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	" So embarrassing that, for the first time, I wanted to avert my eyes from the screen, although that might have also been because Repo! appears to have been shot with a cell phone." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008	Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)	27%
	" Image trumps performance." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008	Changeling (2008)	59%
	" Religulous doesn't really go anywhere. It's ultimately a celebration of the old-time religion we call entertainment." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 3, 2008	Religulous (2008)	71%
	" Townsend smothers any sense of global immediacy by covering the action with a frayed patchwork of melodramatic coincidences," -- Village Voice Posted Sep 17, 2008	Battle in Seattle (2008)	53%
	" Coogan will do anything for a laugh, and given how little he has to work with, he must." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
	" *Ideologically anti-corporate, previous Wachowski productions aspired to be something more than mind-less sensation; Speed Racer* is thrilled to be less. It's the delusions minus the grandeur.*" -- Village Voice* Posted May 7, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	37%
	" *Unfortunately, nothing in Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo* is funnier than its title.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 23, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
	" *Since The Thin Blue Line's remarkable intervention, Morris's work has grown more public and more problematic -- lofty yet snide, a form of know-it-all epistemological inquiry." -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 23, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	80%
	" *There's basically only one reason to see Olivier Assayas's self-consciously hypermodern, meta-sleazy, English-French-Chinese-language globo-thriller Boarding Gate, and her name is Asia Argento." -- Village Voice* Posted Mar 18, 2008	Boarding Gate (2007)	26%
	" Without ever acknowledging his own sadism, Haneke self-righteously lays his aesthetic and moral cards on the table." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	51%
	" *However authentically chaotic, Chicago 10* is insufficiently frenzied. For all its shock value, the trial was not the only game in town.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Feb 27, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	77%
	" As the current obsession with Reagan suggests, it's back to fantasyland!" -- Village Voice Posted Jan 29, 2008	Rambo (2008)	37%
	" *This is a serious movie and, gliding around the center of power, a stylish one. But, like its protagonist, The Walker* is unable to close the deal.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Dec 4, 2007	The Walker (2007)	52%
	" A book tour isn't even a political campaign, and traveling with Jimmy Carter isn't exactly going backstage with the Rolling Stones." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007	Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)	79%
	" September Dawn has the ham-fisted lyricism of political ads and pharmaceutical commercials." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 21, 2007	September Dawn (2007)	13%
	" There's hardly a moment when Jolie is on-screen that you can't sense the presence of make-up artists and hair stylists hovering anxiously just off frame." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2007	A Mighty Heart (2007)	77%
	" A spectacle blatantly predicated on a smug gaggle of mega movie stars in boss threads ostentatiously having fun by pretending to steal the house's money, while actually taking yours." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2007	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	70%
	" *Low-key to comatose, Wendell Baker* might have been improved were it shot in 16mm black and white.*" -- Village Voice* Posted May 15, 2007	The Wendell Baker Story (2007)	43%
	" With all manner of backstories and flashbacks jamming the road, the Posey-mobile starts to swerve and sputter and finally blows a tire." -- Village Voice Posted May 15, 2007	Fay Grim (2007)	43%
	" A soberly, if sluggishly, crafted movie in which the bitterness never stops." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 24, 2007	Jindabyne (2007)	65%
	" The Lives of Others is a compelling thriller but an unsatisfying character drama." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 6, 2007	The Lives of Others (2006)	93%
	" A cheap 79-minute time-waster that's all business ..." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2007	Shockproof (1949)	n/a
	" As the voyeur manages to enter the Amy Show, Nicholas uses this ontological shift as the basis for a 'real' movie of his own, effectively liquidating the original premise." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 9, 2007	Alone With Her (2007)	69%
	" The movie's uneasy blend of symbolism and naturalism might have worked better onstage." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 29, 2006	Something Wild (1961)	n/a
	" The Good German is seriously deficient in the stars' star power and narrative excitement. The movie is lovingly framed, carefully lit, and fatally insipid." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 12, 2006	The Good German (2006)	32%
