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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) |
The manner in which Poitras structures and presents the many layers of Nan’s story is simply extraordinary, a portrait of advocacy like no other. - Decider
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023) |
... For every fascinating moment there are too many staid, momentum-killing instances of people reading lines from legal documents, or talking heads making claims that go unquestioned and unsubstantiated. - Decider
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
Cocaine Bear has no style, no suspense, no functional comedy. - Decider
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| Posted Mar 15, 2023
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Have a Nice Day! (2023) |
... A simple and modestly nutritious slice of life. - Decider
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| Posted Mar 13, 2023
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Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) |
... It’s unrelentingly grim and humorless. But hey, at least it’s handsome, right? - Decider
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| Posted Mar 11, 2023
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Faraway (2023) |
Faraway is nice, but “nice” doesn’t always mean “good.” - Decider
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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10 Days of a Good Man (2023) |
It’s a tangle. But it’s a stylishly directed, keenly photographed and highly enjoyable tangle, with across-the-board wily performances. - Decider
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Gulmohar (2023) |
Although Gulmohar begs for another pass through the writers’ room, it’s still a solid family-ties drama carried by the power of its performances. - Decider
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Love at First Kiss (2023) |
The opportunity to generate some heat is right there, but the film doesn’t capitalize on the chemistry among its game, talented cast. And yet, despite its untapped potential, Love at First Kiss is a modestly enjoyable 96 minutes... - Decider
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) |
Give it props for its audio-visual savoir-faire, but dramatically and emotionally, Magic Mike’s Last Dance isn’t much to get hot and bothered about. - Decider
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Tonight You're Sleeping With Me (2023) |
Call the power company, Maw – this love shack got no electricity. - Decider
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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A Man Called Otto (2022) |
A Man Called Otto is mechanically engineered for maximum lachrymosal extraction. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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EO (2022) |
EO is a marvel, a singular vision. You’ll poke holes in it, question it, be immersed in it, and you won’t see anything quite like it for a long time. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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I'm Totally Fine (2022) |
It’s an absurd idea with great potential for pathos or comedy, but it’s underdeveloped, leaving Bell and Morales without the robust material they need to bring the movie to life. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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Call Me Chihiro (2023) |
The film’s airiness can be both comforting and frustrating; sometimes Imaizumi seems to be aiming for profound reticence, and lands on inertness. But the breezy tone isn’t insubstantial... - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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The Strays (2023) |
It’s a stylish film, but one that’s ultimately too shallow and familiar to be truly effective... The Strays feels too much like Peele Lite. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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A Sunday Affair (2023) |
A Sunday Affair is a decent technical achievement, and its lead performances are good, but that threadbare love-triangle story is lukewarm at best. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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The Whale (2022) |
Aronofsky’s career-long obsession with the grotesque is alive and well here, and he skirts the edge of exploitation. But The Whale is very much a splayed-open tragedy, and a weirdly romantic one at that... - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
[Shyamalan is] as strong a visual craftsman as ever, a master manipulator who toys with his audience with the winking acerbity of his idol Hitchcock. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) |
So the visionary efforts are present, absolutely, but they’re not memorable without a consistently compelling narrative. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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Sharper (2023) |
Sometimes you watch a movie like Sharper and feel double-crossed. Duped. Hornswoggled. But not this one. Even in its inherent flimsiness, it’s slick, tight and entertaining. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 18, 2023
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Armageddon Time (2022) |
The Caucasian guilt in Armageddon Time is bald, raw, ugly and anti-sentimental; Gray shows us his unflattering truth and urges us to reject it. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 18, 2023
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All the Places (2023) |
It’s lightly episodic, highly predictable and far too artificially flavored to yield an organic emotional response, especially when the siblings are forced through the abattoir sluice-grate of this phony-ass third act. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 15, 2023
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Somebody I Used To Know (2023) |
The film leans a little more toward quirky-indie sensibilities... Ultimately, none of the shenanigans distract from the heart of the matter, which pumps warmly within Brie’s compelling performance. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 11, 2023
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) |
Lemmons and screenwriter Anthony McCarten never get to the truth about Whitney, piecing together one scene after another after another... like writing a pop song with lyrics, melody and rhythm, but without a hook. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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Beast (2022) |
