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Review of Where to Invade Next (2015)

By Alejandro Veciana (3) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Jan 2016

While Where To Invade Next might not be as intricate or as courageous as his cogent tour de force Fahrenheit 9/11, it is just as satisfying…

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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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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Harlan Jacobson (6) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Jan 2016

The Big Short is the truth-telling picture of the year…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

By David Fear (910) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Jan 2016

Drawn, per a disclaimer, from period accounts of strange phenomena and psychotic breaks among settlers, Eggers's impeccably crafted, historically…

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Review of Southbound (2015)

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

Loosely centered on a stretch of highway in the American West, this anthology of five horror tales is the rare group effort without a dud,…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By Kent Jones (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 21 Dec 2015

Bridge of Spies is a warm portrait of a friendship, an excitingly intricate story of realistically scaled suspense, and a visually ravishing…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Dec 2015

But the movie can't sustain its playfulness-or its tension, either…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Dec 2015

George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road upends all expectations-about how action sequences are composed, what themes a blockbuster can contain,…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Dec 2015

The Big Short functions as a real-life Kafka farce…

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Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Dec 2015

It's both outrageous and full of outrage, offering up cold hard facts about how the government has continued to ignore and disenfranchise urban…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 03 Dec 2015

Stripped of rhythm, nuance, and grandeur, the verse functions as a prosaic device for delivering the plot…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 03 Dec 2015

Stripped of rhythm, nuance, and grandeur, the verse functions as a prosaic device for delivering the plot…

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Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Nov 2015

Written by Meg LeFauve, with her, Sohn, and others credited on story, The Good Dinosaur features the most mundane narrative of any Pixar film-mundane…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Nov 2015

At his best, his new film is both visually striking and expressive: those lightning opening vignettes, for example, convey the volatile, claustrophobic…

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Review of Legend (2015)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Nov 2015

His fifth and most assured film as both writer and director, Legend is not the work of a dedicated stylist, but of a strong storyteller who,…

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Review of Carol (1990)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Nov 2015

What's remarkable about Carol is that it seems to exist entirely in the present moment-to be precise, in that electric, elastic, heart-stopping/heart-racing…

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Nov 2015

What's remarkable about Carol is that it seems to exist entirely in the present moment-to be precise, in that electric, elastic, heart-stopping/heart-racing…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Nov 2015

What's remarkable about Carol is that it seems to exist entirely in the present moment-to be precise, in that electric, elastic, heart-stopping/heart-racing…

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Review of Carol (2015)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Nov 2015

What's remarkable about Carol is that it seems to exist entirely in the present moment-to be precise, in that electric, elastic, heart-stopping/heart-racing…

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Review of The 33 (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2015

The supporting miners are as caricatured as the most famous miners in movie history-Snow White's seven dwarves-though the pastor, the drinker,…

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