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Review of Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 19 Dec 2014

If there are any heroic figures in this sad tale, it’s the women of Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, a grassroots activists…

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Review of We Are the Giant (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Dec 2014

The film commendably gives us vivid and memorable people whose personal stories strikingly illuminate their peoples’ struggles…

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Review of Concerning Violence (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Dec 2014

On both levels of the film, the archival and the textual, there’s much that’s fascinating and worthwhile…

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Review of Zero Motivation (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 03 Dec 2014

Like classic military comedies from “Catch-22” to “MAS*H,” Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation offers its own appealing blend of irreverence…

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Review of The Immortalists (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 30 Nov 2014

It is nonetheless a very well-mounted film, with outstanding contributions in Alvarado’s cinematography and Eric Andrew Kuhn’s subtly expressive…

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Review of Monk with a Camera (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 21 Nov 2014

So, while the film doesn’t delve into the doctrines of Tibetan Buddhism, it does provide a sense of its outward life in the images of the…

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Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 14 Nov 2014

My one real gripe with Stewart’s script is that it doesn’t make clear that Bahari (according to his own account), though admitting to “media…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 23 Oct 2014

Unlike American movies, where our identification with one character or another would likely be imposed from the outset, Force Majeure stands…

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Review of Citizenfour (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Oct 2014

Though superlatives can mischaracterize any movie’s qualities, it is not an overstatement, I think, to call Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’…

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Review of Diplomacy (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 15 Oct 2014

A compelling historical drama in Diplomacy, which benefits greatly from the razor-sharp, theater-honed skills of two formidable French actors,…

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Review of The Overnighters (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 09 Oct 2014

While The Overnighters has the feel of an epic, given what an expansive slice of America’s current economic experience it ponders, it’s…

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Review of Species (1995)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Sep 2014

A propulsive sci-fi actioner genetically engineered from spores of the Alien and Terminator series, Roger Donaldson's Species provides a gripping…

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Review of Fort Bliss (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 18 Sep 2014

Although competently made, the film is such a run-of-the-mill military melodrama that it might have skipped its assuredly brief theatrical…

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Review of Last Days in Vietnam (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 04 Sep 2014

Riveting, wrenching and extraordinarily important…

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Review of The Notebook (2013)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 28 Aug 2014

A well-crafted but otherwise undistinguished and tedious entry in a long line of European films that make a grotesque show of war’s horrors,…

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Review of Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 27 Aug 2014

In telling this story and exploring its meanings, Harris’ well-crafted film uses interviews with a number of historians and black photographers…

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Review of Rich Hill (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 31 Jul 2014

It emerges as an artistic statement as multi-faceted, nuanced and hauntingly original as any of its fictional counterparts…

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Review of The Kill Team (2013)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 24 Jul 2014

Though this is a story of enormous cultural importance and dramatic power, it’s virtually impossible to imagine today’s Hollywood making…

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Review of Closed Curtain (2013)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 08 Jul 2014

If the dominant mood of This Is Not a Film was defiant, the main feeling here is melancholic…

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Review of Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 26 Jun 2014

The real question of culpability that provides an element of suspense here, ironically, concerns not the obvious baddies but the ostensible good guys…

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