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The Guilt Trip: Barbra Streisand Is Game for Comedy
Once comic actors reach a particular career stage, they often choose one of two paths: a) They stop…
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This Is 40: Paul Rudd Prefers His iPad to Sex
Sadly, country songwriters stand as nearly the only entertainers in our popular culture who craft memorable art on…
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Les Miserables: Yes, Even Russell Crowe Sings
You can hear the people sing—really hear them—in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables.…
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The 10 Best Films of 2012
Critics for Seattle Weekly and the Village Voice have submitted their votes in this year’s film poll. Here…
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Any Day Now: Alan Cumming in a Gay Adoption Drama
Homo history repurposed as courtroom soap opera. Director Travis Fine, greatly embellishing a script written decades ago by…
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The Central Park Five: Justice Is Not Served
Co-directed by Sarah Burns, Ken Burns (her dad), and David McMahon, this documentary revives New York’s fear of…
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Hyde Park on Hudson: Bill Murray Is a Fine FDR. Pity About the Movie
It’s dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie…
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Deadfall: Olivia Wilde as Psycho Robber
Distinguished only by its fantastic ensemble cast—including Kate Mara and Treat Williams—Stefan Ruzowitzky’s Deadfall just isn’t manic enough…
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Fred Won’t Move Out: Elliott Gould Clings to His Dignity
Anyone still hoping that Elliott Gould will end the string of schlemiels he has been playing since Bugsy…
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Film: Peter Jackson’s Huge-Ass Hobbit
Peter Jackson's new Tolkien adaptation has been supersized for three holiday seasons.
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Curated by Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl.Published on December 5, 2012
Curated by Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl.Published on December 5, 2012
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Lay the Favorite: Bruce Willis in a Lightweight Gambling Tale
A wan comedy about gambling that takes no risks, Stephen Frears’ Lay the Favorite has none of the…
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The Comedy: Look at That Stupid Hipster
A highly improvised fictional exposé in search of the elusive heart and soul of hipster nihilism, The Comedy…
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North Seas Texas: Belgian Boys Fall in Love
Recently, popular films about gay characters have started moving beyond the overarching plot about society’s acceptance of sexual…
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Mekong Hotel: Old Ghosts and Young Love in Thailand
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is an acquired taste. Either you go for his slow, dreamy, ghost-haunted Thai dramas or you…
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Good Bets for Oscar: Even if, deep in your cinephile heart, you
Good Bets for Oscar: Even if, deep in your cinephile heart, you feel utter disdain for the Academy…
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The Campaign, which was released today and stars Will Ferrell and Zach
The Campaign, which was released today and stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, is the latest in a…
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We dug through the Voice’s archives of publicity stills, looking for horror,
We dug through the Voice’s archives of publicity stills, looking for horror, sci-fi or otherwise weird publicity images…
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A lament for lost carnage — and coherence — of action movies.
A lament for lost carnage — and coherence — of action movies. Read more: Action Movies Don’t Have…
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Warming the Corpse of a Dead Celeb
Deep into Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates’ bouillon-dense fever dream of a novel, Marilyn Monroe at last manages to…