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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 18 Aug 2016

Phillips lacks the vision to make War Dogs work as either an effective piece of blackened satire, or as the raunchy, slighter comedy to which…

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Review of The Little Prince (2015)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Aug 2016

The film is admirable for its gentle hand when it comes to difficult subjects like the ephemeral nature of life, and its bold visual style,…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 02 Aug 2016

Suicide Squad is another case where story elements are continuously piled on in the hopes that a coherent narrative arc will emerge…

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Review of Bad Moms (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 28 Jul 2016

Bad Moms is both very funny, and deep enough to transcend stock movie mom archetypes to tell a story about personal dignity, and how it's okay…

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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 Jul 2016

Simultaneously pretentious, mind-numbingly tedious, and dizzyingly incoherent from scene to scene, Jason Bourne is the definition of diminishing…

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Review of Train to Busan (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Jul 2016

It’s another well-made, culturally specific zombie film, but it could have been something much more filling…

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Review of The Infiltrator (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 19 Jul 2016

As an undercover crime thriller, Brad Furman's The Infiltrator only barely works…

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Review of Te3n (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Jun 2016

After an hour of slow burn simmer, Three culminates in a six-minute set piece that’s among the most memorable action scenes of the year…

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Review of Three (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Jun 2016

After an hour of slow burn simmer, Three culminates in a six-minute set piece that’s among the most memorable action scenes of the year…

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Review of Three (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Jun 2016

After an hour of slow burn simmer, Three culminates in a six-minute set piece that’s among the most memorable action scenes of the year…

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Review of Three (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Jun 2016

After an hour of slow burn simmer, Three culminates in a six-minute set piece that’s among the most memorable action scenes of the year…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 22 Jun 2016

By its conclusion, The Neon Demon feels particularly disdainful of its audience, limping to the end with rote sadism and gross-out violence…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 16 Jun 2016

What the film lacks in clean-cut storytelling, though, it more than makes up for in sheer emotionality…

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Review of The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Jun 2016

A stylish exercise in dread, teasing out its slow-drip horrors with precision, and building a deliriously evil presence that hovers along the fringes…

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Review of In a Valley of Violence (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 10 Jun 2016

In a Valley of Violence feigns to be a revisionist western, but it’s frustratingly stuck in a place of inevitability in the last half…

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Review of Last Days in the Desert (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 02 Jun 2016

Though Last Days In The Desert isn't a new perspective, that doesn't mean it's not moving, especially in bringing out the loneliness underlying…

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Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 02 Jun 2016

There's ultimately a surprising emotional resonance to Out of the Shadows, especially in the Turtles wondering whether they could ever live…

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Review of Pervert Park (2014)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 May 2016

There’s an appealing sense of cyclical healing in watching these people go about their daily rituals; in the end, however, Pervert Park feels…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 May 2016

Even as it pushes into the cozy familiarity of slow-motion party montage, Neighbors 2 can’t help but feel refreshingly new in its vision…

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Review of Search Party (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 May 2016

This is the type of comedy where the flop sweat is nearly always present as each player tries to lift the comedy, only to tragically belly-flop…

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