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Review of Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 15 Jun 2016

As Jia guides Salles through Fenyang, formerly a prison, and his past shooting locations, and as he introduces old friends and neighbors, the…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 15 Jun 2016

There's little distance between X-Men: Apocalypse and the films of Chinese director Jia Zhangke…

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Review of De Palma (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 15 Jun 2016

De Palma is not a shallow artist, but this documentary offers a shallow retrospective on his art, his celebrity, and his controversy…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 15 Jun 2016

Beneath the impertinent, literary banter is a sedate - almost cold - vision of cruelty, greed, and selfishness…

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Review of Sunset Song (2015)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 15 May 2016

Terence Davies' Sunset Song, a personalized tale about young Christine Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) growing up in rural Scotland just before World…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 15 May 2016

Money Monster (also the name of Gates's program) pretends to expose Wall Street chicanery at the same time as critiquing opportunistic television…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 11 May 2016

Captain America and Iron Man almost represent the schism that now divides American voters, politicians, and pundits…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 25 Apr 2016

Hanks has moved forward - as an artist must, and as American foreign policy should have - toward reconciliation…

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Review of Confirmation (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 14 Apr 2016

Grant and Famuyiwa, with their dependence on famous names and talking heads, prove incapable of achieving character depth, atmosphere, or intellectual…

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Review of Louder Than Bombs (2015)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 10 Apr 2016

Norwegian director Joachim Trier makes his first American film with Louder than Bombs, but shows off the same morose affectations as in his…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 10 Apr 2016

In Demolition, director Jean-Marc Vallée goes for the same slick, scattershot existentialism as in his previous films, The Dallas Buyers Club…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 03 Apr 2016

Miles Ahead is held together by Cheadle's regard for its subject, which clearly emboldened him, as a first-time director, to attempt filmmaking…

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Review of I Saw the Light (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 03 Apr 2016

Abraham ignores cultural specifics that could illuminate the society that produced a figure like Hiram King Williams, who enjoyed his cultural…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 03 Apr 2016

In this age of petty Marvels, most comic-book movies merely perpetrate fantasies of power, but Snyder, enacting his personal aesthetic, braves…

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Review of Knight of Cups (2015)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 23 Mar 2016

We desperately need a reminder that the film industry still comprises human beings with recognizable histories - and souls…

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Review of Midnight Special (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 23 Mar 2016

Yes, it's claptrap, but not entirely dismissable, because of Nichols's compelling grasp of two authentic aspects of American experience: the…

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Review of Eddie the Eagle (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 23 Mar 2016

The clichés in Eddie the Eagle are upfront, but these are also verities; they are organic to the story and essential to the example that Eddie…

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Review of Grimsby (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 16 Mar 2016

Cohen's burlesque (raunchy sex gags so blatant they're surreal) is his most hilarious and effective mode, but half-jokes about government surveillance…

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Review of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)

By Armond White (604) for New York Press (561) on 23 Aug 2011

Sfar rescues Gainsbourg from hipsters' self-satisfied claims…

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Review of Tales from the Golden Age (2009)

By Armond White (604) for New York Press (561) on 23 Aug 2011

Puiu's a skillful widescreen filmmaker, but he's also an urban snob who finds farm animals backward and funny…

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