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Review of Ruby Sparks (2012)

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

She (Kazan) also wrote the screenplay, which begs interpretation as a frustrated actress's commentary on the way that even ostensibly serious…

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Review of Price of Glory (2000)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2012

Contrived and contrived sloppily, this self-adoring soap even manages to make its all-Hispanic cast seem unconvincing -- except for Seda…

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Review of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jul 2012

So pandering and pebble-brained you'd guess it had been test-screened on barnyard animals…

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Review of Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jul 2012

[Goldthwait] handles it beautifully, crafting from such rough stuff something astoundingly sweet and sharply funny about forgiveness, unconditional…

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Review of Where Is Where? (2009)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jul 2012

Ultimately, the film attempts to confront its vague ideas with a self-contained bit of narrative, whose neat rendering clashes with, but fails…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2012

The Dark Knight Rises is a shallow repository of ideas, but as a work of sheer sensation, it has something to recommend…

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Review of Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2012

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai is more than just another bid for respectability, like 13 Assassins -it may well be Miike's best film, a patient,…

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Review of The Well Digger's Daughter (2011)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2012

Stirrings of dignified outrage via the eponymous well-digger eventually go a long way toward energizing the film, which improves markedly once…

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Review of Wagner's Dream (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2012

It remains a rousing portrait of creative renewal and, specifically, the way in which - by attempting something daring and new in the face…

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Review of Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2012

Murphy has never been a typical rock star, and Shut Up is by no means a conventional rock documentary…

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Review of The Queen of Versailles (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2012

I've seen The Queen of Versailles twice, and both times the audience laughed frequently at the Siegel family's sheer tackiness…

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Review of Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family (2005)

By Laura Sinagra (110) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2012

Beyond the buzz of iconoclasm, our explorers find a regular troubled marriage, only with three sides to every problem…

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Review of Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Jul 2012

The best bits are basic and all but voiceless: those Scrat-intensive set pieces, still inspiredly squirrelly if much too far apart…

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Review of It's the Earth Not the Moon (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Jul 2012

Through fourteen headed chapters, Tocha catalogues every strata of island life, often in captivating images-the reflection of the village in…

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Review of When in Rome (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Jul 2012

Bell, unlike Katherine Heigl and Sandra Bullock, who executive-produced their big-screen debasements of 2009, brings enough effervescence to…

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Review of Ponies (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Jul 2012

Nick Sandow's Ponies can claim the not negligible achievement of bringing one of the more irritatingly objectionable characters in recent cinema…

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Review of Farewell, My Queen (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

The pleasure of Jacquot's film is in watching various strains of discreet, heated, and deluded passionate attachment performed…

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Review of Trishna (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

In the hands of Winterbottom, who has frequently shown a knack for infusing red flag sex with dread without sapping it of sexiness, the master-slave…

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Review of The Imposter (2012)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

Thick with reenactments and cute cutaways, the movie evolves into a cultural inquisition, following this stranger through the strange land…

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Review of Red Lights (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

Much as I want to believe in Cortés, who is clearly talented and ambitious, there is just too much in Red Lights that encourages agnosticism…

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