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Benjamin Strong

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Psychopathia Sexualis (2006) 23% EDIT “...it's clear from the pedantic tone of the dramatic re-enactments (imagine an adult History Channel) that writer-director Bret Wood believes he's showing us the sexual revolution's Magna Carta.” – Village Voice Jun 6, 2006 Full Review Akeelah and the Bee (2006) 86% EDIT “Beneath its sentimental exterior, this film is Foucauldian enough to take seriously the idea that knowledge is power.” – Village Voice Apr 25, 2006 Full Review Dirty (2005) 22% EDIT “[Director Fisher] appears fixated on Los Angeles as a nihilistic phantasmagoria.” – Village Voice Feb 21, 2006 Full Review Kill the Poor (2003) 25% EDIT “Shot on a modest DV budget, Kill the Poor isn't pretty, but it's a balanced look at the dirty politics of gentrification.” – Village Voice Jan 3, 2006 Full Review Daltry Calhoun (2005) 7% EDIT “Anyone looking for a paean to the unnatural allure of a sprinklered lawn can see that the grass is greener in Blue Velvet.” – Village Voice Nov 1, 2005 Full Review Saw II (2005) 39% EDIT “What's worth noting is how much greater deliberation was given to the marketing than the screenplay of this cursory dud, rushed to theaters exactly a year after its amusing predecessor.” – Village Voice Oct 27, 2005 Full Review The Devil's Rejects (2005) 55% EDIT “By rubbing your nose in this hillbilly mayhem, Zombie all but dares you to acknowledge your liberal elitism.” – Village Voice Jul 19, 2005 Full Review A Sidewalk Astronomer (2005) 67% EDIT “An unenlightening recitation of lay science and salad bar spirituality.” – Village Voice Jul 6, 2005 Full Review Unleashed (2005) 66% EDIT “Missing from Unleashed is every hallmark of good filmmaking.” – Village Voice May 10, 2005 Full Review House of Wax (2005) 27% EDIT “First-time director Jaume Collet-Serra lingers over the victims at lengths discomfortingly gratuitous even by slasher standards. But he also demonstrates a droll touch.” – Village Voice May 3, 2005 Full Review Madison (2005) 31% EDIT “Peddles condescending hokum as heartland values.” – Village Voice Apr 19, 2005 Full Review Dust to Glory (2005) 60% EDIT “The movie is monotonous, storyless, and at under 100 minutes, interminable.” – Village Voice Mar 29, 2005 Full Review Hollywood Buddha (2003) 20% EDIT “The movie, as an exercise in narcissism, is breathtaking.” – Village Voice Mar 15, 2005 Full Review Alone in the Dark (2005) 1% EDIT “The garish editing and stilted, exposition-only dialogue induce the frisson of an America's Most Wanted re-enactment that pays unexpected, sidesplitting returns.” – Village Voice Feb 2, 2005 Full Review Elektra (2005) 11% EDIT “Offers no surprises, and whether or not you'll appreciate its modest charms depends entirely on whether you too have been anticipating Garner's new outfit.” – Village Voice Jan 25, 2005 Full Review The Green Butchers (2003) 63% EDIT “Butchers has little appetite for the darkest questions at the heart of its conceit.” – Village Voice Nov 30, 2004 Full Review Friday Night Lights (2004) 82% EDIT “The story gestures at a cross-sectional view of America on a Nashville scale.” – Village Voice Oct 12, 2004 Full Review What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004) 34% EDIT “A turgid, Enya-synth infomercial for New Age enlightenment.” – Village Voice Sep 7, 2004 Full Review Serpico (1973) 93% EDIT “Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.” – Village Voice Aug 3, 2004 Full Review Riding Giants (2004) 93% EDIT “Peralta has become a more relaxed filmmaker, and when he trusts the haunting sight of a giant wave breaking to speak for itself, the movie reaches the sublime heights of its subject.” – Village Voice Jul 6, 2004 Full Review The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) 29% EDIT “A preening outer-space costume drama staged as a backdrop for its leading man's muscles.” – Village Voice Jun 15, 2004 Full Review The Punisher (2004) 30% EDIT “Mismanages its greatest asset: an unusual embarrassment of camp riches.” – Village Voice Apr 21, 2004 Full Review Hidalgo (2004) 46% EDIT “A hybrid of both traditional and revisionist contradictions.” – Village Voice Mar 9, 2004 Full Review The Big Bounce (2004) 16% EDIT “Newcomer Foster cites Lauren Bacall as a precursor, but her ingnue fatale is more like a lost Olsen triplet.” – Village Voice Feb 3, 2004 Full Review
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