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On Her Shoulders
A review by Bilge Ebiri for Village Voice2018-10-18
Even though she never loses her focus on Nadia, Bombach subtly shifts her attention from Nadia’s specific requests from the international community to the thornier question of what happens to the Yazidis from here onward.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Bisbee '17
A review by Bilge Ebiri for Village Voice2018-09-03
The director purposefully pulls us this way and that, weaving cinematic spells and then yanking us out of them; as viewers, we are both inside and outside the story.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Reprisal
A review by Craig D. Lindsey for Village Voice2018-08-30
It’s downright sad watching Willis go all half-assed in another movie. I guess we’re gonna have to wait for Glass to come out next year to see if Willis can do a movie in whole-assed form again.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Active Measures
A review by Alan Scherstuhl for Village Voice2018-08-30
Active Measures is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the mind. By coming on so strong, so fevered, Bryan achieves the dubious feat of making his host of documented facts, reasonable inferences, and alarming subjects for further research all seem seem less persuasive than if they had been presented more soberly.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
A review by Bilge Ebiri for Village Voice2018-08-29
By sticking to his impressionistic perspective, by fracturing his narrative, Ross achieves something genuinely poetic — a film whose very lightness is the key to its depth.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Operation Finale
A review by Alan Scherstuhl for Village Voice2018-08-28
Rather than the cagey, caged mastermind who later would play dumb at trial, this Eichmann is just another movie bad guy — and Operation Finale is just another movie.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Pick of the Litter
A review by Alan Scherstuhl for Village Voice2018-08-28
What are the concerns of coherent storytelling or in-depth documentation when all of these good boys and girls — yes they are! — are leaping and licking and tail-wagging and just being the best?Read entire review on Village Voice -
The Oslo Diaries
A review by Jordan Hoffman for Village Voice2018-08-23
The Oslo Diaries is a striking document, mixing never-before-seen footage shot by the negotiators themselves and current reflections from participants, including the final interview of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.Read entire review on Village Voice -
What Keeps You Alive
A review by Matt Prigge for Village Voice2018-08-23
Minihan’s ambitions are towering, so it’s only right to note that he doesn’t quite get there. The ideas, even the emotions, don’t develop and grow.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Blue Iguana
A review by Craig D. Lindsey for Village Voice2018-08-23
From the characters to the purposely perplexing plot, it’s all hollow and artificial to the point of being downright grating. Blue Iguana is another exercise in sarcastic, self-referential, postmodern pulp whose time has so come and gone.Read entire review on Village Voice -
The Happytime Murders
A review by Alan Scherstuhl for Village Voice2018-08-22
Some viewers, perhaps, might be shocked at the association of Mr. Rainbow Connection with scenes set in porno shops, strip clubs, and drug dens. What jolted me, though, was seeing the Henson name all over a project that’s so often bland and listless, so tame in its designs, so limited in its imagination, so joyless in its execution.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Searching
A review by April Wolfe for Village Voice2018-08-21
Though the script by Chaganty and Sev Ohanian is taut and surprising, I’ve felt more absorbed in an episode of Murder, She Wrote than I did in this film, because, there, it’s story and performance that we’re invited to savor, not just tech and technique.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Support the Girls
A review by Danny King for Village Voice2018-08-21
Bujalski frames most of Support the Girls as an almost real-time delineation of chaos, but his storytelling elegance — delicate, nearly invisible foreshadowing; cogent evocations of backstory — adds reflective layers to the surface anarchy.Read entire review on Village Voice -
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
A review by Alan Scherstuhl for Village Voice2018-08-21
Faraut’s film doesn’t just put us courtside — it steeps us in the legend’s boiling mind.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Crime + Punishment
A review by Alan Scherstuhl for Village Voice2018-08-21
Stephen Maing’s searing documentary Crime + Punishment offers a fuller look at the question of what can be accomplished from inside, revealing both the personal toll fighting the system can exact but also the urgent necessity of such battles.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Papillon
A review by Bilge Ebiri for Village Voice2018-08-21
This new version, directed by Danish filmmaker Michael Noer, brings to the story a refreshing intensity and sweep, and even a sense of adventure.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Maison du Bonheur
A review by Alan Scherstuhl for Village Voice2018-08-21
Bohdanowicz undertook the project without having previously met her subject, but for both the filmmaker and her audience, making Sellam’s acquaintance proves a rare pleasure.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Down a Dark Hall
A review by Tatiana Craine for Village Voice2018-08-16
Ultimately, Down a Dark Hall falls victim to familiar teen horror tropes: a brooding lead with a heart of gold, predictable jump scares, wincingly bad romantic tension, and obvious villains.Read entire review on Village Voice -
Notes on an Appearance
A review by Danny King for Village Voice2018-08-16
D’Ambrose proves uncannily adept at conjuring zero-budget paranoia through the sheer accumulation of documents.Read entire review on Village Voice -
The Wife
A review by April Wolfe for Village Voice2018-08-16
It is the depth Close lends to Joan that kept me riveted — and angry.Read entire review on Village Voice
