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	"Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga, and entirely engrossing." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 23, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
	"Even if you lose track of who's shooting whom and why during the abstract climactic face-off, the clever last shot shows you're not alone." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 16, 2008	Mad Detective (2008)	80%
	"The Austin-shot movie catches the nation's mood of economic anxiety and workplace exploitation more pungently than anything else in theaters." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	86%
	"This 50-year-old film about a Los Angeles neighborhood on the skids and its barely tethered dwellers stands as the freshest movie in theaters." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	88%
	"While the evidence of his spotty post-1970s work is hard to refute, Gonzo proves what a vapid, overvalued commodity edginess is, championing Thompson's best work for brass-tacks insight more than brass-balled outrage." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	86%
	"The movie reclaims metal's appeal to the powerless as well as its threat--when you can get shot for wearing a Slipknot T-shirt (talk about "Death, be not proud")... raising those devil horns isn't an empty act of aggression." -- Village Voice Posted May 21, 2008	Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)	91%
	"The movie leaves open a provocative question: If you pick and choose which tenets of a religion apply to you, is it still a religion?" -- Village Voice Posted May 21, 2008	Jihad for Love (2008)	81%
	"Movies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute slow-motion shot of a Michael Jackson impersonator and a stuffed monkey aboard a clown bike." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 8, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	43%
	"Son of Rambow evokes the rush of discovery that turns budding cinephiles into lifers -- that delight in finding a film that seems to express or coalesce some inchoate yearning, including a yen to share." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
	"Movies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute shot of a clown bike." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	43%
	"[A] searching, intellectually lively documentary." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	83%
	"Floridly plotted but acutely detailed." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2008	Never Forever (2008)	78%
	"Pegg has staked out a peculiar slant on genre material that ventures beyond irony toward rehabilitation -- and nobody plays blithe humiliation with more style." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
	"Put Herzog at the same table as Hines, Harrelson, Parnell, Cross, and Farina, and poker on film starts to look a lot less dull. Imagine what they could do with Monopoly." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2008	The Grand ()	39%
	"A modest surprise: better acted than needed, better made than expected." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2008	Never Back Down (2008)	25%
	"*[It] could pass for an episode of CSI: Reykjavik, only with less high-tech gimmickry, more pavement-pounding, and a head-clearing view of crime as anything but a cool diversion." -- Village Voice* Posted Feb 27, 2008	Jar City (2008)	91%
	"The movie's glacial pace and willingness to let its mind and eye wander that produces its spiritual and intellectual heft�not to mention its atypical visual splendor." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 27, 2008	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%
	"This uneven but impressive shot-on-digital shocker earns a marker in the mausoleum of apocalyptic horror -- a genre that's proving (un)surprisingly durable in the new century." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 20, 2008	The Signal (2007)	55%
	"*Forms, with Killer of Sheep, a landmark diptych about work as the crucible of the American character—either in its abundance or its absence." -- Village Voice* Posted Feb 12, 2008	Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)	n/a
	"An unforgettable all-access pass behind the scenes of Bob Dylan's '65 British tour, D.A. Pennebaker's landmark 1967 rock doc all but invented the form while presaging the music video." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 29, 2008	Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967)	100%
	"The performances, culled from seven shows on the �Vertigo� tour from Mexico City to Buenos Aires, burn with the old unforgettable fire." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 23, 2008	U2 3D (2008)	92%
	"For once, the movie -- written by Annmarie Morais and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid with a gritty overlay of 16mm grain -- regards book learning as at least as important as physical prowess." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 22, 2008	How She Move (2008)	66%
	"Credit writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein with making a first feature that every man in America will watch with his legs crossed." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 15, 2008	Teeth (2008)	81%
	"They [Rounders] stand as perhaps the truest heirs to the Harry Smith Anthology's wild and woolly Americana—a point Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul C. Lovelace's affectionate doc makes with a minimum of fuss and lots of bawdy hilarity." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 4, 2007	The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2006)	100%
	"*As a study of stubborn artisanal tradition in the Pro Tools age, Note by Note* is a stirring symphony of specialized labor.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Nov 13, 2007	Note by Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037 (2007)	90%
