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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Artforum (101) on 29 Mar 2018

His movies have never been quite so piquantly quotable since he lost Owen Wilson as co-writer and collaborator, but Isle of Dogs contains some…

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Review of Werewolf (2019)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Scene by scene, what McKenzie is after is capturing the process of a young woman walling herself off from sentimental appeal in order to save…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 16 Feb 2018

While there is an acute authorial intelligence informing the transitions between scenes, the steady trot of clipped vignettes comes to seem…

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Review of The Commuter (2018)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 03 Jan 2018

Moral and muscular, it's the action-movie illustration of Howard Zinn's proverb, You can't be neutral on a moving train…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Artforum (101) on 20 Dec 2017

[Alexander] Payne and his collaborators have not shrunk from any challenge…

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Review of My Sister's Keeper (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Dec 2017

You don't usually see this unblinking attention to the progress of physical decay in a PG-13 wide-release movie, and to the degree that it…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 03 Nov 2017

while McDonagh's film doesn't lack for gallows humor and pitch-dark stuff, it's in the department of truth that it comes up short…

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Review of Towelhead (2008)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Nov 2017

Ball, who can't conceive of human motives beyond the hypertrophic, smutty sexuality that's his stock in trade, primly divides his characters…

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Review of Diminished Capacity (2008)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Oct 2017

It's the kind of lite movie you go and see with your mom, and she'll say she liked it--but then a year later, you're both trying to remember…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Reverse Shot (113) on 11 Oct 2017

It isn't a suspense movie, it isn't a dissection of race relations in the Civil War South, it isn't a bask in the dying light of the agrarian…

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Review of Forever Strong (2008)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Sep 2017

Though director Ryan Little puts together a clean, professional package, at bottom this is a nearly-two-hour scrum of therapeutic direct encounters…

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Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Artforum (101) on 14 Sep 2017

Ex Libris is nothing short of emancipatory…

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Review of Mother (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Sep 2017

With this brash, ludicrous, bludgeoning film Aronofsky has made a work that embodies the pervasive feeling that no domestic fortifications…

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Review of Mother (2016)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Sep 2017

With this brash, ludicrous, bludgeoning film Aronofsky has made a work that embodies the pervasive feeling that no domestic fortifications…

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Review of mother! (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Sep 2017

With this brash, ludicrous, bludgeoning film Aronofsky has made a work that embodies the pervasive feeling that no domestic fortifications…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 03 Sep 2017

No one involved in The Dark Tower seems to have given a damn about what they turned out, so why should anybody else…

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Review of Saw VI (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 02 Sep 2017

Taken just as an objet d’art, Saw VI — gray, grisly, solemn, stupid — would be about the most dismal thing I’ve ever laid eyes on,…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Artforum (101) on 23 Aug 2017

Logan Lucky feels like the work of a filmmaker with nothing to prove, neither sententious seriousness of purpose nor technical knowhow…

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Review of The Way We Get By (2009)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2017

It's the stuff of a fine short on what any Bowling Alone reader knows is the last generation of civic-minded civilians, but Gaudet has a hard…

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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Reverse Shot (113) on 03 Aug 2017

Detroit succumbs to problems endemic to Based on Real Events prestige properties, films that too often are preoccupied with the truth while…

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