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MICHELLE ORANGE
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• L.A. Weekly
• Reeler
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 139

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New York Film Critics Online


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" [A] very fine documentary." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 24, 2008
 
Obscene (2008)100%
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" Both a handy election primer and a bowel-rattling cry of fiscal doom." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
I.O.U.S.A. (2008)87%
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" Resist if you dare." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)63%
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" It is rather awesomely evident that when the cameras left, life -- and death -- simply went on." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 23, 2008
 
Back to Normandy (2008)88%
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" Part tour documentary, part polemic for-and-by-the-people." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 23, 2008
 
CSNY Déjà Vu (2008)64%
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" Offers a rich 20th-century survey of the country's music, culture, and history via the career of composer Humberto Teixeira." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Man Who Bottled Clouds (2008)n/a
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" If Cornand's rapt efforts are any indication of the fealty that her subject inspires, such followers will hang on every frame." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 
La Riviere Gentille (2008)n/a
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" [A] heartbreaking look at the trafficking of underage girls in New York City." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Very Young Girls (2008)70%
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" Shane O'Sullivan's RFK Must Die is more of a conspiracy-query doc, but will titillate the suspicious nonetheless." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
RFK MUST DIE! The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (2007)67%
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" A small, self-assured film that moves at its own pace, always staying one graceful step ahead of its reluctant protagonist." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
The Grocer's Son (2008)88%
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" Bell finds the epitome of that tragedy in his own family and, in his first film, digs unflinchingly at its roots." -- Village Voice
Posted May 27, 2008
 
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)97%
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" Engrossing." -- Village Voice
Posted May 27, 2008
 
Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2008)83%
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" The reasoned arguments of these motivated, eloquent young people and the passionate but substantive confrontations in the streets are strangely heartwarming; it’s a level of engagement that has proven sadly elusive for most conflicted countries." -- Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Unsettled (2008)100%
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" Brooks deserves credit for a fairly satisfying survey of a heart wanting what it wants, thinking it wants what it doesn't want, wanting the first thing again and then waking up to what it needs." -- Reeler
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Definitely, Maybe (2008)71%
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" A truly lovely film, as patient and generous with its characters as viewers should be with its delicately latent politics and occasional over-love of eccentric tableaux." -- Reeler
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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" Labaki infuses her story of beauty, friendship, longing and constraint with that so painfully epitomized in the plight of her native Lebanon." -- Reeler
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Caramel (2008)92%
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" Hutt's instincts are solid, if occasionally unfocused; he'll be ready to turn pro any day now." -- Reeler
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Orthodox Stance (2008)50%
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" The Enron director's sharp, shaming torture exposé tracks another Great American Meltdown." -- Reeler
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)100%
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" Director Abby Epstein is clearly biased in favor of home birth, but that doesn't make her case any less square." -- Reeler
Posted Jan 14, 2008
 
The Business Of Being Born (2008)77%
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" Although the painting montages become somewhat burdensome in their repetition, and an epilogue feels academic in every sense, when Cajori finally pulls away from the finished portrait, the sense of a job done to brimming satisfaction is acutely twofold." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 2, 2008
 
Chuck Close (2007)100%
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" Nichol's and Co.'s foreign policy caper puts up a decent fight, but Hoffman wins the War." -- Reeler
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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" Once it gets past some serious tonal overkill, Juno's sweetness feels earned." -- Reeler
Posted Dec 5, 2007
 
Juno (2007)93%
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" Linney and Hoffman have a tremendously rewarding, difficult (sibling) rapport." -- Reeler
Posted Nov 28, 2007
 
The Savages (2007)90%
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" A poised, surprisingly unsettling film about the half-life -- and twilight -- of a fiction writer." -- Reeler
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)85%
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" The most moving story about love, longevity, infidelity and the Holocaust you may ever hear." -- Reeler
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
Steal a Pencil For Me (2007)95%
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" A fascinating first-person account of drug kingpin and ruthless gangster Nicky Barnes, whose outrageous story of rise, rule, rage, and revenge requires no such stylistic filler." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Mr. Untouchable (2007)74%
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" Time was clearly taken here to do better than fine with material that had a sizeable no-brainer audience built right into the title." -- Reeler
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)65%
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" The doc is an excellent survey of the techniques employed by the Third Reich to not just demoralize but de-historicize the countries they invaded." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 11, 2007
 
