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Review of Daddy's Home (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 Dec 2015

Fitfully entertaining, and even more rarely actually funny, Daddy's Home, tellingly, only really comes alive in the very last portion of the…

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Review of Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Nov 2015

While aesthetically it doesn’t do much to break the form, it more than succeeds in presenting Joplin as a flawed, insecure, deeply brilliant…

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Review of CodeGirl (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Nov 2015

For those who are coming to Codegirl looking for a fiery rebuke and exposé on the gender imbalance rampant in Silicon Valley, they've come…

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Review of Burnt (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Oct 2015

The film’s haphazard construction is made all the more frustrating because somewhere in this material is a much more resonant picture…

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Review of All Things Must Pass (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Oct 2015

Hanks' insightful tribute to the retailer, and chronicle of their history, is the story of the music industry, who had it all, and believed…

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Review of The Resurrection of Jake The Snake (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Oct 2015

While the material might be the substance of a handful of reality shows you could easily watch on television, there is only one Jake The Snake…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2015

While certainly imperfect, there is something to admire about the film’s attempt to present the tangled logistics of a single military operation,…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2015

Screenwriter Amy Jump and director Ben Wheatley are less concerned with the message than with the madness, and their resulting picture is heavier…

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Review of Colonia (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2015

Working at cross-purposes, Colonia tries to have it both ways, wanting to be a shocking true story drama and a riveting piece of moviemaking…

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Review of ma ma (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2015

Falls flat on its face thanks to a severe lack of self-awareness and an air of dramatic self-importance…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2015

While certainly imperfect, there is something to admire about the film’s attempt to present the tangled logistics of a single military operation,…

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Review of The Dressmaker (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2015

That The Dressmaker remains watchable in any sense is thanks in large part to a cast who give the material that’s way beneath them far better…

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Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Sep 2015

Witty, observational, and hilarious, Maggie’s Plan is the kind of richly complex dramedy that proves to be the rare picture that serves both…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2015

It's as lack of nuance and objectivity which turns a potentially complex film into a simple, mostly one noted message movie…

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Review of 3 Generations (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2015

It misses the opportunity to jump from informational to insightful…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2015

Vanderbilt chooses to present the tale with a lighter comic touch in the early stages, and it’s a tone the picture can’t overcome in its…

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Review of Len and Company (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Sep 2015

According to Len, rock ‘n roll is blood, bourbon, and napalm, and it’s exactly those elements that the film needs, but doesn’t provide…

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Review of A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Sep 2015

Portman wants to articulate something beyond the ordinary, and while she hasn’t found it in this picture, perhaps there are lessons here…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Sep 2015

The Martian is the most purely enjoyable picture Scott has made in years…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Sep 2015

The film’s attempted cathartic payoff is inauthentic and unearned, and it’s a shame considering that Gyllenhaal once again gives a committed turn…

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