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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 24 Mar 2016

The magic of Hawke's performance is that, without whitewashing Baker, he never stops locating the innocence within his crude behavior…

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Review of Marguerite (2015)

By Kristin M. Jones (11) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

Beneath the antic plot and sentimental portrayal of her marriage is a moving portrait of a woman who searches for an audience and loses herself…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Yonca Talu (6) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

In this half-mythical, half-surrealistic portrait of an innocent Everyman's confrontation with a cold-blooded system, Lanthimos achieves a…

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Review of Remember (2016)

By Steven Mears (12) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

[I]n making senility the engine of the piece and siphoning its heft from the Holocaust, Egoyan manages to trivialize both…

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Review of Emelie (2016)

By R. Emmet Sweeney (27) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

Michael Thelin's perversely effective debut feature is a little thriller that pokes and prods at the fears of young parents...Thelin builds…

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Review of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)

By Grady Hendrix (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

By the climax, the action has been reduced to interminable sequences of people banging their swords together and occasionally being ejaculated…

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Review of Louder Than Bombs (2015)

By Yonca Talu (6) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

There is beauty to be found in this solemn tribute, but such dignified souls deserve deeper exploration…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By David Fear (910) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

[In] Jeremy Saulnier's near-perfect nugget of a siege thriller...[g]raphic scenes of carnage are doled out sparingly but unflinchingly, while…

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Review of Remember (2015)

By Steven Mears (12) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

[I]n making senility the engine of the piece and siphoning its heft from the Holocaust, Egoyan manages to trivialize both…

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Review of Remember (2015)

By Steven Mears (12) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

[I]n making senility the engine of the piece and siphoning its heft from the Holocaust, Egoyan manages to trivialize both…

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Review of Neon Bull (2016)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

With scalpel-like precision, Gabriel Mascaro's second narrative feature frankly yet effortlessly explores sexuality, environmental issues,…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Mar 2016

In Hood's Eye in the Sky, Aaron Paul's conscience-stricken pilot is affecting, and you cheer him on when he challenges an order that he considers…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Mar 2016

In Hood's Eye in the Sky, Aaron Paul's conscience-stricken pilot is affecting, and you cheer him on when he challenges an order that he considers…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

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

These filmmakers cross-fertilize social satire with burlesque, parody, and self-parody…

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Review of Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)

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

What Greenaway does, however, at times quite magnificently-together with regular collaborators, DP Reinier van Brummelen and editor Elmer Leupen-is…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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

By now, the Coen Brothers are reflexively called quirky. The only perverse thing about this movie, though, is that it salutes a company man…

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Review of Aferim! (2015)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Jan 2016

Lyrical and nightmarish in turns, but in no way nostalgic, Jude's reconstruction of this world makes for one of the most striking films of…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jan 2016

Brooklyn at heart is a women's picture, that staple of mid-century cinema in which a woman must choose her path in life, and the film adapts…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jan 2016

Brooklyn at heart is a women's picture, that staple of mid-century cinema in which a woman must choose her path in life, and the film adapts…

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Review of Joy (2015)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Jan 2016

All the usual fun Russell crossfire is here, however, with people speaking their kooky minds and getting in each other's business…

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