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Mark Holcomb

Mark Holcomb's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bless the Child (2000) 4% EDIT “If you're so inclined, pray that the responsible parties crawl back into whatever hole they emerged from.” – Village Voice Jun 3, 2013 Full Review The ABCs of Death (2012) 40% EDIT “What's unexpected is how thoroughly The ABCs of Death's ample duds overshadow its treasures, and how uninspired it feels as a whole.” – Village Voice Feb 19, 2013 Full Review Samsara (2011) 75% EDIT “Outs Fricke and Magidson as high-minded aesthete snobs.” – Village Voice Aug 21, 2012 Full Review Searching for Sugar Man (2011) 95% EDIT “Fluid, open-ended documentaries that demand more of an audience than foregone assent or fleeting bouts of passive outrage are rare these days, which is what makes Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man such a gift.” – Village Voice Jul 24, 2012 Full Review Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) 55% EDIT “By turns bizarrely affectless and then prattlingly manic, much like its dual protagonists...” – Village Voice Jun 19, 2012 Full Review Kumaré (2011) 60% EDIT “Prepare to have your assumptions pitched out the window by this tense, surprisingly probing satirical documentary...” – Village Voice Jun 19, 2012 Full Review Men on the Bridge (2009) 79% EDIT “Raw yet respectful and tenderly observed...” – Village Voice Jun 19, 2012 Full Review The Last Ride (2012) 47% EDIT “It portrays Williams in a generally sympathetic light without whitewashing his vice-loving, belligerent ways or mythologizing them in a bid for postmortem psychoanalysis.” – Village Voice Jun 19, 2012 Full Review The Girl From the Naked Eye (2012) 40% EDIT “There are dozens of better, riskier, more interesting films that go unreleased every year-why this militantly dull effort is taking their place is its only worthwhile mystery.” – Village Voice Jun 12, 2012 Full Review Corpo Celeste (2011) 85% EDIT “Corpo Celeste would be a treat in any season, but it's particularly refreshing amid the summer-movie bombast.” – Village Voice Jun 5, 2012 Full Review Patagonia Rising (2011) 50% EDIT “Elicits the combination of rage and helplessness (and guilty wanderlust) unique to the genre with admirable thoroughness and balance.” – Village Voice Jun 5, 2012 Full Review 5 Broken Cameras (2011) 96% EDIT “Startlingly intimate and direct, this first-person doc by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi requires multiple viewings for anyone eager to work out how it could have been shot with such precision and visual ingenuity under such plainly chaotic conditions.” – Village Voice May 30, 2012 Full Review Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011) 89% EDIT “Above all, Pink Ribbons, Inc. is an argument for reintroducing into the public discourse the uncertainty, fear, and complexity that cancer sufferers and their loved ones know all too well.” – Village Voice May 30, 2012 Full Review Sleepless Night (2011) 97% EDIT “Jardin ... brings a restless intelligence and disciplined glee to Sleepless Night that far surpasses its cinematic influences.” – Village Voice May 8, 2012 Full Review The Road (2011) 63% EDIT “Call it a haircut of Psycho with ectoplasmic additives, The Road still has a whispering menace and visual grandeur all its own.” – Village Voice May 8, 2012 Full Review Citizen Gangster (2011) 56% EDIT “Morlando shows commendable focus (even Cox dials it down), and his movie's modest aspirations nicely reflect the condition in which Boyd, his damaged charisma spent, finally thrives.” – Village Voice Apr 24, 2012 Full Review Payback (2012) 73% EDIT “Cinematic globe-trotting doesn't necessarily trump reading a good book, it turns out; then again, more movies should be burdened with the flaw of being too intellectually curious.” – Village Voice Apr 24, 2012 Full Review Whores' Glory (2011) 88% EDIT “Whores' Glory demystifies trick turning with a bluntness and sneaky artistry that's sure to make even the most jaded of us choke on our next sitcom-hooker-joke chuckle.” – Village Voice Apr 24, 2012 Full Review Jean Gentil (2010) 80% EDIT “Keeps an unsentimental distance from its titular saint-savant and the existential crisis he endures.” – Village Voice Apr 17, 2012 Full Review Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011) 82% EDIT “A tender, thoughtful paean to geek community.” – Village Voice Apr 10, 2012 Full Review My Mars Bar Movie (2012) EDIT “As a poetic evocation of drunken loafing and an ode to the optimal-and, in Gotham, ever-dwindling-setting in which to indulge in the practice, it's almost required viewing.” – Village Voice Apr 10, 2012 Full Review The Assault (2010) 53% EDIT “The Assault is so tense, it seems to pass in a single held breath-so quickly, in fact, that you don't register its narrative flimsiness until later on.” – Village Voice Apr 3, 2012 Full Review Wrath of the Titans (2012) 26% EDIT “What it lacks are the very elements that made the first movie such a surprise: wit and nerve.” – Village Voice Mar 30, 2012 Full Review Scenes of a Crime (2011) 100% EDIT “A nonfiction corrective to decades of cop-friendly pop-culture conditioning, this rigorously focused documentary looks hard at police interrogation, a process most of us take for granted.” – Village Voice Mar 27, 2012 Full Review Intruders (2011) 29% EDIT “With nothing tangible at stake, Intruders is just an aggregation of influences that's as blank as its bogeyman.” – Village Voice Mar 27, 2012 Full Review
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