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Review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Laika Studios' independence is rare in feature-length animation today -- rather than topping a franchise, they seek emphasis on character,…

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Review of Dionne Copland's Inferno (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Inferno is more interesting than its predecessors, though it's just as preposterous…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2015)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Hood shows us the war on terror as a literal world war, being strategized everywhere from the dust to the heavens…

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Review of The Daughter (2015)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Rush's sturdy supporting acting -- you can see the man holding back his skills to let the other actors shine -- can't counterbalance Christian's…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Frequently, Hologram plays like a good Mad Men episode, with Don Draper feeling his age and swallowing his moral corrosion in the name of a…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

It's one of those works of futurism that seems simultaneously very prescient in its time, and slightly dated in ours…

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Review of Hell or High Water (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

The violence has speed, impact and follow-through -- it's a magnificent rebuke to all the hundreds of cute killings on screen in summer movies…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele make a sublime comedy team in their new film, Keanu…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Hood shows us the war on terror as a literal world war, being strategized everywhere from the dust to the heavens…

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Review of City of Gold (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

An unalloyed success, this documentary makes the city and its subject one…

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Review of Sausage Party (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Sausage Party has a crowded composition that'll look better on the smaller screen, and the background jokes aren't worth much…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

You can see what The Lobster is trying to say so clearly that there's never that refreshing possibility of misunderstanding or ambiguity, essential…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

The movie stalls at times, and the heroines never seem properly introduced to the villain. But there's a special tang to the film…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

People are praising Casey Affleck's acting in Manchester By the Sea, and he'll probably get the Oscar for it-it's a solid, often surprising,…

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Review of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Our genial German director-flaneur comments on what he sees -- in a famous voice that is as even-tempered under pressure as a Western movie…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 31 Dec 2016

Green Room is a strangely involving as any movie contained by the bloody hillbilly-attack genre…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 29 Dec 2016

In Hunt for the Wilderpeople by Taika Waititi, lush landscapes of the rainforest of New Zealand counter a sense of humor so toast-dry that…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 08 Dec 2016

Watching Nocturnal Animals is essentially like watching a Charles Bronson retrospective in a red velvet-wrapped salon during some minor European…

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

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 19 Nov 2016

You'll want to see Philippe Rousselot's photography on an IMAX screen if possible, to take in the terrifically detailed NYC landscapes, with…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 17 Nov 2016

It's somehow hard to define great direction-it's easier to define its absence-but Jenkins is surely a great director. He's got it all and more…

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