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Review of The Congressman (2016)

By Dan Gvozden (7) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Apr 2016

The Congressman's politics and morals are childishly simple, featuring archvillains suffering buffoonish pratfalls and love stories that start…

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Review of Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Apr 2016

The script is based on screenwriter Denne Bart Petitclerc's actual experience befriending the author, but words that might have lived in real…

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Review of The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Apr 2016

Ouimet versus Vardon probably was the greatest golf game ever played, and Paxton and Frost do it justice, but I wouldn't sit through another…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Apr 2016

Bateman is nimble in handling a tricky mix of flashbacks and pranks, genres and tones…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Apr 2016

In the end, The Man Who Knew Infinity never allows itself to transcend the sad irony of such biopics — that people known for thinking outside…

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Review of Eva Hesse (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Apr 2016

Eva Hesse relies too heavily on ventriloquism to recapitulate the high and low points of the artist…

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Review of Old Joy (2006)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Apr 2016

If Old Joy is more laid-back and contemplative than Mutual Appreciation, it's because the characters are more weathered…

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Review of Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)

By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Apr 2016

It's hard to despise a movie with the balls to posit that its Blair-look-alike PM has been brainwashed by a corrupt CIA operative, but Banks…

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Review of We the People: The Market Basket Effect (2016)

By Robyn Bahr (19) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Apr 2016

In his rousing — if at times syrupy — documentary, director Tommy Reid captures this stranger-than-fiction feel-good tale and bottles it…

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Review of How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)

By Amy Brady (15) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Apr 2016

After speaking to several environmental experts, hiking for hours through the Amazon, and discovering just how momentous the threat of climate…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2016

Tykwer sublimates what Eggers made explicit: the joblessness, the debt, the isolation…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2016

Neil proves compellingly gruff as a reluctant father figure, though it's the trash-talking, family-craving ten-year-old Dennison who steals…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2016

The film absolutely delivers on the scenery-chewing front. And yet the movie is still hollow and joyless…

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Review of Nina (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2016

The filmmakers have denied us their subject's voice and then sunk their lead by adding distancing layers between the audience and her chief…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Apr 2016

Outside of Shannon's performance, Elvis & Nixon is enough to make you long for the nuance of Kissin' Cousins…

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Review of Broken Sky (2006)

By Melissa Levine (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Apr 2016

That's the movie--desperate grasps, huffy affronts, gulping kisses, and one juicy (if silent) sex scene, early in the film, before our senses…

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Review of Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)

By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Apr 2016

Most Wanted isn't aiming for social commentary, but it isn't too difficult to enjoy its good-natured humor…

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Review of 13 Cameras (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Apr 2016

Mild schadenfreude aside, however, the film inspires almost no feeling at all — even the Friday the 13th movies bother giving the bad guy…

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Review of Rio, I Love You (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Apr 2016

Even more than in Paris, Je T'Aime and New York, I Love You, this latest omnibus in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's Cities of Love franchise might…

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Review of Above and Below (2015)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Apr 2016

The film is a wonder of desert skies, slick tunnels, bumptious fence- and wall-climbing, and occasional staged reveries…

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