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Review of The Oath (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 24 Oct 2018

With his eye keenly trained on the various ways ideology manifests as personality, Barinholtz wrings both hilarity and dread out of the chaotic…

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Review of What They Had (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 24 Oct 2018

What They Had, light as a sunbeam and heavy as snowfall, grips our hand through the transition from memory to reality and lets us know it's…

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Review of Jonathan (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 24 Oct 2018

It's so ruthlessly competent in its construction and execution that an inexperienced viewer may initially mistake its aptitude for quality…

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Review of Galveston (2018)

By Scott Nye (12) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 23 Oct 2018

The story's essential masculinity, this notion that violence is justified and cleansing and whatever else, is never quite brought to bear;…

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Review of Suspiria (2018)

By Scott Nye (12) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 23 Oct 2018

Guadagnino's conception of evil more or less keeps pace with his desire to explicate, until eventually the evil overtakes this crutch and once…

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Review of Apostle (2018)

By Rita Cannon (3) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 10 Oct 2018

Much like the cult it depicts, Apostle has a lot of powerful forces at its disposal, but can't seem to marshal those forces well enough to…

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Review of Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

By Scott Nye (12) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 10 Oct 2018

At 140 minutes, it's anything but slim and hardly dull…

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Review of Climax (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 09 Oct 2018

Gaspar Noé's Climax is a Gaspar Noé movie, by which I mean that it delights in thrilling you as much it does in shocking and upsetting you…

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Review of First Man (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 09 Oct 2018

Even when Chazelle's not using literal point-of-view shots, he still favors close-ups and elevates the sounds of ragged or labored breathing…

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Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 03 Oct 2018

Everett tips the movie over into ridiculousness when he starts making barely veiled allusions to Wilde as a Christ-like figure…

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Review of 3 Faces (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 02 Oct 2018

3 Faces flirts with the fish out of water comedy of these two big city folks in the country (they literally speak different languages) but…

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Review of Private Life (2018)

By Josh Long (3) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 02 Oct 2018

The balanced and grounded characters that populate Private Life draw us into their lives and their struggles, thanks to the keen eye of a talented…

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Review of Assassination Nation (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 30 Sep 2018

Satire is usually associated with humor but Assassination Nation is an unrelentingly sad and fatalistic version of the format…

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Review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

By Scott Nye (12) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 19 Sep 2018

Eli Roth's participation here will no doubt raise eyebrows among those familiar with his gross-out screamers, though he approaches this more…

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Review of American Chaos (2018)

By Tyler Smith (3) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 13 Sep 2018

Rating: Fresh Pull Quote: With so many taking hardline political stances, James Stern's attempt at injecting some compassion into the proceedings…

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Review of White Boy Rick (2018)

By Rita Cannon (3) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 12 Sep 2018

While undeniably entertaining, White Boy Rick ultimately hobbles itself by forcing a complicated story into a simpler format than it deserves…

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Review of The Predator (2018)

By Scott Nye (12) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 12 Sep 2018

It feels like an entry designed to keep a franchise going by giving its fans the bare minimum until they can get to the next one…

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Review of Lizzie (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 12 Sep 2018

Lizzie ultimately does more for history, women and cinema with its devotion to the muddiness of morality and the clarity, however fleeting, of love…

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Review of Mandy (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 11 Sep 2018

At its core, despite being unreservedly far out, Mandy is a pretty conventional revenge story…

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Review of Science Fair (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 11 Sep 2018

As long as we adults don't stop them, these kids will literally save us all. What's cooler than that…

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