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Review of National Gallery (2014)

By Nicole Armour (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 Aug 2015

The film upholds the belief that the commonalities of self-expression, storytelling, and insightful observation reverberate through time…

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Review of Amour Fou (2014)

By Nicole Armour (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 Aug 2015

This visual confinement underscores the lack of intimacy and agency in Henriette's life. Her longing for escape is understandable…

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Review of La Sapienza (2014)

By Nicole Armour (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 Aug 2015

While Green's film is dense with historical fact and theory, it's not averse to plumbing life's mysteries…

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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 23 Jul 2015

When Billy's smart, ardent wife Maureen (Rachel McAdams) warns him that he'll be punch-drunk in two years, she seems off by at least 18 months…

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Review of Mr. Holmes (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 15 Jul 2015

No one has embodied the presence of an absence better than McKellen as the nonagenarian Holmes, who racks his brain for details of a professional…

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Review of Horse Money (2014)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 15 Jul 2015

Horse Money is an inspired reminder that politically rooted cinema needn't just inhabit the realm of the strictly real; it can have an unconscious…

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Review of Trainwreck (2015)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 15 Jul 2015

A missed opportunity for Schumer to sharpen her brand of comedy into something more than merely ideologically appealing, Trainwreck only showcases…

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Review of Minions (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jul 2015

In its own helter-skelter way, Minions achieves a loony symmetry. It starts with evolution and ends with revolution…

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Review of Self/less (2015)

By Jackson Arn (1) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jul 2015

The questions that Tarsem keeps posing in between obligatory action sequences are at least as interesting and thought-provoking as anything…

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Review of Tangerine (2015)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 01 Jul 2015

While the film's colors are as electric as the characters' emotions, the setups and framing are fairly conventional, a missed opportunity to…

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Review of Terminator Genisys (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2015

Terminator Genisys fails to provide what this series has needed for a full quarter-century: the soul of a new machine…

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Review of Manglehorn (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2015

The movie manages to be arresting when Green just lets his star rip with actors playing characters who try to lift Manglehorn up or tear him down…

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Review of What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

By Andrew Chan (4) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2015

It's disappointing to watch the film fall into Behind the Music conventionality, employing a perfunctory alternation of talking heads and archival…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2015

But the voyeurism that Kapadia managed to evade with Senna becomes inescapable in Amy, with the story having the added weakness of feeling…

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Review of Irrational Man (2015)

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

Some lines are appallingly awkward, but if there's self-parodic intent, it doesn't come across…

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Review of Ted 2 (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2015

Even when the film is being tart and lowdown, you question how deep MacFarlane's own vulgar roots really go…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2015

But the voyeurism that Kapadia managed to evade with Senna becomes inescapable in Amy, with the story having the added weakness of feeling…

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Review of The Wolfpack (2015)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jun 2015

Their Reservoir Dogs-a multi-character story ideal for brothers-is a lovely homage, the 'Stuck in the Middle With You' torture scene a standout…

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Review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jun 2015

Me and Earl is a levelheaded, irreverent riposte to such fictions, but it's also something rare-a story about ordinary male-female friendship…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

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

If the action is a throwback to cheesy late-night creature features, complete with a Godzilla vs…

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