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Review of Nine Lives (2016)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 26 Aug 2018

Nine Lives isn't purrfect, but it will warm the heart of anyone who isn't allergic to its charms…

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Review of Marjorie Prime (2017)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 26 Aug 2018

Marjorie Prime is indeed flawed like memory, but its depiction of a society that uses technology to fend off loneliness is quietly wrenching…

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Review of Kuroneko (1968)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 14 Jul 2014

A masterpiece of quietly creepy Japanese horror…

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Review of A Separation (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 04 Mar 2012

The complex realities of human emotions and experience are more than sufficient to carry a film, and Farhadi doesn't let fussy direction or…

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Review of Corman's World (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 13 Jan 2012

Stapleton's structure is fairly by-the-numbers, but with a subject as fascinating (and archival clips as entertaining) as this, the quality…

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Review of A Dangerous Method (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Jan 2012

A Dangerous Method simply feels rushed and incomplete, a CliffsNotes version of events where a novel was required…

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Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Jan 2012

What Fincher brings to the table is a particular talent for atmospheric, highly stylized mystery…

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Review of Pariah (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Jan 2012

The intensity of these performances, and their gorgeous rendering on film by cinematographer Bradford Young, carry a film that could easily…

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Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 09 Jan 2012

Alfredson is interested in more than just relating a not-so-simple mystery. What the director is after is the very character of the Cold War itself…

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Review of Le Havre (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 14 Dec 2011

While the film never reaches any hugely profound revelations with its parable-styled stories of compassion and community, and occasionally…

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Review of The Sitter (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 14 Dec 2011

Despite its deficiencies -- and they are many -- The Sitter is a dumb comedy made by smart people who know how to make you have fun despite…

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Review of Hugo (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 08 Dec 2011

Hugo may not be entirely successful as a children's film, but as the culmination of a lifetime love of the pure magic of film, this movie is…

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Review of Hugo (2012)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 08 Dec 2011

Hugo may not be entirely successful as a children's film, but as the culmination of a lifetime love of the pure magic of film, this movie is…

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Review of Shame (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 04 Dec 2011

An engrossing and unsettling examination of what happens when addiction unbalances a life enough to make it all come crashing down…

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Review of The Descendants (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 19 Nov 2011

Payne has a particular skill for making movie stars seem like normal people, and the resolute normalcy of the cast helps to show Hawaii not…

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Review of Melancholia (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 13 Nov 2011

The blackly comic tone and bracing family drama of the first half is some of the best work von Trier has ever done…

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Review of Like Crazy (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 10 Nov 2011

Director and co-writer Drake Doremus does an excellent job at creating the casual, offhand feel of real interactions, while still managing…

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Review of In Time (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 27 Oct 2011

The depth of the world Niccol has created is insufficient, while the metaphors he's employing are far more on the nose than they need to be…

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Review of Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 27 Oct 2011

Durkin lures us into the world of the cult slowly, just as Martha was, and the additive effect of gradually introducing its more extreme aspects…

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Review of In Time (2005)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 27 Oct 2011

The depth of the world Niccol has created is insufficient, while the metaphors he's employing are far more on the nose than they need to be…

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