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Review of Black Rock (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 16 May 2013

Efficient thriller that's practically a feature-length evocation of Thomas Hobbes' notion of life in nature: nasty, brutish and short…

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Review of Frances Ha (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 15 May 2013

A great film that gets the spirit of New York exactly right…

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Review of Aftershock (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 09 May 2013

If you're in the midst of such a massive quake, with destruction everywhere, the last thing you should be doing is worrying about escaped murderer-rapist…

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Review of Venus and Serena (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 09 May 2013

Less hagiography than a movie about an unusual, fascinating bond between sisters…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 09 May 2013

The movie is convincingly built around the essential truth that we are ultimately defined by our loved ones' memories and perceptions…

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Review of Dead Man's Burden (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2013

The movie offers a convincing look at the sort of irreparable damage the Civil War did to families, but too often it feels like self-conscious…

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Review of What Maisie Knew (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2013

The film hits home thanks to a stunning performance by Onata Aprile…

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Review of The Iceman (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2013

The film is at its best when it navigates the contradiction at the heart of this man, generating interest and tension as it parallels his home…

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Review of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 25 Apr 2013

It's a middlebrow drama, but Changez's transition from elitist Princeton grad living the Wall Street dream to radical Lahore professor is depicted…

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Review of Arthur Newman (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 25 Apr 2013

This is a decidedly minor effort, directed by Dante Ariola with a bland, generic eye, missing the pathos of interesting drama and the charm…

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Review of The Big Wedding (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 24 Apr 2013

The Big Wedding is the kind of movie where casting Christine Ebersole as a woman named Muffin is seen as the height of comedy. No thanks…

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Review of At Any Price (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 23 Apr 2013

The sense of place is strong…

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Review of 42 (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 11 Apr 2013

The movie is sentimental, and it has a right to be, but the actors take great pains to portray their characters as men and women in full…

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Review of The Company You Keep (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 11 Apr 2013

A sincere thriller that feels like it has arrived at least a half-decade behind schedule…

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Review of It's a Disaster (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 11 Apr 2013

The apocalypse is the catalyst for a dissection of modern self-absorption; there's nothing like a major disaster to rouse you from a technologically-induced…

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Review of Welcome to the Punch (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 28 Mar 2013

Angry men mumble as they point guns at each other in a series of standoffs in Welcome to the Punch, and it almost works…

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Review of The Host (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 28 Mar 2013

The only real conflict here is the one going on inside the protagonist's head, while poor Saoirse Ronan has little to do but look very uncomfortable…

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Review of The Host (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 28 Mar 2013

The only real conflict here is the one going on inside the protagonist's head, while poor Saoirse Ronan has little to do but look very uncomfortable…

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Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 28 Mar 2013

The movie settles into conventional rhythms once the focus shifts to Bradley Cooper and completely loses its way after that…

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Review of Room 237 (2012)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 28 Mar 2013

Like any great puzzle, The Shining is a lot of fun to try and solve…

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