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Review of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 13 Mar 2015

It isn't about questioning a belief system but rather those who would manipulate and exploit it…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 06 Mar 2015

The film has a sly sense of humor and style to spare; the production design seamlessly integrates futuristic tropes and industrial decay…

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Review of The Lazarus Effect (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 06 Mar 2015

The picture is in desperate need of a personality, a perspective, something that justifies its existence…

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Review of Deli Man (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 06 Mar 2015

When deli man Ziggy Gruber says smelling the food makes him feel like his grandpa is standing there with him, you know what he means…

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Review of '71 (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 06 Mar 2015

It's a tense, introspective action movie, not the broad look at the geopolitical and on-the-ground realities that one might expect out of the…

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Review of Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 06 Mar 2015

The movie suffers when Anthony Hopkins isn't on screen but the plot advances with precision and the filmmaker pays a great deal of attention…

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Review of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 25 Feb 2015

A world is constructed inside a spare room; the camera doesn't move, cutting between medium shots and close-ups, with each placement reflecting…

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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 25 Feb 2015

The highest compliment to pay this film is to note that it's one of the best Christopher Guest movies that Guest never made…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 11 Feb 2015

It looks and feels like a sequel to Twilight, with deadly dull talk about S&M replacing endless consternation over turning into one of the undead…

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Review of Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Feb 2015

Less of a nostalgia trip for millennials than a film infused with the tension of what it's like to know that your best days are probably behind you…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Feb 2015

Julianne Moore deserves all the accolades but the movie wants tears and never quite earns them…

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Review of Appropriate Behavior (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Feb 2015

A true multicultural comedy, equally at home in its hipster Brooklyn and Iranian immigrant settings, taking a loving and scornful look at both…

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Review of Song One (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Feb 2015

There are only so many scenes of Hathaway tearing up while either a) staring at her brother or b) watching James strum his guitar that one can take…

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Review of The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Feb 2015

Embraces extremes in a fashion that will put off a lot of people…

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Review of Cake (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Feb 2015

The film evokes a tangible sense of crippling loss…

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Review of Predestination (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 13 Jan 2015

It's always risky to make a film that shifts and reformulates what it is and what the audience should derive from it straight through the final shot…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 13 Jan 2015

A foray into the heating oil business in New York circa 1981 that drowns in drabness under a low winter sun…

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Review of Predestination (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 13 Jan 2015

It's always risky to make a film that shifts and reformulates what it is and what the audience should derive from it straight through the final shot…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 23 Dec 2014

What makes this one of the year's most notable movies, is the way DuVernay cuts through the immense mythology to delve into King's brilliant…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 23 Dec 2014

The premise is just impossible to accept.There's simply no way a company would torpedo itself by allowing this situation and the movie can't…

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