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"Happily, the filmmaker, Jeremy Gosch, puts his wide-eyed narrative together with an easy touch. With its amazing wall-to-wall footage of oceanic derring-do Bustin' Down the Door plays like visual air-conditioning." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Bustin' Down the Door (2008)64%
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3/5
 
"A mockumentary about the people who run Manhattan nightlife, has solid-gold satire at its cocaine-stained fingertips." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
The Doorman (2008)25%
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4.5/5
 
It's no small feat to pull off as sweet and sensitive a romance as that between Na and Ton, and something rarer yet to suffuse such affections into a poem of wounded landscape. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Wonderful Town (2008)91%
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"Like most flower-power nostalgia trips, “Eight Miles High” has the irksome effect of reminding the audience — whether too young or too square — that it missed out on the grooviest moment in history, man. But as these things go, this one goes with" -- New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Eight Miles High (2007)42%
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3.5/5
 
Youve seen this sort of thing before, but the film, directed by Paul Taylor, happens to be especially well photographed, and the youngsters more winning than most. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 7, 2008
 
We Are Together (2008)100%
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5/5
 
"An eye-popper and brain-boggler, Razzle Dazzle is also, remarkably, a thing to stir the soul." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2008)83%
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"All in This Tea is a delicious documentary about a beverage." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
All In This Tea (2008)82%
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"This uncommonly elegant and evocative portrait of Louise Bourgeois reveals much about the haunting and haunted master while leaving intact the thing you cannot explain." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 25, 2008
 
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008)91%
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3/5
 
Max Kohn (Otto Tausig), the aging Lothario of Love Comes Lately, is very much like the movie itself: doddering and milquetoasty, but ultimately disarming. -- New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
Love Comes Lately (2008)59%
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4/5
 
"The seasons freshest, most sympathetic movie about making your way in modern-day Manhattan with a little help from your friends." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Take Out (2008)100%
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4/5
 
...Silly, awkward, vulgar, outlandish, hysterical, inventive, revolting, flamboyant, titillating, ridiculous, mischievous, uproarious, cheap, priceless, tasteless and sublime. -- New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Mother of Tears (2008)50%
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4/5
 
"Directed by Erik Nelson, Dreams With Sharp Teeth recalls the career of Harlan Ellison, a runty young geek who evolved into a world-famous artist." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)93%
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4.5/5
 
This sleeper hit in the making is sweet and sour in all the right proportions, the best thing of its kind since Napoleon Dynamite. -- New York Times
Posted May 30, 2008
 
The Foot Fist Way (2008)58%
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"An intrepid, unlikely and altogether splendid feat of D.I.Y. reportage." -- New York Times
Posted May 23, 2008
 
Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)91%
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3/5
 
"A Jihad for Love is a dispatch from the outer limits of marginalization: a documentary on devout Muslims struggling with their homosexuality." -- New York Times
Posted May 21, 2008
 
Jihad for Love (2008)81%
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4/5
 
"Wry, good-natured picture." -- New York Times
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Quantum Hoops (2007)79%
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4.5/5
 
"That Paraguayan Hammock happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity." -- New York Times
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Paraguayan Hammock (2008)56%
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"That Paraguayan Hammock happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity." -- New York Times
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Theater of War (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
"Dilemma is an earnest if schematic attempt to address conditions in Johannesburg under apartheid." -- New York Times
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Dilemma (1962)n/a
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3/5
 
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be. -- New York Times
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Poultrygeist (2008)68%
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"A welcome entry in the constituency-cinema canon, Hollywood Chinese surveys a century’s worth of Chinese-American actors and filmmakers, visionaries and dragon ladies, kung fu excellence and Fu Manchu insult, Oscar winners and cliché mongers." -- New York Times
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)100%
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"All told, and well told, this is essential history." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)95%
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"Green keeps mum until the end, charging his tale with an effective (if manipulative) aura of suspense." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2008
 
