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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 19 Sep 2018

Hungarian cinematographer Marcell Rév puts himself in the top echelons with his kinetic, vibrant work here, smashing Jacques Jouffret's neon-and-blood…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 19 Sep 2018

Think of Assassination Nation as a modern fable - a wild, blood-soaked fable…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Sep 2018

A Heathers meets The Purge meets Russ Meyer free-for-all that takes elements of the Salem witch trials and transposes them to the age of the…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for Crooked Marquee (120) on 19 Sep 2018

Raucous fun and occasionally suspenseful or horrific, but not nearly as insightful as it thinks it is…

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By Aisha Harris (36) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 Sep 2018

Often it feels like reading a Twitter thread of ideas and hashtags, rather than watching a movie…

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By Aramide Tinubu (61) for Shadow and Act (97) on 19 Sep 2018

An ambitious but somewhat chaotic film, Levinson invites his audience into Salem-an American suburb where real horrors lie in everyone's cell…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Sep 2018

Assassination Nation won’t get any points for narrative cohesion or character development, but it’s a timely, visually arresting statement…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Sep 2018

From the get-go, Levinson makes every wrongheaded directorial decision imaginable in an apparent effort to make one loathe Assassination Nation—and…

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By Sarah Kurchak (64) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 17 Sep 2018

I might not be able to tell you what exactly Assassination Nation is, but the one thing I can confidently say is that it’s not easy to forget…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Sep 2018

Assassination Nation tells you right up front what to be appalled by, then simply delivers what it promised…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Denver Westword (26) on 17 Sep 2018

While sometimes messy, this material is emotionally resonant and cinematically alive…

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By Dwight Brown (181) for National Newspaper Publishers Association (180) on 17 Sep 2018

Sam Levinson has a good eye for adolescent rebellion, and combined with the demented violence, this study of New Age depravity could become…

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By Steve Erickson (207) for Gay City News (145) on 13 Sep 2018

The overtones of real-life violence feel like exploitation, not exploration…

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By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 12 Sep 2018

Levinson is smart enough to know better while also apparently being brazen enough not to really care…

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By Raquel Stecher (32) for Quelle Movies (12) on 12 Sep 2018

This modern take on the Salem witch trials is dark, twisted, raunchy and violent…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Sep 2018

Levinson displays some amazing technical chops – most of which can be traced back to Joseph Kahn, but never mind – and there’s one standout…

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By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 07 Sep 2018

What really gets cumbersome is how precious Levinson is with POC characters…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for Cinema Scope (405) on 04 Sep 2018

Everything you need to know about this film is contained in its most self-consciously bravura sequence, an extended, single-take home invasion…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Jul 2018

The first hour is overwhelmingly exciting as Levinson uses split screens and more stylistic techniques to make his story pop…

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By Vince Mancini (256) for Uproxx (697) on 11 Jul 2018

The “social commentary” feels exactly as derivative as the rest of the film, like someone artlessly smushing together imagery they’ve…

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