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4/6	"Beauty in Trouble is a fairly conventional story about the conflicting pulls of sexual dependency and financial security, but the movie is lifted out of the ordinary by Schmitzer�s turn as the grandfather from hell." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Beauty in Trouble (2008)	64%
4/6	"The movie, in its best moments, suggests a Haredi version of Terence Davies�s 1988 masterpiece, Distant Voices, Still Lives." -- Time Out New York Posted May 14, 2008	My Father, My Lord (2006)	88%
4/6	"Nuanced, scrupulous and powerful." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2008	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	67%
4/6	"Director Michael Skolnik gained extraordinary access to both Swaziland�s royal family and its political underground, and delivers an unflinching portrait of a country where life expectancy is the shortest in the world." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 24, 2008	Without the King (2008)	94%
3/6	"The film, which focuses primarily on four individuals, is unusually effective at finding the humanity inside men usually reviled as monsters -- not least by themselves." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008	The Dhamma Brothers (2008)	82%
4/6	"This winning combination of neighborhood indie and old-school Hollywood B movie is the kind of film that doesn�t flinch from the sight of a bullet being removed from human flesh." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008	The Take (2008)	92%
4/6	"*At its best, Young & Restless in China* plays like a prosaic complement to the films of Jia Zhangke.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Apr 10, 2008	Young & Restless In China (2008)	75%
4/6	"*The two Americans reflect on their own grief and on their ambivalence about being viewed as '9/11 widows,' but most of Beyond Belief* is refreshingly outward-looking.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Apr 2, 2008	Beyond Belief (2007)	90%
3/6	"The movie�s muddy, overexposed look is tough on the eyes, but its unrelentingly bleak take on the land of supermarkets and car dealerships is not without its share of dark humor, and it thankfully eschews easy answers." -- Time Out Posted Jul 26, 2007	Laura Smiles (2007)	47%
3/6	"Te movie picks up in the final act as Agnieszka�s political activities begin to eclipse her personal drama, culminating in the historic 1980 strike that would lead to the creation of free labor unions in Poland." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 30, 2007	Strike (2007)	87%
3/6	"Warmhearted." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 23, 2007	The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007)	88%
4/6	"An intimate parable of truth and reconciliation." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 7, 2007	Dry Season (2006)	100%
4/6	"As humane a Hollywood film as we�re likely to see all year." -- Time Out New York Posted Feb 17, 2007	Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	85%
	"*With its unobtrusive visual style, Justice* plays like a near-parody of documentary objectivity, subtly suggesting the malleable nature of 'truth,' both in the courtroom and the movie theater.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Oct 17, 2006	Justice (2004)	n/a
	"*Too glib to qualify as satire, Hair High* nails the high school experience.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Oct 17, 2006	Hair High (2006)	78%
	"The movie is unusually attentive to the ironies of communications technology: Note the subtle but definite awkwardness that creeps into the conversation after a prospective girlfriend casually tells Alex that she only checks her e-mail once a week." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 22, 2006	LOL (2006)	100%
	"King Leopold's Ghost traces the living legacy of colonialism." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 18, 2006	King Leopold's Ghost (2006)	91%
	"Not only is the candid (but never prurient) treatment of early-teen sexuality and drug use too hot to handle, but the narrative blend of fairy-tale wonder and nightmare logic feels sui generis." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 15, 2006	Moonlight (2002)	60%
	"Hamilton immerses itself in the summertime rhythms of one particular blue-collar Baltimore suburb, playing out in uninterrupted chunks of real time." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 9, 2006	Hamilton (2006)	80%
	"This year's Cinema Village program is something of a best-of, compiling six films from past incarnations and pointedly showcasing the series' range, both geographical and formal." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 20, 2006	The World According to Shorts (2006)	100%
	"*Opening with its hero's dramatic death on the highway, Excellent Cadavers* is seldom at a loss for excitement.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jul 11, 2006	Excellent Cadavers (2006)	77%
	"*The subtitle, A Story of Death in Iraq, concisely captures its core subject: the brute facts of grief, suffering, and death in wartime." -- Village Voice* Posted Jun 27, 2006	The Blood of My Brother: A Story of Death in Iraq (2006)	71%
	"[The film] drinks freely from the triumphalist cup of the glasnost era, but a closing dedication to the veterans of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution (the subject of Grappell's next film) acknowledges that the struggle for democracy continues." -- Village Voice Posted May 9, 2006	Light From the East (2006)	71%
	"As deceptively modest and quietly ambitious as its urban working-class hero." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2006	Quality of Life (2004)	64%
