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	" *Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A.* is not the celluloid holy grail, but it's close enough.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jan 6, 2009	Made in U.S.A. (1966)	n/a
	" Distinguished by its formal rigor and deadpan audacity." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 6, 2009	Silent Light (2008)	80%
	" French-Tunisian writer-director-actor Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a sprawling yet intimate tale set among the Arab working class of the Mediterranean port S�te." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008	The Secret of the Grain (2008)	93%
	" A grim, deeply personal phantasmagoria around the 1982 invasion of Lebanon." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008	Waltz with Bashir (2008)	95%
	" Lurie isn't Larry Cohen, let alone Sam Fuller, but give him points for working the same tradition of engag� tabloid filmmaking." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2008	Nothing But the Truth (2008)	77%
	" *Present in every scene, if not each shot, Rourke gives a tremendously physical performance that The Wrestler* essentially exists to document.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Dec 16, 2008	The Wrestler (2008)	98%
	" Pure pleasure and pure cinema." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2008	In the City of Sylvia (2008)	89%
	" Modest but cosmic." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2008	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	84%
	" Dust—the movie—is characterized by its clean cinematography, uncluttered compositions, and unceasing dialectic." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008	Dust (2008)	75%
	" Frost/Nixon's main attraction is neither its topicality nor its historical value, but Langella's re-creation of his Tony-winning performance." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008	Frost/Nixon (2008)	91%
	" Milk is so immediate that it's impossible to separate the movie's moment from this one." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 26, 2008	Milk (2008)	93%
	" It's as if the filmmaker has opened a window onto a parallel world traveling beside our own." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2008	The Betrayal (2008)	90%
	" Rafferty's no-frills annotated replay is the best football movie I've ever seen: A particular day in history becomes a moment out of time." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2008	Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)	80%
	" Deft, playful, fluid, haunting, and filled with the joy of filmmaking." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	90%
	" In a way, this shaggy-dog hipster road film is Frank's ultimate work -- evoking the end of the road and even the end of Endsville�but he has persevered." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008	Candy Mountain (1987)	100%
	" [Director Robert Frank] came into his own as a filmmaker with the first-person Conversations in Vermont (1969), which concerns his ambivalent confrontation with his adolescent children." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008	Conversations in Vermont (1971)	n/a
	" The weightiest item in his [Director Robert Frank's] oeuvre." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008	Me and My Brother (1969)	n/a
	" *No one will ever mistake these backstage shenanigans for Irma Vep. But as a self-regarding expression of masculine angst, it's a Damme sight more fun than Synecdoche." -- Village Voice* Posted Nov 5, 2008	JCVD (2008)	87%
	" The tale of Riita's burden builds to a fantastic crescendo, an amalgam of guilt, subterfuge, and extreme performance." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008	Cross of Love (1946)	n/a
	" [Director Tuevo] Tulio, however, is in no way detached: He opts for unrelenting intensity and, since the ending is known from the onset, the systematic obliteration of false hope." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008	The Way You Wanted Me (1944)	n/a
	" The default Tulio opening montage (sylvan stream, blooming lilies, grazing farm animals, summer!) is subsumed by images of surging waters and the master's onrushing team of horses." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008	In the Fields of Dreams (1940)	n/a
	" Pivots midway with a change in the weather." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008	Song of the Scarlet Flower (1939)	n/a
	" He's set apart not only as the piece's sole subject but because he's hyper-alert, continually responding to invisible forces, raptly focused on events beyond the frame." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008	Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2008)	61%
	" Tightly framed and tightly wound, Mary is a claustrophobic, incandescent, nutty 83 minutes with everyone in the cast teetering on the ledge of madness." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 15, 2008	Mary (2008)	60%
	" At the very least, the spectacle of Poppy's devotion and desire, not to mention her all-around sunny disposish, left this viewer feeling unaccountably happy -- at least for the moment." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	94%
	" The question: Can an individual leader take a nation to, or keep it from, war? The conclusion: Individual temperament matters, and John F. Kennedy's example proves it." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 17, 2008	Virtual JFK (2008)	77%
	" A characteristically supercilious and crisply shot clown show filled with cartoon perfs and predicated on extravagant stupidity." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 10, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
	" Truffaut's form of self-reflection is ultimately a way of playing the audience." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2008	Shoot the Piano Player (1960)	94%
	" In Hitchcock's hands, however, this well-known espionage adventure provided the basis for a new sort of thriller and a new sort of comedy." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2008	The 39 Steps (1935)	97%
	" Vampyr is Dreyer's most radical film -- maybe one of my dozen favorite movies by any director." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2008	Vampyr (1931)	100%
	" A stark, brooding treatment of adultery, incest, and murder, an elemental tragedy not so far from a James M. Cain triangle, albeit shot so as to deliberately evoke the Dutch masters." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2008	Day of Wrath (1943)	100%
	" Much comic pathos arises from the realization that Mikey has no perspective on his parents. They are as mysterious in their idiosyncrasies as anyone's." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2008	Momma's Man (2008)	90%
	" The movie's gravity has the effect of raising Rohmer's career-long concerns to cosmic heights." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2008	The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2008)	66%
	" A Girl Cut in Two is a spry piece of work. Chabrol uses this sinister clown show as a means to puncture the media world's hot-air balloons -- as well as to highlight the hypocrisies of his favorite target, the haute bourgeoisie." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2008	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	79%
	" Without ever surrendering its deadpan naturalism, La France becomes increasingly poetic: The seasons change, the landscape grows barren, and the stars in the sky take their names from the dead men below." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008	La France (2007)	90%
	" One of the many surreal aspects of this fabulously disorienting movie: its representation of an Iraqi heaven that's an American hell." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	69%
	" Once more into the breach, Ken Jacobs further explores the ground zero of cinematic representation." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 25, 2008	Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2008)	83%
	" Highly entertaining." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 25, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	75%
	" A pleasant surprise." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 17, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
	" My Winnipeg is Maddin's best filmmaking since the not-dissimilar confessional bargain-basement phantasmagoria, Cowards Bend the Knee. The editing is dense; the action is fluid." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 11, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	95%
	" *Perhaps because Herzog is approaching old-master status, Encounters at the End of the World* skews toward the observational.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jun 11, 2008	Encounters At the End of the World (2007)	93%
	" This essentially comic tale maps a contagion of mutual exploitation that seems to have burnished the careers of everyone involved." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 4, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	89%
	" Theodore Flicker's genial exercise in comic paranoia re-emerges, for no apparent reason, a reasonably fit and funny artifact from the age of grooviness." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 4, 2008	The President's Analyst (1967)	81%
	" Paraguayan Hammock is like a piece of music that improves with familiarity." -- Village Voice Posted May 14, 2008	Paraguayan Hammock (2008)	56%
	" The result is contrived, but compelling -- as is the movie's high-powered humanism." -- Village Voice Posted May 14, 2008	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	82%
	" *Ostensibly a conventional tale of triad loyalty, As Tears Go By* announced the presence of a genuine Hong Kong new wave -- as well as an ambitious cineaste.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 30, 2008	As Tears Go By (1988)	75%
	" With his 10th feature -- an entertaining tale of high-stakes martial arts -- Mamet has infused the sleight of hand with a measure of two-fisted action." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 29, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	69%
	" A multilayered, self-consciously Joycean, naturally psychedelic epic." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 29, 2008	Dog Star Man (1964)	100%
	" A cynic might view Spurlock's seven-month exploration of civilization's cradle as a form of conjugal competition." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	37%
	" *However artless its presentation, Stalags* imparts material that's difficult to shake off and impossible to dismiss.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 8, 2008	Stalags (2008)	50%

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