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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 14 May 2018

Whether we follow Han Solo through hyperspace for more adventures is up to Disney, but what we got here is enough to keep us coming back again…

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Review of Damsel (2018)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 06 May 2018

Narratively, the Zellners are always looking to zag, and while that leads to some surprising passages, not all of them are safe…

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Review of Revenge (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 06 May 2018

Revenge is one big fuck you to a genre that has treated women like meat — often literally — and she takes back the reigns with incredible…

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Review of Revenge (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 06 May 2018

Fargeat spares no expense with the gore, sending the film's heroes and villains through the ringer, from gutsy shotgun blasts to gaping foot…

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Review of Game Night (2018)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 20 Feb 2018

It’s essentially David Fincher’s The Game matched with the comic overtones of Horrible Bosses, which is why it winds up being an entertaining…

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Review of A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 24 Jan 2018

Although the film lacks his absurdism, there’s a musicality to Wain’s direction that’s addicting, and the emotional punch in the final…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 12 Dec 2017

For all its strengths, The Last Jedi is a very manic film, fueled by excellent ideas that could have been parsed out in smarter ways…

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Review of Last Flag Flying (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 02 Nov 2017

It’s a treacly slog that’s regretfully forgettable…

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Review of Creep 2 (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 25 Oct 2017

With Creep 2, you’re never truly convinced the narrative is going the way you think it’s going, and while that may be frustrating to some…

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Review of Mr. Roosevelt (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 19 Oct 2017

This is a very effective story that works as a love letter to both a life and a city in transition…

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Review of The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 02 Oct 2017

Baumbach uses this twisted reunion as a brilliant funnel for all of his world-building — and it’s quite a story, broken down into multiple…

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Review of It (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 05 Sep 2017

The whole movie is affecting, so much so that Pennywise doesn’t even matter…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 28 Jun 2017

It’s a very human film, oozing with heart and believable stakes, a brilliant marriage that mirrors the enduring ethos of the Spider-Man comic book…

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Review of May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 20 Jun 2017

May It Last isn’t just a portrait of a band, it’s a scrapbook of a family, one that’s thorough, funny, and full of larger-than-life stories…

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Review of Rough Night (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 13 Jun 2017

Things move at such a breakneck pace and the film is so manic tonally that Rough Night winds up feeling more like a series of vignettes than…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 09 May 2017

In one corner, you have Scott, fighting to tell an existential thriller about gods, creators, and evolution, and in the other, you have this…

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Review of Hot Summer Nights (2018)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 20 Mar 2017

Everything is dandy until it’s not and that’s what makes Hot Summer Nights such a stirring and vivid presentation. The stakes are real…

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Review of Small Crimes (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 18 Mar 2017

Unlike similar thrillers cut from the same antihero cloth, Katz and Blair aren’t too concerned with frivolous and expected dalliances like…

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Review of The Transfiguration (2016)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 14 Mar 2017

The problem is that, for all of its cinematic merits, there’s something strange about this particular vampiric parable…

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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 13 Mar 2017

When you’re not shaking your head at Theron’s glass-crunching gymnastics, you’re probably soaking up Leitch’s emerald-lensed atmospheres,…

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