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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 19 Dec 2015

Dishes out familiarity without apology and arranges it in such a way that, even as we recognize the patterns and beats, it feels fresh and…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 10 Dec 2015

Coogler infuses his film with a genuine passion and unironic attachment to the original's best qualities, particularly its delicate balancing…

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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Dec 2015

A dramatic thriller about predatory capitalism that cuts deep to the economic bone in the way it reminds us how one person's attaining his…

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

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 Dec 2015

Action and theme don't always cohere, and what's good in the film too often has to be dug out from under a lot of underwhelming excess…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 Dec 2015

Feels slightly disjointed, as if all the parts aren't quite lining up and the progression of action that is supposed to build emotionally instead…

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Review of Experimenter (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 23 Nov 2015

You need more than an intriguing social experiment to drive a feature-length film…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 10 Nov 2015

As much as it lionizes Donovan, Bridge of Spies is quite ambivalent about the morality of the spy game in which he is a pawn, as Spielberg…

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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 29 Oct 2015

The narrative is so overtly structured that the structure itself starts to intrude on the drama as we become overly aware of the narrative…

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Review of The Brood (1979)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 29 Oct 2015

The horrors are simultaneously literal and allegorical, springing from a deep emotional well that transcends the bounds of conventional drama…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 19 Oct 2015

An impressive, overripe cinematic feat that makes up for its somewhat pedestrian plotting with a stunning visual imagination that impresses…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 15 Oct 2015

Dispenses with so much of the standard violent-action fare we have come to expect from science fiction films and instead returns the genre…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 15 Oct 2015

Dispenses with so much of the standard violent-action fare we have come to expect from science fiction films and instead returns the genre…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 13 Oct 2015

A powerful experience that forces us into a violent confrontation with our own ethical worldview, challenging any tidy notions of right and wrong…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Oct 2015

The visceral thrill of experience Petit's death-defying feat is undeniable, but Zemeckis pushes the envelope farther than it needs to go and…

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Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 06 Oct 2015

Too literal and heavy-handed in its treatment, and Bobby emerges as yet another tortured genius who fell prey to his own demons, as if there…

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Review of The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 06 Oct 2015

Depicts crime and violence as a moral vacuum that draws in the narcissistic and the pathetic without ever moralizing or preaching…

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Review of Day for Night (1973)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 06 Oct 2015

François Truffaut's love letter to filmmaking…

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Review of Black Caesar (1973)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 30 Sep 2015

Not a political movie per se, but it certainly taps into the raging sense of racial injustice that the Civil Rights Era had not managed to…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 23 Sep 2015

Whenever Depp is on screen, it has a wicked, hypnotic quality…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 17 Sep 2015

Shyamalan doesn't do anything revolutionary here, but he works the found-footage trope about as well as it can be worked, often finding inventive…

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