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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Coppola's screenplay meticulously softens or eliminates everything that was bold and frightening about Don Siegel's 1971 film version…

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Review of Maudie (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 29 Jun 2017

Walsh shapes Hawkins and Hawke's interplay so that the film registers as a bizarre-couple love story…

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Review of The Wedding Plan (2016)

By Sheila O'malley (474) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 May 2017

The Wedding Plan, with its beautiful flow between comedy and sentiment, celebrates the pursuit of love, its absurdity, intensity, and power…

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Review of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 May 2017

While the film's purview may suggest a PBS documentary, the density of Morrison's detail and the twists in his long-game storytelling make…

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Review of Harmonium (2016)

By Jordan Cronk (30) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 May 2017

Rather than employ Harmonium's setup for humorous or bittersweet insights, Fukada distills the conceit into his most harrowing, tragic parable…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 May 2017

Things come to a head more than once, and, like an argument in an online comments section, it's alternately satisfying and excruciating to witness…

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Review of Hermia & Helena (2016)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 May 2017

What knits this parade of conversations and encounters together are Piñeiro's rapport with his actors, his eye for telling peripheral details,…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2017

Bill Condon's live-action remake of Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise's Beauty and the Beast (1991), the high point of Disney's animation renaissance,…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Paula Mejia (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2017

Thanks to Nanjiani and Gordon's script-equally funny, frank, and frightening-The Big Sick emerges as an unshakeable comedy made by, and for,…

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Review of Buster's Mal Heart (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2017

Malek's befuddled ingénue, with his weary frog-baby eyes and that incongruously jutting puppet-ish jaw, ensure a human immediacy that the…

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Review of Suntan (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2017

The solace that we can all take from Suntan, however, is that this is an extraordinary, exuberant, and inventive piece of cinema, and a finely…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2017

What's fatal to this movie is that it lacks visionary gusto…

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

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2017

Why should every manner of director hanker to make movies that are character-driven? What a terrible phrase that is…

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Review of Obit (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2017

Vanessa Gould's brisk, affectionate documentary Obit suggests that obituary writing as practiced by the ace team at The New York Times could…

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Review of My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 26 Apr 2017

What's fun about My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea can't be separated from its swiftness and casualness: it never asks you to take…

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Review of Contemporary Color (2016)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Mar 2017

The Rosses' film ambitiously attempts to bridge the gaps created by that act of borrowing, but gets stretched far too thin…

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Review of The Assignment (2016)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Mar 2017

The Assignment is not so naïve as to presume that moral and political considerations are irrelevant to its effect, but once you wrap your…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Mar 2017

I forget whose side I'm on, one of the cringing combatants hollers at one point, as if to reassure the viewer that they're not alone in their…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Ina Diane Archer (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Mar 2017

Get Out is a great movie for people who dislike or dismiss horror expecting gratuitous explicit violence and nudity, because of its humor,…

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Review of Glory (2017)

By Yonca Talu (6) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Mar 2017

Directing duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's witty and ingeniously crafted follow-up to The Lesson (2014) is a snapshot of a contemporary…

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