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Review of They Live by Night (1949)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 08 Sep 2017

Maybe because of this close-up strategy, the actors all have a more naturalistic bent than most of the films of the day, opting for a low-key…

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Review of Icarus (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 08 Sep 2017

Icarus is a frighteningly relevant movie that may go a long way toward explaining the danger of any state propaganda machine, whether it targets…

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Review of Straw Dogs (1971)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 12 Aug 2017

The questions it raises about sexual consent, masculinity, and humanity's penchant for violence are as urgent today as they were in 1971…

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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 27 Jul 2017

One amazing action scene is a bright spot in an otherwise dull, impossibly contrived spy thriller that's dressed up with a pulsing 80s synth-pop…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 20 Jul 2017

Nolan's array of unique POV shots and his peerless command of scale relay the terrifying subjective experiences of Dunkirk's characters in…

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Review of Rumble Fish (1983)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 08 Jun 2017

The chiaroscuro lighting and shadows are admittedly handsome, but there just isn't enough to keep Rumble Fish afloat in the story department…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 08 Jun 2017

More than a big-picture, end-of-the-world drama, it succeeds as a grave - and highly confined - journey through desperate emotional states…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 22 May 2017

It's not a complete failure, but there's something sadly inevitable about Alien: Covenant. It feels more like an exercise than it does a movie…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 03 May 2017

Vigalondo challenges audiences to consider the real issues and perspective that lie beneath what's actually happening onscreen…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 03 May 2017

Like Let's Twist Again, it can't play the same familiar chords with lesser lyrics and expect the same results…

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Review of Woman of the Year (1942)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 29 Apr 2017

For anyone looking to add a single Hepburn/Tracy movie to their collection, this is the one…

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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 23 Apr 2017

It reduces the philosophical quest for understanding of what it means to be human to a very familiar trope: the search for a former identity…

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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 23 Apr 2017

The Fate of the Furious tops its predecessors not in its action scenes, but by applying that familiar, reality-confounding aesthetic to its…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 10 Mar 2017

It embodies that American Barnum impulse the original satirized, hoping that a heavy dose of violence and a familiar entity in the title will…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 02 Mar 2017

Through one simple, emotionally satisfying revelation late in the movie, Logan argues that stories like this - like the Westerns before them…

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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 23 Feb 2017

A tragi-comedy, yes. It's also beautiful and unique - art of a high order…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 14 Feb 2017

One-ups the original in almost every way while retaining the original's scrappy spirit & surprising wit - a rare sequel that expands its universe…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 27 Jan 2017

It grows more tiresome as it goes on, not just because of the movie's telegraphed structure and all-too-prominent message but also because…

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Review of Live by Night (2016)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 12 Jan 2017

A handsome production shot in gorgeous fashion…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Eric Melin (822) for Pitch.com (53) on 14 Dec 2016

The most textured, emotionally complex screenplay of the year, by some distance. Lonergan's filmmaking redefines epic…

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