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Review of Victoria & Abdul (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Sep 2017

Anglophiles will find a lot to love in Victoria & Abdul, a pleasant time that stands out thanks to Judi Dench in a return as Queen Victoria…

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Review of American Assassin (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Sep 2017

American Assassin jarringly interposes scenes of hyper-realistic violence with the sort of half-hearted storytelling one expects out of a movie…

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Review of Brad's Status (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Sep 2017

With Brad's Status, writer-director Mike White finds a smart way to evoke a central feature of contemporary life, in a movie best understood…

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Review of Beach Rats (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 24 Aug 2017

[Harris] Dickinson, in his debut, achieves an almost unfathomably rich reservoir of feeling…

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Review of The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Aug 2017

Here is yet another movie about an angst-ridden, 20-something scion of a notable Manhattan family who just can't get out of his own head long…

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Review of Ingrid Goes West (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Aug 2017

This is a perfect part for [Aubrey] Plaza's particular brand of intensity and the star, along with director/co-writer Matt Spicer, navigates…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Aug 2017

Wind River is a gritty murder mystery layered with a social conscience…

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Review of Menashe (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Jul 2017

Small, naturalistic moments like a scene of father and son scrambling to quickly eat breakfast and leave the apartment collectively give the…

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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Jul 2017

From the endless and endlessly obvious music cues to the painstakingly rendered neon settings and punk rock accouterments decorating the Communist…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Jul 2017

[Dunkirk] captures this struggle for survival with visceral intensity…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 Jun 2017

It's consistently engaging, and it's assembled with an expert hand, even if it's a more serious approach than the story deserves…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 Jun 2017

It's painstakingly authentic in its evocation of what sometimes feels like the entire conceivable range of emotions…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 08 Jun 2017

It doesn't really know what it is. In trying to offer a little bit of everything, it instead amounts to a lot of nothing…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 08 Jun 2017

It's a genre picture bathed in overwhelming darkness and torment…

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Review of Dean (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 01 Jun 2017

It all plays out in painstakingly milquetoast fashion…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 18 May 2017

The film resonates not because of its scares or effects, but thanks to the simple fact that the filmmaker wholly commits to building an atmosphere…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 11 May 2017

Every moment is surrounded by so much busy nonsense that virtually every plot detail is obscured…

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Review of The Lovers (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2017

The Lovers finds levels of tension that rival the best thrillers and depths of dark comedy that compare favorably with past classics of marital…

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Review of Chuck (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2017

The story's just not as interesting as the filmmakers think it is; it spends too much time on Chuck's downward spiral, and when it comes to…

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Review of The Dinner (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2017

The actors don't have time to develop focused characterizations because they're constantly being yanked around…

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