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Review of Certain Women (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Oct 2016

Certain Women, despite giving each of its stories a brief encapsulating coda, isn't merely open-ended-it seems to deny the very idea of narrative…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Oct 2016

Denial deftly establishes how the moral relativism of contemporary academics and the journalistic belief in giving all viewpoints equal time…

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Review of Aquarius (2016)

By Yonca Talu (6) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Sep 2016

Achieving an uncanny blend of fragile serenity and ferocious intensity, Braga embodies a woman of all seasons: a poised and affectionate grandmother…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Paula Mejia (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Sep 2016

American Honey's loose plot, rambling pace, and lack of resolution inevitably will be maddening to some…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Sep 2016

The love scenes between Sook-hee and Hideko are beautiful, explicit, and funny, displaying a candor about sexuality that's not intended to…

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Review of Fire at Sea (2016)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Sep 2016

Constructed as much as reported, Fire at Sea is a beautiful artifact presented for your contemplation. It is also an act of conscience…

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Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016)

By Michael Koresky (14) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Sep 2016

Parker's dramatization of the 1831 rebellion of Virginia slave Nat Turner is impressively mounted, unimaginatively directed, and dubiously…

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Review of Chan Is Missing (1982)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Sep 2016

Wang makes Chan Is Missing to a similar recipe-the film is imbued with, and is entirely about, Chinese-ness, but adopts a quintessentially…

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Review of Sully (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Sep 2016

Sully may be just want the mass audience wants in the 21st century: a disaster film with a happy ending…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Sep 2016

Stone's own presence as a director is oppressive…

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Review of Summertime (2016)

By Yonca Talu (6) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Sep 2016

The juxtaposition of pulsating Paris with the static and reactionary countryside yields a compelling metaphor for Delphine's moral conundrum...What's…

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Review of The Childhood of a Leader (2016)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Sep 2016

Childhood is less a j'accuse than a bad, half-remembered dream about history…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Michael Koresky (14) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Sep 2016

When put into self-consciously cinematic form, The BFG becomes too big, too friendly, and too giant, in its rollicking gambols, patronizing…

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Review of Captain Fantastic (2016)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Sep 2016

Writer-director Ross lapses into contrivance, narrative and emotional, but it'd be worse without Mortensen's utter conviction and that rugged,…

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Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 31 Aug 2016

Cianfrance is so committed to Thomas and Isabel's perspectives that his movie becomes claustrophobic without ever being particularly revealing…

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Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Aug 2016

To borrow the tagline of Superman I, you'll believe a dragon can fly. You'll even believe he can feel…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 03 Aug 2016

Even the most garish escapism requires a director who has the mental discipline to hold out for a fecund idea and the inventive power to build…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jul 2016

The blinding, brain-smacking mayhem can't wipe out the movie's core of good feeling…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2016

Generally, Spielberg packs the frame with so much amusing clutter that he detracts from Rylance's witty, emotional line readings…

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Review of Life, Animated (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2016

Though Owen's achievements are extraordinary, the film demonstrates that there are things Disney cartoons can't teach: full self-sufficiency…

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