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Review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 07 Sep 2021

The promise of Shang-Chi, which is as much martial-arts movie as it is standard superhero origin fare, is that a lot of people will get their…

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Review of Candyman (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Aug 2021

What the movie’s effortful attempts at symbolism and meaning do most effectively are undercut what’s smart about the questions it raises…

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Review of Beckett (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 19 Aug 2021

The premise is ripe; the thrills are rich; the payoff doesn’t come together quite as easily as the rest…

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Review of Homeroom (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 19 Aug 2021

Homeroom’s power in is allowing us — encouraging us — to hear these students out for themselves, bearing witness to political identities…

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Review of Respect (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 19 Aug 2021

[Franklin's] music blows the movie out of the water — and the movie, at its best, is wise to let itself get blown away…

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Review of The Suicide Squad (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 09 Aug 2021

The movie is too much, too long, but not lacking in its glories. To find them, follow Harley. She’s leading the way…

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Review of Stillwater (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 04 Aug 2021

The movie’s attentive sense of noticing makes its flaws, its leaps in logic, easier to notice…

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Review of The Green Knight (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 30 Jul 2021

This being a Lowery tale, the monolithic, the overwhelming, are only more powerful for being rendered in intimate, miniaturized terms…

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Review of Joe Bell (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 29 Jul 2021

For Joe Bell to largely be a tale of one man’s inner journey rather than a dive into the unknowns of his son’s inner life and eventual…

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Review of Old (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Jul 2021

Old isn’t trying to be fashionable, low-fi, artisanal horror of the kind that seems to be setting the tone for the genre in the indie world…

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Review of Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 19 Jul 2021

An exercise anchored to a likable LeBron charmfest, melding multiple forms of animation, recycled cartoon jokes, and the basic plot of the…

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Review of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 19 Jul 2021

As a pure dilemma-fest, the movie basically works, resetting the clock scene by scene, making the joy of survival deliberately short-lived…

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Review of Pig (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 16 Jul 2021

It’s a good-looking, well-acted movie with a solid kicker…

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Review of Black Widow (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 12 Jul 2021

Credit is due to Pugh and Johansson, most of all, for proving, in the movie’s opening chunk, that their foes-then-friends dynamic could satisfyingly…

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Review of No Sudden Move (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 07 Jul 2021

It’s a thrill ride from a director who, recently prone to intriguing, one-off experiments, knows we didn’t exactly need reminding that…

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Review of Zola (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 06 Jul 2021

Bravo, abetted by a cast that couldn’t be more game, turns a classic case of “These white people will be the death of me” — a familiar…

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Review of F9 (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 28 Jun 2021

It becomes a lot of movies at once…

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Review of False Positive (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 28 Jun 2021

It’s the product of a satirical ambition that lacks the wit to land any heady blows; the horror mastery to be even glancingly scary; the…

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Review of In the Heights (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 14 Jun 2021

An aspirational immigrant story that hits most every mark of the genre, but flows and overlaps and grows dense in unexpected ways…

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Review of Infinite (2021)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 10 Jun 2021

Maybe the most notable thing about the movie is Wahlberg himself, who hypes up that hapless “Who, me…

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