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Review of Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 Sep 2014

There’s more existential wisdom in five random, zombie-infested minutes of Shaun Of The Dead than in the full two hours of this feel-good folly…

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Review of The Guest (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Sep 2014

Dumb fun is rarely this smartly delivered…

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Review of The Guest (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Sep 2014

Dumb fun is rarely this smartly delivered…

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Review of A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Sep 2014

Every year, so many artless, gormless, generically slick thrillers make their way into theaters that any time a genre director displays basic…

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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Sep 2014

If only this imaginative environment were populated with a single compelling character or stimulating idea, rather than serving as busy distraction…

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Review of The Maze Runner (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Sep 2014

If you’re going to treat your audience like a rat in a maze, it’s best to offer a tastier reward than the promise of more maze to come…

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Review of Tusk (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Sep 2014

Like most self-conscious attempts at a “midnight movie,” Tusk lacks the conviction that would make it anything more than an outré curiosity;…

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Review of Fort Bliss (2014)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Sep 2014

A movie like Fort Bliss seems designed to keep her (Monaghan) in fighting shape, in case bigger productions realize that she can do more than…

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Review of Deliverance Creek (2014)

By Genevieve Valentine (37) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Sep 2014

If the series could commit to examining the necessary politics that surround it, Deliverance Creek loves its trappings enough to have a bank-robbing…

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Review of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Sep 2014

Looks like a video-game promo, has a story that plays like the fifth episode of a struggling syndicated action show, and feels like a headache…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

Streamlines a fascinating true story into functional prestige filmmaking, but it's still plenty engaging, thanks largely to its lead…

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Review of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

The uninitiated, meanwhile, can start with Pigeon and work their way backward through Andersson’s trilogy. It only gets better in reverse…

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Review of Ned Rifle (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

Repeating himself without ever lapsing into self-parody, Hartley has made a movie that will seem awfully familiar to his fans, but which also…

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Review of The Skeleton Twins (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

What saves the movie is its actors: Exploiting audience’s memories of their previous collaborations, Hader and Wiig really do seem related…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

If there’s any fault to find in this expertly directed, frequently hilarious study of imploding male ego, it’s that Östlund basically…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

Laying out its anxieties right there in the title, While We’re Young is Noah Baumbach’s midlife crisis movie, a funny, talky portrait of…

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Review of Bird People (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

It’s also just magnificently goofy, unafraid to court ridicule and confident enough to take captivating detours…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

This elegantly nasty little potboiler should satisfy those brave enough to brave it…

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Review of Pride (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

Manipulative but big-hearted, Pride is an ode to activism as a social equalizer, and a gushy illustration of the belief that hearts and minds…

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Review of Time Out of Mind (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

It’s the epitome of the anti-vanity project—a way for a veteran charmer to prove that he has more to offer than charm…

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