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Review of West of Thunder (2012)

By Kristina Bravo (2) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

West of Thunder is not a tedious watch at all. In fact, it is oddly absorbing, just not the way writer and star Dan Davies probably meant it to be…

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Review of Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus (2012)

By Edmund Newton (1) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

Atwill and other scholars maintain that the Romans were ingenious in pulling off the pacifist hoax, so useful to the ruthless men who administered…

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Review of Looper (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

In short, for all its affectionate pastiche, Looper is a humanist movie, and is all the better for it…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

Although it doesn't worry itself with dialectic complexities, Hotel Transylvania succeeds on the level of entertainment…

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Review of Solomon Kane (2009)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

It is, for a contemporary CGI-fraught fantasy-slash-living-video-game, not at all bad, dotted with moments of Bosch and steady on its storytelling…

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Review of Bringing Up Bobby (2011)

By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

The movie permanently downshifts to moralizing melodrama and retrograde Stella Dallas–like maternal sacrifice when Bobby has an accidental…

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Review of The Waiting Room (2012)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

What makes The Waiting Room worth visiting is how well it does without the usual narcotizing documentary tactics…

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Review of The Iran Job (2012)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

Although it presents itself as merely the story of a professional basketball player named Kevin Sheppard, who, never quite making it to the…

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Review of Tales of the Night (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

The stories are quick, tiny surveys of a given culture's conventions told as monomythic, Joseph Campbell–ish pastiches and animated with…

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Review of Looper (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

Thrilling in its deft juggling of complex narrative elements, utterly clear in its presentation, and unfolding with what feels like serious…

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Review of Vulgaria (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

The broadness of the film's comedy might be largely attributable to the conventions of Hong Kong cinema, but to American audiences, the film…

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Review of Stars in Shorts (2012)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

Sequencing is crucial to any anthology, and Stars in Shorts wisely opens with two of the strongest films…

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Review of The Other Dream Team (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

Watching Sabonis and company deliver comeuppance to their former rulers on the hardwood, I fully expect The Other Dream Team to join Do You…

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Review of Harvest of Empire (2012)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

Harvest of Empire is never quite wrong, but it's effectiveness is inversely proportional to how hard it's trying…

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Review of Electoral Dysfunction (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

The result being a film that, devoid of both laugh-out-loud humor and the righteous indignation that characterizes most agitprop efforts, winds…

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Review of Headshot (2011)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

The awesome shit's awesome; the ponderous is ponderous; and the bloody corpses are arranged as artfully as wedding bouquets…

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Review of The Godfather (1972)

By Andrew Sarris (502) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Sep 2012

Brando's triumph and fascination is less that of an actor of parts than of a star galaxy of myths…

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Review of Rails & Ties (2007)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Sep 2012

Alison Eastwood's debut feature is slow, deliberate, assured, and shot with a graceful feel for place--none of which is enough to overcome…

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Review of House at the End of the Street (2012)

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

Working from a story by all-around genre specialist Jonathan Mostow, director Mark Tonderai steers the story cleanly around its queasy hairpin…

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Review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Sep 2012

Benjamin Button is to the first half of the 20th century what Gump was to the second -- a panorama of the American experience as seen from…

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