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Review of Copperhead (2013)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

As both politics and entertainment, it's lacking…

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Review of Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer (2013)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

The resulting film is low-key and, at least as far as its subject is concerned, decidedly uncritical…

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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By Emma Myers (16) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

Blanchett, wielding a stiff cocktail in one hand and a bottle of anti-anxiety pills in the other, gives her character a skillful shove from…

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Review of A Hijacking (2012)

By Jonathan Robbins (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

In his screenwriting, Tobias Lindholm has shown strong instincts for masculine melodrama and a knack for plot twists…

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Review of The Shine of Day (2012)

By Jared Eisenstat (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

Invites us to watch the birth of a warm familial bond between a grown man and his uncle, with all the pleasures, strains and negotiations that…

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Review of Lovelace (2013)

By Courtney Duckworth (5) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

By aiming for the audience's sympathy, Lovelace tidies and ultimately silences the star it tries to redeem…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

What makes it execrable is the way it drains the original movie of all its erotic tension, only to ramp up the final-act violence…

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Review of Terraferma (2011)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

As the protagonist's solidarity is put to the test, however, Terraferma slides from detail-rich fable to Important Issue statement, its symbolism…

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Review of Touchy Feely (2013)

By Emma Myers (16) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

The result is a disjointed and inconsequential film whose chakras are in urgent need of realignment…

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Review of Shadow Dancer (2012)

By Jared Eisenstat (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

By the end, the film shows not only the power of this influence but also its terrible price in an often merciless conflict…

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Review of Prince Avalanche (2013)

By Jonathan Robbins (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

The journey taken by Alvin and Lance has few plot points, but the film is remarkably gripping and rich…

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Review of Byzantium (2013)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

Clara becomes more the subject of Jordan's empathy than the object of his lust (although there's some of that, too)…

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Review of As I Lay Dying (2013)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

A qualified, perfectly respectable success…

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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By Jared Eisenstat (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

[Ponsoldt] enjoys playing with our expectations by following conventions, luring us into the sense that we know what's coming, and then swerving…

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Review of Bastards (2013)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

The narrative ellipses that open Claire Denis's murky, rain-soaked, profoundly upsetting film noir could be concealing anything-but it's hard…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

Feels like it's always struggling to break through the screen-if only to grab you by the scruff of the neck and drag you in…

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Review of The Angels' Share (2012)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

With this shaggy-dog tale of four petty Glaswegian criminals and their improbably successful scheme to steal the world's most valuable whiskey,…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

What makes it execrable is the way it drains the original movie of all its erotic tension, only to ramp up the final-act violence…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Jonathan Robbins (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

Despite the heavy subject matter, the film never bogs down into the daily grief it depicts, but maintains a jaunty current of humor that counterbalances…

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Review of Pieta (2012)

By Max Kyburz (4) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Nov 2013

Succeeds in repulsing and enlightening viewers simultaneously, even if its views on self-sacrifice and redemption are cynical…

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