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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 18 Jan 2017

Writer/director Maren Ade's (Everyone Else) generational comedy is like a bizarre game of chicken, Ines's prankster dad pushing all her buttons…

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Review of The Bye Bye Man (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 13 Jan 2017

Like A Nightmare on Elm Street for the waking crossed with the Bloody Mary urban legend and It Follows' contagion concept…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 12 Jan 2017

[Mills's] screenplay, rich in the details of a turbulent time as experienced by two generations, is unfortunately undercut by some fanciful…

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Review of Live by Night (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 12 Jan 2017

If the film plays, as it did to me, as one full season of 'Boardwalk Empire' crammed into two hours, note that [novelist] Lehane was a writer…

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Review of Julieta (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 06 Jan 2017

With Julieta, Almodóvar puts one central mystery front and center, but in solving it, provides answers to questions we may not even knew we had…

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Review of Patriots Day (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 21 Dec 2016

With Patriots Day, the big irony is that the film would have worked a whole lot better if its star had been excised entirely…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 21 Dec 2016

essentially a pile of contrivances supporting science fiction concepts we've seen before and a moral question it neatly sidesteps…

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Review of Why Him? (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 20 Dec 2016

This is a perfect role for Franco, whose seedy charms are well utilized here, a mixture of sincerity, over familiarity and vaguely off-putting…

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Review of Collateral Beauty (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 16 Dec 2016

We may not be surprised that Will Smith might be drawn to a sappy, false wallow in grief and uplift, but how did Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet,…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 13 Dec 2016

while it's great to see Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen placed into Star Wars lore as a catalyst for the Rebel Alliance the British Jones lacks…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 09 Dec 2016

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 02 Dec 2016

Stéphane Fontaine...uses rigidly composed frames for the interview which anchors the film while operating more fluidly in flashbacks, a device…

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Review of The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 02 Dec 2016

Pesce's debut marks a highly specific world view that seems to have come from a very personal place but the filmmaker's quietly creepy aesthetic…

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Review of Allied (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 29 Nov 2016

As the film twists and turns in its final act, even Cotillard is undone by a subtext of self-preservation the screenplay never addresses…

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Review of Rules Don't Apply (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 27 Nov 2016

Writer/director Warren Beatty, whose long gestating film is his first since 1998's Bulworth, springs back with a frothy comedy steeped in the…

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Review of Moana (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 22 Nov 2016

A movie that follows the Disney playbook, for sure, but does it so well, even winking at it, that it is transcendentally delightful from start…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 18 Nov 2016

Amy Adams' talent makes us understand Susan's gradual, gut wrenching realization, but in making Wright's themes more obvious, Ford has also…

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Review of Bleed for This (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 18 Nov 2016

Teller gives an incredibly physical performance, believable in the ring, awkwardly stationary throughout the movie's midsection, his eyes always…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 18 Nov 2016

Elle, like its heroine, is an enigma, but Huppert's monumental talent is crystal clear…

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Review of I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 18 Nov 2016

The [circle frame] device has the added benefit of focusing our attention where it counts...the miniaturized view allowing for exquisite production…

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