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Ed Halter

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Bros (2022) 89% “Tonally clumsy, narratively awkward; fails to satisfy as rom or com. Unable to decide if it's an earnest love story or a series of SNL-style parodies, it's far too invested in its own purported novelty and in shaming other attempts at gay representation.” – 4Columns Oct 7, 2022 Full Review Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 96% “A testosterone-heavy entertainment payload...the film succeeds by sticking closely to the formula of its 1986 predecessor, bringing viewers a product that is beautifully polished in its design and blissfully unsophisticated in its worldview.” – 4Columns Jun 3, 2022 Full Review Dune (2021) 83% “Devoted to the ambitious production of overawing grandeur, it never quite coheres into something more profound or compelling than its carefully wrought parts, but does deliver a pageant splendid enough to entertain those of us unfamiliar with the book.” – 4Columns Oct 29, 2021 Full Review Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974) “At first portending a sadistic macho trip, Extreme Private Eros proves to be an unexpectedly humanist, even feminist film...” – Village Voice May 18, 2020 Full Review “The plot twists repeatedly as the series continues, each new crime evoking more brutal and convulsive beauty. Here as in his other serials, Feuillade evokes a quintessentially modern nightmare of urban paranoia and eruptive, random violence.” – New York Press Dec 5, 2019 Full Review Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998) 82% “Its characters belong less to any recognizable social reality than to the obvious wheezings of an imagination that, having decided that Arctic Circle necessitates making the male lover a pilot, thinks it's clever to name the pilot Otto...” – New York Press Jul 15, 2019 Full Review The Underground Orchestra (1998) “The Underground Orchestra is an agreeably offbeat documentary that comes with certain built-in but easily forgiven frustrations.” – New York Press Jul 15, 2019 Full Review A Bigger Splash (1973) 100% “One of its primary pleasures, perhaps even more so with the passing of time, is the intimate peephole it provides into the private lives of now-historical art-world figures.” – 4Columns Jun 28, 2019 Full Review The Greatest Showman (2017) 56% “This crude revision of Barnum as a white able-bodied savior-a kind of Oskar Schindler of the sideshow-is particularly in bad taste considering the far more unsavory historical realities.” – 4Columns Jan 5, 2018 Full Review War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) 94% “It tries to hold a mirror up to humanity, but merely provides a romp through a forest of empty signifiers.” – 4Columns Nov 10, 2017 Full Review Ankur (1974) 100% “An elegant and powerful treatise on rural feudalism that crossed over from the New Indian Cinema's government-sponsored purview into commercial success.” – Village Voice May 26, 2015 Full Review Fred Claus (2007) 20% “The exceptional cast -- Vaughn, Giamatti, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, Rachel Weisz -- is an embarrassment of riches for a script this thin and this beholden to family-fare protocol, with its mushy-minded moral and slick sentimentality.” – Village Voice Nov 6, 2007 Full Review Sátántangó (1994) 100% “Critics have rightfully hailed Tarr as one of filmdom's criminally undersung geniuses.” – Village Voice Oct 5, 2007 Full Review Metropolis (1927) 97% “Lang's impossibly vast skyscraper-ziggurats (inspired, it's said, by his first view of the Manhattan skyline) are the blueprint for nearly every science-fiction movie city of the past 30 years.” – Village Voice Jul 17, 2007 Full Review Shadow Company (2006) 80% “Shadow Company attempts to provide a balanced view of a potentially polarizing issue, interviewing historians, security firm heads, war journalists, and former contractors themselves (the Army declined).” – Village Voice Jul 5, 2007 Full Review Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006) 85% “Smith's own work, here montaged for easy digestion, is already too rich and sumptuous to require any further frosting.” – Village Voice Apr 10, 2007 Full Review Cobra Verde (1987) 83% “It's easy to understand why this was Herzog's final collaboration with the actor, but Kinski's performance nevertheless serves up a potent confusion of documentary and fiction that has long been an essential element of Herzog's filmmaking.” – Village Voice Mar 20, 2007 Full Review The GoodTimesKid (2005) 78% “Though the film never transcends its own neo-boho quirk, it concludes in a marvelous final shot: a long take set to Gang of Four, grungy and materialist in the Jacobs tradition.” – Village Voice Jan 16, 2007 Full Review The Tiger and the Snow (2005) 20% “Roberto Benigni here plays out a madcap tale of romantic obsession against the backdrop of the Iraq invasion. The results are neither profound nor funny.” – L.A. Weekly Jan 4, 2007 Full Review Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) 59% “A noble experiment in pushing the limits of cinema, but one too many sequences of ruffling silks and dreamy flower bouquets evoke little more than the ad-agency clichés of an elongated Chanel No. 5 commercial.” – L.A. Weekly Jan 4, 2007 Full Review The Tiger and the Snow (2005) 20% “Neither profound nor funny, but merely uncomfortable. A hubristic failure at risky humor, The Tiger and the Snow provides Benigni his own Michael Richards moment.” – Village Voice Dec 28, 2006 Full Review Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) 59% “It's a noble experiment in pushing the limits of cinema, but Tykwer never achieves true profundity.” – Village Voice Dec 27, 2006 Full Review My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2006) 100% “A micro-doc packing more intoxicating beauty and invigorating ideas into its 17 minutes than most other films do in 90 or more.” – Village Voice Dec 5, 2006 Full Review Bergman Island (2006) 89% “As little more than an extended interview, it remains hobbled by determinedly uninspired cinematography and a mundane televisual setup.” – Village Voice Dec 5, 2006 Full Review Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) 93% “Varda transforms the typical French cinema gamine into a complex, tragic figure: the girl who's all too good at playing plaything, forced to face the hollowness of her youth.” – Village Voice Nov 21, 2006 Full Review
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