So, accepting the absence of thematic content and realistic portrayals of the natural world such films inevitably must be somewhat about themselves and how they were made. And Beast is made with a degree of elegance that’s wholly unexpected... - Decider
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| Posted Feb 07, 2023
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Spoiler Alert (2022) |
Where other movies might indulge glibness or Oscar-clip force, Spoiler Alert opts for subtlety and clarity. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 07, 2023
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Skinamarink (2022) |
51 boring/49 provocative. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 04, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
With Babylon, though, Chazelle gives us magic, but trumps it with sheer, unadulterated madness. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 04, 2023
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |
The tribute here is heartfelt, but the spirit of the man and the character sometimes get lost in all the bric-a-brac of the Marvel machine... the film lands on a triumphant note of succession, as it must– the gods inside and above the narrative demand it. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Pamela, a Love Story (2023) |
There’s a fine line between vanity and vulnerability, and Pamela, a Love Story indulges a bit of the former and a bit more of the latter. - Decider
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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Orphan: First Kill (2022) |
Credit the screenplay for staying a step ahead of us and not being too predictable; ding the director for not delivering a single memorable kill. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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You People (2023) |
You People has its moments, and might be worth watching for Murphy’s performance alone. But it never comes together as either a consistent laugh generator or potent slice of cultural commentary. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023) |
Teen Wolf: The Movie is rough sledding from any standpoint. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
M3GAN isn’t ostensibly a comedy, but it’s funny as f—. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Narvik (2021) |
A perfectly serviceable wartime drama, nothing more, nothing less. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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Jung_E (2023) |
Jung(UNDERSCORE)E flat-out doesn’t deliver the existential sci-fi goods. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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One Way (2022) |
Nobody will accuse One Way of being more than a genre exercise with the occasional bit of convincing acting from MGK, but when the rubber hits the road, it just doesn’t deliver the goods in a viscerally or psychologically satisfying way. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 23, 2023
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Mission Majnu (2023) |
Mission Majnu isn’t quite ambitious or silly enough to warrant too much of an enthusiastic recommendation, but it’s nevertheless modestly enjoyable as an international thriller rendered as nigh-disposable fluff. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 23, 2023
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To Leslie (2022) |
Ryan Binaco’s screenplay peddles some cliches, but it also smartly allows her [Leslie/Riseborough] to hit bottom quietly instead of with her usual display of borderline-gruesome indignity. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 18, 2023
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House of Darkness (2022) |
There’s potential in this marriage of modern sexual dynamics and classic horror, but this chamber piece is like a 100-room mansion populated by three people: much less than half-empty. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 18, 2023
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Riotsville, USA (2022) |
A rousing and incisive documentary gamely tackling the most crucial social problem in modern America. The more things stay the same, it seems to say, the harder they are to change. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 18, 2023
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Devotion (2022) |
Devotion does its job dutifully. Its understated social dynamic keeps the film afloat; otherwise, it offers few surprises and adheres to our expectations for true-story biopics. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 18, 2023
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The Old Way (2023) |
The Old Way’s six-shooter is just firing blanks. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 18, 2023
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The Drop (2022) |
It’s a weirdly noncommittal movie, stuck in a no-man’s-land between hangout movie and a story with substance. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 18, 2023
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Noise (2022) |
Beristain carefully balances Noise’s contextual and emotional fodder, honing a powerful portrait of systemic corruption, moral rot and the anguish of the powerless. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Bromates (2022) |
Ironically, it’ll take a large amount of mind-altering, intelligence-deadening substances to make us laugh at any of these jokes... sub-Joe Dirt junk. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 11, 2023
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10 Minutes Gone (2019) |
Now, if there was something winkingly camp about 10 Minutes Gone, it might be modestly viable entertainment. But it takes itself just seriously enough to render it flavorless mush... - Decider
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| Posted Jan 11, 2023
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Possession (1981) |
Possession’s bewildering complexities and unnerving overtures render it a singular work, crazier even than Lynch and Cronenberg. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 07, 2023
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Barbarians (2021) |
Charles Dorfman never gets this blend of satire, psychological thriller and chilly, understated horror to congeal into something memorable. - Decider
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| Posted Jan 05, 2023
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