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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 13 Sep 2017

When Molly's Game digs into the business of gambling and the whims and vulnerabilities of powerful men who spend mountains of money trying…

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Review of Death Note (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 30 Aug 2017

Netflix's Death Note fails Asian-Americans in the more mundane way that most Hollywood releases continue to…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 15 Aug 2017

Logan Lucky lands somewhere between Magic Mike and the Ocean's trilogy. Turns out, that's one hell of a sweet spot…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Aug 2017

[Idris] Elba alone can't make The Dark Tower worth watching. But he can make the case, yet again, that he deserves better material than this…

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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 30 Jul 2017

It's a calorie-free serving of simple pleasures, and sometimes that's exactly what you need…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 27 Jul 2017

It isn't a standard war movie, but it sure is some beautiful, difficult thing…

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Review of Girls Trip (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 27 Jul 2017

There's nothing embarrassing about the Posse in Girls Trip, which depicts the friendships these characters have sustained not as vestigial…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 27 Jul 2017

You don't watch The Fifth Element for its storytelling, you watch it for its joyous, ridiculous sense of place and style, and that's doubly…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 19 Jul 2017

A corrosive, intelligent costume drama from first-time director William Oldroyd…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 12 Jul 2017

A film that smuggles in a delightfully dorky high school saga under the banner of a too familiar superhero one…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 27 Jun 2017

Okja unfolds like a fable about a child and their nonhuman pal that's been warped into something bleak and outrageous -- E.T…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 21 Jun 2017

The Beguiled isn't Coppola's strongest film, but it's her smartest and most skillful in portraying how the dynamics of a group of women can…

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Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 15 Jun 2017

There's a sense of simmering rage beneath its fetching surfaces -- the ire of a woman who's been taught that acting in her own self-interest…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 08 Jun 2017

The Mummy promises a fantastical world of supernatural beings colliding and collaborating, forgetting that if no one cares about any one of…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 28 May 2017

What's striking about [Wonder Woman] is the movie's sense of elated lightness…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 23 May 2017

It's an Alien movie for our times, one in which mankind isn't just under the thumb of an oppressive corporation but sowing the seeds of its…

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Review of Snatched (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 11 May 2017

An exhausted dead end for a type of comedy that Schumer and Lena Dunham, in particular, became famous for in the last decade…

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Review of Risk (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 May 2017

Risk's strongest point is in its insistence that portraying one need not come at the expense of the other, that misogyny and acts of alleged…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 May 2017

[Yondu's] presence kicks the idling movie into gear, and into a final third act for which all of the previous meandering can be forgiven -…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 10 Mar 2017

Remake isn't a strong enough word to describe the relationship between Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast and the company's beloved…

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