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Review of Miral (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2011

Miral is a very flat, fuddled movie, an at-odds-with-itself partisan work, its convictions diffused in a warm soak of style…

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Review of White Irish Drinkers (2011)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2011

Even though Gray is no raw-boned rookie-he has made TV movies for decades, plus, back in the day, a single Steven Seagal floater-his movie…

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Review of My Perestroika (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2011

The subjects, plainspoken and insightful, attempt to extract the objective lessons of the political past from their subjective fortunes…

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Review of Honey (2010)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2011

Though this graceful film is a minor addition to the canon of Middle Eastern cinema in which nothing and everything happens, Bal is still a beauty…

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Review of Tyrannosaur (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2011

Colman's performance comes as a revelation…

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Review of Peep World (2010)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2011

Thick with stale We're Jewish! and inconvenient-boner jokes, the film's a post-Office, shaky-cam sitcom pilot stretched to feature length…

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Review of Frost/Nixon (2008)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Mar 2011

Frost/Nixon's main attraction is neither its topicality nor its historical value, but Langella's re-creation of his Tony-winning performance…

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Review of Splendor (1999)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Mar 2011

Might as well be bad TV...Splendor is what happens when a director whose natural mode is subversion runs out of things to subvert…

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Review of 0s & 1s (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Mar 2011

During his quest to track down his missing laptop, James's unrelenting douchiness and his friends' essential emptiness grow tiresome, but that's…

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Review of Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

As each player's run through the same routine--hometown meet-and-greet, biographical sketch, hasty interview--the burden of the formulaic structure…

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Review of Bill Cunningham New York (2011)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

No passion for fashion is required to enjoy this absorbing portrait of legendary New York Times On the Street photographer Bill Cunningham,…

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Review of Taxi Driver (1976)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

Taxi Driver was a powerfully summarizing work…

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Review of Bereavement (2010)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

Bereavement-miraculously as dull as its title-is neither far gone enough to be funny nor well thought-out enough to be disturbing…

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Review of Limitless (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

Without a complex thought about narcissism, merit, or addiction, Limitless is content to be an empty, one-note, satire-free fairy tale of avarice…

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Review of Motherland (2011)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

Despite its ambitious combination of murder mystery and cautionary immigration tale, Motherland doesn't quite hold together, lacking both the…

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Review of The Music Never Stopped (2011)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

In a rare leading role, character actor Simmons is saddled with the entirety of the film's diagrammatic emotional arc, briskly (and tediously)…

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Review of Paul (1974)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

This is the smart-ass stoner's E.T., the movie the fanboy parent won't be able to hand down like some tattered, squeaky-clean memento to their…

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Review of Paul (1969)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

This is the smart-ass stoner's E.T., the movie the fanboy parent won't be able to hand down like some tattered, squeaky-clean memento to their…

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Review of Win Win (2011)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

A quirky dramedy in the Juno/Little Miss Sunshine mode, but lacking the latter's vibrant ensemble and the former's snappy patter, Win Win is…

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Review of Paul (2011)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Mar 2011

This is the smart-ass stoner's E.T., the movie the fanboy parent won't be able to hand down like some tattered, squeaky-clean memento to their…

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