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Review of Headshot (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 14 Mar 2017

Definitely worth the time of any martial arts fan eager to see Uwais in action while they await the inevitable third entry in The Raid series…

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Review of War on Everyone (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 28 Feb 2017

It seems unlikely that, in an America ravaged by police shootings and generally teetering on the edge of authoritarian dystopia, audiences…

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Review of Kedi (2017)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 28 Feb 2017

Given how easy it is to pander to cat lovers, Kedi deserves credit for never stooping to outright mawkishness or cheap emotional manipulation…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 06 Jan 2017

After a thirty-year career and four Oscar nominations, Annette Bening seems to have found her magnum opus in the form of Dorothea…

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Review of The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 22 Dec 2016

Although it frequently traffics in cliché, The Autopsy of Jane Doe is an effective horror film, using many familiar elements -- mirror scares,…

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Review of The Hollow Point (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 16 Dec 2016

All the fine actors, narrative subversions and dusty landscapes in the world can't save a film that thinks it's saying a lot without saying…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 15 Dec 2016

Although The Handmaiden could easily rest on its violent, sexy laurels, Park and what must have been an army of set decorators, prop masters…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 18 Oct 2016

A work of art all its own, thoughtfully made and deeply affecting…

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Review of Desierto (2015)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 18 Oct 2016

Desierto seems destined to be a historical curio for future generations, an artifact of a dark chapter in American history that will hopefully…

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Review of Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 14 Aug 2016

Dream is Destiny is unlikely to convert anyone who isn't already interested in Linklater, but fans of his work will find it a comprehensive…

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Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 26 May 2016

Maggie's Plan reads like indie dramedy filmmaking 101 ... It's unfortunate then that film plays like a stiff, awkward parody of the genre…

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Review of The Trust (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 12 May 2016

Anyone with any appreciation for small-scale crime stories or the two leads would do well to give it a look…

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Review of The Invitation (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 06 Apr 2016

The endgame [feels] slightly over the top compared to the painstaking screw-tightening of the first hour, but the film remains purposeful and…

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Review of Triple 9 (2016)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 26 Feb 2016

Triple 9 would have had a much greater chance of success as a season of a cable drama than as a two-hour film…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 03 Jan 2016

The Revenant is as gripping as film can get…

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Review of Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 16 Nov 2015

[The film] nicely intertwines the reverence Bergman's fans will have for the icon she was on the screen with the fact that she was a very real…

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Review of The Hallow (2015)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 06 Nov 2015

Combines the city-folk-besieged-by-rural-horror of Straw Dogs with the dark fairytale appropriation of Pan's Labyrinth and the grotesque practical…

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Review of Cooties (2014)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 24 Sep 2015

Every performance seems calibrated to wacky, yet pitiful, which keeps the film entertaining even if you're not actually rooting for any of…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (1984)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 29 Aug 2015

Director Craig Zobel is less interested in sex or thrills than he is in what people value when their past and future have ceased to exist…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (2015)

By Stephen Danay (78) for Under the Radar (636) on 29 Aug 2015

Director Craig Zobel is less interested in sex or thrills than he is in what people value when their past and future have ceased to exist…

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