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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 May 2016

Ben Wheatley's muddled adaptation of the dystopian 1975 novel High-Rise — one of many Ballard books that examine the pathologizing effects…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 May 2016

This film nimbly mixes narrative exuberance and emotional depth, flamboyant displays of power with quietly terrifying exchanges…

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Review of The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 May 2016

Derrickson's flick can sour your stomach with piety, which is a shame -- its moments of jolt wattage rate with many J-horrors…

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Review of Those People (2016)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 May 2016

Instead of the clinical detachment implied by the title Those People, writer-director Joey Kuhn bathes his first feature in warm compassion…

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Review of Mother's Day (1980)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2016

By far the highest concentration of actual humor comes during the blooper reel over the end credits; free of the script’s saccharine constraints,…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2016

Key and Peele have a special kind of magic they’ve brought to their first feature, but it’s also a crazy-simple formula: Keep saving that…

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Review of Elstree 1976 (2015)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 2016

The most interesting part of Elstree 1976 comes when these actors express ambivalence about their odd celebrity…

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Review of Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2016

What makes the film — which Richard Brooks directed and scripted, adapting Judith Rossner’s bestselling 1975 novel of the same name —…

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Review of Dark Horse (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2016

The villagers, excitable everyday folks, make for capital interview subjects, and the filmmakers wring poignancy from re-enactments your brain…

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Review of Dheepan (2015)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2016

Ultimately, Dheepan is the story of three people struggling to maintain their humanity, even as they lose their identities…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2016

Guadagnino inserts a plot thread indicting Europe's response to the migrant crisis, shoehorning an issue of utmost gravity into a pulpy sex…

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Review of Velvet Goldmine (1998)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 May 2016

After a most promising beginning, Velvet Goldmine's progress grows increasingly labored, stumbling around the structural roadblocks Haynes…

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Review of Batman Begins (2005)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 May 2016

Nolan and his co-screenwriter David Goyer can only press the big buttons so hard—it's still an old-school superhero summer movie, the plotting…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Apr 2016

It's fine that the makeshift trilogy (please, let it only be a trilogy) is a simple-minded ode to love meant to send everyone home happy…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Apr 2016

By far the highest concentration of actual humor comes during the blooper reel over the end credits; free of the script’s saccharine constraints,…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2016

I never found myself genuinely wondering what was going to happen next; the moves are too familiar…

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Review of Visionaries (2010)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2016

Visionaries' heedless montage brought back the sense of crazy possibility that excited me when, as a teenage kid from Queens, I first encountered…

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Review of Sacrifice (2016)

By Rob Staeger (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Apr 2016

This watered-down throwback to The Wicker Man never really heats up…

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Review of Pali Road (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Apr 2016

Chen's full-bodied commitment to her role adds something new to this familiar scenario, which also benefits from its idyllic island setting;…

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Review of The American Side (2016)

By Abbey Bender (99) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Apr 2016

While The American Side may not quite achieve the classic thriller tone to which it aspires, it does create an enjoyably hard-boiled world…

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