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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 (2015)

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 Suffragette (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 Oct 2015

[Mulligan] brings a name and a face to this milieu; Maud in her hands becomes less of a figurehead representing generations of women and more…

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Review of Rock the Kasbah (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Oct 2015

A debacle that suggests there's nothing like some good old-fashioned American weaponry to solve the world's problems…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Oct 2015

The master of popular entertainment once again shows himself to be an accomplished portrayer of subtle human behavior against a large period canvas…

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Review of Knock Knock (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Oct 2015

The characters aren't really characters -- they're archetypes -- and the movie plays as a soft core lark rather than more substantial entertainment…

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Review of Knock Knock! (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Oct 2015

The characters aren't really characters -- they're archetypes -- and the movie plays as a soft core lark rather than more substantial entertainment…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Oct 2015

You can't shake the sense that a thorough accounting of the facts here would be more interesting than a dramatized whitewashing…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Oct 2015

There's acting, there's ACTING and then there's what Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay achieve here, which is something closer to a small miracle…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Oct 2015

There's only one character that really matters in this sumptuous, romantic ghost story -- the grandiloquent decaying mansion at its center…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Oct 2015

You can't shake the sense that a thorough accounting of the facts here would be more interesting than a dramatized whitewashing…

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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 17 Oct 2015

It's an intense motion picture befitting its single-minded main character that evokes something elemental about the loneliness of life in the…

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Review of Mississippi Grind (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 15 Oct 2015

Ben Mendelsohn takes an individual who might, in a lesser movie, be simply described as a loser, and imbues him with compassionate regard for…

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Review of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 15 Oct 2015

The picture is made with the consummate skill of the predominant documentarian of our age, getting as close as conceivably possible to the…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 15 Oct 2015

Black Mass is being framed as Johnny Depp's return to the real world after more than a decade of mostly playing fantasy characters. Don't believe it…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 15 Oct 2015

The picture utilizes every bit of the expanded 3-D frame to provide an immersive experience. But that's combined with a real sense of brutality…

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Review of Coming Home (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 15 Oct 2015

A bold and beautiful work of cinema that externalizes deeply-felt emotions onto a canvas defined by the filmmaker's mastery of the melodrama…

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Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 Aug 2015

The film is achingly apt in the ways it captures Minnie's intense emotions…

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Review of Vacation (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 Aug 2015

Lacks the poignancy that set the first film apart…

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Review of The End of the Tour (2015)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 Aug 2015

What sounds suffocating plays as an openhearted piece of cinema, thanks to the filmmaker's great grasp of observational technique and the fine…

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