedo would be an extended demonstration of what was once Chan's trademark, the daffily choreographed kineticism…

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Review of Gracie (2007)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Aug 2013

Firing on all formulaic cylinders, Gracie is heavy with tidy meaning and mealy morality; the most dubious idea here is that if you don't let…

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Review of The Deal (2005)

By Joshua Land (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Aug 2013

The thriller plot sputters and the romance between Slater and eco-friendly Harvard MBA Selma Blair is a nonstarter, but the movie's threadbare…

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Review of Jug Face (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2013

Kinkle shows a deft hand at pacing and the gore is kept to a minimum…

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Review of I Give It a Year (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2013

The funny stuff outweighs the cock-ups, and supporting performances from Stephen Merchant and Minnie Driver kick the movie toward something grander…

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Review of Planes (2012)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2013

Can a plane jump a shark when it's already in the air? To Disney, that question is moot…

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Review of Planes (2013)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2013

Can a plane jump a shark when it's already in the air? To Disney, that question is moot…

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Review of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2013

Before it descends into Percy Jackson and the Things That Happen in Movies Like This, the adventure at times clicks into the inventive groove…

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Review of Blood (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2013

The characters never manage to connect with one another, separated by gulfs of melodramatic angst and the plot demands of a boringly unspooled…

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Review of We're the Millers (2013)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2013

This film's eagerness to please functions as a slow poison, draining The Millers of its vitality by rendering its characterization uneven,…

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Review of Prince Avalanche (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Aug 2013

Prince Avalanche reconciles Green's twin modes into a whole no other director could have, deeply felt and light as laughter…

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Review of Lovelace (2013)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Aug 2013

Lovelace, ahem, blows it…

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Review of In a World... (2013)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Aug 2013

Bell captures the insularity of certain professional pockets of Hollywood, with all their petty rivalries and backstabbing…

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Review of The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini (2013)

By Calum Marsh (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Aug 2013

Mancini, who served as an executive producer, is glorified and exonerated, yet it's his inability to render either process interesting that…

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Review of The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (2013)

By Aaron Cutler (21) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Aug 2013

The slippages and contradictions between who people are, imagine themselves to be, and present themselves as being inform the structure of…

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Review of Off Label (2013)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Aug 2013

Don't discount October Country filmmakers Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's tragicomically beautiful art-doc, which sensitively favors unflinching…

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Review of Breaking the Girls (2013)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Aug 2013

A decently acted, often drolly funny, tautly directed thriller that proves to be a Russian doll of motivations, coincidences, and plot-twists;…

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Review of Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Aug 2013

The doc breezily sketches out the process of casing, smashing, grabbing, escaping, and fencing, not in as much detail as David Samuels's stellar…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Aug 2013

Damon is as buff as ever, maybe even more so... But watching him lumber through Elysium's bramble of lofty ideals is no damn fun…

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