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Review of Win It All (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 15 Mar 2017

Suffice it to say that what satisfies on one level raises questions on others, and that certain plot points mightn't play as well without someone…

Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Mar 2017

It's no rival for le Carré when it comes to the old cross/double-cross stuff; but a surfeit of style and a tasty supporting turn by James…

Review of Canners (2015)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Mar 2017

Frank about economic realities but far from a downer, this curious and humanistic doc is sure to alter the way city-dwellers look at those…

Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Mar 2017

A crime-flick love story as Pop-conscious as Wright's earlier work but unironic about its romantic core, it will delight the director's fans…

Review of Song to Song (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 11 Mar 2017

Ersatz local color aside, suffice to say that Song to Song is not designed to win back onetime admirers who felt Malick's To the Wonder and…

Review of Water & Power: A California Heist (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Mar 2017

In Water & Power: A California Heist, Zenovich tackles a subject of enormous importance, but fails to match that import with dramatic storytelling…

Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 17 Feb 2017

The film's last act grows more enjoyable by the minute, observing as the teacher stands up not just to his tormentor but to everyone else who…

Review of Growing Up Smith (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Feb 2017

The picture hits many of the expected schoolyard beats with just enough specificity (the vegetarian boy's first encounter with fried chicken,…

Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 09 Feb 2017

Leonard and Foley offer enough semi-naked sex scenes here to prove that quantity is no substitute for chemistry…

Review of Wheeler (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 07 Feb 2017

Viewers who don't mind the lack of dramatic tension may appreciate Dorff's credible take on his modest, gentlemanly character…

Review of The Trouble with Terkel (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 07 Feb 2017

Amateurish on many levels and at some point seeming to have been made up on the spot (which would be quite a feat for animation), the collaboration…

Review of Kung Fu Yoga (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 Feb 2017

A good-natured cross-cultural romp in which you can barely be expected to take any human interaction seriously, save for those in which humans…

Review of Rings (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Feb 2017

Rings finds a couple of nice, if inconsequential, little chills…

Review of Bitch (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 02 Feb 2017

What begins as an examination of middle-class-mom exasperation — in which demanding some marital equality makes one not just a figurative…

Review of Bitch (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 02 Feb 2017

What begins as an examination of middle-class-mom exasperation — in which demanding some marital equality makes one not just a figurative…

Review of Newness (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Feb 2017

As a sympathetic look at two likeable lovers who don't know what's good for them, it's enough to give us a rooting interest — even if we're…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Feb 2017

Kyle Mooney (a longtime McCary collaborator on Saturday Night Live and elsewhere) is winning in the lead role, naive but not cartoonishly so…

Review of Eloise (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Feb 2017

A deeply unpromising debut horror flick by visual-effects veteran Robert Legato…

Review of The Grace of Jake (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Feb 2017

Things get a bit busier than this modest film requires, but rural languor prevails in the end — if not with the grace of the title, at least…

Review of Crown Heights (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Jan 2017

Perhaps cowed by respect for a real man who suffered so much, Stanfield seems reluctant to charm viewers…

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