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Review of Jack of the Red Hearts (2016)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Feb 2016

It's rare that a drama shows such specificity with respect to the experience of coping with autism, and that sensitivity goes a long way…

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Review of Ran (1985)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Feb 2016

Ran remains gripping because it depicts not only the long-ago past, but also our hellish present…

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Review of Triple 9 (2016)

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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Review of The Last Man on the Moon (2016)

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

The Last Man on the Moon puts you there and then asks why in the world we haven't gone back…

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Review of Race (2016)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Feb 2016

Were it not so committed to telling the official story in bullet points, Race might have found a more provocative angle about athletes and…

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Review of Triple Frontier (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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Review of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Feb 2016

In adapting Irishman John Boyne's acclaimed young-adult novel, writer-director Mark Herman (Little Voice) draws beautifully modulated performances…

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Review of Risen (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Feb 2016

Cliff Curtis is appealingly low-key as Christ, humble in a way that the film around him would have done well to emulate…

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Review of The Opportunists (2000)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Feb 2016

Filled with vivid and likable characters, The Opportunists could be the basis for a TV series as captivating as The Sopranos…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Feb 2016

The Witch purports, at times, to confront ignorance and hysteria, but in the end, for horror thrills, Eggers's film sides with the preachers…

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Review of Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Feb 2016

Director Ron Oliver applies a thin veneer of straight-to-cable pseudo-gloss without finding a workable tone, and the cast lacks the charisma…

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Review of Salesman (1969)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Feb 2016

A vérité masterpiece of the bulls**t that America sells itself, Albert and David Maysles’ Salesman, from 1968, documents a way of life…

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Review of Forsaken (2016)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Feb 2016

Amid Kiefer's narrow-eyed glowering, Donald's exhausted-sage routine, and Moore's approximation of rural homeliness, only Wincott seems to…

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Review of Mavis! (2015)

By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Feb 2016

Edwards is content with presenting Mavis as she sees herself: as the conduit for a song's message, and a voice to uplift the weary…

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Review of Crazy About Tiffany's (2016)

By Julia Irion Martins (1) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Feb 2016

Were Miele to parse out Tiffany's early-Aughts identity crisis or why it is that the brand has only ever had one female design director, maybe…

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Review of How to Be Single (2016)

By Meave Gallagher (12) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Feb 2016

No matter how much fibrous real talk it's wrapped in, How to Be Single has a heart made of sugary-sweet white chocolate…

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Review of Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Feb 2016

Although the big comic setups in Lee's script feel a bit forced--the director continually sets up moments of rapid-fire, barb-filled interplay…

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Review of The Nanny Diaries (2007)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Feb 2016

Like the book, the Nanny Diaries movie never finds a dramatic center…

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Review of Revolver (2005)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Feb 2016

It's no return to rock, this, but rather Ritchie's soporific, proggy-conceptual Film of Ideas, with Vivaldi interludes, fussbudget set design,…

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Review of Green Street Hooligans (2005)

By Peter L'official (21) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Feb 2016

Hunnam, whose cockney ranges from dodgy to downright Caine-ian, mutes Gary Oldman's bestial mouth-froth (in Clarke's 1988 The Firm), becoming…

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