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Review of Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire (2013)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Jun 2013

A surprisingly thoughtful, well-researched attempt to give both sides of the argument respect while illuminating the long history of tensions…

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Review of Gideon's Army (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2013

Porter's film is dramatic, unsettling, despairing, and in the end thrilling -- at some point, it grows from a portrait of this country's problems…

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Review of I'm So Excited! (2013)

By Zachary Wigon (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2013

I'm So Excited! is characterized by a distinct brand of unsuccessful yet ambitious storytelling, the kind often found in minor works by major masters…

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Review of Some Girl(s) (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2013

A final twist stamps this as a companion or corrective to The Shape of Things, this time with the man as the monster…

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Review of Some Girls (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2013

It doesn't take pattern-recognition software to catch some shared, troubling concerns here…

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Review of 100 Bloody Acres (2012)

By Rob Staeger (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2013

Playing like a Down Under Elmore Leonard novel, 100 Bloody Acres features lucky breaks and quick reverses; a persistent soundtrack of Aussie…

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Review of Museum Hours (2012)

By Calum Marsh (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2013

The film, a kind of hybrid between understated drama and essayistic tourism, approaches its subjects with uncommon patience and curiosity,…

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Review of Byzantium (2013)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2013

Byzantium isn't Jordan's first movie about bloodsuckers—that would be 1994's Interview with the Vampire—but it's the right vampire movie…

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Review of White House Down (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2013

Often, the hilarity is indisputably intentional. If you think you'll laugh and clap, try it; if you know you'll hate it, you're right…

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Review of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Jun 2013

In time, Carrey's monkeyshines, Jude Law's silhouetted reappearances as Snicket, and the inevitable descent of Beverly Hills pathos blunt the…

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Review of Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth (2013)

By Zachary Wigon (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jun 2013

This picture may not have the structure of a more practiced documentary, but what it lacks in delivery it compensates for with fervency…

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Review of Monsters University (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jun 2013

Monsters University feels not like the work of artists eager to express something but like that of likable pros whose existence depends on…

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Review of Rushlights (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jun 2013

The endless hidden connections and coincidences eventually become ridiculous…

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Review of Somm (2013)

By Daphne Howland (70) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jun 2013

The film maintains a sluggish calm, like its mellow jazz soundtrack, and suffers from following four players with similar stories…

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Review of Downloaded (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jun 2013

The doc is only about as revealing as a middling magazine article on the subject…

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Review of Maniac (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jun 2013

Khalfoun makes the audience privy to Frank's memories, migraines, and jarring hallucinations of his mother's recalled abuses…

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Review of Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jun 2013

Enjoyment of Jeff Kaplan's film will vary given your capacity to simultaneously laugh and wink at the hijinks of two of the least palatable…

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Review of World War Z (2013)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jun 2013

Forster's meticulousness—coupled with ample excuses to blow stuff up—isn't enough to turn World War Z into one of those class-A end-of-everything…

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Review of Fred Claus (2007)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Jun 2013

The exceptional cast--Vaughn, Giamatti, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, Rachel Weisz--is an embarrassment of riches for a script this thin and this…

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Review of Man of the Year (2006)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Jun 2013

Levinson loses his movie, his audience, and his purpose in a tangle of conspiracy theories and crackpot notions that sink the movie just when…

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