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Review of Columbus (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jul 2017

Into what might have been an alienating, hard-edged setting, human warmth comes from some relishably muted performances…

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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jul 2017

Detroit is angry, lucid, bludgeoning, subtle, and at times surprisingly moving…

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

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jul 2017

Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, based on the French graphic novel series Valérian and Laureline by Pierre Christin…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jul 2017

When digital cinema captures texture as sensuously and as precisely as this, a film can be a treat not just for blockbuster adepts but for…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jul 2017

It's not always easy to know what's going on in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk-which makes the film seem all the more convincing as an evocation of war…

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Review of Hounds of Love (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

With its harrowing peekaboo mayhem-Johnson turns the Whites' house into a cunningly compartmentalized stage set-and its ruthless psychological…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

The chorus of advance raves has declared that Watts has hit the sweet spot. I'd call it sweet-and-sour…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

At its best, it affects us like adrenaline mixed with laughing gas…

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Review of Wakefield (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Swicord's movie is about the angst of a rigorously constructed and airtight suburban life...she arrives at an intricate mosaic style that accommodates…

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Review of The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

More than any of Morris's films, The B-Side is directly about the mystery of capturing a person's identity on film...This likeable close-up…

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Review of The Rehearsal (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

The diffuse nature of the narrative, the way in which the film sometimes seems reluctant to focus, makes it something other than the simpler,…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

The movie's bold, irreverent use of movie mythology, from The Bridge on the River Kwai to Apocalypse Now, adds to the stirring, immersive…

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Review of Person to Person (2017)

By Margaret Barton-Fumo (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Defa respects his audience enough to relieve us of patronizing synchronicities, allowing us to piece together potential themes on our own…

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Review of Marjorie Prime (2017)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Whether someday soon we will all need our own Primes is one of the questions this likable but slightly anodyne movie raises yet doesn't really…

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Review of Léon Morin, Priest (1961)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

It's Riva's emotional vitality that powers the story, suffuses it with an oscillating vibrancy, and inspires Melville's most inventive, fluid…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Until the battering finale, production designer Aline Bonetto and Jenkins focus the action so that even in the ravages of no-man's-land, the…

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Review of Beach Rats (2017)

By Michael Koresky (14) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Hittman, a Flatbush native, is preternaturally skilled at immersing herself in the interior world and exterior details of sexually driven,…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Shults wants to ask his viewers, How far would you go to protect the people you love…

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Review of Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

It imparts the thrill of witnessing the hedonism and lawlessness-both sexual and artistic-of a bygone culture…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Katherine feels disorientingly more modern than anyone around her, and the cold-blooded finale feels less like a true reckoning with moral…

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