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Review of The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 17 Nov 2016

A clever and poignant character study whose navel-gazing scope belies some big truths, The Edge of Seventeen is one of my favorite films of…

Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 16 Nov 2016

Fantastic Beasts is forlorn and captivating, a rare blending of cheery, witty entertainment with a troubled worldview…

Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 04 Nov 2016

By the time Hacksaw Ridge reaches its necessary messianic finish, it's hard to not be moved by the boggling heroism of this dutiful man…

Review of The Accountant (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 12 Oct 2016

The Accountant mulls autism and a little art, and there's a sentimental pull that, I will admit, got me, just a bit, right at the very end…

Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 03 Oct 2016

In the end, the film uncomplicates its once-interesting characters, either exonerating them or distilling their villainy into something rather banal…

Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 29 Sep 2016

Berg's cornier tendencies win out at the very end of the film, slightly marring what is otherwise a crisp, admirably unadorned movie…

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 27 Sep 2016

Burton's artistry has been so misplaced for so long that it's just really nice to thoroughly enjoy a movie of his again…

Review of Brimstone (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 15 Sep 2016

Even when the film is horrible to look at, it's beautiful, a strange and grim portrait of an annihilating American frontier…

Review of Lion (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 12 Sep 2016

It's an earnest but not cloying film, one that seems wise about the world and its alternately grim and encouraging complexity…

Review of Lion (2015)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 12 Sep 2016

It's an earnest but not cloying film, one that seems wise about the world and its alternately grim and encouraging complexity…

Review of All I See Is You (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 11 Sep 2016

It's introspective and deliberate, a movie that gets to its point slowly, all its meandering and scene-setting doing the good work of priming…

Review of Colossal (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 11 Sep 2016

Throughout all this, Hathaway is outstanding. She's funny and poignant, the perfect kind of underdog champion…

Review of Queen of Katwe (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 11 Sep 2016

What a vibrant, lively, yet understated joy Queen of Katwe is…

Review of La La Land (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 08 Sep 2016

La La Land begins with such an ecstatic rush of joy -- and ends with such a gloriously bittersweet flourish -- that you kinda can't blame the…

Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 08 Sep 2016

A triptych illustrating the tidal ebb and flow of identity, Jenkins's film is awash in dreaminess, while still examining the life of one young…

Review of Arrival (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 08 Sep 2016

Arrival has the heft of a literary airport novel, with enough poetry and pathos to elevate it above Michael Crichton…

Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 31 Aug 2016

The Light Between Oceans seemingly yearns to be a lush, ravishing prestige drama. But it also doesn't seem to know what to do with the, y'know, drama…

Review of Ben-Hur (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 16 Aug 2016

Ben-Hur is made with enough conviction and thoughtfulness that its messiness, its grandstanding, its occasional bouts of clumsiness can't crack…

Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Aug 2016

A film of uncommon warmth, decency, and humanity…

Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 01 Aug 2016

David Ayer's super-villain team-up is dull, uninspired, and perhaps worst of all, forgettable…

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