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Review of Cell (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 11 Jul 2016

Cell is somewhat faithful to its source material, just somewhat truncated-and it gets more truncated as it moves along, as if slowly running…

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Review of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

By Ryan Vlastelica (5) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 11 Jul 2016

It's a moment-by-moment form of comedy, where making a gag at a particular instant is more important than overall story consistency…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 07 Jul 2016

When it gets to its final stretch -- the one that nothing except books or Wikipedia or other movies can prepare you for -- Mockingjay Part…

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Review of Cop Car (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 07 Jul 2016

For the most part... this is what a b-movie should be: lean, mean, and filled with just enough longueurs to be evocative without slowing the pace…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Adam Cook (18) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 07 Jul 2016

Dramatically, it's a bit stilted and awkward, with uneven storytelling and a lack of real character development-but the film's performances,…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 07 Jul 2016

At its best, this half-Mockingjay details a kind of unhealthy propaganda therapy as Katniss and Peeta head toward their inevitable reunion…

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Review of Les Cowboys (2015)

By Paul D'agostino (2) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 29 Jun 2016

A most strangely crafted western of sorts pertaining to identities, families, and senses of belonging all lost, perhaps eventually to be regained…

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Review of Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

By Benjamin Mercer (70) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 29 Jun 2016

A stronger sense of mystery might have served the film well as a thriller-though as is, it's diverting enough as a piece of escapism…

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Review of Summer of Sam (1999)

By Henry Stewart (71) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 29 Jun 2016

A deliberately overblown MEAN STREETS parody…

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Review of The Purge: Election Year (2016)

By Henry Stewart (71) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 29 Jun 2016

A long, vulgar ad for Hillary...DeMonaco may have something to say, but his movies remain too stupid to say it…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 29 Jun 2016

This is to Spielberg's faster-paced kid movies as Bridge of Spies is to Saving Private Ryan: quieter, more relaxed…

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Review of Timbuktu (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 27 Jun 2016

A haunting warning cry from a great North African director about the jihadi invasion of Mali, Timbuktu is a message the rest of the world can't…

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Review of Aferim! (2015)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 27 Jun 2016

Yet another film about how superior we are to those awful racists from the 19th-century…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 27 Jun 2016

Fusing the civil rights picture with British miserablism, Sarah Gavron's grinding Suffragette offers very little room to breathe…

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Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 27 Jun 2016

The one-bunker setting ultimately proves only a little more novel a trick than Cloverfield's shaky cam, and its pressure to deliver the goods…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 27 Jun 2016

The Babadook is as accessible as any number of less accomplished ghost stories -- and more genuinely unsettling for its portrait of parent…

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Review of The Innocents (2016)

By Elina Alter (3) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 27 Jun 2016

The Innocents is a movie about nuns becoming mothers, and in the attempt to stave off audience incredulity, it is a very serious film…

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Review of Me Him Her (2016)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 27 Jun 2016

Me Him Her is the work of someone who lives, breathes, and loves Los Angeles to such a noxiously myopic degree that providing an actual sense…

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Review of Wiener-Dog (2016)

By Forrest Cardamenis (19) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 23 Jun 2016

Though Solondz ultimately fails to provide the insight that once came with horrifying ease, the visibility of his struggle is its own form of honesty…

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Review of The Shallows (2016)

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

Swims right along the line between barely credible and flat-out nuts-a modest, swift, silly thriller…

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