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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 26 Mar 2017

Condon's film is just about what it should be: A fevered, overblown love letter to a classic. To heights it knows it couldn't hope to reach…

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Review of The Belko Experiment (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 21 Mar 2017

It's no masterwork, but [James Gunn's] ride-or-die fans would be remiss to miss this freakish fruit of his Marvel Studios labor…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 12 Mar 2017

Marvel fans that moonlight as undiscerning gorehounds just might find Valhalla in Logan, but the project goes out of its way to give everyone…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 06 Mar 2017

It's because of Kaluuya that Peele's commentary remains intelligible throughout, even as the movie leaps over logical chasms and loads up on…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 28 Feb 2017

[The film is] notable in its own flaky, freaky way, its visual peaks and narrative valleys neatly summing up the bizarro career of its director…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 25 Feb 2017

Charlie Day and Ice Cube will live to crack wise another day. Fist Fight, on the other hand, is where laughter goes to die…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 22 Feb 2017

Accompanied by a truckload of alien intestines and yet another unlikely performance from Matt Damon, The Great Wall can't help but make a monster-sized…

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Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 18 Feb 2017

The worst thing to happen to fictional Seattle since Frasier bedded Roz…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Feb 2017

The movie's exceptional second half closes in on establishing its lead as the defining action antihero of the decade…

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Review of The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 15 Feb 2017

Killer jokes, stunning animation, Easter eggs aplenty, and then a Lego brick wall…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 10 Feb 2017

[Driver lifts] a very good drama into the heavens with an indispensably rich, textured performance, one that reconfigures all notions of what…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Feb 2017

A poignant, often hilarious tapestry of family and femininity and masculinity and mortality anchored by two of the most undervalued actresses…

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Review of Gold (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 01 Feb 2017

Finally, a film to answer the age-old question: is a balding, potbellied, snaggletoothed Matthew McConaughey enough to carry a feature length…

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Review of Gold (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 01 Feb 2017

Finally, a film to answer the age-old question: is a balding, potbellied, snaggletoothed Matthew McConaughey enough to carry a feature length…

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Review of The Founder (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 27 Jan 2017

Despite a surfeit of nice period visual touches, [Hancock's] soft sensibilities relieve a juicy story of its juice, until all that's left is…

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Review of Patriots Day (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 23 Jan 2017

Astonishing technical filmmaking that never quite graduates to anything more…

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Review of Live by Night (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 21 Jan 2017

It's been four years since Ben Affleck directed Argo. It feels like a hundred…

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Review of Silence (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 20 Jan 2017

A staggering work of absolute confidence and absolute uncertainty that endeavors to both embody and crack the great conundrum of faith…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 20 Jan 2017

A staggering work of absolute confidence and absolute uncertainty that endeavors to both embody and crack the great conundrum of faith…

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Review of Hidden Figures (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 17 Jan 2017

With some audacity and ingenuity, Hidden Figures might have been something extraordinary. Instead, it's merely about something extraordinary…

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