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Review of American Sniper (2014)

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

It's not clear why the film needs to exist; the story itself isn't compelling enough and the filmmaker remains agnostic as ever when it comes…

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Review of Mr. Turner (2014)

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

The film looks and feels like a Turner painting, thanks to Leigh's collaboration with cinematographer Dick Pope, capturing the immense beauty…

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Review of Zero Motivation (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 12 Dec 2014

The minutes, hours and days blend together and the movie achieves something profound in the malaise…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 12 Dec 2014

Blessed with an inherent desire to take full stock of this person, flaws and all, that's amplified by the dignity and smarts of Reese Witherspoon's…

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Review of Life Partners (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 12 Dec 2014

It's funny and sweet, with a believable friendship at its core and conflict derived from recognizable experiences…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 12 Dec 2014

This is material more apt for a Coen Brothers treatment. Two-and-a-half hours of pretty, Paul Thomas Anderson-sculpted nonsense is a lot to take…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 12 Dec 2014

Intends to be a character study, a serious exploration of who this biblical icon might have been, but it also packs on the CGI-heavy combat…

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Review of Happy Valley (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 29 Nov 2014

It's an essential documenting of where we are, and it leaves you with a lot of necessary, troubling feelings…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 29 Nov 2014

It's frustrating but the movie works thanks to Cumberbatch's excellent performance and the eternally powerful image of the tortured hero…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 29 Nov 2014

So much of this one feels disposable in the grand scheme of things…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 29 Nov 2014

It's frustrating but the movie works thanks to Cumberbatch's excellent performance and the eternally powerful image of the tortured hero…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 29 Nov 2014

An expressionist masterpiece that engages with personal concerns in a fashion that is terrifying and emotional…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Nov 2014

An expressionistic rumination on a society rotting under the weight of delusional, media-fed and pop culturally-promulgated notions of who…

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Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Nov 2014

The movie is sincere and earnest but rendered in such a straightforward fashion that the stakes never seem especially high…

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Review of The Homesman (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Nov 2014

A studied and thoughtful examination of the unfair pressures faced by women on the frontier that also reconsiders the ways they've been classically…

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Review of The Better Angels (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Nov 2014

It's beautiful, even moving, but comes across as more invested in imitating Terrence Malick than it is in truly illuminating the formative…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Nov 2014

Keaton has tapped into something truly special and deeply personal here and emerged at the helm of a movie that's a hall of mirrors that reveals…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Nov 2014

A portrait that mirrors the mysteries of the vast universe with those of life on this terrestrial plane…

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Review of Rudderless (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Nov 2014

The picture is performance-driven, without a wandering eye, to the extent that you can't help but feel moved every time Billy Crudup's Sam…

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Review of Virunga (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Nov 2014

The conflict in the Congo, as depicted here, is more than your everyday fight. It's a war for the soul of this place, on powerful, urgent display…

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