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Review of Tragedy Girls (2017)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 22 Oct 2017

What better than a slasher B-flick to spell out the ugliness of social media in both the genre's and the social platform's gruesome, unforgiving…

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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 22 Oct 2017

Not even the most impressively conceived image expresses any more than the inert fears of a precise, slightly irrational technophobe…

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Review of Sami Blood (2017)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 22 Oct 2017

With its flaws comes a wonderfully evocative atmosphere, full of instilled feeling that normally comes with the territory of remembering: nostalgia,…

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Review of Thelma (2017)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 22 Oct 2017

[Thelma's] unexpressed feeling is bound to the spacey limbo between the scientific and the spiritual…

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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 10 Oct 2017

A Fantastic Woman feels cripplingly safe, opting for a declaration of obvious moral standards, underlined in bold, over penetrative study…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 25 Jul 2017

Scaling the geography of his vast and complex battle narrative, [Nolan] weaves an exciting, contemplative and lasting image of warfare told…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 13 Jan 2017

The story's utter refusal to provide answers to its Catholic protagonist's noble yet hypocritical trial of faith compellingly serve Scorsese's…

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Review of Silence (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 13 Jan 2017

The story's utter refusal to provide answers to its Catholic protagonist's noble yet hypocritical trial of faith compellingly serve Scorsese's…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 01 Jan 2017

A thrifty footnote in the Star Wars saga…

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Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 01 Jan 2017

[In] trying to create his paean to the working man, Loach has stripped him of his three-dimensional humanity and replaced it with two-dimensional…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 12 Dec 2016

Manchester by the Sea sees its bleak premise to the end without giving in to most movies' terrible need to resolve the unresolvable…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 20 Oct 2016

Jarmusch overturns worldly indifference to properly acknowledge life's grand insignificance, as well as the mind's immeasurable capacity to…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 20 Oct 2016

Isabelle Huppert's Michèle is brash, enigmatic and sensual…

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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 20 Oct 2016

The atmosphere of mortality and cruel omnipresence over the fate of the Dickinson household allows this beautifully staged family drama to…

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Review of The Age of Shadows (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 05 Oct 2016

[Kim Jee-woon's] plot is labyrinthine and almost inscrutable, but he relays information with a fast and slick artistry…

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Review of Little Men (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 30 Aug 2016

Social realism and family dynamic seem to be two things Ira Sachs keeps going back to, they're universal and timely subjects and when combined,…

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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 06 Aug 2016

With new references to privacy in social media, recalling Citizenfour, Greengrass seems more desperate than ever to reestablish his Bourne…

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Review of The Innocents (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 26 Jul 2016

[Fontaine's] measured direction, ne'er too comforting nor cynical, ultimately fosters the strong and stern voice to this otherwise unspeakable topic…

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Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 28 Jun 2016

Neither its elaborate doomsday F/X or overstuffed cast can replicate the sheer star power and infectious by-the-numbers plotting of the boneheaded…

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Review of The Boy and the Beast (2015)

By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 15 Jun 2016

Hosoda flirts with the uncompromising challenges of the real world, allowing airs of self-doubt and oversight to affect his fantastical narrative…

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