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Review of The High Cost of Living (2011)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Sep 2011

Deborah Chow's ridiculously implausible yet still predictable tale of guilt and redemption is so bipolar in tone that when it's not a more…

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Review of Tanner Hall (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Sep 2011

From hairstyles and clothes to autumnal-hued cinematography and a raft of clichéd incidents involving pills, suicide, sneaking out, and blackmail,…

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Review of Shaolin (2011)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Sep 2011

This crude, overlong chunk of kung-fu kitsch lays its scene in a 1920s Republican China, torn by internecine fighting and weighed down by drably…

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Review of We Were Here (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Sep 2011

A simple, powerful act of bearing witness, We Were Here is a sober reminder of the not-too-distant past, when gays were focused not on honeymoon…

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Review of Puzzlehead (2006)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Sep 2011

By far the most independent independent-genre flick to grift screen space in Manhattan since Douglas Buck's Family Portraits, James Bai's Puzzlehead…

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Review of Prisoner of Paradise (2003)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Sep 2011

A fascinating and painful account of an entertainer trapped not only by his Jewishness but by his overwhelming need to make theater…

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Review of Apollo 18 (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2011

His (Gonzalo López-Gallego) this-is-authentic conceit is by now a tediously corny device, and his story delivers no scares during the interminably…

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Review of Bodyguard (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2011

The overweight, gays and little people are cheerfully mocked while writer/director Siddique ratchets up his story's disparate comedy-romance-action…

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Review of The Center of the World (2001)

By Jessica Winter (193) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2011

Hysterical but inorganic, lacking blood, sweat, or tears…

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Review of A Mighty Heart (2007)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2011

Angelina Jolie is the major alienation effect in A Mighty Heart, although she's not the only one…

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Review of Rebirth (2011)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Aug 2011

Despite Whitaker's best attempts, Rebirth never persuasively builds to catharsis, and that's entirely for the best…

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Review of I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

Even with this blunt treatment of the material, Rottiers appears lost and unsure, never really settling into his overdetermined role…

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Review of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

Is the world of the film ruled by its high concept, its low comedy, its demographic credibility, or its romantic screwball realism…

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Review of Rebirth (2011)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

Despite Whitaker's best attempts, Rebirth never persuasively builds to catharsis, and that's entirely for the best…

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Review of Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

Resurrect Dead works splendidly as a threadbare urban mystery, teasing out details and complications without withholding too much information…

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Review of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

The movie turns terminally wearisome and even anti-climactic with the triumph of the brain-lodging Je T'aime (which, alone among the movie's…

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Review of Red Desert (1964)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

Swoon, ye 21st-century philistines, before the cataract of existential glamour that is Antonioni's Il deserto rosso,…

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Review of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

Magnificent and cheesy, the latest and most proudly absurd of Chinese historical spectaculars, Detective Dee is a cinematic comic book for…

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Review of Seven Days in Utopia (2011)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

For a time, the film shoulders its hokum rather well, with Black strutting convincingly and Duvall's mouthy mugging mostly in check…

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Review of The Debt (2010)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

Predictably, the holes in the narrative set us up for a twist or three, but, in balance, it's a pleasure to be back in the wet alleys and spy-patrolled…

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