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Review of The Surface (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 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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Review of The Adderall Diaries (2016)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Apr 2015

Romanowksy has gamely hacked through Elliott’s purposely messy and tangential material to craft a workable portrait of pain and addiction,…

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Review of Any Day (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 29 Apr 2015

Branaman’s script piles on low-level drama, bad decisions, and enough misdirection to make the film’s baffling ending feel not just unearned,…

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Review of Man Up (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 Apr 2015

The film is rife with contrivances and clichés, but it engages with them in a respectful and clever manner, enough to sell even the silliest…

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Review of Man Up (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 Apr 2015

The golden age of the meet-cute rom-com fizzled out long ago, but the snappy, smart, and undeniably sweet Man Up fills that gap with ease,…

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Review of Planetary (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 21 Apr 2015

Planetary’s message is repetitive without being enlightening, and the film and its assorted participants insist on hitting the same beats…

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Review of Ashby (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Apr 2015

McNamara attempts to keep the movie ticking right along, and for all its half-cocked plotlines, Ashby is able to maintain a consistently humorous…

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Review of Beyond the Reach (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 15 Apr 2015

The film leans heavily on well-trod “most dangerous game” territory, but the insistence on inscrutable characters and cheap twists never…

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Review of Alex of Venice (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 12 Apr 2015

Winstead can telegraph more with a head tilt or a flicker of her eyes than most of her generation can do with a wild hand toss and a mess of…

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Review of Home Sweet Hell (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Mar 2015

Although the film appears to be aiming for pitch-black humor, it’s all so mirthless that the result is genuinely ugly…

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Review of Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Mar 2015

Shatkin is trying hard here, but Whaley’s overwrought script keeps the young actor from utilizing his charm; Reggie is simply difficult to…

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Review of All the Wilderness (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Feb 2015

The stakes of All The Wilderness aren’t high, because Johnson never directs his attentions to the real issue at hand: James is ill, and gallivanting…

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Review of The Rewrite (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Feb 2015

Grant specializes in bastards, but he makes them so charming that viewers can nearly forget, and even forgive, their consistently bad manners…

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Review of Prophet's Prey (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Feb 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 Cop Car (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Feb 2015

Watts’ film is comprised of terrible coincidences, bad mustaches and a pervasive sense of desperation…

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Review of Welcome to Leith (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Feb 2015

At its heart, Welcome to Leith is about change and how toxic decisions and beliefs can irreparably ruin bystanders’ lives…

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Review of Love, Rosie (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 04 Feb 2015

Unfortunately, the film frequently relies on telling over showing, and Rosie and Alex’s bond is rarely demonstrated through palpable on-screen…

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Review of Sleeping with Other People (2015)

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

Headland doesn’t entirely subvert the romantic comedy genre here, but she certainly has fun twisting up some of its most obvious tropes for…

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Review of The Wolfpack (2015)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Jan 2015

The Wolfpack is a film about access, and though we are admitted into the world of the eponymous Wolfpack, not understanding how we got there…

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Review of Son of a Gun (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 22 Jan 2015

Bolstered by strong performances and a tight narrative, Son Of A Gun is an admirable debut film from Avery, and a worthy new entry into Australia’s…

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Kate Erbland has written reviews for:

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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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