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Review of The Oath (2018)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 15 Oct 2018

Somewhat courageously, the film’s real focus is not on the obvious villains in this tale of two Americas, but on the absurd contradiction…

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Review of The Sisters Brothers (2018)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Sep 2018

More than anything, The Sisters Brothers is an exploration of how far you can take an anti-Western before it snaps out of the genre’s orbit…

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Review of White Boy Rick (2018)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 11 Sep 2018

Purely from a standpoint of craft and storytelling, it’s a good flick, although maybe not well attuned to the bombastic times…

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Review of God Bless the Broken Road (2018)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 03 Sep 2018

Like nine out of 10 faith-based films, it lets the message crowd out the other elements of good art: character development, thematic complexity,…

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Review of Operation Finale (2018)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Aug 2018

The acting is great, but screenwriter Matthew Orton’s attempts to give the film the philosophical heft that it deserve fall somewhat short…

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Review of Alpha (2018)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 14 Aug 2018

It delivers plenty of exciting action with some CGI-assisted visual flair, from stampeding bison to a starkly beautiful image of a frozen lake…

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Review of Shock and Awe (2017)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 11 Jul 2018

Journalists deserve to be heralded — just not in this holier-than-thou cinematic cri de coeur…

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Review of How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 30 May 2018

If you love Hedwig - or Rocky Horror for that matter - it's worth streaming when it hits Netflix…

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Review of Blockers (2018)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 Apr 2018

There’s nothing self-serious about it…

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Review of Keep the Change (2018)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 Apr 2018

This gently humorous, fiercely honest indie film is a step forward in the quest for a move inclusive Hollywood, which seems to one of the themes…

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Review of Goldstone (2016)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 15 Mar 2018

As a cinematic diatribe set in a stark moral universe, Goldstone comes in loud and clear…

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Review of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 21 Dec 2017

It’s a lazy, thoroughly unoriginal bit of storytelling, but it has just enough cheeky humor and bass-thumping action scenes to be a potential…

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Review of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 23 Nov 2017

It lays on the pathos, moralizing and forced whimsy thicker than figgy pudding, but it’s still entertaining, heart-warming family fare, thanks…

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Review of Novitiate (2017)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 09 Nov 2017

The film raises interesting questions, but the answers remain elusive, and whether that makes for a compelling cinematic experience is entirely…

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Review of Loving Vincent (2017)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 11 Oct 2017

Visually you can certainly call the film a breakthrough…

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Review of The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 Oct 2017

Despite the lethal force that inevitably gets applied to poor Lisbeth, we never really fear for her safety, but we do fear for her future happiness…

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Review of Brooklyn's Finest (2010)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 22 Sep 2017

Fuqua tries to create the illusion of meaning by copycatting the style and techniques of better directors, but he can't save the naked emperor…

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Review of Step (2017)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 09 Aug 2017

You might say the lack of a Hollywood narrative arc is both a strength and a weakness in this film, because Lipitz isn’t entirely clear about…

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Review of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 02 Aug 2017

The sequel is even more “all about Al,” but ironically, with any question of another electoral run put to rest, the results work better as cinema…

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Review of Life As We Know It (2010)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 11 Jul 2017

Sarah Burns steals scenes as a seemingly prim social worker, and Melissa McCarthy (Sookie on The Gilmore Girls) does the same as a pushy neighbor…

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