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Review of Queen of Earth (2015)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

Puts mumblecore millennials in a different context, and it suddenly all makes sense: these movies are about the despair of self-absorption…

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Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

How effective can a celebrity satire be when it depends so much on celebrity…

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Review of Eddie the Eagle (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

I've seen it all before, but I didn't mind seeing it again…

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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

That viral video of a little girl mistaking a discarded water heater for a robot is more entertaining, and a more chilling commentary on humanity's…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

It's hard not to think that [Daniel Clowes] holds his creations, and the whole human race, in smug contempt, but Harrelson brings a blankly…

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Review of Love & Mercy (2015)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

Its deepest truth isn't the stuff of tell-all biography: the movie shows the kind of personal obsession and hard work that goes into a seemingly…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

If a kitten caught in the middle of a drug war seems like a thin premise for a 90-minute film, hang in there, baby, there's more to it than that…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

A hilarious Grand Guignol satire of the fashion industry…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

Although its script is uninspired, the movie satisfies a basic cinematic need: the need to watch big monsters fight each other-a lot…

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Review of Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

The story is too close to home for this to seem like anything but a vanity project-one whose familial hostility is thinly veiled at best…

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Review of 10,000 Saints (2015)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

There's a lot wrong with [the movie], but I forgive it because most of the actors carry the movie's awkward melodrama--and because it's a reminder…

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Review of Mississippi Grind (2015)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

I can't remember another recent movie where I felt like I was watching real people have natural conversations…

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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

The film is best in those rare moments when the pets' owners are present…

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Review of The Cut (2014)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

An effective and old-fashioned weeper about a volatile time for the Armenian people…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

That visual murk, and the film's trafficking with demons...suggests a second-tier Hong Kong fantasy film from the '90s…

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Review of Terminator Genisys (2015)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

Whatever its meta-significance or lack thereof, things blow up and the good guys save the world and the stage is set for the next memory/installment…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

Since this is a Martin Scorsese picture, the film is as much about the power of the image as it is about the power of God…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

Darkly comic and even touching at times, Green Room is a solid horror movie that colors outside the genre lines…

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Review of Midnight Special (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

The film's real drama lies in a father's belief in his son and disbelief in the system…

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Review of 21 & Over (2013)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 28 Aug 2018

Can we be that sure it's not an Ai Weiwei performance piece…

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