	"This blast of homecoming claustrophobia is being released for the holidays, when it may prove therapeutic. Bring the family. Or better yet, leave them." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 13, 2007	Margot at the Wedding (2007)	51%
	"I'd be lying if I didn't say it overcame my naturally complacent instincts." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 6, 2007	War Dance (2007)	86%
	"The Future Is Unwritten is less a eulogy than a wake, and one in which the subject is startlingly present." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 1, 2007	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	88%
	"In his strikingly downbeat directorial debut, Affleck has created something of a blue-moon rarity: an American movie of genuine moral complexity." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 16, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	94%
	"*It�s the first of the agonizing Resident Evil* movies that could remotely be considered fun.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Sep 24, 2007	Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)	22%
	"In the Shadow of the Moon recalls the wondrous moment when America had the entire world looking up, up, and not away." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2007	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	94%
	"With the dithery Marion playing off Jack's nattering nebbish of negativism, Delpy invokes the Woody Allen�Diane Keaton chemistry of the '70s as consciously as Allen referenced the European art movies of the '60s." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 7, 2007	2 Days In Paris (2007)	87%
	"What makes the first fiction feature from documentarian Blitz persuasive is its late-film detour from the inspirational niche-sports genre to something altogether unexpected -- and the winning lead performance of Reece Daniel Thompson." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 7, 2007	Rocket Science (2007)	84%
	"Watch the mallrats� jaws drop as they pay to see the same old teen slicer-dicer, only to get this wacko hodgepodge of the Brian De Palma horror filmography and -- I swear to God -- Kieslowski�s The Double Life of Veronique." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 27, 2007	I Know Who Killed Me (2007)	8%
	"Wong Kar-wai on aisle 4 and Michel Gondry on aisle 6, with Kevin Smith as mop jockey at all points in between -- such is the lost-in-the-supermarket milieu of writer-director Sean Ellis's whimsical comedy." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 17, 2007	Cashback (2007)	46%
	"Amores Perros is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2007	Drama/Mex (2007)	35%
	"Director Chalerm Wongpim's skull-buster makes up in wild-eyed insanity (and excessive, arbitrary slow motion) what it lacks in acting, pacing, and coherence." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2007	Dynamite Warrior (2007)	67%
	"*Nothing illustrates the monstrosity of globalized commerce more vividly than the lateral tracking shot that opens Jennifer Baichwal's mesmerizing documentary Manufactured Landscapes." -- Village Voice* Posted Jun 20, 2007	Manufactured Landscapes (2007)	84%
	"Writer-director King deserves credit for wringing every ounce of ovine mayhem from his sheep-for-brains premise. There is no such thing as an unfunny cutaway to a sheep." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2007	Black Sheep (2007)	71%
	"More than a vibrant experiment in ethnomusical cross-pollination, it's just great fun, tempered by loss but rippling with gusto." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 13, 2007	Gypsy Caravan (2006)	85%
	"The filmmakers sometimes come off as smug jerks, but that doesn't mean they're wrong about the insidious impact of chain colonization, or the infernal effectiveness of something-for-nothing come-ons even in political pitches." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 13, 2007	Czech Dream (2007)	82%
	"A gorgeous gravestone for the Beat Generation's legacy of beautiful-loser chic." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2007	Let's Get Lost (1988)	96%
	"Stanley Kubrick's magisterial Thackeray adaptation now stands as one of his greatest and most savagely ironic films, not to mention one of the few period pieces on celluloid so transporting that it seems to predate the invention of cameras." -- Village Voice Posted May 23, 2007	Barry Lyndon (1975)	93%
	"Expected ironies about homeland security, racial profiling, and fears of the Other land like a rain of anvils, and director Renfroe matches Krause's worked-up performance with a jiggly, flashy approximation of off-brand Tony Scott." -- Village Voice Posted May 1, 2007	Civic Duty (2007)	56%
	"*Lowbrow plus highbrow does not equal middlebrow, and the breezy accessibility of Private Fears in Public Places* does not make it any less a work of art than Resnais's more difficult early successes.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 10, 2007	Private Fears in Public Places (2007)	79%
	"The movie saves the full strength of her toxicity for a kicker that's almost gleeful in its sangfroid; Dercourt's parting coup de gr�ce is like getting shanked with an icicle." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 20, 2007	The Page Turner (2007)	77%
	"What narrative there is, along with a sense of incrementally mounting horror, emerges unbidden from the images�teeming streets that gradually thin, bundled proles panning for filthy water in potholes, stick-thin pedestrians stepping matter-of-factly past." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 13, 2007	Blockade (2006)	83%
	"If the film shows that few men are as unreasonable as Ralph Nader, it also shows that few have so succeeded in shaping their world: His legacy of progressive legislation will affect generations to come." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 30, 2007	An Unreasonable Man (2007)	92%

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