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Review of Den of Thieves (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Jan 2018

Enduring the 140 immediately and unswervingly painful minutes inexplicably afforded to Den of Thieves is like watching a thrill-seeking liquor-store…

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Review of Proud Mary (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 13 Jan 2018

Indeed, the only thing swifter than vengeance here is the revelation of how rotten it is…

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Review of The Commuter (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 13 Jan 2018

The Neesploitation genre shifts from arthritic debilitation to senile incontinence with an action film so dumb it mainly gets you thinking…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Suite101.com (114) on 03 Jan 2018

Traces a line from mid-'90s scandal to the scum-encrusted sociopolitical hellscape in which we find ourselves…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Suite101.com (114) on 20 Dec 2017

By the end, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor have essentially abandoned altogether the idea of a world where shrinking is commonplace - unimaginatively,…

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Review of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Dec 2017

A game cast labors to blow the dust off what's more recognizable IP than beloved classic…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Dec 2017

A thing of beauty and work of art about which the loudest grumblers likely expected the most conventional developments - lost in Reddit rabbit…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 21 Nov 2017

A solid Southern story deserving of a far more epic canvas…

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Review of Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 28 Oct 2017

Vince Vaughn raucously and radically inverts a motormouth comic persona as a man of persuasive silent intimidation. S…

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Review of The Snowman (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Oct 2017

Do you want a thrill-less Snowmaaaaaan? This movie seems to last all dayyyyy. Rare are mainstream screw-ups like this anymore…

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Review of True Conviction (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Oct 2017

So eager to carve out a piece of the profitable true-crime pie that it slides a serving fork under the crust altogether - all topping, no foundation…

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Review of Liyana (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Oct 2017

Two films in one, each unfolding with subtlety, sensitivity and strength…

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Review of Happy Death Day (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Oct 2017

Who's Bill Murray? is the most honest line in Happy Death Day…

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Review of American Made (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 26 Sep 2017

What could've been a dark-universe inversion of Top Gun - wherein Tom Cruise feels a need for greed -is instead the star's attempt to tailor…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Suite101.com (114) on 20 Sep 2017

It's a comma of compassion in a larger Sisyphean story of war, with Christopher Nolan's contemporaneously unrivaled visual instincts - wedding…

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Review of Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Sep 2017

The Statesmen are duds, it's often disjointed and distracted by the wrong things and nothing approaches the church scene…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Sep 2017

At the exact moment Beatriz at Dinner is brought to a believable boil, the film fritters away its final moments on a fugue state…

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Review of The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Sep 2017

Rarely do jagged threads of side-alley stitch jobs show in a major release, riddled with shots of soft (or no) focus…

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Review of The Lost City of Z (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Suite101.com (114) on 20 Sep 2017

James Gray's latest, and best, film is a knockout - a visually woozy, thematically textured, narratively patient, emotionally powerful and…

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Review of Breakdown (1997)

By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 20 Sep 2017

Sometimes a tightly wound watch - with a little bit of filigree and flourish to set it apart - is all you need…

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