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Review of Blair Witch (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 13 Aug 2017

This film is so much like the first film in tone and premise as to be excruciating at times, because the audience has seen it all before…

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Review of Ricki and the Flash (2015)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

Diablo Cody has written a script in which the characters themselves are well-drawn, but there isn't enough time or space on the page to devote…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

By the time the film reaches its ridiculous ending, it has stretched our disbelief to the point of failing to see the point for the trees…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

Everest is three-fourths guide through the unrelenting onslaught of nature and one-fourth regretting the tour…

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Review of Sinister 2 (2015)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

By the tortured end (for the viewer), we are left with the inquietude of another sequel coming…

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Review of Loev (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

Loev is at its most beautiful and heartbreaking when it focuses on what is said when the characters aren't speaking…

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Review of The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 31 Jul 2017

Hailee Steinfeld is an incredible young actress with a keen ability to portray strength without denying vulnerability, and the other young…

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Review of Rainbow Time (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

Rainbow Time is about two brothers trying to achieve a semblance of control through the lens of a camera, where any insecurity can be spliced,…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

By the time the film reaches its ridiculous ending, it has stretched our disbelief to the point of failing to see the point for the trees…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

[Brooklyn] echoes the persona of the young woman eager to make her own life but admittedly scared of the quest itself, taking each step away…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 31 Jul 2017

While earlier Villeneuve films such as Prisoners and Sicario dealt respectively with grief and rage, then ignorance and revenge, Arrival is…

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Review of A Stray (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

A Stray, directed by Musa Syeed, is about the symbiosis of faith in God and in oneself…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

[Brooklyn] echoes the persona of the young woman eager to make her own life but admittedly scared of the quest itself, taking each step away…

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Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

Mistress America is about beginnings and faith and the people willing to try, no matter how fruitless a quest seems…

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Review of Little Men (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

[Little Men] is a sobering look at freedom and creativity, neighborhoods and borders, and what fathers leave behind…

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Review of Finders Keepers (2015)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

[Finders Keepers] is about a crutch that a person can use to justify a behavior cycled over and over, whipping friends and family into the…

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Review of Don't Think Twice (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 31 Jul 2017

Altogether, [Don't Think Twice] makes for a full-blooded study of performing and one of the most honest, most love-filled films of the year…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 30 Jul 2017

It is a film with little blood and heavy stress and fatigue, easy on combat and heavy on tragedy, as Nolan's obsession with time is made elastic…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 27 Jul 2017

Daniel Hart's lush score alternates between almost ethereal heights of violins to the sombre, heavier cellos as we witness the couple's physical…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 23 Jul 2017

[A] succession of absolutely stunning set pieces with tenuous substance on top…

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