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Review of The Forgotten Space (2010)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Feb 2012

Epic in scope, intellectual agility, and the potential to induce panic and despair, this documentary exploration of global trade as an emblem…

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Review of This Means War (2012)

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

The cocky presumption of charm that isn't actually there is precisely the problem with action-comedy This Means War…

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Review of Peter and Vandy (2009)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Feb 2012

Ritter and Weixler do share an easy-at-being-uneasy chemistry, mostly because his performance is downright distinguished compared to her blandness,…

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Review of The Swell Season (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Feb 2012

To viewers without a preexisting emotional relationship to the couple and their saga, that everyday angst is just banal…

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Review of Bombay Beach (2011)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Feb 2012

That it documents rural poverty in the American West without exploiting or sanctifying its subjects would be cause enough for praise…

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Review of Vantage Point (2008)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Feb 2012

Produced by Paul Greengrass, and conceived as something of a companion film to his own Bloody Sunday, there wasn't a moment in Omagh that rang…

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Review of Mean Girls (2004)

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

Director Waters and screenwriter Tina Fey (also cast as the voice-of-reason math teacher) aim less for the usual high-gloss caricature than…

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Review of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2012

This is potentially wonderful, if not exactly new stuff, but Gilliam and McKeown's willful refusal of coherent narrative and determination…

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Review of Kinyarwanda (2011)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2012

Cast with both professional and novice actors (which results in uneven performances), the beautifully shot film is filled with exquisite moments…

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Review of Grandma, a Thousand Times (2011)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2012

She might not be our kin, but filmmaker Mahmoud Kaabour's anecdotal, warm-humored tribute to his grandmother - and, to a limited extent, to…

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Review of Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements (2011)

By Peter Gerstenzang (3) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2012

With so many voices, Color Me becomes a rock version of Rashomon, and what the film lacks in music and live footage, it more than makes up…

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Review of Buried Prayers (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2012

With the survivors' physical presence amongst Nazi slaughterhouses as its own powerful statement, Buried Prayers is a nonfiction work that…

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Review of Laredoans Speak: Voices on Immigration (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2012

The movie's argument only occasionally transcends its oozy nonspecificity and feel-good bleeding-heart vibe…

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Review of The Vow (2012)

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

The Vow makes the least of its concept, refusing to acknowledge that a love need not be perfect to merit holding on to…

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Review of The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Feb 2012

The film isn't short on ideas, it's just that those ideas are dumbfoundingly pretentious and trite…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Feb 2012

[A] scattered but not totally disagreeable CIA conspiracy thriller…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Feb 2012

[A] scattered but not totally disagreeable CIA conspiracy thriller…

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Review of The Heretics (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Feb 2012

For a movement that was fundamentally leaderless, Braderman's film gives its participants an opportunity to rightfully claim: We thought we…

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Review of In Darkness (2011)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Feb 2012

Another break in the tension is the inescapable fact that every Holocaust movie, however hair-raising, essentially thrums the same self-sacrifice-versus-self-preservation…

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Review of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Feb 2012

The film is endurable owing solely to Johnson, a veteran of bad kids' movies whose sense of when to dial up the charm in such a generic, soulless…

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