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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 06 Aug 2017

For Black Americans, the events of Detroit '67 are not the events of a 'dramatic thriller.' They are the events of a tragedy and still-living…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 14 May 2017

Covenant advances the mythology established by Prometheus but doesn't feel burdened by it…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 01 May 2017

The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise has found its little, expletive-inflected corner of the Marvel universe and it frolics there, shooting…

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Review of Barry (2016)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 08 Mar 2017

thinking about Barry, the 1981-set film about a young Barack Obama as he arrived in New York City to attend Columbia University, I found…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 08 Mar 2017

Kong: Skull Island is pretty good popcorn cinema, but it's more of a business plan - than a movie - which involves a lot of movies of which…

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Review of Barry (2016)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 08 Mar 2017

thinking about Barry, the 1981-set film about a young Barack Obama as he arrived in New York City to attend Columbia University, I found…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 08 Mar 2017

Writer/director Jordan Peele's Get Out has a deep lineage that includes films like Night of the Living Dead, The Spook Who Sat by the Door…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 24 Feb 2017

Even if the dire tone gives off the whiff of calculation, its violence and profanity are liberating, a closing of the gap between comic book…

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Review of Sully (2016)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 08 Sep 2016

A purposeful argument in favor of a dying breed: the durable, honorable American male…

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Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 23 Jul 2016

Chris Pine and company are shedding the baggage of previous iterations and putting their own modest stamp on the franchise…

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Review of It's So Easy and Other Lies (2016)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 31 May 2016

Lacks a style that would help a conventional story of rock and roll excess achieve a broader emotional or historical significance…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 26 May 2016

With Singer again at the helm, Apocalypse maintains enough visual elegance and emotional credibility to preserve its status as the superhero…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 13 May 2016

Asks us to revisit emotions we've already processed and would rather relive as comedy - something The Big Short accomplished to Oscar-winning effect…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 05 May 2016

for me to consider Captain America: Civil War a good movie - good enough to make me forget Prince had just died - it must be pretty good indeed…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 07 Apr 2016

A weak-sauce collection of predictable story beats, au courant vulgarity, and unearned sentiment that is not a sturdy enough foundation atop…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 07 Apr 2016

A weak-sauce collection of predictable story beats, au courant vulgarity, and unearned sentiment that is not a sturdy enough foundation atop…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Mark Keizer (225) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 25 Mar 2016

It wants us to believe it's trafficking in topical notions of politics, religion, and moral ambiguity, but its main currency is our contemporary…

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Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 05 Dec 2015

Chi-Raq is a plea for us to Wake Up. It's a tearful plea proffered by a broken mother over a murdered child…

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Review of Trumbo (2007)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 07 Nov 2015

Trumbo stars Bryan Cranston giving a great performance in a movie that is highly entertaining while managing to shovel the history of the blacklist…

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Review of Trumbo (2015)

By Tim Cogshell (223) for Alt Film Guide (63) on 07 Nov 2015

Trumbo stars Bryan Cranston giving a great performance in a movie that is highly entertaining while managing to shovel the history of the blacklist…

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