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Review of Mary Shelley (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 May 2018

Art is actually as complicated as the lives that inspire it, which is probably why Mary Shelley builds its specious and underwhelming climax…

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Review of Def Comedy Jam 25 (2017)

By Ashley Ray-Harris (2) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 May 2018

Through the good and the bad, Def Comedy Jam 25 makes it clear that Def Comedy Jam is an institution that deserves respect…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 May 2018

It may be the only official Star Wars feature that seems concerned exclusively with delivering a no-frills good time…

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Review of Dogman (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 May 2018

The lead performance, from the mostly unknown Fonte, is a small symphony of crumbling ingratiation: the portrait of a good man trying to cling…

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Review of The House That Jack Built (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 May 2018

The film lands somewhere between self-flagellation and apologia; however hard von Trier is on himself, he’s not above mounting defenses,…

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Review of Show Dogs (2018)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 May 2018

That the comedy is second-rate is a given…

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Review of Under the Silver Lake (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 May 2018

The pervasive but almost offhand menace is supplied by Mitchell’s impeccable, widescreen mise-en-scène; the ordinary dread he locates in…

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Review of Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 May 2018

The film’s appeal, predicated on its rare close-up look at a working Bishop Of Rome, will be limited primarily to the faithful; those hoping…

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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 May 2018

On Chesil Beach is a minor story by design, one that uses a lovers’ quarrel to interrogate evolving social values, but sometimes it’s the…

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Review of Climax (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 May 2018

There’s a spontaneity to Climax—a naturalistic immediacy born of its exceptional, energetic cast of unknowns, firing off entirely improvised…

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Review of Thunder Road (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 May 2018

One could argue that Thunder Road is more sympathetic than critical—which is to say, that it’s a movie that asks you to feel sorry for…

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Review of 3 Faces (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 May 2018

There's...plenty to chew on in this lovely film, which fights for the liberation of multiple parties, the maker and his subjects…

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Review of Yomeddine (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 11 May 2018

Feels more like a game of cards with a stacked deck than a story that demanded to be told…

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Review of Dead Souls (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 11 May 2018

The storytelling ends up saying nearly as much as the stories themselves: Not simply capturing and filing memories, the film becomes a portrait…

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Review of Ash Is Purest White (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 11 May 2018

Jia's filmography has always felt like a kind of continuum, ideas bleeding from one to another…

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Review of Life of the Party (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 09 May 2018

The movie portrays Deanna’s rediscovery of a pre-mom life, and how she squares that freedom with her identity as a loving mother, with a…

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Review of Breaking In (2018)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 09 May 2018

The film’s sense of time lacks precision and urgency, and just having characters periodically point out that the clock is ticking doesn’t cut it…

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Review of Beast (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 May 2018

There’s such a thing as being too damn ambiguous…

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Review of Manhunt (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 02 May 2018

Even in its clumsiest stretches, Manhunt is fast-paced and fun, which might be the only metric that matters…

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Review of Overboard (2018)

By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 02 May 2018

The way the script pulls its punches is less offensive than simply toothless, giving Overboard the feel of a film written by a focus group,…

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