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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)	87%
	"A once-great director's near-worst work passes through its funhouse plumbing and emerges from the crapper as intentional mischief: self-sabotage explained away as mad genius." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 4, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	50%
	"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%
	"It�s as relentless as it is hateful, hammily directed and derivative of the dreariest slop in contemporary American horror cinema." -- Village Voice Posted May 8, 2008	Frontier(s) (2008)	65%
	"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 lip-smacking episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Depraved, designed more for train-wreck gawkery than psychological illumination." -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 23, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	42%
	"[A] searching, intellectually lively documentary." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	83%
	"Director/co-writer H.S. Miller just lays on the chilly blues and a wet-blanket mood of arty anguish, leaving cinematographer Fred Murphy and production designer Jackson De Govia to trump up trompe l'oeils of carefully posed carrion." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008	Anamorph (2008)	26%
	"Floridly plotted but acutely detailed." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2008	Never Forever (2008)	78%
No Rating	"[Star Michael Shannon is] one of the most formidable unsung actors working today in American movies." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 2, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	89%
	"Bruce Van Dusen's 2005 comedy plots a meandering course due north without locating a word of truth." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008	Backseat (2008)	8%
	"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%
	"Staggeringly inane." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	72%
	"I still believe with all my heart that no movie with real car stunts, a tough-chick hero, and a severed head that thunks directly into the camera can be all bad. But this is pushing it." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2008	Doomsday (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
	"Despite the unhurried pace, the stories unfold without compelling details, and the interweaving is more pedestrian than artful." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 5, 2008	Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)	60%
	"Ever had a premonition of imminent catastrophe, only to watch helplessly as the worst unfolds? You have if you saw the previews for this snoozer of a paranormal shocker and bought a ticket anyway." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 4, 2008	The Eye (2008)	21%
	"As vehement in its stereotyping as World War II propaganda." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 31, 2008	Rambo (2008)	35%
	"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%
	"Walk Hard limps soft." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 21, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
	"This burlesque of biopic cliches flounders from one setup to the next without the engine that drives the genre: a strong central character." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 18, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
	"A medical thriller with a noggin full of novocaine, this shocker about a botched heart surgery evidently suffered brain surgery to match." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 6, 2007	Awake (2007)	24%
	"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%
	"Much of this is tedious -- no more or less exciting than surveillance-cam footage of a regional sales manager." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007	Lynch (One) (2007)	53%
	"*Do-nothing Sarah may be the dullest, most featureless and inactive protagonist in recent movies -- great news for those Scooby-Doo* die-hards who never got enough Freddy.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Oct 20, 2007	Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007)	0%
	"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%
	"Pure straight-to-video rope-a-dope." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 27, 2007	War (2007)	14%

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