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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 23 Jul 2015

When you look past Fuqua's jittery directing, which dices up shots and leans the camera close into its star's painstakingly battered mug, Southpaw…

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Review of Magic Mike XXL (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 29 Jun 2015

It's total fan service. But it's not dumb about it…

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Review of The Wolfpack (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 07 Jun 2015

The sheltered world of the Angulos, informed by cinema more than the teeming city right outside their apartment windows, is a haunting and…

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Review of The Sea of Trees (2016)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

Gus Van Sant has made the weakest movie of his career, which is particularly unfortunate given that it stars Matthew McConaughey, who's been…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

Call Inside Out a comeback, a return to form, a gratifying reminder that no one else would attempt to make a children's tentpole movie about…

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Review of Entourage (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

It is ridiculously, maddeningly short on conflict, a slack hour-and-a-half story about how the awesome lives of its five main characters get…

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Review of Aloha (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

It's not bad so much as alien, like a romantic comedy made by someone who's researched human behavior but had very few brushes with it in person…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

Though it's not director Brad Bird's first retro-futuristic rodeo, Tomorrowland is his most stridently sermonizing…

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Review of Irrational Man (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

Irrational Man is a sour thriller that's played, jarringly, like a brisk comedy, up to a death and through it…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

Amy is a celebration of its subject's talent... But it's also a terribly sad portrait of an addict surrounded by enablers and opportunists…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

Amy is a celebration of its subject's talent... But it's also a terribly sad portrait of an addict surrounded by enablers and opportunists…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 21 Apr 2015

Marvel's latest is its biggest, baddest installment yet, but it's the little moments that make it work - in part, because Joss Whedon is so…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 09 Jan 2015

The Interview is marked by a true naiveté about international perception and what can be gotten away with in the name of all in good fun…

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Review of Top Five (2014)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 12 Dec 2014

It doesn't always hit its mark, but even its misses feel personal and unself-conscious - a genuine reflection of Chris Rock, auteur…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 12 Dec 2014

It's an extravagant good-bye to the universe J. R. R…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 12 Dec 2014

It's a trip worth taking, not the least because you get to spend it in the character of Cheryl, played on screen by Reese Witherspoon in an…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 12 Dec 2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings updates the story of Moses in every way except the one that would actually be gutsy: race…

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Review of Fury (2014)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 13 Oct 2014

For all its ferocious combat sequences and creative carnage, the stand-out sequence involves no fighting at all…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 13 Oct 2014

Birdman - which Iñárritu wrote with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo - feels as broadly ambitious as Babel, his most…

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

By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 13 Oct 2014

Birdman - which Iñárritu wrote with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo - feels as broadly ambitious as Babel, his most…

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