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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 22 May 2017

Alive with the magic of pictures and the mysteries of silence, this is an uncommonly grownup film about children, communication, connection…

Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 21 May 2017

The rich vein of unsettling darkness and psychological unease that ripples like a treacherous underground stream beneath the absurdist humor…

Review of Oh Lucy! (2014)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 21 May 2017

While it's uneven, and at times seems almost artless in its craft, the story has an idiosyncratic charm that pays off in an unexpectedly touching…

Review of Abundant Acreage Available (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Apr 2017

While the intriguing setup pulls you in, this gentle American heartland story peters out into an unsatisfying payoff…

Review of The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Apr 2017

While the sense of closure that the film seeks to provide perhaps inevitably remains elusive, it covers another vital chapter in queer history,…

Review of Thank You for Smoking (2005)

By David Rooney (943) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Apr 2017

Playing a Big Tobacco lobbyist, Aaron Eckhart puts his golden news-anchor good looks and smooth conviction to better use than in any pic since…

Review of All These Sleepless Nights (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 03 Apr 2017

Even if the immediacy of the director's approach gives the material an electric charge, 100 minutes of it becomes monotonous…

Review of Mine (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 29 Mar 2017

While the protagonist's back-story is not sufficiently original to sustain tension throughout, Hammer's committed performance keeps you watching…

Review of Mine (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 29 Mar 2017

While the protagonist's back-story is not sufficiently original to sustain tension throughout, Hammer's committed performance keeps you watching…

Review of Spider (2002)

By David Rooney (943) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Mar 2017

This slow but brilliantly sustained journey into madness is fronted by a remarkable performance from Ralph Fiennes and superb backup from Miranda…

Review of Prevenge (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 Mar 2017

As the psychodrama of a lonely woman with a score to settle acquires seriousness it saps the misanthropic sense of mischief and madness, causing…

Review of Most Beautiful Island (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Mar 2017

There's much to admire about Most Beautiful Island, with its highly original spin on the immigrant survival story and its compelling protagonist,…

Review of Little Boxes (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Mar 2017

Meyer aims to emulate the jagged freeform jazz that permeates his soundtrack, but this wan indie is strictly middle-of-the-road background music…

Review of Step (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 22 Feb 2017

Emotionally involving material is the key element to a good human-interest documentary, and Lipitz, a Baltimore native with a background in…

Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Feb 2017

Shocking and enraging, funny and surreal, rapturous and restorative, this is a film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped…

Review of The Other Side of Hope (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Feb 2017

While the film depicts a world seldom far removed from grim reality, the sly strain of humor keeps it buoyant, nowhere more so than in Kaurismaki’s…

Review of Return to Montauk (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 15 Feb 2017

[An] emotionally inert drama about an author trying to reanimate the past…

Review of Red Dog: True Blue (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 30 Jan 2017

I confess, I was willingly suckered into it…

Review of XX (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 29 Jan 2017

The package mixes existential creepiness with black comedy, demonic carnage and a Satan's spawn scenario, and while it's uneven — as these…

Review of Dina (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Jan 2017

What makes this candid, unpatronizing movie so engaging is that the sexual conflict is never set up as a deal-breaker, rather as an issue the…

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