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Review of Slow West (2015)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Jun 2015

Slow West is a clipped, super-economical neo-Western-or rather a meta-Western musing on certain conventions of the genre that refuses to die…

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Review of Hot Pursuit (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Jun 2015

Why Reese Witherspoon would choose to play an obsessive, hyper-focused cop in Anne Fletcher's action comedy Hot Pursuit is even more puzzling…

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Review of Spy (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 Jun 2015

Spy is one of the most genial and affectionate spoofs since the Star Trek satire Galaxy Quest, yet it generates belly laughs that are closer…

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Review of Aloha (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 31 May 2015

In Aloha, Crowe's fabled generosity toward his characters and actors becomes special pleading…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

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

For a movie that celebrates dreams, Tomorrowland is too mechanically plotted and replete with robot-on-robot and human-on-robot violence…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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

Movement, images, and some plucky actors carry all the emotion and humor a movie of this scale needs, and its kinetic force delivers an adrenaline…

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Review of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

By Matthew Connolly (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Roy Andersson's latest film perches decidedly above the world it studies, gazing down fixedly upon its inhabitants from a perspective at once…

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Review of The Tribe (2014)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Slaboshpytskiy's gambit is to thrust us into the domain of the deaf by eliminating the spoken word and withholding subtitled translation for…

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Review of Eden (2014)

By Kristin M. Jones (11) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Although Eden is not a comprehensive account of the emergence of the French touch sound, the film incorporates historical details and ephemera…

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Review of In the Name of My Daughter (2014)

By Steven Mears (12) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Five years after The Girl on the Train, André Téchiné tackles another real-life cause célèbre in which the central transgression may never…

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Review of Eden (2015)

By Kristin M. Jones (11) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Although Eden is not a comprehensive account of the emergence of the French touch sound, the film incorporates historical details and ephemera…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

This adaptation of Thomas Hardy's towering 1874 novel is triply smart…

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Review of Good Kill (2015)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

In Good Kill, the war movie, like the postmodern warfare it depicts, looks a little different from the norm…

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Review of The Tribe (2016)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Slaboshpytskiy's gambit is to thrust us into the domain of the deaf by eliminating the spoken word and withholding subtitled translation for…

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Review of Results (2015)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Andrew Bujalski's entrance into the world of professional actors and state-of-the-art digital cameras happily keeps the distinguishing characteristics…

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Review of The Wolfpack (2015)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

This is a film less about gawking than about watching-the power of movies as escapism, and, quite literally, escape…

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Review of Love & Mercy (2015)

By Chris Norris (3) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Love & Mercy jumps back and forth between these two realities, each in a vividly realized time and place: the striving, LSD-dropping dawn of…

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Review of This Is Not a Film (2011)

By Phillip Lopate (3) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 May 2015

If this is not a film, by all means let us have many more such not-a-films…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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

At 141 minutes, it's a miracle the movie is never merely mechanical, but like JARVIS or Ultron, it's not fully human, either…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 21 Apr 2015

Ex Machina is the best kind of speculative fiction: its action is brisk, its characters startling, and its meanings multifarious…

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