Snow Angels (2008)67%
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"As signaled by the transparent naming of his characters, Bahrani inflects his drama with documentary, grabbing sights and sounds directly from the street in a dexterous update of neorealist strategies." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
Chop Shop (2007)95%
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"More than a mash note to this nonpareil maestro, Apparition circles around the mystery of music and subjectivity and touches down on a head-spinning array of topics." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006)n/a
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"An impeccably constructed illustration in depth, ceaselessly alert and cumulatively profound." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
State Legislature (2008)n/a
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"The Duchess of Langeais contemplates an especially crazy case of l'amour fou." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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"I leave you to discover, through covered eyes, the gut-splattering delirium to come." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
Inside (2007)89%
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"The devil's in the details, and Diary is diabolically resourceful within its circumscribed framework." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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"The debut feature of writer-director Paul Andrew Williams is a grim, efficient affair." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
London to Brighton (2008)73%
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"Tchin's triumph of compassion and craft shames the American cinema's indifference to gay history." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
The Witnesses (2008)85%
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"The mechanism is the message in Cloverfield, a movie so aluminum-sleek, ultra-portable, and itsy-bitsy sexy, its amazing Steve Jobs didnt pull it out of an envelope at Macworld." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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"A radiant folk fantasia, at once sophisticated and elemental, freewheeling and composed." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
Opera Jawa (2006)100%
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"Produced by indie stalwart Larry Fessenden, the sophomore feature from writer-director Ilya Chaiken stages an uncommonly acute, deftly played drama of the New York working class." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Liberty Kid (2007)86%
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"Dylan Haggerty has written an eleventh-hour candidate for the funniest movie of 2007, that Gregg Araki has directed his finest film since 1997's Nowhere, and that Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
Smiley Face (2007)67%
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"Half a century later, a glut of ber-groovy meta-thrillers has blunted the novelty of Diva, but its gamboling flair is still a kick." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 31, 2007
 
Diva (1981)95%
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"Half a century later, a glut of ber-groovy meta-thrillers has blunted the novelty of Diva, but its gamboling flair is still a kick." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Diva (2007)n/a
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"A modest chronicle of an audacious life." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)77%
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"It's amazing to explore." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2007
 
The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity (2007)n/a
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"Slipping in and out of character, variously embodying, studying, and commenting on their counterparts, the actors manage both dramatic reenactment and its deconstruction with aplomb." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2007
 
Strange Culture (2007)94%
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"What began as a human-interest story for filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev led down stranger paths than the Duchampian conundrums of modern art." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2007
 
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)93%
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"It's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts -- and unnerves -- in this most chilling of global-warming movies." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
The Last Winter (2007)78%
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"A companion piece to Tenenbaums more than a step in new directions, Darjeeling is a movie about people trapped in themselves and what it takes to get free..." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)67%
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"Cruising is a mediocre thriller but an amazing time capsule -- a heady, horny flashback to the last gasp of full-blown sexual abandon, and easily the most graphic depiction of gay sex ever seen in a mainstream movie." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 4, 2007
 
Cruising (1980)59%
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"The life and times of a fictional monster may not be as respectable a subject as a historical monster like, say, Idi Amin or Truman Capote, but Zombies portrait is every bit as reverent, scrupulous, and deeply felt as any Oscar-grubbing horrorshow." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 31, 2007
 
Halloween (2007)26%
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"Rather than impose actors on the scene, Costa involves the people who already live there. Instead of training them to perform a story, he locates a skeletal narrative from a rehearsal process based on their personal stories." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 31, 2007
 
Colossal Youth (2006)80%
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"[Ultimatum] flips the standard conspiracy thriller on its head. Greengrass gets there so deftly it's enough to make yours spin." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 31, 2007
 
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)93%
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"Funny thing is, Sunshine works despite feeling both over-familiar and over-ambitious." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
Sunshine (2007)75%
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"Tremendously savvy in its stupid way, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as Brokeback Mountain, and even more radical." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)13%
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"Talk To Me lacks every kind of specificity (historical, psychological, socio-cultural) but redeems itself through the dedication of its Cheadlicious lead." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2007
 
Talk to Me (2007)81%

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