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Review of The Good Doctor (2011)

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

The film is anchored and greatly bolstered by Bloom, who delivers a performance of quietly escalating madness…

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Review of The Tall Man (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Aug 2012

Once you get through the flaming, Bowser's Castle–like gauntlet of the rest of the story's implausibilities, you end up in a different movie…

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Review of Lawless (2012)

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

The narrative often seems at odds with the director's pictorialism, trudging when it should be striding toward the climax, isolating the performers…

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Review of For a Good Time, Call... (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Aug 2012

Lauren and Katie aren't defined by their attitudes toward men; they're defined by being fu--ing funny and awesome…

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Review of The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Aug 2012

If today's youngsters grow up thinking of Christopher Lloyd as the old guy with the bongos from The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure,…

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Review of The Apparition (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2012

The Apparition is not a great or even good haunted-house movie, but it does have the advantage of a memorable setting…

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Review of Premium Rush (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2012

There is a lot of silly bike-is-life philosophy, including Wilee's personal credo of Fixed gear, steel frame, no brakes, none of which I can…

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Review of The Horse Boy (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2012

The Horse Boy may excuse itself as a raising awareness tract on autism, but the exotic travelogue isn't a practicable care option for most…

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Review of Knight Knight (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

Making fun of such an inoffensive, amateurish production would be easy and mean, like punching a baby…

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Review of Neighboring Sounds (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

A tightening of the two-hour-plus running time might have enhanced the balance between Filho's epic, evocative style and his smaller story…

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Review of Teddy Bear (2012)

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

These self-imposed limitations prevent Teddy Bear from having the breadth of a great work, but they give it the coherence of a good tale, simply told…

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Review of Samsara (2011)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

The film's imagery is epic and trance-inducing. It's the guided part where Samsara stumbles…

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Review of Side by Side (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

At its most fascinating, Side by Side examines the idea that changing formats means changing not just the way movies are made but watched,…

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Review of Somewhere Between (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

Knowlton never delves far enough into her subjects' stories for Somewhere Between to feel more nuanced than, say, a good commercial for international…

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Review of The Victim (2011)

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

It is dreary to envisage the viewer who could become emotionally involved in The Victim, but it does have the kind of slack watchability -…

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Review of Sleepwalk with Me (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

[Rides] a weird tonal line, maybe aiming to split the difference between comedy and terror but coming off as afraid to really go for it on either…

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Review of The Revenant (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

The Revenant kind of aspires to be a horror-comedy in the vein of Shaun of the Dead but keeps tripping on its own misanthropy…

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Review of Wild Horse, Wild Ride (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

Even its most interesting human subjects can't compare to the beauty and enigma of the wild horses who, after a life of running free, find…

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Review of Little White Lies (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

Of sole interest is Benoît Magimel's Vincent, who sheepishly confesses a same-sex attraction to one in the cabal; his moments on-screen provide…

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Review of Hit & Run (2012)

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

That even the criminal class has gone sensitive and finicky eco-conscious has some potential for comedy-or drama, as in Oliver Stone's undervalued…

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