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Review of A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Nov 2016

Unpretentiously touching on the page, this material feels stretched a bit thin on film, with televisual production values and a samey song…

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Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Time Out (7,510) on 18 Oct 2016

If Zwick’s film improves on Christopher McQuarrie's inaugural, incoherent 2012 entry in the series, it's not through any special initiative…

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Review of Little Sister (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Oct 2016

Clark’s fifth feature is marked by his characteristic brand of distorted realism, though a classically redemptive arc — with even a hint…

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Review of Mirzya (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Oct 2016

The life-and-death stakes are there, but the people involved — while uniformly ravishing to gaze upon — are too wanly sketched for this…

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Review of Inferno (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 07 Oct 2016

There’s a stern, let’s-get-to-work air to the film’s craft and conception that hampers whatever thrill of the chase “Inferno” has…

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Review of The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Sep 2016

Pesce’s spare script doesn’t seek to obscure, but its quiet, matter-of-fact handling of drastic dramatic events will catch some off-guard…

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Review of Porto (2017)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Sep 2016

This narratively slender item is unapologetically a mood piece: a film that’s in love with love, in love with cinema, and concerned that…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Sep 2016

An impressively stark, narratively ruthless Victorian chamber piece that feels about as modern as its crinolines will permit, William Oldroyd’s…

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Review of Mystery Road (2013)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Sep 2016

A major disappointment from a major filmmaker, Diaz’s latest super-sized tapestry of historical fact, folklore and cine-poetry is typically…

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Review of The Woman Who Left (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Sep 2016

This occasionally transcendent opus finds Diaz’s formal powers — not least his own incisive monochrome lensing — at full strength…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Sep 2016

Eschewing standard biopic form at every turn, this brilliantly constructed, diamond-hard character study observes the exhausted, conflicted…

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Review of Chuck (2017)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Sep 2016

The film is most thoughtful, and sometimes even painful, as a study of the pitfalls (and pitiful rewards) of local celebrity…

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Review of Blair Witch (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Sep 2016

Setting up a number of promising kinks in the now-standard found-footage formula, as the seemingly spooked forest begins to close in its hapless…

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Review of Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2017)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Time Out (7,510) on 06 Sep 2016

Somehow we're never truly surprised by any of its wonders…

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Review of The Bad Batch (2017)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Sep 2016

Though there’s much to savor in the pic’s lavishly distressed visuals and soundscape, its narrative feels increasingly stretched and desultory…

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Review of Zoom (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Sep 2016

Morelli and tyro scribe Matt Hansen unpack this Charlie Kaufman-lite premise with more cleverness than wit, struggling particularly to find…

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Review of The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2016

Wim Wenders is gone with the windbags in a dully verbose 3D talkfest that says very little of substance…

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Review of Zoom (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2016

Morelli and tyro scribe Matt Hansen unpack this Charlie Kaufman-lite premise with more cleverness than wit, struggling particularly to find…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 25 Aug 2016

By bantering with the lads and slapping their wrists at the same, War Dogs is left with countless rounds of illicit ammo and no clear satirical…

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Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Aug 2016

It comes as little surprise that Howard, a nimble and proficient storyteller in non-fiction and fiction like, hasn’t a natural documentarian’s…

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Guy Lodge has written reviews for:

Los Angeles Times (12,977)
Variety (12,700)
Time Out (7,510)
Guardian (4,584)
Rolling Stone (4,035)
The Playlist (3,871)
Empire (3,446)
Empire Magazine (3,326)
The Guardian (2,969)
London Evening Standard (2,015)

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