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Review of Eden (2015)

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

An intimate epic to sink into; it uses the unchanging age of its actors, whose characters stubbornly resist changing for two decades, as a…

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Review of Eden (2015)

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

A viewer is always aware that they are being shown a place and an era, which helps explain why Eden manages the tricky business of being a…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

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

First and foremost, the film is a showcase for its wiry and wired star, and for the fascinatingly amoral anti-hero he brings to life…

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Review of Good Kill (2015)

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

The trouble begins when this gaunt, intelligent star is charged with embodying someone lacking in levity, someone burdened with excessive malaise…

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Review of Manglehorn (2015)

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

Green demonstrates no control over his star, who dodders through the movie in a sleepy daze…

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Review of This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

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

This Is Where I Leave You demonstrates, a great cast is a terrible thing to waste…

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Review of Not My Type (2014)

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

Not My Type is a modest triumph, but a triumph nonetheless…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

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 Heaven Knows What (2015)

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

Heaven Knows What quickly obtains an oddly charming rhythm, a sense of eavesdropping on sometimes unlikable, but fully realized, social outsiders…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

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

Despite all the fun-to-unpack ideas swirling around Mitchell's premise, this is first and foremost a showcase for his considerable talents…

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Review of Eden (2014)

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

An intimate epic to sink into; it uses the unchanging age of its actors, whose characters stubbornly resist changing for two decades, as a…

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Review of Eden (2014)

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

A viewer is always aware that they are being shown a place and an era, which helps explain why Eden manages the tricky business of being a…

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Review of Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)

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

Both an oral history and a lament for a neighborhood whose young women-some hookers, some not-went unprotected and un-avenged by L.A…

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Review of Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014)

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

Simply put, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 doesn’t pop like a Johnnie To flick…

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Review of Tusk (2014)

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

Tusk grew out of a podcast joke, and it shows: There's a making-it-up-as-we-go-along quality to the movie, which seems too satisfied with its…

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Review of Over Your Dead Body (2014)

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

The movie is dull right up until the point that it becomes completely, characteristically bonkers, with Miike trotting out some of his trademark…

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Review of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2014

Without having seen the two-film version, it’s unclear whether the gender-segregated points of view would enhance that emotional intensity…

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Review of Wetlands (2013)

By Jenni Miller (82) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 Sep 2014

Wetlands makes the internal external; the secret, scary bits of female anatomy are on display in a way that isn’t meant to be particularly…

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Review of The Longest Week (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 Sep 2014

Aggressively derivative though The Longest Week is, however, it’s clearly the work not of a lazy thief, but of a raw talent who’s still…

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Review of Frontera (2014)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 Sep 2014

The complexities of those people are diluted in a movie that’s not quite a functional ensemble but not intimate enough to qualify as a character…

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