	"*Warmhearted but never sentimental or condescending, Home* finally proves most affecting as an unsparing glimpse into the psychology of poverty.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Feb 28, 2006	Home (2006)	100%
	"Director Nicolas Rossier gives significant time to the disloyal opposition." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 7, 2005	Aristide and the Endless Revolution (2006)	100%
	"Eschewing both cool detachment and exploitative sentimentality, Dalton and Martinez find the ideal emotional distance from their subjects, depicting La Sierra as a sociological nightmare, while never letting us forget that real people actually live there." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 8, 2005	La Sierra (2005)	100%
	"The director makes the most of the tense slow stretches, with the camera occasionally drifting off in search of action while characters wait in dreadful silence." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 27, 2005	The Roost (2005)	56%
	"Director Peter Bate coolly juxtaposes these accounts of human misery with views of opulent present-day Brussels (where statues of Leopold still stand), protesting against the erasure of history." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2005	Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2004)	100%
	"A refreshingly region-specific entry in a teen-angst subgenre plagued by lazily sketched suburban settings." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 4, 2005	Dandelion (2005)	67%
	"A fair-minded (but hardly apolitical) grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that trusts the audience to draw its own conclusions." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 20, 2005	Occupation: Dreamland (2005)	76%
	"*A movie refreshingly lacking in social graces, Piggie* uses the transparency of video to x-ray the psyches of characters obsessed with the essence of things.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Sep 13, 2005	Piggie (2003)	60%
	"Edge Codes ends on a note of speculative futurism, looking ahead to artistic avenues yet unexplored." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 6, 2005	Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing (2005)	100%
	"After a few flourishes of Errol Morris-like editing, first-timer Browne settles into a tone resembling the ESPN telecasts so crucial to the PBA's revenue stream, thriving on the intrinsic drama of competition and the league's emerging star system." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2005	League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2005)	91%
	"A triumph of documentary activism nine years in the making." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 17, 2005	The Untold Story of Emmet Louis Till (2005)	97%
	"Andrew Douglas's vivid documentary drinks it in, casting aside road movie linearity in favor of a trailer park surrealism cobbled from drifting traveling shots and abstracted images." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 12, 2005	Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2005)	68%
	"Lawrence coasts on star power, genially sending up his bad-boy persona." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 6, 2005	Rebound (2005)	13%
	"First-timer Allan Mindel nails the snowbound rhythms of upper Midwestern life and orchestrates a near perfect ending, a fade-to-white over an unlikely promised land." -- Village Voice Posted May 31, 2005	Milwaukee, Minnesota (2005)	39%
	"Shake Hands is less about one man than about a U.N. structurally incapable of carrying out its peacekeeping mandate, then and now." -- Village Voice Posted May 17, 2005	Shake Hands With the Devil (2005)	91%
	"The tone is best captured by one Bay Area sportswriter's wry comment that catching a valuable home run ball is 'sort of like winning the lottery except you feel like you earned it.'" -- Village Voice Posted May 3, 2005	Up for Grabs (2005)	93%
	"Amid plentiful clips of high falls, fistfights, and car chases, Micheli shows the unique challenges faced by women in this notoriously macho field." -- Village Voice Posted May 3, 2005	Double Dare (2005)	97%
	"An underseen indie-film landmark and an invaluable artifact of local history to boot." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 19, 2005	Little Fugitive (1953)	83%
	"The result may be better suited for classroom viewing than for theatrical exhibition, but that's a tribute to the movie's instructive value." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2005	Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2004)	64%
	"The film is most buoyant when most over-the-top." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 16, 2004	You I Love (2005)	33%
	"Sabiha Sumar's debut feature could scarcely be more relevant to Pakistan's present, or, given this country's history of backing such repressive regimes, to ours." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2004	Silent Waters (2004)	70%
	"*As for the candidate, like Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People, he's wisely content to remain a supporting character in his own life story." -- Village Voice* Posted Aug 24, 2004	Brothers in Arms (2004)	73%
	"*Attempts unsuccessfully to liven up a tired scenario with a touch of Twilight Zone* fantasy.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jul 6, 2004	Swing (2003)	42%
	"A taut noirish thriller that unfolds in a fever of firelit ambience." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 22, 2004	The Intended (2004)	31%
	"While lacking a knockout scene, the script is full of solid laughs punctuated with pangs of emotional insight." -- Village Voice Posted May 4, 2004	Seeing Other People (2004)	39%
	"The nearly wall-to-wall music overcomes any rough patches." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 13, 2004	Klezmer on Fish Street (2004)	33%

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