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Review of Certain Women (2016)

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

Features the kind of beautiful writing, direction and acting that say more in what is left unsaid...Certain Women has a strong emotional undertow…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 05 Oct 2016

It's a wallow in bad male behavior and the women broken by it, capped with a ludicrous climax...Star Emily Blunt gives it her all, hurt, woozy…

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Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 05 Oct 2016

It starts strong then takes too long to build to an abbreviated, muddled climax...Parker appears to have lost his nerve as a director at the…

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Review of Under the Shadow (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 03 Oct 2016

Horror is the toughest genre to get right, so it's always a thrill when one comes along that not only serves up chills, but has something on…

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Review of 13th (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 03 Oct 2016

Eugene Jarecki's 2012 The House I Live In, although more limited in focus, arrived at the same conclusion…

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Review of Denial (2016)

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

The film operates on three levels as it studies the Holocaust through a legal lens, views an American struggling within the British court system…

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Review of Denial (2016)

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

The film operates on three levels as it studies the Holocaust through a legal lens, views an American struggling within the British court system…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 01 Oct 2016

Something magical...a slipstream of a movie, one which you hitch up to and get carried along in its glorious wake…

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Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 Sep 2016

a by the numbers account of the incident which highlights fiery, explosive destruction over the eleven crew members lost that day...The…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 25 Sep 2016

It's easy to see why Burton was drawn to material developed from freaky pictures, but this is simply the worst thing he's ever committed to…

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Review of Under the Sun (2015)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 23 Sep 2016

It's extraordinary how revealing Manskiy's film is even before he begins to include behind the scenes 'outtakes'...we come away with a portrait…

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Review of The Magnificent Seven (2016)

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

This edition isn't as hokey as the original but has trade-offs in its action packed finale where gunslingers defy credibility sharpshooting…

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Review of The Lovers and the Despot (2016)

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

[Adam and Cannan's] film often bogs down filling in meaningless details while its more intriguing aspects receive little exploration…

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Review of Queen of Katwe (2016)

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

You've seen this movie so many times before...But with Nyong'o on board, director Mira Nair and screenwriter William Wheeler have found this…

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Review of Storks (2016)

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

a noisy, manic adventure bereft of wit…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

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

[Stone's] film works on two levels - as a look at the man behind the headlines and as a technological procedural…

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Review of Blair Witch (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 14 Sep 2016

The film's well crafted but bereft of any new ideas, moving the series' mythology forward by perhaps all of a millimeter…

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Review of Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 14 Sep 2016

With its romcom cliches and obvious pratfalls, it may not have the sparkle of the original film, but it is an endearing return, the aging of…

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Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

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

Think you've seen all there is to see on the Beatles from that endearingly irreverent press conference after their U.S…

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Review of Cameraperson (2016)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 08 Sep 2016

This is one of the most innovative documentaries out there, an existential collage of memories astutely edited to reveal several themes…

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