AltWeeklies Wire
Ghost Worldnew
This Hungarian film, the most existential of holocaust films, is artistic without cheap or superfluous effects, making it almost mystically translucent.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
01-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Fateless, Lajos Koltai
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
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
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
Dante's Infernonew
In this horror film that should especially horrify Republicans, dead veterans crawl out of their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can eject the president who sent them to battle.
The Village Voice |
Dennis Lim |
12-02-2005 |
TV
Feign of Terrornew
A British filmmaker deconstructs the politics of fear exploited by radical Islamists and American neocons alike.
The Village Voice |
Adam Curtis |
04-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bush II Could Inspire Another Indie Film Renaissancenew
As we enter George W. Bush's second term, the country's extreme rightward turn could ignite the type of movie renaissance not seen since eight years of nuclear proliferation, HIV discrimination, and materialist greed helped produce the American independent film movement of the late '80s and early '90s.
The Village Voice |
Anthony Kaufman |
01-13-2005 |
Movies
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
New American Romanticism Wins Hearts of Alt Criticsnew
Before Sunset, directed by Richard Linklater, was the decisive winner of the 2004 poll of alternative press film critics, as the new American romanticism bucked electoral disaster.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Best Performers Named in 6th Annual Film Critics' Pollnew
Imelda Staunton was ranked the best performer in Village Voice's film critics' poll. She starred in the film Vera Drake. Critics ranked film performers from 1 to 93.
The Village Voice |
Staff Writers |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Critics' Poll of Best Films of 2004new
Before Sunset was ranked the top film of 2004 in Village Voice's film critics' poll. It was mentioned by 49 judges. Films are ranked from 1 to 139.
The Village Voice |
Staff Writers |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
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
Tags: Alexander Payne, Sideways
Cinematic Campaigning: This Fall, Filmmakers Assault the Status Quonew
Independent filmmakers are in the midst of an unprecedented assault upon the present administration, timed for campaign body blows and so pervasive as to seem coordinated. More political movies debut this fall, including one on the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and another on sex researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
09-15-2004 |
Movies