	" Apocalypto is unburdened by nationalist or religious piety -- it's pure, amoral sensationalism." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 5, 2006	Apocalypto (2006)	65%
	" The premise is lachrymose, the sets are clammy, and the metaphysics all wet. The screen is awash in spiraling nebulae and misty points of light, with the soundtrack supplying appropriately moist oohs and aahs." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 21, 2006	The Fountain (2006)	51%
	" You won't learn much about Arbus, aside from the correct pronunciation of her first name; you will get to see Kidman try (and fail) to find her inner freak." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 7, 2006	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	30%
	" There's a far more subversive political mock-umentary coming next week. I invite President Bush, Senator Clinton, and all politicians to get down with Borat." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 24, 2006	Death of a President (2006)	37%
	" Gilliam has suffered more than his share of butchered projects, but with this exercise in kamikaze auteurism, he appears to have made exactly the mess he wanted." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 10, 2006	Tideland (2006)	28%
	" *Neither a debacle nor a bore, The Departed* works but only up to a point, and never emotionally.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Oct 3, 2006	The Departed (2006)	92%
	" *There are moments when The Black Dahlia* projects a spectral world, but its ghosts in broad daylight are elusive at best.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Sep 15, 2006	The Black Dahlia (2006)	34%
	" A veritable Parthenon of vulgarity and a supremely unfunny comedy that is pure eau de Fifty-Six." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 22, 2006	The Girl Can't Help It (1956)	67%
	" *Connoisseurs of the disgustingly visceral will find Jan Svankmajer hardly mellowed at 72. Lunacy* is dark, scary, and yucky -- even by the Czech animator's own standards.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Aug 12, 2006	Lunacy (2006)	67%
	" There's no snake in Bettie's Eden and no narrative to Harron's movie." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 11, 2006	The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)	55%
	" *Although the women provide the narrative's social glue, it's never clear how they formed their bonds. Rather than story, Friends With Money* is founded on ready-made behavioral metaphors.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 4, 2006	Friends With Money (2006)	71%
	" Fueled by shame and prejudice, the doomed relationship of these two proud self-haters is more drunken knife fight than transcendent love affair." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 8, 2006	Ask the Dust (2005)	37%
	" Go for Zucker is mildly tasteless (nat�rlich), if not exactly uproarious." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2006	Go For Zucker (2004)	55%
	" Spielberg surrenders to his own despair and lashes out . . . at the audience." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 20, 2005	Munich (2005)	77%
	" As an epic, it's monumentally slight." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 20, 2005	The New World (2005)	60%
	" *There's no business like show business, and the musical Producers' considerable success showed the original movie to have been prophetic -- of itself." -- Village Voice* Posted Dec 13, 2005	The Producers (2005)	51%
	" Given the excessive length and bombastic F/X, there's too much action and precious little poetry." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 13, 2005	King Kong (2005)	84%
	" It doesn't leave you with much to think about, except maybe the empty vibrato of effective ventriloquism." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2005	Walk the Line (2005)	83%
	" At least half an hour too long at 119 minutes, the movie allows almost everything to happen at least twice." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 8, 2005	Pulse (2005)	73%
	" The movie is oppressively heavy even when mischievously lighthearted." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 1, 2005	Jarhead (2005)	61%
	" *Entertaining if cornball, lacking the cold-eyed nastiness of something like Mike Nichols's Closer." -- Village Voice* Posted Nov 1, 2005	The Dying Gaul (2005)	48%
	" From mid-movie on, confusion escalates (along with one's incredulity) as the body count mounts." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 10, 2005	The President's Last Bang (2005)	80%
	" In this relatively big-budget production, the director's main anxiety seems to be wrapping up the mystery and selling the project." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 7, 2005	Where The Truth Lies (2005)	39%
	" *The filmmaker uses Dogville's formal devices to lesser effect and his boredom is contagious." -- Village Voice* Posted May 24, 2005	Manderlay (2006)	50%
	" Is Solondz a moralist or a misanthrope, or both? Does he hold his characters or his audience in greater contempt?" -- Village Voice Posted Apr 12, 2005	Palindromes (2005)	43%

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