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Review of A Journal for Jordan (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Dec 2021

As the overly long movie becomes about 130 minutes of his own propaganda, Washington romanticizes an ideal of man that has never actually existed,…

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Review of Don't Look Up (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 10 Dec 2021

A disastrous movie, Don’t Look Up shows McKay as the most out of touch he’s ever been with what is clever, or how to get his audience to care…

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Review of The Forever Prisoner (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 06 Dec 2021

The extremes uncovered in this film become revealing of what we accept as necessary, in what we as a nation rationalize as justice even without…

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Review of Try Harder! (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 03 Dec 2021

Try Harder! is a charming dark comedy with a light touch, with part of its self-deprecating humor right there in the title…

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Review of 8-Bit Christmas (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 24 Nov 2021

8-Bit Christmas may have a more grounded approach to gamer culture than you'd expect, but it’s constantly beat by its own limited imagination…

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Review of The Feast (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Nov 2021

There are endless horror movies out there in which a slow burn seems like it's just killing time before it's actually time to kill…

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Review of The Feast (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Nov 2021

There are endless horror movies out there in which a slow burn seems like it's just killing time before it's actually time to kill…

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Review of Mayor Pete (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Nov 2021

Mayor Pete has a compelling subject, but it's most gripping when it’s trying to secure your curiosity, not just your future vote…

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Review of Beans (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Nov 2021

With its coming-of-age and its historical context, Beans concerns ideas of pain and conflict, but it’s too timid to really engage those ideas,…

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Review of Beans (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Nov 2021

With its coming-of-age and its historical context, Beans concerns ideas of pain and conflict, but it’s too timid to really engage those ideas,…

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Review of Hypnotic (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 Nov 2021

The thrills here, whether you want to believe what Hypnotic is hawking, are far too mild to be satisfying for even a mindless viewing…

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Review of Army of Thieves (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Oct 2021

There’s something to making a prequel just for the hell of it, and giving it to an actor/writer/director whose charisma has worldwide appeal,…

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Review of Night Teeth (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 21 Oct 2021

There's an overriding desire throughout Night Teeth for it to be an L.A…

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Review of Son of Monarchs (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 15 Oct 2021

Son of Monarchs, which is driven by mood as much as it is a metaphor that it can’t get enough of, embodies the equal ambition and shortcomings…

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Review of The Manor (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 08 Oct 2021

The premise isn’t thoroughly uncomfortable so much as it is simply tedious; Barbara Hershey’s focal character Tabitha is made to appear…

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Review of The Manor (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 08 Oct 2021

The premise isn’t thoroughly uncomfortable so much as it is simply tedious; Barbara Hershey’s focal character Tabitha is made to appear…

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Review of Madres (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 08 Oct 2021

Calling a movie like Madres by-the-numbers would be a compliment, and an overstatement, because that would indicate that the makers were even…

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Review of Black as Night (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 01 Oct 2021

It’s the kind of movie that might not be as charming if you’ve seen 100 vampire movies, but if you’re also curious about bloodsucker…

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Review of Bingo Hell (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 01 Oct 2021

Even with the poetic, vicious grin we can see from Brake’s gummy smile, feasting on the dreams of lovable people misguided by materialism,…

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Review of Intrusion (2021)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Sep 2021

There are simply too many moments here in which the characters, who we are supposed to care about in some form, are conveniently dumb…

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