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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 18 May 2017

The film resonates not because of its scares or effects, but thanks to the simple fact that the filmmaker wholly commits to building an atmosphere…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 11 May 2017

Every moment is surrounded by so much busy nonsense that virtually every plot detail is obscured…

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Review of The Lovers (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2017

The Lovers finds levels of tension that rival the best thrillers and depths of dark comedy that compare favorably with past classics of marital…

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Review of Chuck (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2017

The story's just not as interesting as the filmmakers think it is; it spends too much time on Chuck's downward spiral, and when it comes to…

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Review of The Dinner (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 May 2017

The actors don't have time to develop focused characterizations because they're constantly being yanked around…

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Review of The Circle (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Apr 2017

A ham-fisted slog through sanitized doldrums, packed with platitudes and speechifying about technology and privacy…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 06 Apr 2017

It's a study in contrasts, a B-movie on one hand and an earnest drama with a mean streak on the other, and neither mode is fleshed out enough…

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Review of Going in Style (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 06 Apr 2017

There's precious little actual drama, few laughs, and almost no reason to see this movie except, again, for the undeniable pleasure of watching…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 23 Mar 2017

It succeeds in fits and starts, but not enough to justify such a prolonged investment in this character…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 23 Mar 2017

It succeeds in fits and starts, but not enough to justify such a prolonged investment in this character…

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Review of The Belko Experiment (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 17 Mar 2017

There needs to be something more than the sheer spectacle of fine character actors like Tony Goldwyn, John C…

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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Mar 2017

Personal Shopper, a new film from writer-director Olivier Assayas, a native of the city, that stars Kristen Stewart in a performance that further…

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Review of The Sense of an Ending (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 10 Mar 2017

A story that's ultimately too abstract and slight to sustain itself…

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Review of Before I Fall (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 03 Mar 2017

It all comes down to the fact that this landscape's too well-tread and the central conceit should have remained retired…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 24 Feb 2017

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 17 Feb 2017

One shouldn't underestimate the sheer pleasure of encountering a project that's willing to deviate from the typical obsession with plot and…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 17 Feb 2017

What the movie offers in scale it lacks in substance, and it is so much, so relentlessly, that the initial escapist thrills become increasingly…

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Review of The Founder (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 20 Jan 2017

A story worth reflecting upon, perhaps now more than ever…

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Review of Split (2017)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 20 Jan 2017

The movie as a whole is not serious enough to work as a drama and not entertaining enough to qualify as escapism…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 30 Dec 2016

The movie doesn't have a plot, and it doesn't really need one…

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