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Reprisal
(2018)
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Sean Axmaker
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The out-of-time iconography, decades-straddling style, and anywhere USA setting invite the audience to relish Reprisal's pulp ethos and appreciate the twists and turns of the ride as Doris unleashes chaos.
Posted Feb 14, 2020
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The Traitor
(2019)
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Kelly Vance
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The Traitor is a sober indictment of lawlessness and a man who ultimately found no joy in it.
Posted Feb 14, 2020
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Motherless Brooklyn
(2019)
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Kelly Vance
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With its odd combination of period crime and slapstick, Motherless Brooklyn takes its time warming up, but Norton's Brooklyn - both the place and the man - grow on us.
Posted Nov 22, 2019
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The Death of Dick Long
(2019)
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Kelly Vance
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Scheinert and Chew's poor-dumb-redneck free-for-all is rescued by its players.
Posted Oct 19, 2019
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Piranhas
(2019)
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Sean Axmaker
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The scrappy filmmaking and petty criminal antics fit the scale of this Gomorrah Jr.
Posted Aug 12, 2019
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Dogman
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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The director, who wrote the screenplay with help from a squad of six other writers, frames his characters with precision in their natural habitat.
Posted May 10, 2019
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Trouble Is My Business
(2017)
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Sean Axmaker
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It's too long at just under two hours and the performances bounce between intent caricature and knowing lampoon, but the commitment to the project is as authentic as its affection for the genre.
Posted Apr 22, 2019
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Serenity
(2019)
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Kelly Vance
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I'm no big fan of the twist, but it did not distract me from having fun with the general over-the-top tone of the movie.
Posted Mar 02, 2019
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Destroyer
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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Kidman's Erin Bell is a sort of Sphinx. To observe her is to be enchanted and repelled in almost equal measure.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
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Bad Times at the El Royale
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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In the end, there's too much incident and too many loose threads for this movie to handle.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
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The Old Man & the Gun
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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Every time Forrest and Jewel go into one of their love chats -- in tight close-up, to go along with the grainy '70s-style cinematography -- the movie slows down a little more. By the end, it's barely breathing.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
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The Angel
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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Captivatingly nasty.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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In its third generation, the saga has become noticeably threadbare, even trite.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
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Mute
(2017)
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Sean Axmaker
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Slow and listless, lacking tension or a sense of danger, it's a pastiche with aspirations to being a movie that ends up a very expensive pageant.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
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Anon
(2018)
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Sean Axmaker
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It should be a nightmarish ordeal; yet, for a film steeped in subjectivity and techno-voyeurism, Anon retains a frustrating, video game-style distance from their experiences.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
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Manhunt
(2017)
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Sean Axmaker
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It's not as jaw-droppingly astonishing as in Woo's heyday, but still glorious to behold at its best.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
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Unsane
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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Kudos to Foy's performance and to Soderbergh's genius for finding the tenderest, most sensitive nerve ending and worrying it mercilessly.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
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Gemini
(2017)
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Kelly Vance
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Kravitz (Rough Night, Mad Max: Fury Road) is capable of better than this.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
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You Were Never Really Here
(2017)
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Kelly Vance
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You Were Never Really Here is not for everyone, but its wounded compassion is undeniable.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
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American Animals
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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The middle-class kids chose the wrong prank. A seven-year sentence is a dandy proscenium breaker.... And we, the audience, get to vicariously experience an entertaining cautionary tale.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
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Terminal
(2018)
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Kelly Vance
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Meanwhile, no amount of script doctoring could save Terminal. That train left long ago.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
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