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Review of Passage to Mars (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 Oct 2016

Danger doesn't quite translate into sustained drama here, in part because the reliance on voiceover distances us from the action…

Review of Milton's Secret (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 29 Sep 2016

Sutherland brings some believable warmth to a film whose spiritual aha moments are generally packaged too tidily to hit home…

Review of Command and Control (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Sep 2016

Interspersing technical talk with a quick history of nuclear testing and other near-misses, the doc demonstrates how often situations like this arise…

Review of Amanda Knox (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Sep 2016

Amanda Knox makes for succinct, involving viewing — a true-crime doc that acknowledges the lingering debates over its subject's guilt while…

Review of Do Not Resist (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 26 Sep 2016

An assured doc debut that knows how to stand out in a crowded field, Craig Atkinson's Do Not Resist avoids the handwringing format of other…

Review of Split (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Sep 2016

The director ties themes together at the end with more finesse than usual, letting a couple of meaningful visuals speak for themselves where…

Review of A Family Man (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 26 Sep 2016

A loathsome redemption tale that rings false on every front except when depicting capitalistic assholery (and sometimes fails to convince us…

Review of Seed: The Untold Story (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 22 Sep 2016

An eco-doc centered on the glories of diversity in the world's population of edible plants, Seed: The Untold Story contains just enough gourmet…

Review of Before the Flood (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 21 Sep 2016

While those of us who've seen dozens of similar docs could name plenty that taught or moved or enraged us more, Flood's filmmakers are intelligent…

Review of The Promise (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Sep 2016

The event-stuffed screenplay seems frightened of the running time associated with historical romances, though, excising any occasion for reflection…

Review of The Promise (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Sep 2016

The event-stuffed screenplay seems frightened of the running time associated with historical romances, though, excising any occasion for reflection…

Review of The Promise (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Sep 2016

The event-stuffed screenplay seems frightened of the running time associated with historical romances, though, excising any occasion for reflection…

Review of The Promise (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Sep 2016

The event-stuffed screenplay seems frightened of the running time associated with historical romances, though, excising any occasion for reflection…

Review of The Promise (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Sep 2016

The event-stuffed screenplay seems frightened of the running time associated with historical romances, though, excising any occasion for reflection…

Review of Colossal (2017)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2016

The cast's likability keeps us on board, watching the sometimes baffling behavior onscreen just like those on the streets of Seoul, who gape…

Review of Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Sep 2016

If it leaves something to be desired at the start of the tale, the procedural details of seeking release and exoneration are well represented…

Review of Rats (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Sep 2016

An icky but engrossing docu-chiller that may provoke OCD-like ratproofing…

Review of Trespass Against Us (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 11 Sep 2016

Instead of exploding into crime-clan war, the picture trickles into a kind of shrugging, it is what it is look at life on the wrong side of the law…

Review of Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2016

The poignancy of Hanks's reading of Waitstill's letters — that old staple of Ken Burns documentaries — personalizes the tale, but doesn't…

Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Sep 2016

The fact that not every terrible thing can be remedied or appropriately punished is a tough lesson even for adults to learn, but A Monster…

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