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Ella Taylor, Village Voice

  1. The Chaperone 2011 You get a bargain two high-concepts for the price of one in this amiably lame offering from Stephen Herek. full review
  2. Cracks 2011 All of which is heavy-breathing fun until an ill-judged lapse into Lord of the Flies territory and a Jean Rhys-ian climax all but bury the message about the evils of repression. full review
  3. Burzynski 2010 Eric Merola, a former art director of commercials, is either unusually credulous, or doesn't understand the difference between a documentary and an advertisement, or has an undisclosed relationship with the subject of his allegedly nonfiction first film. full review
  4. Mugabe and the White African 2010 Tthis incendiary documentary showcases Mugabe's corrupt use of land reform to further polarize a fragile nation already divided along racial lines. full review
  5. Amreeka 2009 The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis. full review
  6. The Good Guy 2009 The Good Guy suffers from the dreary want of imagination about the specificity of twentysomething life that has sunk so many other specimens of this battered genre. full review
  7. I Hate Valentine's Day 2009 Vardalos calls her film "the ultimate indie experiment," and if that's what is meant by ham-fisted pacing, writing, and acting, this is as ultimate and as indie as it gets. full review
  8. Disgrace 2008 Though overwrought in its early scenes, the movie quickly settles into an intelligently faithful rendering of a calling to account, whose visceral power and political implications need no hyping. full review
  9. The Other Man 2008 It hurts to see a terrific cast (including the lovely and intelligent young Irish actress Romola Garai as the couple's quietly seething daughter) squandered on such dreary filmmaking. full review

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