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Review of The Teacher (2017)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Aug 2017

The setup may be as unsubtle as a metaphoric morality lesson about Europe’s not-too-distant past, or perhaps it’s politically timeless;…

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Review of Viceroy's House (2017)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Aug 2017

Using the trappings of old-fashioned romanticism, Chadha envisions the cataclysmic upheaval of millions in the traumatic lives of a few…

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Review of Kill Me Please (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Aug 2017

Here adolescent wanderlust, powered by the characters’ persistent and confused arousal, continually edges against comedy and terror…

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Review of Unlocked (2017)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2017

Unlocked feels like a 1970s-style conspiracy thriller, which makes it a perfect fit for the 76-year-old Apted, whose wonderfully varied career…

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Review of Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Aug 2017

As a portrait of a relationship and a creative partnership, Prick is ever alert to the shifts in power, to the narcissistic wounds that can…

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Review of Heat and Dust (1983)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Aug 2017

There's a whole lot of cathartic pain in Heat and Dust, if you know where to look for it…

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Review of Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017)

By Mike Laws (3) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Aug 2017

In some ways Goon: Last of the Enforcers actually manages to improve upon its forebear, connecting on jabs at a rate roughly equal to that…

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Review of Affliction (1998)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Aug 2017

As chilly a spectacle as you're likely to see. It's like watching a comeback in an empty stadium…

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Review of Gook (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2017

At Gook’s best, Chon captures, with sharply memorable dialogue, both the essence of his particular characters but also the broad drift of…

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Review of Ghost House (2017)

By Brian Marks (2) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2017

Beyond the film’s ethnic stereotypes and flat characters, it needs to be scary, and it fails on that front as well…

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Review of Unleashed (2017)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2017

Director Finn Taylor’s Unleashed is an inoffensive Hallmark card of an indie comedy, as indifferently intended by the sender as it is regarded…

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Review of Lemon (2017)

By Abbey Bender (99) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2017

A grating protagonist alone does not a bad film make, but the episodic, unsatisfying Lemon revels in purposeful nails-on-a-chalkboard unlikability…

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Review of Beach Rats (2017)

By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2017

Hittman’s depictions of sexuality, emotional crisis, and parent-teen relationships are rendered here without sentimentality — and with…

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Review of Bushwick (2017)

By Craig D. Lindsey (161) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2017

Bushwick is a hollow, ultimately unsatisfying exercise in organized chaos…

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Review of Clash (2017)

By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (115) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2017

Unfortunately, Clash buckles under the weight of its many characters…

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Review of The Villainess (2017)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Aug 2017

The Villainess is entertaining enough, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that we should be caring more for this character as the film goes…

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Review of Crown Heights (2017)

By Danny King (66) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Aug 2017

Most of Crown Heights, which is based on an episode of public radio’s This American Life, suffers from structural confusion…

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Review of How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009)

By Vadim Rizov (155) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2017

It is, perhaps, best not to expect too much from the directorial debut of Grace Kelly's ex-hairdresser; still, How to Seduce Difficult Women…

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Review of The Way We Get By (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2017

It's the stuff of a fine short on what any Bowling Alone reader knows is the last generation of civic-minded civilians, but Gaudet has a hard…

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Review of Marjorie Prime (2017)

By Danny King (66) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Aug 2017

Leave it to Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) to make a science fiction movie that consists of little more than scenes of two characters talking…

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