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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 Jan 2017

There was more than the usual dating-scene obstacles threatening their future together…

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Review of xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Jan 2017

The essential question here, of course, is how kickass those action scenes are, since no one’s watching an xXx movie for the plot…

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Review of The Resurrection of Gavin Stone (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Jan 2017

Like so many movies designed for believers first and ordinary sinners second, if at all, Gavin Stone has trouble approximating the sensibility…

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Review of Trespass Against Us (2016)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Jan 2017

Try as its talented cast does to pump some life into these desperate archetypes, it’s impossible not to draw unflattering comparisons with…

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Review of Sleepless (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Jan 2017

It might not be Donald Westlake, but it does its thing: meaningless, nonstop violence and movement, enacted by a large cast of characters who…

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Review of Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 09 Jan 2017

Too rote to be trash, it has to make do with being mere junk, impatiently exposing more incoherent machinations and more condo-board-like council…

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Review of Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016)

By Esther Zuckerman (46) for AV Club (2,778) on 06 Jan 2017

Even without the sadness that now floods Bright Lights, it would still be a classic of its kind…

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Review of Railroad Tigers (2016)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 05 Jan 2017

The Chinese film industry’s insistence on proving that it can make blockbusters that are as dull and crummy as anything to come out of Hollywood…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 30 Dec 2016

It asks what the characters of a Cinemascope musical would have to dream about, and answers with a finale that lifts the film to a higher plane…

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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 30 Dec 2016

Davies, the most interiorized of English filmmakers, shows his devotion through his fidelity to text, trying portray as much as he can of the…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Dec 2016

In showing us the interest one man takes in everything around him, he’s suggesting that living a life of simplicity and security can be conducive…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Dec 2016

The effect of Passengers is to turn frothy sci-fi romance into an astonishingly retrograde statement on autonomy and consent, and to turn one…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Dec 2016

Silence resists the pictorialism and sweep of a conventional historical drama, even as it can't resist some of the genre's oldest tropes…

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Review of Sing (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Dec 2016

In a way, Sing deserves credit for bravely rejecting cuteness as a dominant animation aesthetic-though it's not clear that the movie knows…

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Review of Sing (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Dec 2016

It turns out that Sing’s myriad irritations are a lot more eclectic than its long, long playlist of pop hits…

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Review of Fences (2016)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Dec 2016

Washington gives a magnetic, layered performance, backed by a largely superb cast, most of whom reprise their roles from the Broadway revival…

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Review of The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Dec 2016

Cox and Hirsch are both accomplished actors with an easy, believable chemistry, and Cox in particular has the gravitas to really sell some…

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Review of Collateral Beauty (2016)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Dec 2016

Collateral Beauty is one of those cloying movies about learning to take the good with the bad that feels like it was made by aliens with little…

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Review of Barry (2016)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Dec 2016

Barry doesn’t so much offer glimmers of the man Obama would become as lay experiential groundwork for his later life choices…

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Review of Barry (2016)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Dec 2016

Barry doesn’t so much offer glimmers of the man Obama would become as lay experiential groundwork for his later life choices…

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