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Review of Bastards (2013)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Feb 2014

But even if it is merely a sketch or fragment, an elegant offhand gesture, this film is pure Denis and richly unsettling…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Feb 2014

[A]n odyssey into the past, into missed opportunities, and into the complexities of an everyday family of malcontents…

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Review of Rush (2013)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Feb 2014

Rush is pure 'print the myth' stuff -- but since both its heroes really are myths, it gets away with it, with more grace and vigor than you…

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Review of Her (2013)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Feb 2014

[A] tender, wry, deceptively modest package -- and the closer you look, the more it reveals itself to be the proverbial Movie For Our Times…

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Review of All the Light in the Sky (2013)

By Dan Sullivan (9) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

For a filmmaker whose work is mostly about the overdue onset of adulthood, it makes sense that Swanberg's first film to zero in on the subject…

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Review of Bethlehem (2013)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

Unpacked, Bethlehem could easily spread out over an entire TV season, but it's refreshing to be reminded how much can be accomplished in a…

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Review of Like Father, Like Son (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

While not to be confused with the 1987 Dudley Moore body-swap comedy, Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest drama also undertakes its own kind of identity…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

Nearly everyone in the film is creaking under the weight of the past…

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Review of Gloria (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

The Chilean director's fourth feature isn't some simplistic tale of uplift but one that honestly depicts someone who is taking emotional risks,…

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Review of Child's Pose (2013)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

While lacking the elegant formal conviction of the best Romanian New Wave films, Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose is nevertheless a work of…

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Review of The German Doctor (2013)

By Sarah Mankoff (5) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

Bado is a compelling and at times magnetic presence, and the film misses her whenever she's offscreen…

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Review of Gloria (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

The Chilean director's fourth feature isn't some simplistic tale of uplift but one that honestly depicts someone who is taking emotional risks,…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By Andrew Chan (4) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

Designed as one big, sloppy thesp-a-thon, the film adaptation of August: Osage County interprets one of the past decade's most overly hyped…

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Review of A Field in England (2013)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Jan 2014

The strategy is not unfamiliar but, aided by Jim Williams's ethnic ambient score, the fusion is so successful here that it makes the strangeness…

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Review of Quartet (2012)

By Jonathan Robbins (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 22 Dec 2013

If this film is any indication of {Hoffman] creative capacity as a director, one can only hope that he will pursue his third act with as much…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By R. Emmet Sweeney (27) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Dec 2013

What is more radical in McKay's work is his technique, which splinters the story until reality is overtaken by the phantoms of Burgundy's disturbed…

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Review of The Selfish Giant (2013)

By Emma Myers (16) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Dec 2013

The physicality of the overgrown Swifty and exceptionally runty Arbor make them a particularly endearing odd couple to watch, and their friendship…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Dec 2013

For all its close thematic ties to Scorsese's previous studies of young men with God complexes, this might be closer in spirit to the director's…

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Review of World War Z (2013)

By Calum Marsh (242) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Dec 2013

That it never quite coheres is the point…

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Review of Oldboy (2013)

By Jonathan Robbins (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Dec 2013

Viewers new to Oldboy will appreciate Lee's affecting and entertaining tale of a man unjustly imprisoned…

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