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Review of The Descent (2005)

By Rob Nelson (320) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Aug 2012

In the great B tradition, Marshall gets a lot out of nothing…

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Review of Hope Springs (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

Jones and Streep give likable enough performances as a humane monster and a human victim. But their characters never become more than that…

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Review of 2 Days in New York (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

Delpy, of course, finds her father charming because he is her father, misses her mother for the same reason, and treasures her neuroses because…

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Review of Mountain of Gold (2016)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

One of the year's most hypnotic and fascinating films…

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Review of Supercapitalist (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

Even caped do-gooders couldn't save Supercapitalist, a dramatic dud whose title refers not to some big-business hero but rather to wheelers…

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Review of Goats (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

Incapable of energizing Mark Poirier's leaden script (based on his own novel), Christopher Neil directs with a mechanical blandness made more…

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Review of Meet the Fokkens (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

Directors Rob Schröder and Gabrielle Provaas capture some un-pretty details of spankings, HJs, and dominance scenarios, but the film is about…

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Review of Almayer's Folly (2012)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

One of the year's most hypnotic and fascinating films…

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Review of It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

The film doesn't exactly sizzle, but it does manage to provide a straightforward (if perspective-challenged) biographical sketch of a major…

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Review of Red Hook Summer (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

An alternately evocative and lumbering portrait of a multifaceted community…

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Review of The Bourne Legacy (2012)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

Now, we have Jeremy Renner as another Treadstone mega man (there were nine, apparently), and though he is a likable enough pug-nosed action…

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Review of The Campaign (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

Like past-his-peak Perot, The Campaign is basically a footnote, a goof on our broken political system that's good for a certain novelty, but…

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Review of The Green Wave (2012)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

That Ahadi and his team were able to safely compile, let alone edit together, this much ground-level footage is a feat in and of itself; that…

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Review of The Order (2003)

By David Ng (26) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

This ghost-in-the-Vatican thriller regurgitates enough occult clichés to deserve its own special circle of hell…

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Review of Collapse (2009)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Aug 2012

Smith lets Ruppert's plainspoken autodidactic skepticism get gradually shriller until his arguments dissolve into tears of grief and frustration…

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Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Aug 2012

It's the latest installment in what now forms a lightly likable trilogy of films based on Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid books…

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Review of Total Recall (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Aug 2012

Where Paul Verhoeven's original was testosterone-stupid and, therefore, fun, Wiseman's film is just boring-stupid…

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Review of Soldiers of Fortune (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Aug 2012

Christian Direct-to-Video Slater lends not a shred of credibility to the role of Craig MacKenzie…

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Review of Brothers (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Aug 2012

Sheridan, repeatedly drawn to family sagas, including his own (2002's In America), aims for Greek tragedy but ends up with a PTSD melodrama,…

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Review of Girlfriend Boyfriend (2012)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jul 2012

A celebration of (and cautionary tale about) personal and political freedom…

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