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

By Alex Mclevy (31) 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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Review of Shanghai (1935)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 30 Sep 2015

Pulp without style: Shanghai has many of the staples of noir—back alleys, shadowy figures, hard-boiled narration, and more femmes fatales…

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Review of Shanghai (2010)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 30 Sep 2015

Pulp without style: Shanghai has many of the staples of noir—back alleys, shadowy figures, hard-boiled narration, and more femmes fatales…

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Review of He Named Me Malala (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 30 Sep 2015

A puff piece for someone who doesn’t need one, Malala wraps Yousafzai’s life in media-circuit testimonials and fairy-tale-like animated…

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Review of Prophet's Prey (2015)

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

The real story here, as in Deliver Us From Evil and An Open Secret, is that so many people knew what was going on and still did nothing…

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Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Sep 2015

A lot more thought-provoking on issues of collective memory (or lack thereof) than the typical prestige picture, but it does falter dramatically…

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Review of Deathgasm (2015)

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

First-time writer-director Jason Lei Howden (who has a day job working for Peter Jackson’s special effects house Weta Digital) has delivered…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Sep 2015

It’s when the walk portion of The Walk arrives that this unevenly scripted, fact-based thriller achieves its full potential…

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Review of The Intern (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 Sep 2015

The lack of comic goals allows Meyers to write and write; a key emotional scene between De Niro and Hathaway late in the movie rambles on like…

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Review of The Keeping Room (2014)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 Sep 2015

Like Barber’s London-set vigilante movie Harry Brown, it’s another lurid exploitation film classed up with moody lighting and character…

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Review of Mississippi Grind (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 Sep 2015

So long as the film focuses on that spiky rapport, and on the authentic, lived-in textures of the American Midwest, it’s thoroughly enjoyable…

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Review of The Green Inferno (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 Sep 2015

Enjoying this rancid slab of red meat depends not just on an appetite for slop, but also a taste for sloppy leftovers…

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Review of Pay the Ghost (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Sep 2015

The movie’s B-movie flimsiness is pervasive, and paired with an overall lack of B-movie flair, though director Uli Edel makes some game yarn-spinning…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Sep 2015

Part IMAX nature documentary and part Hollywood disaster movie, it does an effective job of conveying what it’s like to climb the mountain,…

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Review of Hellions (2015)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Sep 2015

Plenty of striking, clever, effective movies have been made simply by re-arranging and re-calibrating familiar genre elements…

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Review of Cooties (2014)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Sep 2015

Before Cooties is a zombie movie, it is an earnest-young-teacher movie that diligently subscribes to every cliché of the form…

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Review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Sep 2015

It comes across as unintentionally comic, because Scorch Trials is basically Fleeing In Terror: The Movie…

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Review of The New Girlfriend (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Sep 2015

The real problem is that Ozon can’t quite decide whether he’s making the crowd-pleasing tale of a cross-dresser’s empowerment or the…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Sep 2015

It’s an uncommonly bold gambit, expressly designed to frustrate people who want to see a strong woman deliver a righteous ass kicking…

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Review of Envy (2001)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Sep 2015

The real problem is that Ozon can’t quite decide whether he’s making the crowd-pleasing tale of a cross-dresser’s empowerment or the…

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