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Review of Smiley (2012)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

Tell a die-hard horror-movie fan that the latest scary movie is the worst thing ever, and that fan will nod respectfully but still make plans…

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Review of Smashed (2012)

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

Movies about drugs and alcohol might be a dime (bag) a dozen, but James Ponsoldt's Smashed is so beautifully shot and well acted as to transcend…

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Review of 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012)

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

Less inept than its worst-of-the-year title suggests, 3, 2, 1…

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Review of Middle of Nowhere (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

A slow-motion-enhanced kiss scene, with Corinealdi in top I-don't-give-a-f--- strut, is a startling example of DuVernay's ability to conjure…

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Review of Photographic Memory (2012)

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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Review of Pitch Perfect (2012)

By Laura Beck (2) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Oct 2012

The girls, for the most part, are genuinely funny, weird, real, and, most excitingly, confident…

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Review of Psycho (1960)

By Andrew Sarris (502) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Oct 2012

Psycho should be seen at least three times by any discerning film-goer, the first time for the sheer terror of the experience, and on this…

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Review of Psycho (1998)

By Andrew Sarris (502) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Oct 2012

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today…

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Review of Psycho (2007)

By Andrew Sarris (502) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Oct 2012

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today…

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Review of Reign of Fire (2002)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Oct 2012

Peaks early with a vertiginous dogfight; thereafter, spotty CGI and a bamboozling plot conspire toward a colossal anticlimax…

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Review of Atlantic City (1944)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Oct 2012

[Sarandon is] shirtless before she even has a name, but her desire to be ogled is granted dignity and power; gradually and unassumingly, she…

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Review of Atlantic City (1980)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Oct 2012

[Sarandon is] shirtless before she even has a name, but her desire to be ogled is granted dignity and power; gradually and unassumingly, she…

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Review of Fat Kid Rules The World (2012)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Oct 2012

The film succeeds thanks to Lillard's clear affection for the material and on the strength of its performances, especially Billy Campbell as…

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Review of Up at the Villa (2000)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Oct 2012

The Haases, whose previous films (Angels and Insects, The Music of Chance) evinced a remote, unfussy sensibility, are a poor fit for the melodramatic…

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Review of Restrepo (2010)

By Rob Nelson (320) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Oct 2012

For a movie that's both a study and a product of blood, sweat, and tears, an oft-cited mid-'60s quote from film and combat vet Samuel Fuller…

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Review of Butter (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Oct 2012

Plays like one long, slow descent into cloying moralizing and uplift that's well past its expiration date…

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Review of Malena (2000)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Oct 2012

A nostalgic coming-of-age sex comedy tastefully lecherous enough to indicate that its intended demographic is several decades past puberty…

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Review of Taken 2 (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Oct 2012

Taken 2 rarely embodies the values of concision and focus that it extols, and any breathing room from the hurtling narrative illogic only allows…

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Review of The Paperboy (2012)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

When not contriving to get Efron out of his clothes, The Paperboy gropes for familiar movie language of its period setting: Soul music swells…

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Review of Trade of Innocents (2012)

By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

Not for the first time in films, noble intent is at odds with aesthetics…

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