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Review of Zero Days (2016)

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

Gibney is surely right in calling for open and informed debate about cyber warfare, but his own movie lacks transparency and persuasiveness…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 22 Jun 2016

We know we're in good hands from the opening moments, when the New Zealand greenery undulates across the screen while an otherworldly choral…

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Review of Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2016

Hong's films make us realize that people like Chunsu have the potential to make life pretty dreadful for themselves and everyone around them,…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2016

Stanton is a born comic-fantasy director…

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Review of Recalled (2013)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jun 2016

A genre-savvy, ethically entangled military thriller by first-timer Michael Connors…

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Review of Allegiance (2012)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jun 2016

A genre-savvy, ethically entangled military thriller by first-timer Michael Connors…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 May 2016

Bobin, who can do low-key, as in TV's Flight of the Conchords, and keyed-up, as in Muppets Most Wanted, goes no-key in Alice Through the Looking…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

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

It wants to be a responsible topical thriller, but the change in focus from the fed-up prole to the battle-hardened broadcast virtuosos is…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2016

The civil war that erupts among Avengers foments filmmaking invention, not anarchy…

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Review of Dheepan (2015)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2016

You'll emerge shrugging with bitter frustration, but when Dheepan is good, it's very good…

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Review of Chevalier (2015)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 May 2016

Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier breaks down that monolith of hetero manhood without devolving into cheap satire or fake profundity…

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Review of Last Days in the Desert (2016)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 May 2016

Replacing the kitschy pieties of Son of God with art-house arthritis and a fretful string section doesn't go far toward revivifying the Greatest…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 May 2016

In A Bigger Splash, Fiennes uses all his showmanship, imagination, and empathy to vitalize a character who is both the life of the party-and,…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 May 2016

The problem is that Weiner tells a fully expected story, leveraging laughs out of the politician's pre-mocked predicament, and shaping near-silent…

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Review of Les Cowboys (2015)

By Alejandro Veciana (3) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 May 2016

While Bidegain's dialogue is sharp and the time-skipping construction sly, one wishes he would have found what he was looking for in Les Cowboys…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Emma Myers (16) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 May 2016

Streaked with the director's decidedly modern strain of cynicism, Love & Friendship might very well be the most faithful translation of Austen's…

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Review of Viktoria (2014)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2016

But defects and all, navels or not, Viktoria remains a distinctive, trenchant social-political mock epic about a little big girl…

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Review of Neon Bull (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2016

The wordless way that they click suggests a sexual telepathy, there's real tenderness in their sounds and movements, and the characters seem…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

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

Although Green Room has more scope and technical ambition than Blue Ruin, artistically it takes a giant step back…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Mar 2016

Yes, it's always nice to see actors of the caliber of Holly Hunter (as a skeptical judge) and Jeremy Irons (as Alfred the butler) get to do…

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