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Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Feb 2016

The film is frequently guilty of the same obsolescence it accuses the characters of embodying…

Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Feb 2016

Joel and Ethan Coen's idiosyncrasies elevate the film above the level of a mere creative exercise…

Review of The Secret Scripture (2017)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jan 2016

Of course, when the action gets underway, Bay unleashes that flashy id of his, and all of his flaws as a titan of blockbuster filmmaking come…

Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jan 2016

Of course, when the action gets underway, Bay unleashes that flashy id of his, and all of his flaws as a titan of blockbuster filmmaking come…

Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 24 Dec 2015

the tendency for the narrative to repeat the beats of A New Hope, though perfectly logical in a saga founded upon the constancy of the hero's…

Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 17 Dec 2015

Yet if the film uses its vulgarity and wit to lacerate a political quagmire and to implicate every facet of a tangled system of private greed…

Review of Manhunter (1986)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Dec 2015

Mann’s focus is so esoteric that he slowly turns the garish thriller into a kind of poetry…

Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 04 Dec 2015

Unfortunately, this promising revision is delivered in lugubrious terms by a self-conscious director who cannot ever change the tone of the…

Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 04 Dec 2015

Unfortunately, this promising revision is delivered in lugubrious terms by a self-conscious director who cannot ever change the tone of the…

Review of Youth (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Nov 2015

As ever, Paolo Sorrentino ironically cuts the legs out from under his protagonists' wistfulness with grotesquerie…

Review of Creed (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Nov 2015

One of the Ryan Coogler film's greatest traits is its reticence, its refusal to say 10 words when two will do, or to say one word when silence…

Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Nov 2015

It careens from carnage to group therapy so wildly that the action never gets to build and the conversations just repeat themselves…

Review of Junun (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 04 Nov 2015

What Anderson has crafted is one of the most beautiful (and beautiful-looking) tributes to artistic collaboration…

Review of In Jackson Heights (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 04 Nov 2015

Wiseman's film is a beautiful tribute to a community with dozens of nationalities and languages…

Review of Spectre (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2015

All of its revisionism centrally incorporates the history of the franchise, and the film both excels and suffers for frequently recalling its…

Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2015

Guillermo del Toro's fussiest, most compartmentalized construction, filled with the most powerful sense of repression and delusion…

Review of The Forbidden Room (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 06 Oct 2015

The surrealist result plays to Maddin's strengths as a master of densely aestheticized short films, as he crafts a lucid expression of his…

Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2015

As a writer and director, Rebecca Miller is at her best when she finds the shared wavelengths of her lead cast's divergent styles…

Review of Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2015

The premise, of a terrible event unleavened by the easy out of someone being at fault, should be prime fodder for Wenders's brand of poetic regret…

Review of The Witch (2016)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2015

Set among a family of Puritan exiles in the wilderness of unmolested New England as strange and ominous forces beset them, the film often looks…

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