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Review of American Animals (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

The film works best when it digs into the American preoccupation with unlimited potential, the individual's specialness…

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Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

He expertly uses the havoc and excess, first lulling you into familiar territory before upending all expectations and taking you on one headtrip…

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Review of The First Purge (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

The African American director and his primarily African American cast take us inside a film that, if it's not America today, it's America of…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

It's equal parts heartbreaking and sweet, and it miraculously never hits a false note…

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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

Still, don't let your eye wander because too many frames contain a startling image, and this filmmaker won't insist that you notice…

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Review of The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

Sequels are hard. Especially when you don't understand what made the original so unnerving and memorable…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

The film has some style, some queasying violence and unrepentant perversions, and Jennifer Lawrence. It could be worse…

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Review of Truth or Dare (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

Performances are bland, kills lack inspiration, there aren't even enough of the prerequisite jump scares to keep the target PG-13 audience interested…

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Review of Early Man (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

There is something adorably British about Nick Parks's latest plasticine adventure, Early Man…

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Review of Mohawk (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

But Geoghegan changes things up in important ways, and the result is a dramatic departure from traditional fare…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

So what's missing? The rogue spirit that let Han steal scenes in A New Hope so easily…

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Review of How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

It offers knowing lip service (and next to no music) in service of an all-too-earnest love story…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

It's tough to make it through the film's 94 minutes without tearing up, and that's not entirely from sentimentality…

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Review of Upgrade (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

Whannell freshens up the technophobe dystopian narrative with a few fresh ideas, a silly streak and serious violence…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

Soderbergh relies on familiar tropes to say something relevant and in doing so creates a tidy, satisfying thriller…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

Krasinski co-writes, directs and stars in the smart, nerve-wracking gut-punch of a monster flick, A Quiet Place…

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Review of Breath (2017)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

It's entirely about the journey, the solitude and the fear-what an individual can make of those elements, what those elements make of an individual…

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Review of Damsel (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

The result is not a spoof, it isn't wacky in the Mel Brooks fashion. It's thoughtful and humorous, deliberately gorgeous and just a tad melancholy…

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Review of The Endless (2017)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

The other thing the directing pair creates with uneasy authenticity is that spotty forgiving and unforgiving bond between siblings…

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Review of Ghost Stories (2018)

By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 26 Aug 2018

The terror here is far less paranormal than existential…

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