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Review of Christine (2016)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 12 Oct 2016

It does justice to its subject, who falls victim to a toxic cocktail of major depression, social maladjustment, and the indignities of the…

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Review of The Accountant (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 12 Oct 2016

Like a high-toned Jason Statham movie without the cool-ass fight choreography…

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Review of Tower (2016)

By Henry Stewart (71) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 11 Oct 2016

Tower asks us to resee its tragedy in a way a traditional documentary never could…

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Review of Blue Jay (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 06 Oct 2016

Shows off a different side of Sarah Paulson-looser, more relaxed, and playing opposite Mark Duplass, who seems like he would thoroughly irritate…

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Review of Blue Jay (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 06 Oct 2016

Shows off a different side of Sarah Paulson-looser, more relaxed, and playing opposite Mark Duplass, who seems like he would thoroughly irritate…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 06 Oct 2016

What gives the trashiness a mild kick is the movie's observation of how women are so often victim-blamed and pitted against each other…

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Review of Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 06 Oct 2016

Voyage of Time constitutes something more audacious than a call to action. First and foremost, it sets out to model an ethic of wonder…

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Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

By Matt Brennan (26) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 26 Sep 2016

A masterful, muscular actioner, one with an understanding of human stakes that puts most studio tentpoles to shame…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 26 Sep 2016

There's a fullness of imagination and artistry here that's become increasingly rare in Burton's work…

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Review of Goat (2016)

By Eli Goldfarb (4) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 23 Sep 2016

Like a driver's-ed filmstrip of bloody car wrecks, its scenes of ritualized cruelty, initially grueling, soon blur together…

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Review of My Blind Brother (2016)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 20 Sep 2016

These are intriguingly damaged individuals who are nonetheless shortly put through the motions of a rather forgettable love-triangle comedy…

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Review of The Magnificent Seven (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 20 Sep 2016

The unofficial cowboys and outlaws played by Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy or Denzel in any number of Tony Scott movies have more pizazz…

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Review of The Lovers and the Despot (2016)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 18 Sep 2016

Offers some fascinating glimpses into one of the world's most secretive countries, but it's far too concerned with looking cool…

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Review of Blair Witch (2016)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 14 Sep 2016

It's a hallmark of this not-particularly-scary film's failure that the blows to the electronics feel somehow more visceral…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 13 Sep 2016

There's something flaccid and by-the-numbers about Stone's latest-a button-pusher that doesn't muster the energy to push enough buttons…

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Review of Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)

By Eli Goldfarb (4) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 08 Sep 2016

A story this rich in ironies and metaphysics ought to be big game for a filmmaker…

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Review of Cameraperson (2016)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 05 Sep 2016

A celebration of female camaraderie, and a hit-after-hit close-up record of a great cinematographer at the height of her empathic powers…

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Review of The Sea of Trees (2016)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 24 Aug 2016

It's unclear what the film's detractors found so risible…

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Review of Southside with You (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 24 Aug 2016

This isn't pure hero worship, either; it's the work of a filmmaker enchanted by his subjects as a couple, not as conduits of history…

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Review of Hands of Stone (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 23 Aug 2016

This Durán becomes less charming, in fact, the more time the movie spends with him, accumulating new details of his jerkiness…

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