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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 26 Jul 2018

You can just feel the care and craftsmanship in every scene, like when you eat a fancy meal or drive an expensive car…

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Review of Boundaries (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 22 Jul 2018

Writer-director Shana Heste's film never transcends its clichés, wasting fine actors on a screenplay that whipsaws between broad comedy and…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 22 Jul 2018

There's a patience and care to the way [Granik] makes movies, an appreciation for detail and nuance, that makes them bracingly different from…

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Review of Three Identical Strangers (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 22 Jul 2018

Director Tim Wardle reveals his mystery in cunning fashion, holding back key details until they can make the maximum dramatic impact…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 05 Jul 2018

Like its 2015 predecessor (which also followed on the heels of a gargantuan Avengers movie), this is a funnier, gentler, and, appropriately…

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Review of American Animals (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 01 Jul 2018

In Bart Layton's immensely entertaining and unexpectedly thoughtful caper thriller, the line between taking part in a robbery and play-acting…

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Review of Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 01 Jul 2018

Haley's characters are real enough to make mistakes, to not live up to their ideas of themselves…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 14 Jun 2018

With an absolutely stellar cast, the result is a sublime film that aims to be the definitive document of Chekhov's vision rather than take…

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Review of Tag (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 14 Jun 2018

Like a tagger who can't decide which player to chase, Tag can't figure out which kind of movie it wants to be…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 07 Jun 2018

First Reformed captures the despair that good and decent people can feel, looking at a world that seems to have turned its back on goodness…

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Review of Beast (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 07 Jun 2018

Pearce is a master at building unnerving ambiguity into scenes that can be interpreted multiple ways, keeping us guessing into the last possible…

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Review of 1945 (2017)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 07 Jun 2018

[1945] is a piercing parable for modern times about how the moral costs of doing wrong - or standing silent while others do - can come due…

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Review of Cargo (2017)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 31 May 2018

Cargo also uses the zombie genre to comment on the human condition, in particular the exploitation of native populations…

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Review of The Rider (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 24 May 2018

The Rider is a masterful character study that honors but doesn't romanticize a vanishing way of life…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 24 May 2018

It's an against-the-odds triumph. But never tell him the odds…

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Review of Disobedience (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 20 May 2018

It's impressive that [Rachel] McAdams, so charismatic in roles like Game Night, can play such a seemingly colorless character so effectively…

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Review of The House of Tomorrow (2019)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 26 Apr 2018

Futurism and punk rock share an idealism that the world really can be changed…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 26 Apr 2018

I can certainly imagine some well-meaning parent seeing the poster and thinking that the movie is suitable for their horse-loving child…

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Review of The Endless (2017)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 26 Apr 2018

The Endless is more of a sci-fi thriller, but it is exquisitely tense at times as well as intellectually engaging…

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Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 19 Apr 2018

Writer-director Lynne Ramsay's masterful thriller turns the hitman movie genre on its ear with a fractured, impressionistic style that matches…

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