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"The camera's spare, stunning compositions and the tone of loss and disaffection anticipate Antonioni's later, brilliant explorations of bourgeois anomie." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 31, 2007
 
Il Grido (1957)80%
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"Even if you think you know it, see it again for its newly rediscovered depth of field, and even more, for its infinite wellsprings of character and empathy." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 28, 2006
 
The Rules of the Game (1939)97%
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"At times the film's Buddhist lessons feel a bit forced, but the naturalistic performances Davaa has coaxed from a real-life Mongolian family, and her intimate understanding of their culture and values, give this sensitive portrayal its heft." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2006
 
Cave of the Yellow Dog (2006)88%
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"If you think you know it, see it again for its newly rediscovered depth of field, and even more, for its infinite wellsprings of character and empathy." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 31, 2006
 
The Rules of the Game (1939)97%
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"Julia Jentsch gives a brilliantly nuanced performance as Sophie, a fun-loving girl who likes marmalade and Schubert but also happens to be a rare beacon of conscience in totalitarianism's dark night." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 14, 2006
 
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)87%
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"This evocative film is a poignant testament to the twin forces of love (however blighted) and the unconscious." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 28, 2005
 
My Name Was Sabina Spielrein (2002)71%
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"It's rare that a documentary conveys an artist's worldview so compellingly, but then Glennie is no ordinary musician." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 6, 2005
 
Touch the Sound (2006)87%
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"Disturbing and compelling." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 23, 2005
 
The Wall (2004)70%
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"Van Looy has created a fast-paced and stylish thriller." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 23, 2005
 
The Memory of a Killer (2005)83%
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"Despite the choppy script and cartoonishly bad villains, what emerges is a compelling tale of the moral compromises a corrupt system demands of even its most unwilling participants." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 14, 2005
 
The Great Water (2005)71%
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"Pitch-perfect performances and a light-handed but razor-sharp script keep this satire brisk and biting." -- Village Voice
Posted May 31, 2005
 
Caterina in the Big City (2005)89%
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"Some may find Berri's portrait of provincial France and its prejudices too loving, but it has the ring of a truth that escapes ideologies." -- Village Voice
Posted May 24, 2005
 
The Two of Us (1968)88%
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"[A] moving film." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2005
 
Another Road Home (2005)78%
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"This delightfully sensual documentary gets inside the artist's creative process while also treating viewers to glorious music by the likes of Wagner and Satie." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 5, 2005
 
David Hockney: The Colors of Music (2005)57%
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"Chilling and thoroughly engrossing." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 5, 2005
 
In Satmar Custody (2003)80%
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"With improbable charm, Gabizon knits it all together, his characters' sexual obsessions and earthiness tempered by a soulful melancholy." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 22, 2005
 
Nina's Tragedies (2005)61%
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"The complex questions Walk on Water raises receive only confused answers." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 3, 2005
 
Walk on Water (2005)73%
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"Uncannily beautiful and deeply humanist." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 8, 2005
 
My Mother's Smile (2005)84%
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"Amelio's camera captures with subtlety and without sentimentality the state of mind of a parent for whom every child running freely in the park is a painful reminder of another's limitations." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 21, 2004
 
The Keys to the House (2004)80%
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Posted Dec 15, 2004
 
Whore (1991)50%
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"The subjects can be amusing, chilling, or tragic -- but in the end, they offer few surprises." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 14, 2004
 
Whore (2004)0%
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"Hardcore Kiarostami devotees may miss the master's harsher clarity, but Hatami, best known for her starring role in Dariush Mehrjui's Leila, makes her character's inner transformation both subtle and palpable." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 30, 2004
 
Deserted Station (2002)100%
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"Most of the redemptive notes ring false, as does the mythical Manhattan, where the snow is just too clean and everybody lives around the corner." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 9, 2004
 
Noel (2004)26%
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"Bening's comic gifts make the most of Ronald Harwood's witty screenplay." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 12, 2004
 
