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Review of Man At War (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Nov 2012

The nimble, funny Man at War examines a video game as return of the repressed-it could well be called Why We Keep Fighting…

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Review of The King (2012)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Nov 2012

Beautifully shot, the film is unapologetically a crowd-pleaser whose gentleness of tone flows from its subject…

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Review of Let the Right One In (2008)

By Elena Oumano (3) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Nov 2012

A coolly balanced and utterly compelling examination of alienation and love…

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Review of Rocky Balboa (2006)

By Rob Nelson (320) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Nov 2012

Rocky Balboa, effortlessly reflexive and patently, even proudly, absurd, is a tough movie to dislike -- and believe me, I've tried…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Nov 2012

It's about as exciting as watching David Blaine play Stratego and makes you miss the power of the first four films all the more: the uncontainable…

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Review of Turning (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Nov 2012

As a whole and in conjunction with the concert snippets, they give an impressionistic glimpse of a performance and the people behind who forge…

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Review of 28 Hotel Rooms (2012)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Nov 2012

Not showing us every aspect of their lives is a fine, even novel, approach, but merely telling us about them instead feels like a fruitless…

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Review of Who Bombed Judi Bari? (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Insult upon injury didn't stop the central figure of Mary Liz Thomson's tough and intriguingly well-told account of the fight between environmentalists…

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Review of First Winter (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Even when things start to go awry for our group (thanks to jealousy, illness, a dwindling food stock) Dickinson's anti-dramatic methodology…

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Review of Barrymore (2012)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

It takes a minute for the film to move beyond a kind of gilded stasis, but once it does, it - and Plummer - are riveting…

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Review of Anna Karenina (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Just as the characters created by Tolstoy the artist got the advantage of Tolstoy the polemicist - at least until the end of his life - so…

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Review of Buffalo Girls (2012)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

There's no missing Kellstein's unstated horror during the fight sequences, which traffic in queasy blood sport absurdity that overshadows Battle…

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Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Lincoln is the work of a different director, one truly fascinated by why his subjects do what they do, one who invests each moment with the…

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Review of The Law in These Parts (2011)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Dialectical and precise to the point of exhaustion, The Law in These Parts applies a cold anger to one of the geopolitical world's most passionate…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Manic as it might be stylistically, emotionally Silver Linings Playbook maintains too even of a keel…

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Review of Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)

By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Silence might be the most perfect expression of scorn, as the saying goes, but like Edvard Munch's The Scream, you don't have to hear it to…

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Review of Hitler's Children (2011)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Interweaving interviews and footage of Rainer Hess's first trip to Auschwitz, Hitler's Children is a powerful and well-judged presentation…

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Review of Price Check (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Mabius is understated and sympathetic as a guy who makes some dickish choices, and Susan, played by anyone else, might be a completely unrelatable…

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Review of 16 Acres (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

It's all here, from the design contests to the farcical series of ribbon-cuttings, including a photo op cornerstone-laying, to the stupid Jeff…

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Review of Zoo (2007)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Nov 2012

The beautiful and beguiling new film by Robinson Devor meditates on the Enumclaw incident through a hypnotic blend of original reporting, staged…

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