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09/25/07 |
Very Good |
 "Welcome to the seedy demimonde of the club Paradise, where writer/director Abel Ferrara probes the dreams of lives less ordinary, including his own.... Consider it a knowing Ferrara's own striptease act." |
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02/04/09 |
Poor |
 "For a while at least, the film suggests B-roll left over from an Ocean City, Maryland, edition of 'The Real World'.... follows Redacted's vile moral playbook, only without Brian De Palma's self-reflexive, formalist gestures." |
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04/29/09 |
Poor |
 "A TV-grade suspenser from the director of 'Dorian Blues'... A mechanical compendium of anti-skepticism clichés, right down to the obligatory post-realization upchuck... crazily overwritten..." |
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05/14/09 |
Poor |
"Though a few scary skeletons (and one doll) rattle in and out of the film's closet, writer/director Tennyson Bardwell is a slave to television lexicon..." |
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06/03/09 |
Weak |
 "...the aestheticization of human despair is nearly obscene.... Obvious influences are Edward Zwick's cine-drivel and Michael Jordan sneaker commercials." |
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07/29/09 |
Poor |
 "...at least the title of Rowan Woods's misshapen and overreaching melodrama is apt, cobbled as it is from anxiously undigested allusions to war and birds and grief." |
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08/06/09 |
Poor |
"...peers into the private lives of a dozen or so drama queens who survive a shooting spree inside an L.A. diner." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
08/06/09 |
Weak |
"...rather than elaborate on the sociopolitical malaise Kassim escaped, Davidson simply fixates on the pugilist's braggadocio." |
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08/12/09 |
Poor |
 "A muddled, logic-starved provocation.... avoids smugness by refusing to play its body horror for shits and giggles, but its resonance is purely atmospheric." |
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08/12/09 |
Good |
 "A batshit-crazy whatsit that applies a dazzling visual vocabulary to gleefully crass buffoonery... a crudely bombastic but impressive philosophical view of the body..." |
| 11. |
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08/13/09 |
Good |
"...suggests a 'Jackass' flick as directed by Sweden's Roy Andersson." |
| 12. |
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08/13/09 |
Poor |
"...perhaps writer-director Paul Solet's only point is to warn us of the dangers of lesbian vegans aiming their breasts at the mouths of babes." |
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09/23/09 |
Moderate |
 "...content to crudely literalize rather than legitimately assess... never coheres as a narrative -- a collage of undigested ideas about what it means to be a man who wants to be a woman." |
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03/12/10 |
Moderate |
 "Settling for easy sentimentality throughout... in a roundabout way reveals how Warhol made ghosts of all his superstars, unknowable then and unknowable still to us now." |
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03/12/10 |
Moderate |
 "...the film has long exhausted us with its crazy distillation of the giallo genre's stylistic hiccups and psychosexual fixations, feeling too calculated, almost academic, in its collision of signs to be truly enjoyed." |
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03/16/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the specificity of some of the film's scenes can be arresting.... matched by the remarkable emotional honesty of Mendelsohn's actors..." |
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07/20/10 |
Weak |
 "...it would have felt antiquated even if it had been actually set during the Cold War... dully choreographed, nothing but a vision of an actress dancing by herself." |
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07/22/10 |
Weak |
 "...a hefty cinematic effort to get through, especially considering how audience-surveyed and clichéd the film proves... comes off cluttered and episodic..." |
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07/28/10 |
Weak |
 "...underdone sitcom fodder forces a cast of exceptional and almost always adroit comedians to tough it out with irreparably bland and thoughtlessly broad material." |
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08/01/10 |
Moderate |
 "...another woozy ode to longing.... like 'Purple Butterfly' before it, reveals filmmaker Lou's propensity for losing himself to the soap-operatic." |
