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"The exceptional cast -- Vaughn, Giamatti, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, Rachel Weisz -- is an embarrassment of riches for a script this thin and this beholden to family-fare protocol, with its mushy-minded moral and slick sentimentality." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 6, 2007
 
Fred Claus (2007)22%
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"One of the most important artists of the last century deserves far better than this." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 21, 2007
 
Anger Me (2007)n/a
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"Roberto Benigni here plays out a madcap tale of romantic obsession against the backdrop of the Iraq invasion. The results are neither profound nor funny." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 4, 2007
 
The Tiger and the Snow (2006)17%
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"A noble experiment in pushing the limits of cinema, but one too many sequences of ruffling silks and dreamy flower bouquets evoke little more than the ad-agency clichés of an elongated Chanel No. 5 commercial." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 4, 2007
 
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)56%
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"Neither profound nor funny, but merely uncomfortable. A hubristic failure at risky humor, The Tiger and the Snow provides Benigni his own Michael Richards moment." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 28, 2006
 
The Tiger and the Snow (2006)17%
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"It's a noble experiment in pushing the limits of cinema, but Tykwer never achieves true profundity." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 27, 2006
 
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)56%
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"As little more than an extended interview, it remains hobbled by determinedly uninspired cinematography and a mundane televisual setup." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 5, 2006
 
Bergman Island (2006)88%
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"The trauma is real, and the facts disturbing, but the doc doesn't have the chops to deliver what should be a more powerful statement." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2006
 
The Last Atomic Bomb (2006)60%
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"Though occasionally striking, the footage doesn't pack the evocative punch Herzog intends, and segments that should be lyrical mind trips only result in overstretched longueurs." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 24, 2006
 
The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy (2006)67%
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"Thomas Allen Harris's Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela takes on an intensely dramatic topic -- the struggle against apartheid -- yet paradoxically transforms its powerful source material into a stiff and sometimes awkward tutorial." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 7, 2006
 
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2006)n/a
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"An unsatisfying marriage of excessive production values with insipid cinematography and flat-footed editing." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 28, 2006
 
Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)57%
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"Surely a figure as crucial as Geldzahler deserves more incisive treatment." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2006
 
Who Gets to Call it Art? (2006)73%
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"Well executed but ultimately unsatisfying ..." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 25, 2006
 
Breaking News (2006)81%
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"[The film] falls in line with the celebratory doc fare often found at gay film festivals: sub-TV production values, middling archival footage, and a hesitancy to separate history from nostalgia in the course of enshrining the first-person record." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2005
 
Gay Sex in the 70's (2005)67%
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"Unfortunately, what could have been a superficially amusing IFC reality series was stretched into a thin, overlong feature that follows the rocky integration of this very New York clan into a somewhat ruffled island society." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 16, 2005
 
Reel Paradise (2005)67%
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"If we're going to be fighting the war on terror in perpetuity, could we at least get better movies out of it?" -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 2, 2005
 
Stealth (2005)13%
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"It fails to deliver the narrative thrill twists its origins would promise." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 12, 2005
 
Dark Water (2005)45%
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"Few of the interviews get much further than recording surface boasts and assertive self-definitions; LaChapelle connects all their stories with common threads of resisting gang culture, but at the expense of flattening out each person's character." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 21, 2005
 
Rize (2005)82%
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"No uplifting populism here." -- Village Voice
Posted May 31, 2005
 
The Longest Yard (2005)30%
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"Anakin's defection from Jediism to Sithdom should provide the film's backbone, but neither the script nor Christensen delivers the needed nuance." -- Village Voice
Posted May 13, 2005
 
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)79%
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"Streaky low-frame-rate DV, Dogme-style mundane interiors, and merely unembarrassing televisual performances add up to a monotonous, unenlightening experience." -- Village Voice
Posted May 3, 2005
 
The Girl from Monday (2006)40%
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"It's unclear whether this is an actual issue, or just something spicy to be cooked up in the potboiler." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 30, 2004
 
