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Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

Frankenweenie, scripted by John August, and based on a screenplay by Lenny Ripps from Burton's original story, is tight and brief, hitting…

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Review of V/H/S (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

In too many of the shorts, bad acting quickly undermines the authenticity the aesthetics labor to achieve…

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Review of Wuthering Heights (2011)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

Undoubtedly, its coup de grâce has everything to do with race…

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Review of Wake in Fright (1971)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

A road movie using undeveloped land as a blank screen on which to project a dark deconstruction of masculinity and manifest destiny…

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Review of My Father And The Man In Black (2013)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

As Cash might say, it has the heart, and it has the blood, and by the time childhood chatter is played back again, feeling is soaked through…

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Review of The House I Live In (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

What's riveting and attention grabbing in Jarecki's recapitulations of failed policy are some of the talking heads he has assembled, including…

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Review of The Prosecution of an American President (2012)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

So unabashedly one-sided that the documentary is problematic even when the facts and figures check out…

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Review of Decoding Deepak (2012)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

Following the celebrity guru into Thailand for his ordainment as a Buddhist monk, the film is at its best when Gotham can't help but see through…

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Review of The Oranges (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

The Oranges, an extremely dry comedy directed by Julian Farino, is kind of like a takedown of the suburbs written by the people who designed…

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Review of Bel Borba Aqui (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

Now he's famous, and the production of the documentary Bel Borba Aqui, practically a montage of color, music, and Borba's constant laughter,…

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Review of Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

Escape Fire winds up feeling like only one half of a larger argument…

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Review of Now, Forager (2012)

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

A slow-food procedural, commendably devoted yet still underdone…

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Review of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

These 2-D characters might as well be wearing T-shirts that say things like Predatory College Professor and Self-Obsessed Father on them…

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Review of Drag Me to Hell (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Sep 2012

If the booga-booga shocks are sometimes repetitive, Drag Me does its audience right in its last-act burst of giddy momentum, sustained by crack…

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Review of Dear Mandela (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Sep 2012

Triumph follows tragedy as the case unfolds and history is caught repeating, but the larger, more complicated story underlying this brief but…

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Review of Six Million and One (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Sep 2012

All the while, Fisher and his kin's incessant, contentious bickering exposes the ongoing difficulty of reconciling with inherited trauma, though…

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Review of 186 Dollars to Freedom (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Sep 2012

On every level this production - from Robinson's callow performance to Vila's hackneyed handheld camerawork, punching beats in the stead of…

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Review of The High Life (2010)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Sep 2012

This vision of free self-expression bubbling forth under authoritarian pressure echoes sentiments in Zhao's previous work…

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Review of Won't Back Down (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Sep 2012

In Davis's case, marveling at yet another fine performance doesn't stop you from wishing that her first leading role was in a worthier vehicle…

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Review of BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Sep 2012

The film is funny, weepy, and hairy all the way to the barrel-chested-and utterly predictable-end…

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