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2/5
 
"[Director] Leesong fails to extrapolate the insights of the brothel milieu into his larger agenda: a melodramatic love-hate affair between Sumin and Jaemin so schematic it's unintelligible." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
No Regret (2008)50%
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4/5
 
"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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1/5
 
If there is anything the cinema needed less than another angst-ridden, cross-cutting tragedy about crime, fate, memory and redemption, it’s the kind shot in an ugly monochromatic palette like Take. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Take (2008)44%
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3/5
 
"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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2/5
 
"Harold is the type of one-note dead zone ideally suited for a bathroom break while sitting home on a Saturday night, alone and semidrunk, in front of the television." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Harold (2008)25%
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2.5/5
 
"La Rivičre Gentille affords an exceedingly long afternoon in the company of the artist Louise Bourgeois." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
La Riviere Gentille (2008)n/a
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3.5/5
 
You’ve 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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4/5
 
"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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4.5/5
 
"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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2.5/5
 
"So earnest it hurts, Kicking It follows a half-dozen homeless men from around the globe as they ready for the fourth annual Homeless World Cup in Cape Town." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
Kicking It (2008)50%
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1.5/5
 
"I take no pleasure in dumping on a 25-year-old pseudo-experimental nature documentary, but neither did I find much to like in Blue Planet." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
Blue Planet (1981)83%
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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 season’s 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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3/5
 
"A compendium of six short films by French filmmakers, any one of which might prove diverting in the right place at the right time but all of which, cumulatively, don’t much make for a knockout night at the cinema." -- New York Times
Posted May 30, 2008
 
"L'Origine de la tendresse" and Other Tales (2008)n/a
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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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1/5
 
"Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max, Postal explodes with bad attitude and lousy filmmaking." -- New York Times
Posted May 23, 2008
 
Postal (2008)9%
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4.5/5
 
"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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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
 
Theater of War (2008)n/a
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2/5
 
"Shot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, The Fall is a genuine labor of love -- and a real bore." -- New York Times
Posted May 9, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)53%
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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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4/5
 
"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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2.5/5
 
Unpersuasive as drama, Tears is the first and last Wong movie touched by any feel of the obligatory. -- New York Times
Posted May 2, 2008
 
As Tears Go By (1988)71%
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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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"Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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"Téchiné'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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"Immy Humes no doubt needed to make this movie, and the PR set (Mailer, Matthiessen, Plimpton) obviously enjoy the trip down memory lane, but while Doc makes for a fascinating subject, Doc feels intended less for us than for them." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
Doc (2008)78%
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"Untraceable hasn't the brains of a class-act psychothriller like Silence of the Lambs, and lacks the balls to juice up the trashy verve of the Saw series. Stuck in the middle, it leaves everyone stranded, actors and audience alike." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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"The mechanism is the message in Cloverfield, a movie so aluminum-sleek, ultra-portable, and itsy-bitsy sexy, it’s amazing Steve Jobs didn’t 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 über-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 über-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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