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Review of The Alchemist Cookbook (2016)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 20 Mar 2017

Hickson's largely silent performance is superb (in the kind of complex role not typically given to black actors in modern horror movies), never…

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Review of Kate Plays Christine (2016)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 20 Mar 2017

Sometimes over-infatuated with its own meta stratagems though it may be, Kate Plays Christine's machinery of wheels is always cranking vigorously…

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Review of Song to Song (2017)

By Michael Joshua Rowin (30) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 17 Mar 2017

The greatest artistic provocation of all is that of surprising, strange, and innovative art that dares the ridiculous in the pursuit of beauty…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 14 Mar 2017

The feelings it conjures are akin to those that course through the brain while experiencing a particularly well-designed attraction at a Disney…

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Review of Raw (2017)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 13 Mar 2017

A credible candidate for the midnight-movie canon…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 07 Mar 2017

Kong may be God to the humans in the film, but the only God Jordan Vogt-Roberts & co…

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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 07 Mar 2017

As in so many of his films, part of the satisfaction comes from feeling Assayas searching through the possibilities as much as his characters do…

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Review of Donald Cried (2017)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 03 Mar 2017

Like any person worth knowing, warts and all, the more we get to know Donald and Peter, the more affecting the film becomes…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 01 Mar 2017

Jackman makes Wolverine seem acutely-sometimes sardonically; sometimes tragically-aware of his capacity for pain, whether inflicted on himself…

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Review of The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

By Max Kyburz (4) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 24 Feb 2017

The Girl with All the Gifts has ambitions to shake some genre norms up, but by favoring indulgence over patience, it's derivative in all the…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 24 Feb 2017

The credit for bringing out their humanity goes partly to the cast, of course, but it starts with director and co-writer Iñárritu, who can…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 24 Feb 2017

The credit for bringing out their humanity goes partly to the cast, of course, but it starts with director and co-writer Iñárritu, who can…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 23 Feb 2017

It's rare that a movie (especially from a big studio) wrings so much suspense over the degree of obliviousness some white people are displaying…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 14 Feb 2017

Saturated with movie-ness and a thick sheen of music-video artificiality, though mostly, again, in a good way…

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Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 09 Feb 2017

Strange that in a purportedly kinky movie, the two main characters only ever seem to achieve orgasm in the missionary position…

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Review of Dark Night (2017)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 03 Feb 2017

A contemporary look at the disaffection and desensitization that have long been native to American suburbia…

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Review of The Space Between Us (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 03 Feb 2017

Chelsom and Loeb are the kind of filmmakers whose faces should be attached to any number of grievances from nonwhite, nonmale directors having…

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Review of Dark Night (2017)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 03 Feb 2017

A contemporary look at the disaffection and desensitization that have long been native to American suburbia…

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Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 01 Feb 2017

By the end... the film has explained how not only action but introspection on the issue(s) of race is a moral and mortal necessity for the republic…

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Review of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 27 Jan 2017

Anderson doesn't have the patience or the imagination of a great action director, but he throws a lot out there…

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