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Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 May 2017

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer doesn’t have as sharp an allegorical edge as his best work — it’s no Dogtooth in that respect — but it…

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Review of Baywatch (2017)

By Sean O'neal (13) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 May 2017

In spoofing something so forgettable, they’ve made something even less memorable…

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Review of Dirty Dancing (2017)

By Danette Chavez (11) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 May 2017

Getting the sociopolitical context so wrong might approach being forgivable if the central romance between Baby and Johnny weren't also botched…

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Review of Before We Vanish (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 May 2017

It unleashes Kurosawa's more playful side-his comic instincts and a largely concealed flair for action-movie pyrotechnics, albeit of the budget…

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Review of A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 May 2017

It's a spare, brutal, well-crafted prison drama, anchored by an at-turns wildly aggressive and hauntingly vulnerable lead performance by Green…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 18 May 2017

Finds the South Korean director returning to the genre-jumping mode of his masterpiece, The Host, but not quite nailing the tonal juggling…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 May 2017

For all of the time-warp elegance, it’s hard to shake the feeling that Haynes has authored more of an exercise than a movie: a lovingly assembled…

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Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 May 2017

Here is the problem with making four movies about a middle-schooler who only ages a little and learns sitcom-ready lessons: After a while,…

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Review of Wakefield (2017)

By Esther Zuckerman (46) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 May 2017

It’s a tale of what happens when male inadequacy runs rampant, starring a committed Bryan Cranston, but it’s ultimately hamstrung by its…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 May 2017

There are long sections of Alien: Covenant that amount to the best filmmaking Scott has produced in decades…

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Review of The Wall (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 May 2017

In its best moments, The Wall is just a movie, a tense and nasty black-box thriller that conveys its politics through the microcosmic stakes…

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Review of Hounds of Love (2016)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 May 2017

Hounds Of Love is a remarkable achievement in that it does exactly what it sets out to do, and what it sets out to do is traumatize the hell…

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

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 May 2017

The franchise-hungry tentpole-itis of the present studio model has produced oh-so-many dumb rehashes of classic myths and fairy tales, but…

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Review of Chuck (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 04 May 2017

The movie is more interested in him as a lovable loser, a working-class palooka who stumbled briefly into the spotlight, and Schreiber —…

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Review of Risk (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 May 2017

It’s a patchy and seemingly unfinished film…

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Review of The Dinner (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 May 2017

The Dinner wants to chill bloodstreams by revealing what decent, civilized people — the kind that adopt children from other countries, consider…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 02 May 2017

To some degree, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol…

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Review of Buster's Mal Heart (2017)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Apr 2017

Buster’s Mal Heart is indie sci-fi at its most abstract, taking elements of more populist, influential films like Fight Club and The Matrix…

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Review of Small Crimes (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 25 Apr 2017

Small Crimes, as a film, ultimately errs on the side of being overly vague, perhaps because there simply isn’t any plausible way to get much…

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Review of Rodney King (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 25 Apr 2017

This is the second time Lee has filmed one of Smith’s plays, and like A Huey P…

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