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Review of Trumbo (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for Indiewire (3,631) on 15 Sep 2015

Trumbo works well enough as a general survey of Trumbo's life and career, a primer on a complicated man who endured a terrible injustice, but…

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Review of The Dressmaker (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 14 Sep 2015

Fine performances by Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth and Judy Davis help matters a bit, but the final product is so oddly cobbled together that…

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Review of Prey (2019)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2015

Prophet’s Prey is a skin-crawling chronicle of one of America’s biggest criminals and the community that allowed him to flourish…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Kate Erbland (681) for Indiewire (3,631) on 09 Sep 2015

Demolition spends its goodwill early on, eventually giving itself over to cheap-feeling twists and a problematic final act…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for Indiewire (3,631) on 17 Aug 2015

The bone-crunching action and relentlessly blood-letting feels out of place, and as those sequences start appearing with more frequency, the…

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Review of The Keeping Room (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 10 Aug 2015

War is cruelty and it's Hell and it's terrible and it often feels eternal, but it breeds great heroes and wild stories, just like the ones…

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Review of Fantastic Four (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for Indiewire (3,631) on 05 Aug 2015

A superhero film with no power and worse special effects that attempts to rewrite a story that's yet to be told effectively…

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Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for indieWire (3,631) on 30 Jul 2015

It’s biopic syndrome, this impulse to condense events to hit the high notes, to provide fans with recognizable stories, to essentially act…

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Review of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for indieWire (3,631) on 30 Jul 2015

Clocking in at a slim 85 minutes, the whole thing flies by quite pleasingly, a warm and funny feature that reasserts the value of high quality…

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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 26 Jul 2015

Bahrani's dismantling of the American dream -- a dream deferred -- has finally reached its finest conclusion with the director's finely wrought…

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Review of Staten Island Summer (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for Indiewire (3,631) on 23 Jul 2015

At 108 minutes, Staten Island Summer does wear thin around its middle, and it suffers from a conclusion that just never seems to know when…

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Review of Unexpected (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for indieWire (3,631) on 21 Jul 2015

Unexpected doesn't take such a rosy approach to its conclusion, however, preferring to leave things more up in the air, a narrative choice…

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Review of Magic Mike XXL (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Jun 2015

Even the best routines can’t entirely raise the film from its shambling, directionless feeling, and nothing is nearly as tight as Tatum and…

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Review of A Little Chaos (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 23 Jun 2015

There are weeds here, thorny stuff to slash through, but when A Little Chaos stays on course, there’s plenty of beautiful work to admire…

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Review of Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 16 Jun 2015

As good as Ruffalo and Saldana are, the best parts of the film are the lovely, unpretentious performances by Imogene Wolodarsky (Forbes’…

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Review of Testament of Youth (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 02 Jun 2015

Vikander is the main event here, and if Testament Of Youth is a testament to anything, it’s to her ability to embody great women with grace…

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Review of Entourage (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Jun 2015

The whole thing is overstuffed with enough narrative threads that it should require a feature film-sized outing to answer them all, but Entouragemerrily…

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Review of San Andreas (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 May 2015

It’s obvious from the start what’s going to happen, and although San Andreas occasionally makes some interesting moves (the swift offing…

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Review of Poltergeist (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2015

There are some chills to be had here, but they taper out exactly when the action should really be ratcheting up, and the film’s tension burns…

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Review of The Surface (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 13 May 2015

The film is a true two-hander—and Astin and Mulkey are mostly up for the task—but inept storytelling sinks the picture faster than anyone…

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Kate Erbland has written reviews for:

The Playlist (3,871)
Indiewire (3,631)
Boxoffice Magazine (2,896)
Film.com (1,892)
The Dissolve (1,478)
Film School Rejects (1,198)
MSN Movies (470)

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