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Review of Veronica Guerin (2003)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Mar 2016

A pre-programmed mediocrity, a slave to its clichés…

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Review of The Cool School (2008)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Mar 2016

All told, and well told, this is essential history…

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Review of Half Past Dead (2002)

By Walter Dawkins (4) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Mar 2016

Morris Chestnut, known for his Best Man-style nice-guy roles, is surprisingly effective against type as the evil commando leader, but he's…

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Review of The Final Project (2016)

By Rob Staeger (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Mar 2016

Slipshod in every way, The Final Project can't even be bothered to show the important stuff…

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Review of London Has Fallen (2016)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Mar 2016

The action never stops once the first car bomb is triggered, but the second half of London Has Fallen takes place mostly in the dark, where…

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Review of A Country Called Home (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Poots, who's quietly distinguished herself in a number of supporting roles over the last few years, brings a documentary-like naturalism to…

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Review of Ava's Possessions (2015)

By Rob Staeger (71) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

A concurrent plot involving Ava's family doesn't land quite as well, as it travels down some more familiar paths, but the twelve-step satire…

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Review of Emelie (2016)

By Abbey Bender (99) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Emelie does create a menacing atmosphere and provide an interesting response to the Final Girl model that has long been the horror standard…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Heavy with pop allusions and references to other crime underworld movies, including The Godfather and Chinatown, Zootopia is impressive in…

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Review of Late Spring (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Movies resurrect the beautiful dead, Susan Sontag once wrote, and there's no better way to commemorate Hara than to watch her in Late Spring,…

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Review of The Mermaid (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

For all its aspirations toward movie magic with an activist bent, The Mermaid’s potential implications for the film industry are ultimately…

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Review of The Boy and the Beast (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast works with many common anime tropes but doesn't find anything new to say about them…

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Review of Late Spring (1949)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Movies resurrect the beautiful dead, Susan Sontag once wrote, and there's no better way to commemorate Hara than to watch her in Late Spring,…

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Review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

The mild Islamophobia and highly questionable casting choices in the film call to mind other texting abbreviations, namely AYFKMWTS and GTFOOH…

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Review of Shwaas (2004)

By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Feb 2016

Takes a potential hot-button premise--the callous indifference of the Indian medical bureaucracy toward the lower classes--and dramatizes it…

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Review of The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Feb 2016

The movie's richly autumnal look is by swift turns cozily naturalistic and terrifyingly baroque, and director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean…

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Review of Run Fatboy Run (2007)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Feb 2016

Pegg has staked out a peculiar slant on genre material that ventures beyond irony toward rehabilitation--and nobody plays blithe humiliation…

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Review of Anything Else (2003)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Feb 2016

I have a friend who insists Allen should make a western, if only because the demands of genre might force the birth of new ideas…

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Review of Who's Driving Doug (2016)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Feb 2016

The road-trip drama Who's Driving Doug is earnest but not overly sweet — a blessing for a film with built-in sentimentality traps…

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Review of Triple Threat (2019)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Feb 2016

The story isn't complex, but its telling is tangled, often willfully so…

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