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Karina Longworth

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New York

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Killing Them Softly (2012) 74% EDIT “It's a movie that shows, and then tells, tells, and tells again, its vibrant conjuring of contemporary cynicism felled by Dominik's lack of faith in his audience's ability to connect thematic dots.” – Village Voice Nov 27, 2012 Full Review Hitchcock (2012) 59% EDIT “Hitchcock is a movie about bygone Hollywood that's distinctly a product of Hollywood circa now.” – Village Voice Nov 20, 2012 Full Review Silver Linings Playbook (2012) 92% EDIT “Manic as it might be stylistically, emotionally Silver Linings Playbook maintains too even of a keel.” – Village Voice Nov 13, 2012 Full Review Generation P (2011) 75% EDIT “Generation P is long and incredibly dense, but it's never boring-it's too wild and unhinged.” – Village Voice Nov 13, 2012 Full Review Skyfall (2012) 92% EDIT “Skyfall's fatal misstep is its slavish hewing to event-movie trends.” – Village Voice Nov 7, 2012 Full Review The Comedy (2012) 50% EDIT “There's not a false note in the film, but maybe there's a difference between accuracy and truth.” – Village Voice Nov 7, 2012 Full Review The Bay (2012) 76% EDIT “You have to distance yourself from the spot-on simulation of kitsch in order admire it, and that process precludes engagement with it as drama.” – Village Voice Nov 1, 2012 Full Review Cloud Atlas (2012) 66% EDIT “One man's ambitious, iconoclastic, like-nothing-ever-before-seen passion project is another man's Battlefield Earth.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 25, 2012 Full Review The Loneliest Planet (2011) 74% EDIT “Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.” – Village Voice Oct 24, 2012 Full Review Fun Size (2012) 25% EDIT “A smart and emotionally satisfying slice of wish fulfillment, tracing how a threatened family finds harmony.” – Village Voice Oct 23, 2012 Full Review Argo (2012) 96% EDIT “It's an embodiment of the kind of quality adult film that really shouldn't be an endangered species, and a love letter from Affleck to the industry that made him, shunned him, and loves nothing more than to be loved.” – Village Voice Oct 11, 2012 Full Review Middle of Nowhere (2012) 88% EDIT “Remarkably self-assured ...” – Village Voice Oct 9, 2012 Full Review Wake in Fright (1971) 96% EDIT “A road movie using undeveloped land as a blank screen on which to project a dark deconstruction of masculinity and manifest destiny.” – Village Voice Oct 2, 2012 Full Review V/H/S (2012) 56% EDIT “In too many of the shorts, bad acting quickly undermines the "authenticity" the aesthetics labor to achieve.” – Village Voice Oct 2, 2012 Full Review Knuckleball! (2012) 94% EDIT “I could watch Phil Niekro reminisce about being owned by Bill Buckner for days. If you know what that means, you probably could, too.” – Village Voice Sep 18, 2012 Full Review The Master (2012) 85% EDIT “It's a film of breathtaking cinematic romanticism and near-complete denial of conventional catharsis. You might wish it gave you more in terms of comfort food pleasure, but that's not Anderson's problem.” – Village Voice Sep 11, 2012 Full Review The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) 85% EDIT “Chbosky plays this CW serial stuff for maximum earnestness, stressing the teenage tendency to assume that every new thing they're feeling is unprecedented in human history, keeping the tone just-moist-eyed throughout.” – Village Voice Sep 4, 2012 Full Review Detropia (2012) 86% EDIT “Beautifully composed and purposefully edited to a haunting electronic score ...” – Village Voice Sep 4, 2012 Full Review The Ambassador (2011) 71% EDIT “You watch both fearing that something spectacularly tragic could happen, and knowing that if this film exists, it probably didn't.” – Village Voice Aug 28, 2012 Full Review Sleepwalk With Me (2012) 83% EDIT “[Rides] a weird tonal line, maybe aiming to split the difference between comedy and terror but coming off as afraid to really go for it on either.” – Village Voice Aug 21, 2012 Full Review Cosmopolis (2012) 67% EDIT “We're supposed to be feeling . . . something. That we don't might be Cronenberg's own endgame.” – Village Voice Aug 14, 2012 Full Review The Campaign (2012) 66% EDIT “Most of the movie's big laughs are in the first half; like so many high-concept/low-character comedies, it runs out of steam early and then wheezes to an anticlimax.” – Village Voice Aug 7, 2012 Full Review Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) 71% EDIT “A notably lo-fi entry into the recent trend of romantic comedies that think acknowledging the genre's clichs is as good as subverting them.” – Village Voice Jul 31, 2012 Full Review The Queen of Versailles (2012) 95% EDIT “The film hardly feels hastily pasted together: Greenfield filmed long enough to document physical changes in her subjects.” – Village Voice Jul 17, 2012 Full Review Trishna (2011) 62% EDIT “The film's exploration of extremes coexisting uneasily is especially palpable in a subplot involving Mumbai's film industry.” – Village Voice Jul 10, 2012 Full Review
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