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Review of The Invisible War (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Jun 2012

The Invisible War, though revelatory, is perhaps the most straightforward film yet from a director who likes to broach the fault lines of sex…

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Review of The Woman in the Fifth (2011)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Jun 2012

You're not sure what this is till it's over, but certainly Hawke's performance is his nerviest and most sincere in a decade…

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Review of The Lottery (2010)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Jun 2012

An electrifying community meeting finds Harlem Success president Eva Moskowitz both vilified and heralded as our Obama by local parents, as…

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Review of Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

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

Thrusts us into a high school senior year like no other…

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Review of A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Jun 2012

While the acting ensemble is crucial, it's not the only asset here…

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Review of Tahrir: Liberation Square (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

The variations are many, but the theme is as consistent as the crowd that grows and strengthens throughout Savona's inside, traditional, vérité…

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Review of Patagonia Rising (2012)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

Elicits the combination of rage and helplessness (and guilty wanderlust) unique to the genre with admirable thoroughness and balance…

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Review of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

Like a big-screen Big Gulp, this third installment of the billion-dollar animated franchise contains as much cinematic confection as an 85-minute…

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Review of Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

A viewer's patience with some of Safety's more rote stretches is rewarded in the film's final 15 minutes, when the plot takes a truly unexpected…

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Review of Dark Horse (2012)

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

With Solondz's old-hat funeral deadpan and his efforts to pass off Abe's adolescent rage as elevated insight, Dark Horse is neither incisively…

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Review of Bel Ami (2012)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

Its the ladies who are worth tracking here, from Ricci's understated sensuality to Thomas's fragile angularity…

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Review of Lola Versus (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

More than subverting or satirizing the modern lady-in-crisis movie, he has made a big, broad stoner comedy, shot and performed naturalistically,…

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Review of Prometheus (2012)

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

With this overreaching Prometheus, Scott seems a bit like David carefully arranging his hair in imitation of O'Toole's Lawrence…

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Review of The Oregonian (2011)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

Reeder has stated that he intends for The Oregonian to be an art film and not the horror movie it appears to be on the surface, but he's not…

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Review of Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)

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

An incompetently structured film that pits hippies against squares with the usual wearying results…

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Review of The Harder They Come (1972)

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

The definitive postcolonial cult-movie musical…

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Review of Piranha 3DD (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 May 2012

Add to this that it takes place in the town of Merkin, and you'll get an idea of the labored spirit of dirty-old-man humor that prevails…

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Review of Piranha 3D (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 May 2012

Add to this that it takes place in the town of Merkin, and you'll get an idea of the labored spirit of dirty-old-man humor that prevails…

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Review of Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 May 2012

Dante's masterstroke is to make the movie as visually and narratively unhinged as its source material…

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Review of The Karate Kid (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 May 2012

There is the impression, deadly to the sense of fun, that the talent here actually thought they were remaking a classic…

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