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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 15 Mar 2018

Unable or unwilling to find unconventional means to tell a very odd story, the filmmakers hack up the book's narrative into slick and simple…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Chloe Lizotte (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Plummer's performance is remarkably interior, bottled up behind his brimming wide eyes, and Haigh leaves enough space for the emotional weight…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Steven Mears (12) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

[Wes Anderson's] second foray into stop-motion animation becomes a compendium of his characteristic forms, flourishes, and frustrations…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

In Darkest Hour, Wright's charged, blustery framework pulls the audience into a distant political landscape…

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Review of Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

[Tony] Conrad doesn't reminisce like those artists whose discourse essentially fetishizes, classifies, and files away their own glory years…

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Review of Lovesong (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

by staying faithful to its characters-women who make, break, and alter an intimate connection-it expresses a refreshing freedom from sexual-identity…

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Review of Una (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

The two actors' timing is marvelous. They salvage the force of the play's splintered dialogue…

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Review of Werewolf (2019)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Scene by scene, what McKenzie is after is capturing the process of a young woman walling herself off from sentimental appeal in order to save…

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Review of Quest (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Ordinariness-and [Jonathan] Olshefski's ordinary, level-headed approach to documenting their life-is the keynote of this intensely moving and…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

[Jennifer Lawrence] throws herself into her role with abandon (cf. mother…

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Review of Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2018)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

[Abdellatif Kechiche] seems unable to focus on the essence of the non-story he tells, which seems to circle restlessly, its concentration constantly…

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Review of Quest (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Ordinariness-and [Jonathan] Olshefski's ordinary, level-headed approach to documenting their life-is the keynote of this intensely moving and…

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

You don't have to be gloating over a wasted generation to embrace T2 Trainspotting, a confident, quirky comedy-drama that skillfully alternates…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

[Kenneth Branagh] doesn't bring much new to the basic conception-a bunch of famous actors play eccentrics cooped up on a train, with secrets…

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Review of mother! (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

[Darren] Aronofsky wants mother! to have the intensity and inner logic of a sweaty nightmare…

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Review of Rey (2017)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Rey is a bold, freakish marvel, a bottle in the ocean of cinema, but worth cracking open-it contains not one message but a whole mass of them,…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Star Wars: The Last Jedi may not be perfect, but the need to accept imperfection and keep going becomes one of the movie's themes...It's about…

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Review of Mother (2016)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

[Darren] Aronofsky wants mother! to have the intensity and inner logic of a sweaty nightmare…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Foxtrot comes together as a complex plea for honesty, openness, frankness, and forgiveness…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

The plot and the structure undercut the affection Allen has for his salt-of-the-seaside characters…

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