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Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 05 Jun 2016

Maggie's Plan offers a reasonable imitation of a quality romantic screwball comedy, with all the requisite elements of a fine entry in a storied…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 05 Jun 2016

The Nice Guys turns on the chemistry between Gosling's manic detective and Crowe's tough-but-humorous Healy…

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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 05 Jun 2016

The men of The Lonely Island have proven themselves to be masterful tweakers of celebrity imagery, and the movie gets plenty of comic mileage…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 05 Jun 2016

It's a doozy of a satirical premise concocted by Yorgos Lanthimos, who directs and co-wrote the screenplay, that evokes the fundamental absurdity…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Apr 2016

The movie is defined by Shannon, though, who finds a way to universalize the experience of being Elvis without totally downplaying the abiding…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Apr 2016

[Hanks] complicates his everyman by playing up his feelings of alienation and despair, so that it's impossible not to share in the emotions…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Apr 2016

The merit of any Shakespearean adaptation rests heavily on its actors, and Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are well suited to the narrative's…

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Review of Joy (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Apr 2016

The movie's quieter moments provide the necessary depth so that the ultimate litmus test is fulfilled: When Joy presents her mop on QVC, you…

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Review of Concussion (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Apr 2016

The fact that this movie exists at all is astounding, but the quality of the filmmaking never quite lives up to the caliber of the subject…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Apr 2016

So crammed with authentic technospeak about the financial markets, collateralized debt obligations and tranches, you could be forgiven for…

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Review of Joy (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Apr 2016

The movie's quieter moments provide the necessary depth so that the ultimate litmus test is fulfilled: When Joy presents her mop on QVC, you…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Apr 2016

The merit of any Shakespearean adaptation rests heavily on its actors, and Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are well suited to the narrative's…

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Review of Trumbo (2007)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Nov 2015

A great cast is hampered by a directorial approach that is more committed to period verisimilitude than a mining of the psychological depths…

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Review of Carol (1990)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Nov 2015

The film is rooted in the most essential truth of all: Carol and Therese need each other in order to become the best people they can be…

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Review of Trumbo (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Nov 2015

A great cast is hampered by a directorial approach that is more committed to period verisimilitude than a mining of the psychological depths…

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Review of The Danish Girl (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Nov 2015

There's just something about Lili that remains forever outside the movie's grasp…

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Nov 2015

The film is rooted in the most essential truth of all: Carol and Therese need each other in order to become the best people they can be…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Nov 2015

The camera never strays too far away from Ronan, who connects this young Irish woman's faraway journey to all of ours, evoking the trauma,…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Nov 2015

The film is rooted in the most essential truth of all: Carol and Therese need each other in order to become the best people they can be…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Nov 2015

It is as much about us, and our association with this nearly 40-year series, as it is about its characters…

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