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Review of The Turin Horse (2011)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Feb 2012

An experience comparable to starting down the road with an empty sack then, over the course of the journey, having it weighed down steadily…

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Review of The Miners' Hymns (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Feb 2012

It speaks eloquently about the disappearance of most any indigenous working-class culture…

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Review of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2012)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Feb 2012

What gives the film its human dimension are the conflicting memories of former residents…

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Review of The Dish & the Spoon (2011)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Feb 2012

For once, an American indie's muted modesty at least makes emotional sense, suiting a bittersweet romance that, by nature, has neither a name…

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Review of The Duchess (2008)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Feb 2012

As a tale of mature self-sacrifice, the movie would be almost unbearably moving were it not for Knightley's insubstantial performance, which…

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Review of The Woman in Black (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Feb 2012

If director James Watkins's second film is about as scary as the haunted house your big cousins made in the basement, Radcliffe, as widowed…

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Review of Bad Fever (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2012

If Defa's aesthetics are mundane, his leads' performances are not, especially in the case of Audley, whose darting eyes and hushed, stuttering…

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Review of Kill List (2011)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2012

Brutal and bloody and utterly unnerving, thanks in no small measure to Jim Williams's brilliant score, which is filled with strings so taut,…

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Review of Perfect Sense (2011)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2012

Perfect Sense beautifully captures the ache and counterintuitive thrill of the days as we know them, the world as we imagine the world fading…

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Review of Splinters (2012)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2012

The best film ever made about competitive surfing in Papua New Guinea (and Best Documentary of the year as per Surfer Magazine)…

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Review of The Innkeepers (2012)

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

It's this youthful denial of vulnerability that makes West's slow-sidling haunted-house movies work…

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Review of Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2012

Dori Berinstein's desultory, fawning profile of the nonagenarian performer devotes many of its padded 88 minutes to Channing's greatest success,…

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Review of Pretty Poison (1968)

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

Like any good study in couple's psychopathology, a familiar relationship is visible here, but in a parodic, mutated form…

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Review of Chronicle (2012)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2012

Chronicle, with its found-footage storytelling and superpowered teens, at least playfully transcends its Cloverfield meets Heroes pitch…

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Review of Big Miracle (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2012

While rooting for the marine mammals (and wishing for more footage of them - and even of their animatronic incarnations), your heart will also…

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Review of Get Him to the Greek (2010)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Jan 2012

Get Him to the Greek, is a mess, but an amiable and occasionally uproarious one due mostly to Russell Brand’s reprising of his role as Aldous Snow…

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Review of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Jan 2012

Where Judgment Day exhibited the profligate sprawl of a military operation, the leaner, less grandiose Rise of the Machines has the feel of…

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Review of 2012 (2009)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Jan 2012

The two-hour-and-40-minute 2012 is overstuffed with special-effects, but the Curtis clan's mad dash out of town is the closest the movie gets…

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Review of One for the Money (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Jan 2012

Making even more appearances than the rodent is the Big Gulp; the lady bounty hunter is constantly consuming junk - though at least when Heigl…

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Review of Anatomy of Hell (2004)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Jan 2012

Anatomy of Hell gives a feminist twist to a French literary tradition that goes back to the Marquis de Sade. It's also svelte, assured filmmaking…

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