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Serve and Follynew

Woody Allen's Cannes-hyped, Brit-inflected latest is a mildly pretentious mediocrity. The performances Allen gets, with his puppet hand permanently up his cast's colons, suggest an undergrad film adaptation of Dreiser.
The Village Voice  |  Michael Atkinson  |  12-29-2005  |  Reviews

Catch Them If You Cannew

Steven Spielberg's dour tale of assassination gets lost in a morass of moral ambivalence.
The Village Voice  |  J. Hoberman  |  12-21-2005  |  Reviews

Vanity Farenew

This week brings two tales of transformative bonds between adults and children: TransAmerica and The Kid & I. Both are issue movies that encourage viewers to hug the outcasts in their midst, but TransAmerica is by far the better of the pair.
The Village Voice  |  Ben Kenigsberg  |  12-02-2005  |  Reviews

Eternal Sunshine Brightens a Dark Year for Moviesnew

Nine of Michael Atkinson's Top 10 hobbled at the box office in a year he calls the worst for movies since 1981.
The Village Voice  |  Michael Atkinson  |  12-29-2004  |  Reviews

Huckabees Is Film Critic's Top Choicenew

I (Heart) Huckabees, David O. Russell's blithely profound mishmash of screwball Sartre and zany Zen, tops Dennis Lim's list. He calls it "a furiously depressed howl of liberal-left impotence that somehow lands on a grace note of provisional optimism."
The Village Voice  |  Dennis Lim  |  12-29-2004  |  Reviews

Underground Movie Is No. 1 on Critic's Top 10 Listnew

Ken Jacobs' Star Spangled to Death, a vast, ironic pageant of 20th-century American history, is the ultimate underground movie, says J. Hoberman, who chooses it as the best film of 2004.
The Village Voice  |  J. Hoberman  |  12-29-2004  |  Reviews

Days of Wine and Neurosesnew

Payne's movies are distinguished by their indelible characters, and Sideways -- a cross between a three-legged sack race and a pedant's bacchanal -- is no exception, featuring two of the most fully realized comic creations in recent American movies.
The Village Voice  |  J. Hoberman  |  10-22-2004  |  Reviews

Secondhand Smoke: Spilling the Beans in 11 Chatty Skitsnew

Perhaps a trifling gag gift like Coffee and Cigarettes is the price we pay for Jarmusch's redoubtable presence; think of your 10-spot, if you're so inclined, as a tithe to his next real film.
The Village Voice  |  Michael Atkinson  |  05-21-2004  |  Reviews

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