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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

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

I, Tonya is not only a great American satire, but a revisionist take on an athlete that plays something like Rocky derailed by The Gang That…

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Review of The Disaster Artist (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 04 Dec 2017

James Franco's all-over-the-place career hits its sweet spot with his hugely entertaining recreation of one Hollywood hopeful's master class…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 04 Dec 2017

One could speculate that this is del Toro's origin story for Hellboy's Abe Sapien...but the film also harkens back to his love of old monster…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 04 Dec 2017

Seesaws between naturalism and playing to the rafters…

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Review of My Friend Dahmer (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 Nov 2017

The most remarkable thing about Meyers' film is its compassion…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 Nov 2017

Darkest Hour's greatest achievement is reminding us how different the world almost was but for one man's ability to lead others to fight against…

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Review of Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 22 Nov 2017

Nightcrawler writer/director Dan Gilroy's second film is guilty of narrative muddle, but it is still well worth seeing for Denzel Washington's…

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Review of Coco (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 19 Nov 2017

A giddy, emotionally satisfying adventure popping with color and animation so breathtaking it's often photo realistic…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 16 Nov 2017

[McDonagh's] third film finds him back in form with a pitch black, if not quite pitch perfect, comedy brought to life by an outstanding cast…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 16 Nov 2017

While it offers little new story-wise...and suffers from the same, sludgy CGI battles that marred the end of Wonder Woman, it's better than…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 15 Nov 2017

Dee Rees (Pariah) tackles an epic story from the Deep South to WWII battlefields, adapting Hillary Jordan's novel from multiple points of view…

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Review of Wonder (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 15 Nov 2017

A well-intentioned family film with a good message...but the fairy tale landscape that is Auggie's world gives him a considerable leg up before…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 10 Nov 2017

The fifteen or so minutes given over to a case involving a rabbi, a priest and an imam...could have been sorely used in later, more climactic,…

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Review of Novitiate (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 09 Nov 2017

[Betts's] tone flirts with the hysteria of Ken Russell's The Devils, giving her film a camp quality she surely never intended…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 05 Nov 2017

Gerwig's stuffed a lot of story into her 93 minute comedy, yet it never feels overpacked nor have any of her cast been given short shrift,…

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Review of The Square (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 04 Nov 2017

A witty, if somewhat obvious, art world set satire examining the 'bystander effect,' humankind's willingness to help a stranger in need decreasing…

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Review of Jane (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 03 Nov 2017

A one-of-a-kind biographical nature documentary, the story of a young woman who dared to get close to the powerful creatures who would mold…

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Review of Jane (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 03 Nov 2017

A one-of-a-kind biographical nature documentary, the story of a young woman who dared to get close to the powerful creatures who would mold…

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Review of LBJ (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 02 Nov 2017

Harrelson disappears and reappears in the title role, hamstrung by an immovable neck prosthetic, but an almost unrecognizable Jennifer Jason…

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Review of Dina (2017)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 30 Oct 2017

Dina is quite the character, such a non-stop talker she chatters through a dental procedure....The film, like its couple, is sweet and awkward,…

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