Being Julia (2004)76%
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"If you can suspend your disbelief regarding Nello's naďveté, this film offers some quiet pleasures." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 21, 2004
 
Incantato (2003)71%
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"The pacing feels choppy, and the characters' emotions are sometimes too sudden to be believable." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 31, 2004
 
Vanity Fair (2004)50%
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"Deville has managed to preserve the work's great virtues -- the intimacy, discretion, grace, and humor with which it speaks of both irredeemable disaster and the taste for life that survives it." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 17, 2004
 
Almost Peaceful (2004)73%
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"What does it mean? Not all that much, really -- just a pleasurable hour and a half passing, like an extended cigarette break." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 17, 2004
 
Nicotina (2004)45%
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"In the end, there's little left in that sad, cold figure at the head of the firm to compel our empathy or compassion." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 6, 2004
 
Inheritance (2003)75%
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"It also seems, like Shlomi himself, a bit naive and formless." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 29, 2004
 
Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003)69%
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"Looks beyond the current wave of violence, to its roots in a culture of tragedy and denial." -- Village Voice
Posted May 11, 2004
 
The Junction (2004)n/a
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"Beyond its rare visions of remote vistas, Camel's great charm lies in its seeming simplicity." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 23, 2004
 
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004)95%
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"A family feeling pervades this intimate documentary, which follows three months of creation for a single season's collection (Winter 2001), from the first drawings to the last finished garment." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 6, 2004
 
Yves Saint Laurent: Empire Collection (2002)71%
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"The film's striking realism makes you feel you're gaping at a car wreck." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 23, 2003
 
Children of Love (2003)86%
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"Unusual in its ambition to pose deep spiritual questions, but its enticing surfaces ... are the best thing about it." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2003
 
Monsieur Ibrahim (2004)84%
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"A bracing, bittersweet testament of filial love mixed with pain and compassion." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 11, 2003
 
My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003)93%
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"The problems come in the shadow world, where everything's a jumble, where Dark's compositional strategy ('all clues and no solutions') eventually becomes wearing, and Gordon's direction can't hold it all together." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 21, 2003
 
The Singing Detective (2003)39%
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"The clash between Ireland's art house aspirations and the obviousness of his choices ... is grating." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 9, 2003
 
Passionada (2003)59%
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"Flawed but fascinating." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 2, 2003
 
Taking Sides (2003)77%
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"In reaching for a cubist style of storytelling, [Manchevski] sacrifices character and motivation." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 19, 2003
 
Dust (2003)21%
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"Even as the story of one woman's midlife crisis, it's a bit lightweight." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 22, 2003
 
Lucia, Lucia (2003)44%
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Posted Jul 3, 2003
 
Bonhoeffer (2003)72%
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Posted Jun 10, 2003
 
Jet Lag (2003)55%
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"[Abranches is] so focused on creating a strikingly mannerist visual style that he forgets to flesh out his plot and characters." -- Village Voice
Posted May 27, 2003
 
Three Marias (2003)40%
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"Kormákur is at his best with dark, raw humor. When he reaches for tragedy, his film feels predictable." -- Village Voice
Posted May 13, 2003
 
The Sea (2003)51%
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"Slesin's film is a profound meditation on the resilience of children -- their ability to take sustenance from whatever love is available -- and on the persistent presence of the child hidden within each grown-up." -- Village Voice
Posted May 13, 2003
 
Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII (2002)92%
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"Offers an incisive glimpse into one woman's inner transformation -- her secret sense of loss in the midst of plenty and her sudden perception of a world of suffering lying just beyond her home." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 25, 2003
 
Foreign Sister (2003)63%
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"Fast-paced feminist thriller and witty black comedy." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 28, 2003
 
Chaos (2003)88%
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"There's an admirable rigor to Jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending, but as those monologues stretch on and on, you realize there's no place for this story to go but down." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 10, 2002
 
The Jimmy Show (2002)40%
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"At once subtle and visceral, the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful, offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 10, 2002
 
El Bola (2000)91%

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