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Review of Terminal (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 10 May 2018

Avoid Terminal like you would avoid anything that could possibly kill you, because it's only here to suck up a little bit of your life, before…

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Review of Downrange (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 26 Apr 2018

Cult favorite Ryûhei Kitamura's nihilistic single location nightmare makes a monster out of a bloodthirsty sniper…

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Review of Girlfriend's Day (2017)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 23 Apr 2018

Stephenson stages scenes with the static sensibility of a sketch comedy director, letting each performer roll with their respective odd duck…

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Review of I Feel Pretty (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 22 Apr 2018

Kohn and Silverstein (along with Schumer) concoct a tricky goofball fantasy (that's truly funny), while never forgetting the fact that these…

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Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 12 Apr 2018

With You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay has molded a sleek masterpiece, unafraid of the notion that, in the end, we may all be lost to…

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Review of Spinning Man (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 09 Apr 2018

It moves along at a steady clip, and Brosnan, Pearce, and Driver are actively engaged with the heady approach to telling an otherwise recognizable…

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Review of Braven (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 09 Apr 2018

Braven is proof that Momoa can carry an action movie all his own, and deserves more vehicles were he can lay down the law in the name of saving…

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Review of 6 Balloons (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 08 Apr 2018

Though Katie's arc becomes fairly predictable by the last of 6 Balloons' breathless 74 minutes, the transparency of her character's development…

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Review of Paterno (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 08 Apr 2018

As a motion picture, Paterno is at odds with itself - playing both as a chamber piece character study and a Spotlight-style investigative journalism…

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Review of Beast of Burden (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 02 Apr 2018

Every design element is working in sync to never let us feel comfortable, creating a remarkably cramped ambiance…

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Review of Acts of Violence (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 26 Mar 2018

What could've been a decent cheap thrill is really nothing more than a somewhat unhealthy way to kill 85 minutes…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 25 Mar 2018

Steven Soderbergh's iPhone horror picture is a throwback to the angry 16mm exploitation cinema of old…

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Review of I Kill Giants (2017)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 23 Mar 2018

This fantastical graphic novel adaptation feels vaguely familiar, but is still impressive in its own ways…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 18 Mar 2018

Bo Burnham's directorial debut is a marvelous subversion of expectations…

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Review of Never Goin' Back (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 17 Mar 2018

With Never Goin' Back, Frizzell isn't just making a stoner character study, but capturing a specific cultural moment…

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Review of Dear Dictator (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 16 Mar 2018

The only people to blame here are Addario & Syracuse, who block and shoot every scene with an energy that makes each week's installment of…

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Review of Damsel (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 16 Mar 2018

The Zellners are certainly assembling an oeuvre that's distinctly their own, utterly unafraid to veer off the beaten path to their quirky characters…

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Review of Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 15 Mar 2018

An existential hangout picture, complete with a pretty catchy pop soundtrack…

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Review of Blindspotting (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 14 Mar 2018

At its core, Estrada's picture is a buddy comedy, observing as two goofballs find ways to amuse themselves in a hometown that may no longer…

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Review of A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)

By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 14 Mar 2018

A Prayer Before Dawn is a savagely transgressive work, giving all who buy a ticket a front row seat for life on the inside, and just how cheap…

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