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Review of Gimme Danger (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

For a story of music innovators and gleeful deconstructionists, 'Gimme Danger' is surprisingly conventional in its style and approach…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

You can say 'Snowden' is unnecessary, you can point out its silliness, you can wonder if its director is spinning his wheels, since he's not…

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Review of Dog Eat Dog (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

This is Schrader doing an exploitation movie, and it's as gleefully, giddily disreputable as it should be…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

A handsomely mounted (if slightly airless) story of monsters and nightmares, and the real-life terrors that inspire them…

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Review of Amanda Knox (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

Amanda Knox' isn't a great true crime movie, but it'll do 'till the next great one comes along…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

The sheer emotional heft is downright staggering. Movies like this are what I'm here for…

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Review of Queen of Katwe (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

A story that works within the broad strokes of familiarity, but fills them in with vibrancy, humanity, and emotion…

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Review of Their Finest (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

It's quite reminiscent of 'The Imitation Game,' which will be a recommendation to some audiences and a warning to others. You know who you are…

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Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

If it's all a touch connect-the-dots in story and style, these two gifted actors elevate the material, and shine in it…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

Her elegance, pedigree, and fame made her seem the most remote of figures, but for just over 90 minutes, 'Jackie' seems to exist alongside…

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Review of The Secret Scripture (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

In lesser hands, this might've been some very clunky business, but Sheridan directs with the confident touch of an old pro, and he couldn't…

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Review of Shanghai Surprise (1986)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 Sep 2016

It feels, more than anything, like the duo went looking for a movie they could co-star in, and this was the only script that was lying around…

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Review of Southside with You (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 Sep 2016

In the closing months of their terms, Bush got a 'Nixon,' and Obama got a 'Before Sunrise…

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Review of Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 Sep 2016

She invests the character of Madonna with silliness, lightness, depth, nastiness - the complexity of a real person, who she may or may not be…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 18 Aug 2016

It's adequate and little more, with an occasionally inspired Jonah Hill and a less-than-memorable Miles Teller delivering sporadic laughs and…

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Review of Hell or High Water (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 15 Aug 2016

Give me a well-made little genre exercise like this over a bloated franchise flick any day of the week…

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Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 15 Aug 2016

Lowery's not just an artisan crafting what could've been product - he's creating a road map for how these remakes should be done, if, indeed,…

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Review of Clockers (1995)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 15 Aug 2016

There's no denying the movie's greatness: the depth of the characters, the urgency of its narrative, the nightmarishness of its vision…

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Review of Sausage Party (2016)

By Lara Zarum (23) for Flavorwire (598) on 10 Aug 2016

By the time it reaches its, heh, climax with a storewide food fuck fest, any attempt at a serious critique of its interpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 06 Aug 2016

Leto's doing his very best Heath Ledger (when he's doing anything at all), but his work has none of Ledger's dysfunction, dread, or menace;…

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