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Review of Finding Forrester (2000)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Nov 2012

At times you can feel Van Sant trying to loosen the movie's windpipe-folding collar, but he doesn't get far, except with Busta Rhymes, as Jamal's…

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Review of Lunch (2012)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Nov 2012

The appeal of Lunch might be limited to Hollywood-nostalgia buffs, but they will be enthralled not only by the stories told, but also how they're…

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Review of Shady Lady (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Nov 2012

Too many Wiki-worthy info dumps and not enough character-enriching detail stops Shady Lady, a docudrama about a team of World War II Australian…

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Review of Babies (2010)

By Dan Kois (100) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

Is Babies a good movie? Of course not. But that's missing the point--like asking if a porn video is a good movie. Babies gets the job done…

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Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

This Lincoln, stunningly portrayed by Spielberg and Day-Lewis, is real and relatable and so, so cool…

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Review of In Another Country (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

The cumulative impression is of figures being lightly traced in the sand only to be inevitably washed away, intentionally ephemeral and quite…

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Review of Chasing Ice (2012)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

Still and live-action footage captures the ice sliding into the sea with exquisite grace, which makes it all the more wrenching…

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Review of The Comedy (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

There's not a false note in the film, but maybe there's a difference between accuracy and truth…

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Review of Nature Calls (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

The unmitigated disaster of the camping trip just stays disastrous, the story never really finding its way from adversity to heroic redemption…

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Review of Burn (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

Burn captures the danger (and, yes, excitement) of putting out blazes, as well as the futility of dousing flames in a city rife with arson-and…

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Review of Starlet (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

Director Sean Baker, co-writing his fourth feature with Chris Bergoch, does some deft balancing of his own: His genuine admiration for these…

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Review of Nothing But a Man (1964)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

The title almost suggests manhood as something trifling. The film, however, confirms it's a mighty hard ideal to reach…

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Review of A Royal Affair (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

Director Arcel handles the material with a stately grace that compensates for the story's predictable trajectory, though humdrum period detail…

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Review of Burn (2014)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

Burn captures the danger (and, yes, excitement) of putting out blazes, as well as the futility of dousing flames in a city rife with arson-and…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

As much as it's open about its paranoia of the new, Skyfall's fatal misstep is its slavish hewing to event-movie trends…

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Review of Skin (2009)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Nov 2012

This workmanlike, but enormously moving, movie makes the case that apartheid really does control her life, even her decision to rebel and get…

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Review of Festival of Lights (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Nov 2012

Little girls never stop loving their daddies in Festival of Lights, a drama that never stops loving soap-opera-style melodramatics…

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Review of Vamps (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Nov 2012

Reteaming with Silverstone, the alpha matchmaker of Clueless, for Vamps, Heckerling uses the actress as the mouthpiece for her complaints about…

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Review of Deadline (2004)

By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Nov 2012

What Deadline lacks in heft it makes up for in common sense…

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Review of Ong-Bak (2003)

By Chuck Stephens (11) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Nov 2012

The ferocious fighting moves (adapted from ancient Muay Thai manuals by veteran Thai martial arts director Phanna Rithikrai) that constitute…

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