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Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 16 Dec 2015

The vintage grotesquerie of the regular old whaling process turns out to be more disturbing than the dark adventures that are In the Heart…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 Dec 2015

Heart of a Dog is a unique, indescribable beast, Anderson narrating over a collage of 8mm home video, iPhone footage, canine-level camera,…

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Review of Mustang (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 Dec 2015

Mustang offers some nearly surreal looks into a culture fixated on virginity and women as spoilable objects…

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Review of James White (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 Dec 2015

It's Abbott who's the revelation, showing off all sorts of previously unseen leading-man potential…

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Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 Dec 2015

[Lee has] been better at lobbing fireballs than aiming them…

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Review of Best of Enemies (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 Dec 2015

This doc about the 10-night series, directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville (who won an Oscar last year for Twenty Feet From Stardom),…

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Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 03 Dec 2015

If The Good Dinosaur falls low in the rankings of the company's now 16 titles, it is still leagues finer than the flurry of frenetic colors…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 24 Nov 2015

Creed understands the value of formulas and of archetypes, but more importantly, it knows how to push off them to find the unexpected…

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Review of The Night Before (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 19 Nov 2015

The Night Before is a raucous comedy with a sweet soul that's tremendously uneven…

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Review of Pixels (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

There are scenes in the surreally lazy, occasionally funny Pixels in which Sandler's face slips into the exact same weary, disgruntled expression…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

The tension in Goodnight Mommy owes everything to our not knowing who to trust…

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Review of Love (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

Noé deserves credit for putting sex so boldly at the front and center of his new romance and depicting it as an essential part of love and…

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Review of Our Little Sister (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

Offering up their hard-won home and refusing to let Suzu be saddled with her parents' baggage, grows more and more breathtaking in retrospect,…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

It's a testament to how scary a movie It Follows is that for days after watching it, you walk around thinking up survival plans - should you…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

When everything's new, learning your previously limited world is in fact boundless is just another lesson to accept on the path to growing up…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

The fact that Furious 7 is messier than any of the past installments is more than mitigated by its grandeur. Dom, cars don't fly…

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Review of Fort Tilden (2014)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

Fort Tilden is all the hipster satire you can handle, and maybe more…

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Review of Unfriended (2014)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

It's a premise that seems ridiculous until you start to realize it might actually be brilliant, or at least charmingly clever…

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Review of Legend (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

Legend chooses to start with its subjects having already done their crimes and some time, and it follows them up the ladder and then back to…

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Review of The Longest Ride (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Nov 2015

The Longest Ride is a weak sauce addition to the Sparks empire, a little better than last year's The Best of Me, but miles below uber-Sparks…

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Alison Willmore has written reviews for:

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Time Out (7,510)
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New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519)
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Movieline (883)
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