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Review of How to Live Forever (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2011

Suffice it to say, life's too short for such self-indulgent glibness…

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Review of True Legend (2010)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2011

In countless over-the-top set pieces, Yuen delivers striking combat clarity without sacrificing the visceral editing and crazy digital effects…

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Review of Skateland (2011)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2011

If Skateland is the sort of work Ritchie's future holds, it's proof that some talents are better off staying home…

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Review of Make Believe (2011)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2011

The drama is merely serviceable until the last moment, when the winner makes the competition disappear…

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Review of Bridesmaids (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2011

Many of the chaotic set pieces cataloging Annie's self-destruction have a kind of dumb crassness that works against Bridesmaids' often smart,…

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Review of The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2011

The beloved Kiwi duo, who frequently perform as a rotating cast of corny alter egos, can charm even the crankiest viewers, thanks to their…

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Review of The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2011

As it is, Duris, capable and dull, is no Keitel, 2005 is no 1978, and The Beat That My Heart Skipped is no Fingers…

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Review of Rent (2005)

By Jorge Morales (15) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2011

Instead of bringing a universal love story to the living present, the film traps it in a frozen past like a prehistoric bug in amber, as removed…

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Review of Everything Must Go (2011)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 May 2011

Everything Must Go, which is ostensibly set in Scottsdale, Arizona, has a generic resemblance to broken-heartland movies like Up in the Air…

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Review of The Big Bang (2011)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 May 2011

Though the setup is pure Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely, specifically), the film's bleary, neon glamour and penchant for the bizarre…

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Review of Hesher (2010)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 May 2011

Still, Hesher finds uncommon sympathy for people at loose ends, and although Hesher himself is sentimentalized and backhandedly inspiring,…

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Review of The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 May 2011

Centipede plays on the notion that the only thing more frightening than death is a state bridging life and death, in which, though one's body…

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Review of Daughter from Danang (2002)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2011

Operation Babylift itself was an attempt to provide some semblance of an American happy ending to the Vietnam debacle…

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Review of Lord Byron (2011)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2011

Vacillating between free-associative shtick and complete inertia, Lord Byron is lost in thought and allergic to reason…

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Review of Vito Bonafacci (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2011

Factor in the consistently subpar acting and Vito Bonafaccistands as one project better suited to Sunday schools than movie theaters…

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Review of The Colors of the Mountain (2011)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2011

Arbeláez indulges in occasional twinges of Hollywood emphasis, but mostly the film glides on its matter-of-fact textures…

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Review of Thor (2011)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2011

An astonishingly awkward marriage of ancient Norse mythology and 21st-century nonsense, Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, works too hard at…

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Review of Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2010)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2011

Among the alleged virtues of the game cited by the doc's subjects are its ability to bring people together, its usefulness as a tool to indoctrinate…

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Review of Daydream Nation (2011)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 May 2011

Daydream is decently acted, overwritten, slickly shot, decked out with the requisite indie soundtrack, and propped up with angst-ridden poses…

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Review of Something Borrowed (2011)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 May 2011

It's clear that Something Borrowed finds it easier to tell us about relationships than to show us them under way…

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