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Review of Battle Royale (2000)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 May 2012

[Fukasaku's] genius is finding the overlap between teenage dreams and nightmares, between the intensity of first love and the terror of extinction…

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Review of Mighty Fine (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 May 2012

The mood is generally melodramatic and ends as mushy, aided by the soft-focus cinematography that drenches it all in melancholic nostalgia…

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Review of Redlegs (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 May 2012

The trio's mourning feels more like immature self-absorption…

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Review of Orange County (2002)

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

Hardly the idiosyncratic Mickey Finn you'd expect from the men behind 1998's underrated Zero Effect and 2000's discomfort-splooge Chuck & Buck…

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Review of 7 Days in September (2002)

By Michael Miller (11) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 May 2012

The interviews occasionally veer into it-seemed-like-a-dream cliché, and the eerie soundtrack doesn't help…

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Review of Marwencol (2010)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 May 2012

Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely do, Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol is something…

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Review of Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story (2010)

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

An illuminating history lesson about the Kentucky metropolis's artistic vision and philharmonic orchestra…

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Review of Polisse (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

The strange, unsettling juxtapositions, even when mashing up the mawkish and mockery, are full of life…

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Review of Virginia (2010)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

A bonkers tragicomedy that blandly mocks the red-state family-values charade…

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Review of Bill W. (2012)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

A loving, exhaustive, warts-and-all look at the man who spent years battling his own alcoholism before a spiritual experience in the hospital…

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Review of Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story (2012)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

There are so many complicated political, religious, and cultural issues swirling around Yoni's story, and Follow Me keeps them on the sidelines…

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Review of Mansome (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

While making a priority of squeezing in every usable bit of celebrity face-time, Mansome passes by potentially interesting digressions without…

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Review of Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2004)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

When isn't it a good time to show a movie tracing the development of a kind, charismatic yellow Labrador retriever from frolicsome puppy to…

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Review of Never Stand Still (2012)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

It's all pretty loose and formless, but there's enough discipline on display to thrill lovers of movement, whether amateur or advanced…

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Review of What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

For all the fear, loathing, and overthinking that Murkoff's bedside text engenders, its journey ends with the hopeful beginning of a new life,…

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Review of Hysteria (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

Proceeds as a tedious, clumsy diddle, constantly reminding viewers how much progress has been made since the Victorian era…

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Review of The Samaritan (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

Weaver's story slowly begins to buckle under the weight of its own self-seriousness and familiarity, concluding with a showdown and resolution…

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Review of Battleship (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

And when the F-14s came out for a triumphant flyover, I looked around the room to find the moron who was applauding only to realize that it was me…

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Review of The Color Wheel (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

Like Howard Hawks's Twentieth Century, it's a travelogue movie about a couple whose impossible, porcupine personalities leave them safe, finally,…

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Review of The Dictator (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

Even in its manufactured boundary-pushing - a flash of full-frontal Baron Cohen, another scene set partially inside a birth canal - The Dictator…

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