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Review of Uncle Drew (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 03 Jul 2018

It's fair that so many characters don throwback jerseys…

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Review of The First Purge (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 03 Jul 2018

Maybe the upcoming Purge TV series advertised in an end-credits interruption will return to the franchise's exploration of how our analogous…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 25 Jun 2018

Perhaps this franchise is simply at the stage of breeding where the pedigree starts to fade, you know the pets are going to get debilitating…

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Review of SuperFly (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 12 Jun 2018

Always tryin' to get over. Never quite does…

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Review of Hotel Artemis (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 07 Jun 2018

A so-so idea and a good cast squandered on an eight-figure scramble of the movies and books of which writer-director Drew Pearce is fond…

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Review of Adrift (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 31 May 2018

A more emotionally engaging bit of misery business next to the cheeky exploitation of 47 Meters Down or The Shallows…

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Review of Upgrade (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 31 May 2018

Seems headed toward glory days of David Cronenberg or Paul Verhoeven before settling for intermittently amusing ways to separate heads from…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 28 May 2018

The first act is glacial, the extended universe connections weak and the entire concept and execution of L3 abysmal…

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Review of Bad Samaritan (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 06 May 2018

Often stump-dumb. Its own title doesn't make much sense…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 24 Apr 2018

Only now could the MCU arrive at a place where bluffs can be irrefutably called and gauntlets, real or metaphorical, can be thrown down…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 05 Apr 2018

A tension machine with a tender mien…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 05 Apr 2018

A tension machine with a tender mien…

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Review of Se7en (1995)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 31 Mar 2018

It's about magnitudes of corruptibility and fallibility, how we all fall prey to them and yet, so we hope, press on…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 23 Mar 2018

Steven Soderbergh again splits a difference between genre mess-around and meaningfully mining modern anxieties…

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Review of The Hurricane Heist (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Mar 2018

The most persuasive movie jail parole hearing in years, Rob Cohen's latest is genially goofy action reliant on both strong stunt work and cheerily…

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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 09 Mar 2018

At every turn, A Fantastic Woman chooses a bolder path of realization over revelation and intimacy over inclusion - one on which Marina learns…

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Review of The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 08 Feb 2018

Here is Eastwood's latest warm-milk paean to embattled American heroism, hanging a hat on God-and-guns homilies rather than challenging truths…

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Review of The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 05 Feb 2018

It feints at a parable for paranoia in an age of weaponized information…

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Review of A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 26 Jan 2018

However fitting that a film about a man at existential odds with himself is itself at odds with its essential components, A Futile and Stupid…

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Review of The Aviator (2004)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 25 Jan 2018

Solidly entertaining and visually lush, but this is uncharacteristically safe territory for a filmmaker who relishes risk and grittiness…

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