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Review of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Aug 2015

Gibney has a really great ability to consider the contradictions that made up Steve Jobs, a thorough scumbag who had an artist's flair for technology…

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Review of Jobs (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Aug 2015

The critics screwed up on this. It is a much better film than its rating here…

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Review of The Second Mother (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 20 Aug 2015

A bold work of art featuring a domestic servant that leaves films such as The Butler in the dust…

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Review of Still the Enemy Within (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Aug 2015

Powerful first-hand testimony from British miners on how their defeat led inevitably to the rise of the one percent…

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Review of Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Aug 2015

A brilliant combination of pop music history and geopolitical analysis…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 19 Jul 2015

A very fine screenplay based on a novel written by a neuroscience researcher with a PhD from Harvard who obviously knew the territory, including…

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Review of Court (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Jul 2015

Powerful drama serving to illustrate the Kafkaesque and repressive nature of the Indian judicial system…

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Review of Runoff (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 26 Jun 2015

A little too reluctant to take a stand against chemicals but worth seeing for its empathy for its main character who is forced to carry out…

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Review of The Tribe (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 15 Jun 2015

In what amounts to pantomime, the actors convey more psychologically and reveal more about their characters than 99 percent of the films coming…

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Review of The Tribe (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 15 Jun 2015

In what amounts to pantomime, the actors convey more psychologically and reveal more about their characters than 99 percent of the films coming…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 11 Jun 2015

Faster and louder than the original but lacking in the character development and wit…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 21 May 2015

A precipitous decline from Beyond Thunderdome…

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Review of Peace Officer (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 11 May 2015

Amazing story about the militarization of the police that connects white bread Utah with Black Lives Matter. Documentary filmmaking at its best…

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Review of The Hand That Feeds (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 02 Apr 2015

A Salt of the Earth for 2015 with a bagel shop instead of a zinc mine serving as the terrain of struggle…

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Review of My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Mar 2015

Strictly for Refn fans, especially those like me trying to figure out where he went astray…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Feb 2015

Brilliant stroke to have a nebbish carrying out a one-man vendetta against a gang of bad guys rather than a Charles Bronson retread…

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Review of The Salvation (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Feb 2015

Mostly for those who have the superior taste and intelligence to be Mads Mikkelsen fans…

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Review of Tangerines (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Feb 2015

In an age of incestuous ties between the Pentagon and Hollywood that produces films like American Sniper, thank god for the Estonians who remind…

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Review of Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 30 Jan 2015

A film that despite its obvious religious overtones is much more about the hell of relationships based on commodities rather than sin…

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Review of White God (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 30 Jan 2015

Both a powerful statement for animal rights as well as a metaphorical commentary on the rise of racism in Hungary today…

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