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Review of Last Days in Vietnam (2014)

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

It’s not a documentary that reinvents the form or will alter anyone’s perception of the war, but sometimes a rich, exhaustive chronicle…

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Review of God Help the Girl (2014)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 Sep 2014

God Help The Girl is, in other words, a spotty movie — sometimes silly, sometimes dead serious…

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Review of The Congress (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 27 Aug 2014

It’s a folly of the first order, but one that many people will nonetheless want to see, if only because it’s so out there…

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Review of The Last of Robin Hood (2013)

By Vadim Rizov (155) for AV Club (2,778) on 27 Aug 2014

On the sliding scale of low expectations associated with the “I (may or may not have) slept with a famous person” biopic genre, Robin Hood…

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Review of The Notebook (2013)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for AV Club (2,778) on 27 Aug 2014

Not a shred of human decency is on display in The Notebook, a handsomely made, hard-to-endure World War II parable set in an unnamed Hungarian…

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Review of Starred Up (2014)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Aug 2014

It’s a credit to both Mackenzie’s talent as a director of actors and to the underlying humaneness of his vision that he argues that the…

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Review of When the Game Stands Tall (2014)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2014

For all the pains the movie takes to explain why someone shouldn’t play football—to win, to be a star, to defeat others — it never bothers…

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Review of To Be Takei (2014)

By Vadim Rizov (155) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2014

The technical, workmanlike production is made more irritating than necessary by Michael Hearst’s score, whose grating circus-comes-to-town…

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Review of Are You Here (2013)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2014

As a film, though, it amounts to less than the sum of its parts…

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Review of The Possession of Michael King (2014)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2014

After an efficient start, The Possession Of Michael King drags, weighing itself down with genre conventions the filmmakers don’t seem to…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2014

Child actors can have a tough time transitioning into adult careers, their charm often evaporating with the onset of puberty…

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Review of The One I Love (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2014

The ending is intended to be ambiguous, but it’s not too hard to guess what happened in advance, as it’s the only dramatically satisfying…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2014

Setting several scenes to the famously poignant plinks of pianist Frédéric Chopin, Love Is Strange never achieves the sheer emotional resonance…

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Review of Abuse of Weakness (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2014

Writer-director Catherine Breillat who adapted the film from her own roman à clef, seems content to let the story stand on its own two feet,…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Aug 2014

With its third entry, the Sylvester Stallone-led Expendables franchise finally becomes the live-action Saturday morning cartoon it was always…

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Review of The Giver (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Aug 2014

The ironic side effect is that this major influence on today’s new class of dystopian YA smashes now looks like just another greedy knockoff…

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Review of The Trip to Italy (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Aug 2014

It works reasonably well as a film, too, though, provided that one isn’t overly bothered by repetition and a general sense of diminishing returns…

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Review of Moebius (2013)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Aug 2014

A viewer familiar with the filmmaker’s latter-day schtick can’t help but wonder: How can an artist be so persistent in his use of symbols,…

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Review of Dinosaur 13 (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Aug 2014

Dinosaur 13 reduces a complicated legal quagmire about paleontological ownership to something of a pity party…

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Review of Septic Man (2013)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Aug 2014

As if the ravings of a lunatic weren’t dull enough, Septic Man eventually becomes the ravings of an idiot too…

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