The Rape Of Europa (2007)79%
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" This slim, sparsely drawn and gently affecting documentary fulfills the promise of Mr. Vig's singular visage." -- Reeler
Posted Aug 29, 2007
 
The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun (2006)78%
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" Moore is such a smooth and comfortable presence onscreen that the at times embarrassingly naked framework of David Bromberg's screenplay seems almost believable." -- Reeler
Posted Aug 25, 2007
 
Dedication (2007)41%
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" With an excess of excitable style, samba music, and heady, montage-driven metaphor that threatens to bury his film's key ideas, young-gun director Kohn So far, he's succeeded." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2007
 
Manda Bala (2007)80%
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" Delpy wrangles her metaphors without showing too much strain, and the performances are too lovely and guileless to fault." -- Reeler
Posted Aug 9, 2007
 
2 Days In Paris (2007)86%
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" The success (of each sketch) varies not just according to quality but how tickled you find yourself -- from moment to moment -- by this kind of high-wire comedy." -- Reeler
Posted Aug 2, 2007
 
The Ten (2007)39%
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" Lay back and don't think of England -- or Austen -- is the best advice I can give for prospective viewers of Becoming Jane." -- Reeler
Posted Aug 2, 2007
 
Becoming Jane (2007)57%
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" The actors rise to the challenge of Nocke's tricky, high-flown script, and Krohmer meets them there." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 31, 2007
 
Summer '04 (2006)79%
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" This essential documentary is a clear-eyed, coherent dissection of how crucial decisions were made in the first weeks and months following the American invasion of Iraq." -- Reeler
Posted Jul 25, 2007
 
No End in Sight (2007)94%
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" Fond, stinging, and finally instructive, the film assembles a comprehensive look back at the actions, arrest, and prosecution of a group of political malcontents (most of them young Catholics and some of them priests) in the summer of 1971." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 24, 2007
 
The Camden 28 (2007)88%
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" It's too bad the story of these two men (and two fine performances has to compete with the built-in biopic conventions." -- Reeler
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
Talk to Me (2007)81%
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" A mosaic of experience and endeavor reconsidered as human (in this case, very much female) experiment." -- Reeler
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)74%
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" [The ultimate] rescue scene is so desperate and painful, so joyous and true, that it exhausts the senses." -- Reeler
Posted Jul 3, 2007
 
Rescue Dawn (2007)90%
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" The film is as much rough-and-ready thriller as it is tragic memoir." -- Reeler
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
A Mighty Heart (2007)77%
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" Judd Apatow makes me want to be a dude." -- Reeler
Posted May 31, 2007
 
Knocked Up (2007)91%
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" Hartley has chosen the hallmark of a great remake -- reinvention -- in approaching the concept of the sequel, for better and for worse." -- Reeler
Posted May 19, 2007
 
Fay Grim (2007)43%
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" Brooklyn Rules has enough heart and personality to freshen what could easily be construed as stale cannoli." -- Reeler
Posted May 19, 2007
 
Brooklyn Rules (2007)47%
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" There is real grace in Polley's portrait of a couple that stays together long enough to forget." -- Reeler
Posted May 5, 2007
 
Away From Her (2007)95%
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" Each angle -- and To's take on the plight of the modern gangster -- is inspired." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 24, 2007
 
Triad Election (2007)96%
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" By remaining physically and emotionally attuned to her actors rather than the considerable melodramatic heft of her story, Brougher avoids the towel-wringer this unfortunately topical story could have been." -- Reeler
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
Stephanie Daley (2007)89%
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" So light on its feet it barely touches the ground; of course, as the French know, the ground can be highly overrated." -- Reeler
Posted Apr 19, 2007
 
The Valet (2007)69%
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" The overall tone is best described as glossy, where the gossamer-thin conceits are exactly as they should be." -- Reeler
Posted Apr 4, 2007
 
Black Book (2007)76%
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" Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's austere, hypnotic third feature explores the legacy of Chad's decades-long civil war." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2007
 
Dry Season (2006)100%

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