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Review of Tangerines (2013)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Apr 2015

As a writer-director, Urushadze has the vision to come up with lingering images-like Ivo's long, sensitive hands guiding pieces of wood to…

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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

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

Stewart is here as marvelous as only a natural movie star can be: she's real yet heightened, and there's nothing narcissistic about her intensity…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

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

There's so much destruction at the climax that it's like an apocalypse with a happy ending…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 26 Mar 2015

There's a certain breezy obviousness to much of the humor: it's like a broad, sitcom expansion of a Moral Tale or a Comedies and Proverbs episode…

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Review of White God (2014)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 26 Mar 2015

White God wants audiences to be moved because stray dogs are persecuted like homeless people…

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Review of Turbo Kid (2015)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 24 Mar 2015

Perhaps the most colorful film ever made with a postapocalyptic setting, Turbo Kid is a loud, energetic homage to Eighties kitsch…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 18 Mar 2015

Michael Gioulakis's cinematography, more art-house than genre with its eerie pools of light at night, brings an arrestingly static, tableau-like…

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Review of The Gunman (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 18 Mar 2015

Penn conjures no special aura in The Gunman. When it comes to the lunatic game of macho heroics, he's only a super-respectable contender…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Mar 2015

Without resorting to post-Wicked good-girl/bad-girl reversals in the manner of Maleficent and (dare I say it…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Mar 2015

Without resorting to post-Wicked good-girl/bad-girl reversals in the manner of Maleficent and (dare I say it…

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Review of Faults (2014)

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

Stearns's film presents a risky black-box proposition: what happens when you put the potentially rote dynamics between cult member and deprogrammer…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Emma Myers (16) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Mar 2015

Beneath the onslaught of contemporary in-jokes and one bad fedora, Baumbach manages to articulate, with a great deal of poignancy, the timeless…

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Review of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

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

Douglas's halting evolution as a reborn man and Nighy's engaging reenactment of his stammers, ardor, and honesty, are prime examples of what's…

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Review of Effie Gray (2014)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Mar 2015

The film needed further salvation. Fanning excels as a sleeping beauty slowly awakening, but Thompson and Wise are both miscast…

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Review of Merchants of Doubt (2014)

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

The subject of Merchants of Doubt is the catastrophe of global climate change, which is engulfing us even faster than predicted…

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Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Mar 2015

Living up to the expansiveness that its Sega Genesis-like title suggests, Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter's action possesses that rare ability…

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Review of The Salvation (2014)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Mar 2015

Slick, hyperstylized, and lushly scored- a far cry from Levring and co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen's Dogme days-The Salvation is, under its…

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Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

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

There's a dicey feeling of familiarity to Dick's new film, a sense of footage fitting into pre-existing slots…

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Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

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

There's a dicey feeling of familiarity to Dick's new film, a sense of footage fitting into pre-existing slots…

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Review of Queen & Country (2015)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Feb 2015

The strength of Boorman's film is that it reminds us of what a service comedy is-the spectacle of cogs rising up against their machine…

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