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Review of Bloody Hell (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Jan 2021

The pic musters just enough dark-comic energy to recall early Sam Raimi — albeit without the frenzied camerawork that helped make Evil Dead…

Review of The Ultimate Playlist of Noise (2021)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Jan 2021

If it uses romance and hijinks as a way of suggesting to teens that the unthinkable might not really kill them, that's a worthy goal…

Review of Outside the Wire (2021)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Jan 2021

It's not really the showcase Mackie has long deserved, and at any rate, Idris' morally troubled young human is the story's real protagonist;…

Review of Cockroach (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 08 Jan 2021

The third doc Ai has released this year (following Coronation and the Sundance entry Vivos), it's among his most effective films to date —…

Review of Beautiful Something Left Behind (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 07 Jan 2021

The film exudes empathy, as you'd expect, but struggles to find a compelling point of view…

Review of Monster Hunter (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Dec 2020

A few flashes of amused chemistry between the two actors represent all the human interest in this unimaginative sci-fi actioner, but that doesn't…

Review of Monster Hunter (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Dec 2020

A few flashes of amused chemistry between the two actors represent all the human interest in this unimaginative sci-fi actioner, but that doesn't…

Review of Archenemy (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Dec 2020

A critique of post-millennial journalism is one of several ideas raised but mostly abandoned in this genre pastiche, which never really coalesces…

Review of Safety (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Dec 2020

As it is, the family pic's light tone never lets its themes of addiction, abandonment and poverty hit home, instead focusing on its hero's…

Review of Minor Premise (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Dec 2020

The race to hold on to an identity being fragmented by technology, imagined so hauntingly in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is pure…

Review of Princess of the Row (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Nov 2020

Sentimental at times but not as cloying as its title may suggest, the polished production benefits from the happily un-cute lead performance…

Review of A Chef's Voyage (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Nov 2020

Highlighting the sensory pleasure and creative satisfaction while mostly only hinting at the hassles, Remi Anfosso's A Chef's Voyage seems,…

Review of Make Up (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Nov 2020

Benefitting from an unassuming but dead-on performance by lead Molly Windsor, the picture may frustrate those expecting a true horror film,…

Review of Come Away (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Nov 2020

An airless film about childhood fantasies that comes to life only fitfully, Brenda Chapman's Come Away is aimed at children but so pickled…

Review of Fatman (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Nov 2020

As it moves toward a climax that will require Santa to connect with his inner action hero, the film works better than it should without being…

Review of Let Him Go (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Nov 2020

Rescuing Jimmy (and possibly Lorna) from a possessive, abusive husband would have been plenty of drama for this hitherto quiet, sensitive picture…

Review of Us Kids (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 29 Oct 2020

If it leaves us more hopeful about those kids' mental health than about the gun debate, that's hardly surprising…

Review of Shithouse (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 24 Oct 2020

Raiff is so credible in the part one can't help but suspect there's a lot of him in Alex; the film's willingness to look so frankly at his…

Review of Friendsgiving (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 23 Oct 2020

While some characters on the ever-escalating guest list provide the pair with welcome comic distraction, this day-to-night hangout pic doesn't…

Review of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 22 Oct 2020

The easiest (but incomplete) answer is that the George W. Bush era needed a Borat, and the Trump years make him painfully redundant…

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