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Review of Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 10 Jan 2018

Insidious: The Last Key certainly doesn’t rewrite the rules of the genre, but it’s a solid entry in a franchise I thought would have run…

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Review of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Dec 2017

Kasdan isn’t known for pulling off big budget action properties…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 21 Dec 2017

This being a Steven Spielberg joint, The Post can’t help but gradually bring heavy emotional tension to the film’s forefront, easing us…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 21 Dec 2017

Screenwriter Steven Rogers and director David Gillespie get an “A” for effort as far as their brave attempt to meld these wildly differing…

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Review of Thelma (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 10 Nov 2017

Thelma is a genre-bender that should be viewed with as little information about its many unexpected twists and turns as possible…

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Review of Home Again (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 14 Sep 2017

The problem with director and writer Hallie Myers-Sheyer’s film is that it just blandly presents all of the expected cliches of the genre…

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Review of Served Like a Girl (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Sep 2017

Served Like a Girl manages to inform the audience about its important subject matter in an always engaging way while also telling an entertaining…

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Review of Gook (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 23 Aug 2017

It’s a major step up for the filmmaker in both narrative and technical terms…

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Review of The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 10 Aug 2017

The Nut Job 2 actually contains some impressive animation, with photorealistic backgrounds and detailed fur dynamics on the characters, but…

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Review of City of Ghosts (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Jul 2017

You might have heard about ISIS using spiffy, Hollywood-style propaganda videos to attract new recruits, but City of Ghosts breaks down how…

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Review of Despicable Me 3 (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Jul 2017

As much as I love to harp on Despicable Me 3’s lazy and cynical execution, this is a fairly inoffensive, zippy and colorful time-waster for…

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Review of Baywatch (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 May 2017

Baywatch is a tonal mess of epic proportions…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 24 May 2017

Dead Men Tell No Tales doesn’t rewrite the rulebook for the franchise or the genre as a whole, and is wholly predictable from start to finish,…

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Review of All This Panic (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Apr 2017

All This Panic doesn’t offer any revolutionary approaches to this type of intimate documentary, and the subject matter might be too broad…

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Review of Trophy (2017)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 27 Jan 2017

The doc does an admirable job of giving pretty much equal screen time to hunters, conservationists, and other experts on all sides of the argument,…

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Review of Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2016)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Nov 2016

Not only is Bobby Sands: 66 Days allows us to put together a great double feature with “Hunger,” it’s also an incredibly important and…

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Review of National Bird (2016)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Nov 2016

This isn’t merely “eating your cinematic vegetables,” as Kennebeck manages to present a well-paced and structured documentary that’s…

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Review of All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 Nov 2016

Peabody creates a briskly paced doc that cleverly uses interviews and archive footage in order to distill this complex subject into an easily…

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Review of The Uncondemned (2016)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 19 Oct 2016

An exceptionally well-executed and emotionally heart wrenching documentary…

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Review of A Stray (2016)

By Oktay Ege Kozak (122) for The Playlist (3,871) on 19 Oct 2016

Apart from assured direction and strong performances, “A Stray” succeeds because even though it’s about a specific cultural group in…

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