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Review of Call Her Applebroog (2016)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Jun 2016

The film is a vehicle for Applebroog-appreciation, daughterly and otherwise…

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Review of From Afar (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jun 2016

Despite From Afar's lumbering solemnity, Castro, a Chilean actor best known for his collaborations with compatriot Pablo Larraín, proves ever supple…

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Review of Traded (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jun 2016

The film likens prostitution to a continuation of the slavery that was eradicated two decades earlier by a certain Proclamation, but never…

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Review of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2016)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jun 2016

Neville briefly showcases individual musicians but never sticks with them long enough to highlight their skills…

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Review of De Palma (2016)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jun 2016

Paltrow and Baumbach don't get fancy with the filmmaking…

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Review of Germans & Jews - Eine neue Perspektive (2016)

By Diana Clarke (52) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jun 2016

For a film encompassing generations of fraught history, Germans & Jews is awfully short, but hardly superficial…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jun 2016

In short, Warcraft is the most wearying kind of bad movie, a dull and sad one that's less engaging a watch than just seeing the studio's millions…

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Review of Friday the 13th (2009)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jun 2016

This means that for one ticket price, you get three shoddy Friday the 13th movies packed into one, which might constitute entertainment value…

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Review of King Jack (2015)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Jun 2016

This is thankfully no wallow in working-class miserablism…

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Review of Dancing Across Borders (2010)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Jun 2016

We get white folks ruminating lyrically on the peasant Asian's role as a kind of grand jeté bridge between East and West, and long performance…

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Review of Fuel (2009)

By Brian Miller (136) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2016

Those outside the bio-church aren't likely to drive--even on regular and currently cheap gasoline--to see Fuel at their local theater…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jun 2016

Wan is coming off the world-conquering success of his wildly entertaining automotive action sequel Furious Seven, and he sometimes seems to…

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Review of The God Cells (2016)

By Amy Brady (15) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2016

The God Cells isn't the first documentary to take on a controversial subject, but through some impressive rhetorical jujitsu, it might be one…

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Review of The Wailing (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 May 2016

That the film has so many partial reference points only makes the ultimate amalgamation stranger, as the chimeric whole can't be fully explained…

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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 May 2016

When it slows down, when it gives you time to think, Popstar reveals its weaknesses…

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Review of The Fits (2016)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 May 2016

For all the film's aestheticism, there's a clarity to this child's dilemma — conveyed ably by Hightower, who is a unique kind of actress…

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Review of The Final Master (2015)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 May 2016

Xu (The Sword Identity) may not be a household name, but The Final Master proves that he's the next big thing in martial-arts cinema…

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Review of Approaching the Unknown (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 May 2016

Approaching the Unknown is the best science fiction movie since Gravity, and certainly the most melancholy since Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 Solaris…

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Review of August Rush (2007)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 May 2016

Acclimate yourself to the frenzied vibe, and you'll feel the movie grow into itself as an urban fairy tale whose rapturous finale stakes a…

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Review of In the Mood for Love (2000)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 May 2016

A wondrously perverse movie that not only evokes a lost moment in time but circles around an unrepresentable subject…

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