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Review of Grassroots (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

By ultimately softening its stance toward McIver, Grassroots disingenuously has it both ways, reducing politics first to a David-versus-Goliath…

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Review of Union Square (2011)

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

Often feels like an acting exercise documented on video for teaching purposes-lots of unnecessary histrionics and ostentatious zooms, with…

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Review of Happiness Runs (2010)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

Loosely based on writer-director Adam Sherman's similar cult upbringing and disillusionment, the film builds on a fascinating cautionary tale,…

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Review of What Women Want (2000)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

Gibson has never lacked chemistry with his leading ladies, from Sigourney Weaver in The Year of Living Dangerously to Julia Roberts in Conspiracy…

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Review of Bobby (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is--an Airport movie with the assassination of Robert F…

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Review of Clerks II (2006)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2012

Clerks II can't bear the strain of its amateur-hour theatrics, no matter how big its heart or how many crocodile tears it manages to squirt…

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Review of Snow Angels (2007)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Jul 2012

What saves this heavy, heavy material from sinking into the chill, familiar turf of the Small-Town Midwinter Tragedy is Green's practiced ear…

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Review of The Lodger (2009)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jul 2012

Nodding, winking, and sighing, The Lodger lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter…

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Review of The History Boys (2006)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jul 2012

The film version of The History Boys is a lesser thing, more fixed in space and time and rendered almost unbearably cinematic in patches by…

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Review of United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jul 2012

Crucially, the variety of interviewees in Hubbard's doc - men and women of different races and classes - underscores just how diverse ACT UP…

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Review of Orphan (2009)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Jul 2012

Silly, overlong, and bloody as hell, Orphan is likely to turn a sweet profit, money that Leo (DiCaprio), the renowned do-gooder, should spend…

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Review of The Pact (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

A musty ghost story that morphs into a sluggish serial-killer mystery, Nicholas McCarthy's film tries to distinguish itself by minimizing dialogue…

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Review of Collaborator (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

On one level, it's a dark, funny tragedy, but it's also Donovan's thesis on his own craft…

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Review of The Pact (2010)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

A musty ghost story that morphs into a sluggish serial-killer mystery, Nicholas McCarthy's film tries to distinguish itself by minimizing dialogue…

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Review of China Heavyweight (2012)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

In the end, once we realize the title doesn't refer to these bantams' weight class but to their strength of heart, or something, the film feels…

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Review of The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

Uncompromising in its way, the film's portrait of codependent compulsion is so organically conceived, you start to smell the sulfur of traumatized…

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Review of The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

With graceless melodramatist Rob Reiner at the helm, it's predictably ironic that The Magic of Belle Isle champions the unparalleled power…

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Review of Savages (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

Soul is something Savages has in short supply, not least because Kitsch and Johnson register as blanks on-screen…

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Review of Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

Her savvy for self-presentation, though admirable from a business standpoint, makes for a more boring movie…

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Review of Crazy Eyes (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

The exuberant editing and puke-into-the-camera edginess indicate a film more interested in boasting of hell-raising than in exorcising it…

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