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Review of Brother to Brother (2004)

By Jorge Morales (15) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Nov 2004

First-timer Rodney Evans's leaden script fails to live up to the poetry of its subjects and raises more themes--black-on-black homophobia,…

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Review of Magnifico (2003)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Oct 2004

If Michiko Yamamoto's screenplay overdoes Magnifico's holy-fool virtue to the point of hysteria, de los Reyes's fluid compositions, dead-on…

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Review of The Pledge (2001)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Oct 2004

Though at times it threatens to meander off, Penn's movie fulfills its destiny as an alienated fable of justice and luck, personified by Jack…

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Review of American Wedding (2003)

By David Ng (26) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Oct 2004

The deliriously overacting Scott is game for anything, too much really, but as a one-man army against the tide of Z100-scored banality, he's…

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Review of Saw (2003)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Oct 2004

With its toilet-bobbing and blood spurting and Elwes's fey, Vincent Price–like mugging, Saw succeeds in capturing something like Takashi…

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Review of Saw (2004)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Oct 2004

With its toilet-bobbing and blood spurting and Elwes's fey, Vincent Price–like mugging, Saw succeeds in capturing something like Takashi…

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Review of Birth (2004)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Oct 2004

Charged with an impossible hunger, Birth has a mordantly humorous undertow, recognizing as it does the cognitive dissonance at its core…

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Review of Birth (1984)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Oct 2004

If Birth succeeds more as a source of visual and aural enthrallment than as supernatural narrative, it's largely because the final third hovers…

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Review of A Silent Love (2004)

By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Oct 2004

The movie can't resist putting its key points in italics, but it maintains a refreshingly unsentimental trajectory…

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Review of Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Oct 2004

Dead Man's Shoes is all about revenge, but in trying to be one of those serious revenge films that questions violence while indulging in it,…

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Review of Sideways (2009)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Oct 2004

Jack and Miles are male archetypes, as well as the two most fully realized comic creations in recent American movies…

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Review of Undertow (2004)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Oct 2004

However cloying, the movie creates a powerful vortex. It's surprisingly visceral-at times almost thrilling…

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Review of Undertow (1949)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Oct 2004

However cloying, the movie creates a powerful vortex. It's surprisingly visceral-at times almost thrilling…

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Review of Undertow (1996)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Oct 2004

However cloying, the movie creates a powerful vortex. It's surprisingly visceral-at times almost thrilling…

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Review of Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

By Jessica Winter (193) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Oct 2004

The entire unwieldy contraption rests on the shoulders of erstwhile Queer as Folk jailbait Hunnam: Bleached and bland, earnest and wooden,…

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Review of Final Cut (1993)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Oct 2004

The director's leaden touch and the plot's insistent banality obscure any conceptual resonance…

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Review of Untold Scandal (2003)

By Ed Park (107) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Oct 2004

E J-Yong's transposition illuminates, with satisfying crispness, the hyper-Confucian high society of the time, as well as the underground Catholic…

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Review of Eulogy (2004)

By Joshua Land (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Oct 2004

If the recurring gag about Grandma's suicide attempts doesn't have you rolling in the aisles, there's always the domineering aunt whose husband…

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Review of Being Julia (2004)

By Leslie Camhi (33) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Oct 2004

Bening's comic gifts make the most of Ronald Harwood's witty screenplay, though she falls flat in her character's rare moments of sincerity…

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Review of P.S. (2004)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Oct 2004

The question of whether this is a movie about reincarnation or fate or middle-aged delusion remains unaddressed far beyond our capacity to…

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