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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 12 Feb 2015

Destined to gain a cult following with die-hards rewatching countless times, quoting every line, and reacting to every mannerism…

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Review of Predestination (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 08 Jan 2015

A totally weird path, but one that's easy to mentally traverse despite the strangeness…

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Review of Predestination (2013)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 08 Jan 2015

A totally weird path, but one that's easy to mentally traverse despite the strangeness…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 04 Dec 2014

This is an emotional struggle that can't have a completely clean resolution, and Still Alice doesn't try to force one…

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Review of Life Partners (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 04 Dec 2014

Focuses on trivialities and cuteness instead of developing the three-dimensional traits of the main characters…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 27 Nov 2014

With The Babadook, Kent has created an iconic boogeyman and an intense psychological horror film that cuts to the core of actual human grief…

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Review of Housebound (2000)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 17 Nov 2014

Housebound won't terrify you into losing sleep or split your side with its hilarity, but it will make you recoil with surprise and appreciate its wit…

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Review of Housebound (2016)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 17 Nov 2014

Housebound won't terrify you into losing sleep or split your side with its hilarity, but it will make you recoil with surprise and appreciate its wit…

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Review of Housebound (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 17 Nov 2014

Housebound won't terrify you into losing sleep or split your side with its hilarity, but it will make you recoil with surprise and appreciate its wit…

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Review of White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 22 Oct 2014

For all the metaphors about invisible fowl and hyperrealism, the film is finite when it had potential to linger…

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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 17 Sep 2014

No amount of Gilliam's fisheye lenses, Dutch angles, or low-fi future tech can distract from the treadworn trivialities masked as philosophical…

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Review of The Longest Week (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 03 Sep 2014

There's even a lighthearted lecture informing us that people who label something as pretentious are the turgid ones. Talk about pretentious…

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Review of When the Game Stands Tall (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 20 Aug 2014

The game stands way too tall - head and shoulders above the real people that made the sacrifices and put in the work to make this story worth telling…

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Review of Life After Beth (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 13 Aug 2014

We just can't let the undead lie, and while the zombie genre is ripe with potential, Life After Beth doesn't tap into any of it effectively…

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Review of Happy Christmas (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 23 Jul 2014

Happy Christmas is a pleasant-enough quick watch that's easy to digest. And that's also what makes it somewhat disappointing…

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Review of Very Good Girls (2013)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 23 Jul 2014

A superlative-laden title suggests something that's on-the-nose sentimental, satire, or subversive irony…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 25 Jun 2014

Combines the social satire of Bong Joon-ho's creature feature The Host with the grim realism of his Memories of Murder in ways that are as…

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Review of The Sacrament (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 04 Jun 2014

An exploitative packaging of a real-life horror…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 29 Apr 2014

Plays into our primal urge for justice and isn't afraid to show us the spiraling consequences, physical and emotional, that come with acting…

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Review of Locke (2014)

By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 23 Apr 2014

A deftly paced, expertly performed character study in which a man's life is completely changed as he barrels toward a new adventure while sitting…

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