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R. Emmet Sweeney

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Village Voice film critic.

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Plácido (1961) 100% 4/5 “The film is a tour-de-force of inertia.” – Streamline Sep 10, 2019 Full Review Funny People (2009) 69% “Funny People is deeply personal and intriguingly abstract, a bittersweet vision of a comedian's mournful existence.” – The Rumpus Sep 18, 2017 Full Review Emelie (2015) 88% “Michael Thelin's perversely effective debut feature is a little thriller that pokes and prods at the fears of young parents...Thelin builds these traumas slowly, and exploits the natural and playful performances of the kids for maximum queasiness.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 17, 2016 Full Review Non-Stop (2014) 62% “With Non-Stop, Collet-Serra confirms his status of one of Hollywood's most inventive genre artists (and one of the last to shoot on film).” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 9, 2015 Full Review Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) 57% “Hyams has created a truly unique object, a horror-action-flicker film about uniquely expressive bodies haunted by the minds and memories they are forced to house.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 9, 2015 Full Review Office (2015) 88% “The actors do their own singing, which may have limited Lu somewhat-for the most part, the songs can sound like temp tracks left over from an abandoned studio session, with synth guitars and skeletal melodies.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 14, 2015 Full Review Dumb and Dumber To (2014) 30% “The Farrelly's sacred space is the road trip, and once the two idiots fire up their hearse's engine the movie finds its slapstick sweet spot.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 14, 2014 Full Review Gebo and the Shadow (2012) 100% “'Gebo' is an elemental thudding back to earth, body and soul entombed inside a dimly lit abode.” – Film Comment Magazine Jun 12, 2014 Full Review Broken Lullaby (1932) 100% “[An] extraordinary stylistic experiment.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 28, 2014 Full Review Pompeii (2014) 27% “The closing images-of a self-annihilating, all-consuming passion that will be preserved for centuries-[obliterate] the line between the ridiculous and the sublime.” – Film Comment Magazine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) 74% “What is more radical in McKay's work is his technique, which splinters the story until reality is overtaken by the phantoms of Burgundy's disturbed unconscious-where he battles blindness, minotaurs, and the ghost of Stonewall Jackson.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 19, 2013 Full Review Abuse of Weakness (2013) 86% “The message in Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness is about the incomprehensibility of the self. It's an autobiographical purging.” – The L Magazine Sep 13, 2013 Full Review Nobody Walks (2012) 40% 2/5 “For a film about sexual conquest, Nobody Walks is a frustratingly flaccid affair.” – Time Out Oct 16, 2012 Full Review The Tin Drum (1979) 84% 3/5 “Schlndorff has a tendency to sketch the rest of the cast as simple grotesques or symbols of decadence that are unconvincingly humanized in the final third.” – Time Out Sep 18, 2012 Full Review The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011) 33% 2/5 “Offering little more than flat karaoke versions of Sundance-style hits, this is strictly an amateur-hour affair.” – Time Out Sep 18, 2012 Full Review The Green Wave (2011) 91% 3/5 “By airing an impassioned chorus of voices ranging from lawyers to religious clerics, the film argues that the 2009 protests were simply preparing the way for a larger populist movement that has yet to crest.” – Time Out Aug 14, 2012 Full Review 3/5 “Credit the actors for making what might have been nothing but a well-intentioned message movie (which includes real archival testimony of rape victims) into an affecting drama.” – Time Out Jul 3, 2012 Full Review Patagonia Rising (2011) 50% 1/5 “Recent newspaper coverage will provide more context, and will take up 80 fewer minutes of your time.” – Time Out Jun 5, 2012 Full Review Girl in Progress (2012) 34% 2/5 “Riggen's lethargic direction, which favors a monotonous procession of static, centrally framed compositions, doesn't help matters in the slightest.” – Time Out May 8, 2012 Full Review As the Call, So the Echo (2006) “A stealthy love letter from son to father.” – Village Voice Oct 31, 2006 Full Review The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005) 33% “Although technically impressive, the remake is dramatically inert, as the set becomes a motionless backdrop to theatrical line readings instead of a pulsing manifestation of diseased minds.” – Village Voice Oct 24, 2006 Full Review Blood Tea and Red String (2006) 92% “As with Henry Darger, coherence is beside the point; one just waits for the next baffling image.” – Village Voice Oct 3, 2006 Full Review Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) 89% “If the film's cultural work is finished, its historical place will always be secure.” – Village Voice Aug 15, 2006 Full Review The Color of Olives (2006) 40% “Instead of posing the children in bright fill lights looking sad, why not let them speak?” – Village Voice Jul 11, 2006 Full Review The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004) 67% “There is magic in these intimate passion plays, which are filled with sloppy, loving detail and are mounted without a hint of pretension. Each banal moment becomes achingly gorgeous.” – Village Voice Jun 21, 2006 Full Review
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