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Review of Going Places (2014)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 14 Jan 2018

Here is an unapologetic, if infuriating, cinematic provocation that dares its audience to rationalize the orgiastic behavior on display…

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Review of Going Places (1938)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 14 Jan 2018

Here is an unapologetic, if infuriating, cinematic provocation that dares its audience to rationalize the orgiastic behavior on display…

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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 21 Dec 2017

Michael Haneke's run of making increasingly better films has come to an abrupt halt…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 Dec 2017

Everything about this film is a disappointment. It is, by far, Todd Haynes's weakest effort to date…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 Dec 2017

In the words of John Wesley Harding, you don't get to read the news in U.S.A. Today…

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Review of The Florida Project (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 Dec 2017

Sean Baker's dramatically infused [ethnographic] study of poverty in Kissimmee, The Florida Project remains a moving encapsulation of an escalating…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 Dec 2017

A few impressive set pieces and scene study fodder for acting students, this Murder on the Orient Express is a paper-dry mystery at best…

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Review of Gender Wars (2015)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 Dec 2017

Andrea Riseborough is this film's secret weapon…

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Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 Dec 2017

The only just desert that this film deserves is being ignored with a vengeance by audiences who know better than waste their time…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 Dec 2017

[VIDEO ESSAY] I suspect that many audiences who return to Lady Bird will be disappointed as to how the movie stands up…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 28 Nov 2017

Okja is an effective piece of filmic political satire that can now only be viewed in the context of the pressures mounted against it…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 Nov 2017

If indoctrinating child audiences into accepting, and enjoying, brutal deadly violence was the intent of the filmmakers responsible for making…

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Review of Vagabond (1985)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 24 Nov 2017

Agnes Varda's sturdy neo-realistic social study of a fiercely individualistic young woman, who happily lives a hobo's life on the road in France,…

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Review of Victim (1961)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 24 Nov 2017

Victim is an essential addition to the LGBT cannon that has the ability to put its audience in a cold sweat…

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Review of Vagabond (1992)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 24 Nov 2017

Agnes Varda's sturdy neo-realistic social study of a fiercely individualistic young woman, who happily lives a hobo's life on the road in France,…

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Review of Vagabond (2015)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 24 Nov 2017

Agnes Varda's sturdy neo-realistic social study of a fiercely individualistic young woman, who happily lives a hobo's life on the road in France,…

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Review of Vagabond (2015)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 24 Nov 2017

Agnes Varda's sturdy neo-realistic social study of a fiercely individualistic young woman, who happily lives a hobo's life on the road in France,…

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Review of It (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Oct 2017

It just doesn't cut it…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 21 Oct 2017

Wright seems to be taking notes from Quentin Tarantino for his use of pop music to provide an aural bed of energy for the story to glide on…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 21 Oct 2017

Where does Wind River end, and real life begin? This could well be the most important American film of 2017…

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