Conspiracy of Silence (2004)33%
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"Though noble in its intent to portray Islam as a peace-loving faith, the narrative flow remains compromised by its catechistic asides and displaced hero." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 16, 2004
 
Muhammad: The Last Prophet (2004)n/a
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"Though the Pioneer is reviving this picture's original barf-bag-at-the-door promo gimmick, there's about a 50 percent chance it'll be more useful to save it for watching the returns on Election Night." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 19, 2004
 
Mark of the Devil (1972)n/a
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"Relentless, pretentious tedium." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 21, 2004
 
Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2004)43%
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"A corny hodgepodge of gooey sentiment mixed with half-baked mush and strained pieties." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 7, 2004
 
A Letter to True (2004)48%
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"This unwarranted iteration of the '70s shaggy-dog tale pales in entertainment value compared to its website, which features a rant from the mutt's creator, Joe Camp." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 17, 2004
 
Benji Off the Leash (2004)33%
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"Perfunctory battle sequences, cardboard characters, and uncreative scare 'ems." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 17, 2004
 
Alien vs. Predator (2004)22%
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"Offers little that is not also explored in current agit-docs like Fahrenheit 9/11, The Corporation, or Outfoxed." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 20, 2004
 
Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2004)79%
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"Indiscriminately shot, set to insufferably caffeinated trip-hop, and edited with the superficial pep of a television magazine show, Let's Get Frank conveys its congressional star as a personality, but not quite a character." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 13, 2004
 
Let's Get Frank (2004)54%
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"Sordid beatings, joyless sex, and a sullen synth score create the air of a home-brewed '60s sexploitation-noir flick, or a pre-Stonewall pulp homosexual novel, complete with narrative clichés and the occasional bit of ugly beauty." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 15, 2004
 
Anonymous (2004)20%
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"If only there were drugs strong enough to make it all bearable." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 1, 2004
 
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of A Sorcerer ()0%
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"The film's witlessness keeps any satirical potential submerged well below soap opera levels." -- Village Voice
Posted May 25, 2004
 
Adored - Diary of a Porn Star (2004)21%
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"A ridiculous macho slugfest attempting to reassert the '80s-style roid-raging revenge narrative." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 30, 2004
 
Walking Tall (2004)24%
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"Posits its working-class supporters not as protagonists but consumers, cheering on their just-folks race-car heroes for proxy fantasies of high-speed escape and high-tech goodies." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 9, 2004
 
NASCAR: The Imax Experience (2004)60%
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"Pilots its culture-challenging raison d'être through an increasingly insufferable collection of gaysploitation conventions." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 27, 2004
 
Latter Days (2004)45%
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"Pretty much everything here -- tow surfing, hydrofoil boards, token bit on women surfers -- already appeared in this summer's equally halfass Step Into Liquid." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 4, 2003
 
Billabong Odyssey (2003)30%
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"Old annoying ethnic family stereotypes meet new annoying gay-relationship stereotypes in this candidate for Kiss Me Guido's heretofore uncontested niche." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 16, 2003
 
Mambo Italiano (2003)32%
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"Hough's doc never rises above the level of first-year student project, hobbled by scattershot editing, badly written intertitles, and useless directorial voice-over." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 26, 2003
 
Backyard (2003)74%
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"A logo-laden celebration of the joys of sponsorship wrapped inside an innocuous teen-pic package." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 19, 2003
 
Grind (2003)9%
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"Ultimately, it's a Hollywood science fiction plot wrapped around a traditional boy-meets-girl Bollywood core, and the song-and-dance numbers are for the most part merely serviceable." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2003
 
Koi... Mil Gaya ()75%
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"[A] draggy, visually underwhelming portrait of contemporary surf culture." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 6, 2003
 
Step Into Liquid (2003)82%
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"Squanders the cross-cultural comedy potential of a Jewish-themed Christmas movie on cheap fart gags and boilerplate schmaltz." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 3, 2002
 
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002)13%
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"It offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 19, 2002
 
Cremaster 3 (2002)62%
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"Weiss and Speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 28, 2002
 
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (2002)29%

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