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David Ng

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EDIT “Rapturously beautiful.” – Village Voice Jan 19, 2006 Full Review Happy Here and Now (2002) 50% EDIT “When Amelia takes the full multimedia plunge in the movie's final moments, Happy becomes something inexplicably (and metaphysically) beautiful.” – Village Voice Dec 13, 2005 Full Review Days of Santiago (2004) 100% EDIT “If the movie lacks narrative originality, it leaves a singularly raw impression of having spent time inside someone's sweaty, ill-fitting skin.” – Village Voice Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Gilles' Wife (2004) 81% EDIT “Devos's performance is an expert workshop of internalized emotions and silent forbearance.” – Village Voice Nov 15, 2005 Full Review Unveiled (2005) 80% EDIT “Unveiled overflows with sociopolitical outrage even if its portrayal of a gender-confused heroine is ultimately indecisive and laconic.” – Village Voice Nov 15, 2005 Full Review Stupid Boy (2004) 56% EDIT “A better-late-than-never coming-of-age tale that is by turns earnest and corny, though never stupide.” – Village Voice Sep 13, 2005 Full Review Mariscos Beach (2005) 54% EDIT “Like many a French summer holiday, Côte d'Azur ends up being pretty, listless, and much too long.” – Village Voice Sep 13, 2005 Full Review Games of Love and Chance (2004) 78% EDIT “Reading between the cuss words, the movie glimpses a sunny teen innocence just before it darkens irreversibly into adulthood.” – Village Voice Aug 30, 2005 Full Review Sequins (2004) 83% EDIT “Sequins hinges on its performances and newcomer Naymark is a marvel of quiet intelligence, endowing Claire with a complex mix of virginal purity and hormonal rage.” – Village Voice May 24, 2005 Full Review Mindhunters (2004) 25% EDIT “In an era of wall-to-wall CSI, Mindhunters' ghoulish forensic hubbub not only feels tiring but hopelessly redundant.” – Village Voice May 10, 2005 Full Review The Grand Role (2004) 61% EDIT “Director Steve Suissa spells out the acting metaphors for the cheap seats but leaves subtler points of intrigue unexplored.” – Village Voice May 3, 2005 Full Review Ladies in Lavender (2004) 64% EDIT “While they never look bored, Smith and Dench are clearly slumming, having played these roles in other costume pics.” – Village Voice Apr 26, 2005 Full Review The Amityville Horror (2005) 23% EDIT “The Amityville Horror is a Xerox so tattered and faded that it's impossible to determine who's to blame for the overproduced mediocrity before our eyes.” – Village Voice Apr 19, 2005 Full Review 15: The Movie (2003) 50% EDIT “The directionless lives on display all too easily translate into a directionless film.” – Village Voice Apr 12, 2005 Full Review ... And They Lived Happily Ever After (2004) 59% EDIT “If there is any doubt as to whether French cinema is in a state of free fall, Yvan Attal's Happily Ever After should put such uncertainties to rest.” – Village Voice Apr 7, 2005 Full Review Beyond the Sea (2003) 60% EDIT “Grants a quiet dignity to its subjects without sanctifying them. And the less-than-ideal outcome of many of their lives rings all the more powerfully for being so plainly presented.” – Village Voice Mar 22, 2005 Full Review After the Apocalypse (2004) 93% EDIT “A surprisingly engaging ride.” – Village Voice Mar 15, 2005 Full Review Minimal Stories (2002) 88% EDIT “It's a perfectly realized grace note whose lack of any obvious message only reinforces the movie's abundant wisdom and patient humanism.” – Village Voice Mar 3, 2005 Full Review Fear and Trembling (2003) 91% EDIT “A film that professes a deep respect for the Japanese culture and then renders its Japanese characters as a bunch of screeching ninnies.” – Village Voice Nov 16, 2004 Full Review Who Killed Bambi? (2003) 43% EDIT “A sustained atmosphere of bleached-out horror.” – Village Voice Nov 9, 2004 Full Review Fish Without a Bicycle (2003) 10% EDIT “Strong performances are marred by a script whose dialogue ranges from cheesy to unspeakably bad.” – Village Voice Oct 21, 2004 Full Review Shall We Dance? (2004) 46% EDIT “Exemplifies its distributor at its most blatantly opportunistic -- plundering the recycling bin for a no-brainer cash-in.” – Village Voice Oct 12, 2004 Full Review Remember Me, My Love (2003) 55% EDIT “The 48-year-old Morante is the real thing; like Deneuve, Rampling, and Huppert, she graces middle age with both intelligence and a rumpled, lived-in sex appeal.” – Village Voice Aug 31, 2004 Full Review It's Easier for a Camel... (2003) 46% EDIT “Long-winded, jokingly self-deprecating, and clichd.” – Village Voice Aug 17, 2004 Full Review Intimate Strangers (2004) 85% EDIT “A bland chamber drama for those who like their French cinema tame, talky, and just a little titillating.” – Village Voice Jul 27, 2004 Full Review
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