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Review of By Sidney Lumet (2015)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 27 Oct 2016

The abundance of clips here are deftly chosen and play remarkably well out of context…

Review of Hamilton's America (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 16 Oct 2016

Using sharp graphic animations that draw on period etchings, the film offers as much fodder for history and political students as it does for…

Review of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Oct 2016

An absorbing character study, even if it's ultimately not one that justifies its much-vaunted technological advances…

Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 06 Oct 2016

The sheer likability of these lived-in characters is a powerful magnet, thanks to insightful writing and a note-perfect ensemble anchored by…

Review of Brain on Fire (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 18 Sep 2016

We watch Chloe Grace Moretz's epic meltdown from a bored distance, until the drama remembers its lost calling as a disease-of-the-week movie…

Review of Their Finest (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Sep 2016

While the strong ensemble cast is Their Finest's most valuable asset, the movie also looks quite handsome on what appears to be a modest budget,…

Review of Una (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2016

The film has a different though no less riveting intensity, thanks to Rooney Mara's emotionally naked performance in the title role, and unflinching…

Review of Catfight (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2016

While the broad political commentary is beyond obvious, the satire of ugly entitlement draws blood, thanks to balls-to-the-wall performances…

Review of Jackie (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2016

Extraordinary in its piercing intimacy and lacerating in its sorrow, Jackie is a remarkably raw portrait of an iconic American first lady,…

Review of Lion (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2016

A sober and yet profoundly stirring contemplation of family, roots, identity and home, which engrosses throughout the course of its two-hour…

Review of All I See Is You (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2016

The movie morphs from sluggishness to confused ludicrousness, as it turns into a thrill-deprived thriller…

Review of The Bad Batch (2017)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 05 Sep 2016

Even when the dramatic momentum slackens, the movie's grindhouse world remains vividly rendered and immersive…

Review of One More Time with Feeling (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 05 Sep 2016

What's most singular about the project — beautifully shot in black-and-white 3D, which often gives the images a beguiling disembodied quality…

Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 03 Sep 2016

Themes of courage, patriotism, faith and unwavering adherence to personal beliefs have been a constant through Gibson's directing projects,…

Review of Moonlight (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Sep 2016

Barry Jenkins' Moonlight pulls you into its introspective protagonist's world from the start and transfixes throughout as it observes, with…

Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 01 Sep 2016

Confidently dovetailing three strands that depict present and past reality, as well as a dark fictional detour that functions as a blunt real-life…

Review of Arrival (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 31 Aug 2016

Anchored by an internalized performance from Amy Adams rich in emotional depth, this is a grownup sci-fi drama that sustains fear and tension…

Review of Kate Plays Christine (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Aug 2016

A fascinating process movie about acting and storytelling, but also a curious meta-contemplation of our own voyeuristic attraction to tragedy…

Review of From the Other Side (2003)

By David Rooney (943) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Aug 2016

While it's clear where the filmmaker's sympathies lie, the view presented is relatively balanced…

Review of Being 17 (2016)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Aug 2016

An ultra-naturalistic slice of rocky adolescent life that combines violence and sensuality, wrenching loss and tender discovery…

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