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Review of My Way (2012)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Apr 2012

Perhaps the most charitable thing that can be said about the 143-minute marathon My Way - with a reported budget of almost $25 million, the…

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Review of Downtown Express (2012)

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

Whether to let go and follow your own path is a stock dilemma, and an implausibly hopeful conclusion winds up undercutting the realism of this…

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Review of Inside Hana's Suitcase (2009)

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

A documentary saga of heartbreaking concentration-camp horrors, Inside Hana's Suitcase attempts to preserve Holocaust memories through frustratingly…

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Review of Marley (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Thoroughly researched and packed with phenomenal archival footage, it's a rousing tribute to a mesmerizing performer that forgoes blind hero worship…

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Review of Jean Gentil (2012)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Although it's steeped in tragedies both personal and cultural, this contemplative, gorgeously shot documentary-fiction hybrid from husband-and-wife…

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Review of The Moth Diaries (2011)

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

There's no surer way to murder horror than to literalize it, a mistake incessantly made by The Moth Diaries…

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Review of The Day He Arrives (2011)

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

Like Rohmer, Hong is wonderful with atmospheric effects, using whirling snowfalls to place his characters' inchoate longing in relief…

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Review of To the Arctic 3D (2012)

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

Arguably a good lesson for kids about preserving our environment, To the Arctic is definitely a threat to our equally endangered good taste…

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Review of Think Like a Man (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Enduring a day-long session of couples' therapy is more fun (and flies by faster) than this film…

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Review of Chimpanzee (2012)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Throughout, narrator Tim Allen shuttles between a jokey primer on chimp society and a basic play-by-play during the more action-packed scenes…

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Review of Darling Companion (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

The handsome pooch is also the only appealing aspect of the latest tale of privileged boomer pulse-taking from Lawrence Kasdan…

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Review of The Lucky One (2012)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

No amount of neck nuzzling or back arching can make us believe there's real heat rising between these two…

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Review of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Above all, it will make you long for a day when studio movies about relationships feel like they are by and for adults who have actually been in one…

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Review of The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Apr 2012

The Woman Who Wasn't There plays like a by-the-numbers cable true-crime documentary -- which in fact it is…

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Review of Tadpole (2002)

By Jessica Winter (193) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Apr 2012

As sweet and unassuming a film as they come, embraces both perspectives -- it's sympathetic to the batty throes of a first infatuation, but…

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Review of Kids of Töday (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Apr 2012

Refraining images of the mind-controlled sleepwalker Cesare from The Cabinet of Dr…

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Review of Deadline (2012)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Apr 2012

The fact that real-life deadly racial animus in America is often cartoonish in its manifestation doesn't excuse Deadline's cliché-ridden characterizations…

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Review of The Lady (2011)

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

Impersonally directed by cinéma du look pioneer Luc Besson, The Lady was written by first-timer Rebecca Frayn, whose script has all the elegance…

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Review of Monsieur Lazhar (2011)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Apr 2012

Nélisse, with her tough, Courtney Love puss, and Néron's portrayal of a boy's well-defended torment are extraordinary, as is the film's realization…

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Review of Life, Love, Soul (2012)

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

Admirable only for its sincere responsibility-over-selfishness message and for giving The Wire alums Chad Coleman and Jamie Hector some big-screen…

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