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Review of The Armor of Light (2015)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Oct 2015

The main reason to see The Armor Of Light is to spend more time with Schenck, and to get a sense of how deeply he’s thought about all of this…

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Review of Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Oct 2015

On the plus side, the film is high energy and moves quickly…

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Review of Bone Tomahawk (2015)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Oct 2015

S. Craig Zahler’s horror-Western hybrid Bone Tomahawk is a strange movie, one that might take more than one watch to fully understand…

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Review of Jem and the Holograms (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Oct 2015

Its one saving grace is that Chu’s direction is so wildly inconsistent that it manages to produce a handful of genuinely gorgeous images…

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Review of Extraordinary Tales (2015)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Oct 2015

Each of the shorts has a markedly different visual approach, and they feel radically distinct in terms of pacing and editing as well…

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Review of The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Oct 2015

It’s a shame that The Last Witch Hunter ends up crumbling into another generic showdown of murky fantasy effects and snatched artifacts,…

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Review of Goosebumps (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Oct 2015

Though it revives at least a dozen of Stine’s most popular beasts and fiends, the new Goosebumps movie rarely recalls the old preteen page-turners…

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Review of Beasts of No Nation (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Oct 2015

The problem with Beasts Of No Nation is that it approaches war largely on the level aesthetic challenge, meaning that whatever sense of revulsion…

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Review of The Assassin (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Oct 2015

Enigmatic and often mesmerizing, super-saturated with color, drawn like a still plain ripped by brief, unexpected gusts of wind—The Assassin…

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Review of Experimenter (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Oct 2015

The film bears the subtitle The Stanley Milgram Story, but it’s most effective when it strenuously avoids biopic conventions, focusing intently…

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Review of The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story (2015)

By Gwen Ihnat (16) for AV Club (2,778) on 11 Oct 2015

The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story does a good job of continuing that give-the-audience-what they want promise, with enough backstory inside…

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Review of Pan (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Oct 2015

At once thinly conceived and maddeningly over-designed, irreverent and over-serious, and chock-full of strained references (to World War II,…

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Review of Knock Knock (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Oct 2015

It’s the kind of vanity-free, dignity-be-damned performance that Nicolas Cage regularly delivers, and by the time Keanu is bellowing hysterically…

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Review of Knock Knock! (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Oct 2015

It’s the kind of vanity-free, dignity-be-damned performance that Nicolas Cage regularly delivers, and by the time Keanu is bellowing hysterically…

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Review of Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Oct 2015

His latest, the deranged and frequently funny Yakuza Apocalypse, is in many ways a return to both his early years in the wilds of V-Cinema…

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Review of Big Stone Gap (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Oct 2015

The result is at once labor of love and cautionary tale: Apparently too close to the story to recognize how ill suited she was to translating…

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Review of The Final Girls (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Oct 2015

This makes The Final Girls an odd concoction: a semi-crude and not especially scary horror-comedy with some real emotional depth…

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Review of Victoria (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Oct 2015

Shooting an entire feature film continuously, without a single cut, is a dumb idea…

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Review of Trash (2014)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Oct 2015

But while once upon a time Daldry made a very good movie like Billy Elliot, here he lets what should’ve been an efficient little thriller…

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Review of The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story (2015)

By Alex Mccown (15) for AV Club (2,778) on 04 Oct 2015

For those who fondly remember all the time spent hanging out at The Peach Pit, Lifetime's latest made-for-TV movie equivalent of Behind The…

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