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Review of We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Oct 2012

Former Frontline producer Brian Knappenberger's fascinating, incisive social history of the online network known as Anonymous…

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Review of Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Oct 2012

Seriously, if this is the best promotion of itself that the free market can manage, it really would benefit from the help of a Ministry of…

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Review of Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

By Dan Kois (100) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Oct 2012

Paramount Pictures and director Jay Roach would like to invite you to a dinner they're hosting, at which you are welcome to laugh at these…

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Review of Atonement (2007)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Oct 2012

Wright wouldn't recognize unobtrusive if it tapped him on the nose--he's cross- pollinated the first half of Atonement into an Oscar-buzzy…

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Review of Excuse Me for Living (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Oct 2012

No strand of Excuse Me for Living's frantic, unfunny, and pseudo-thoughtful narrative is well conceived…

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Review of Here Comes the Boom (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2012

Boom was produced under the auspices of pal Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, which has a tendency toward broad-comic morality tales…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2012

A gritty historical drama overwhelmed by its love of Hollywood as an inventor of imaginary narratives with real consequences, a great generator…

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Review of Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2012)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

In an overlong sequence shot to resemble an actual play, the acting feels so forced, the staging so wooden, that it's impossible to be fully…

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Review of Hotel Noir (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

Gutierrez bathes in moodiness while remaining unconcerned with anything so pedestrian as dramatic cohesion…

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Review of A Whisper to a Roar (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

An expertly drawn primer on the soft dictatorships that constrained five different countries and the peaceful revolutions that sought to expunge them…

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Review of An Affair of the Heart (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

An Affair of the Heart's focus is so vaguely sketched out that it ultimately could be about any grateful artist who enjoys a modicum of celebrity…

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Review of The Thieves (2012)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

Easier to like than it is to follow, Choi Dong-hoon's glossy caper boasts all the pomp and cajolery of the true international blockbuster…

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Review of Gayby (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

Making a kid the old-fashioned way becomes the plot engine for the second time this year - after Jennifer Westfeldt's Friends With Kids - in…

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Review of Least Among Saints (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

There's nothing but skin-deep warmth to Least Among Saints, a film in which any authority figure who can't magically sober up and play surrogate…

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Review of Special Forces (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

For a while Degan's serious charisma also kind of makes Islamic extremist fundamentalism look cool and badass, which could have been hilariously…

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Review of Simon & the Oaks (2011)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

Lisa Ohlin's Simon and the Oaks has all the superficial elements of compelling drama but none of the interiority; it looks like a good movie…

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Review of The Big Picture (2010)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

For most of the film, Lartigau creates the tension of a Hitchcockian thriller solely through Paul's interior struggle…

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Review of Sinister (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

Hawke's taut performance - lightly parodying his own career doldrums while playing an egotistical hack who's a close cousin of John Cassavetes's…

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Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

Remember the shitty crime comedies every Hollywood brat tried to make after Pulp Fiction? It took an Irish playwright to get it right…

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Review of Photographic Memory (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

Alternating between time periods and geographic locations, all of it connected by McElwee's narrated thoughts, the film proves a bracing and…

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