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Review of Thor: The Dark World (2013)

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

Save for Hiddleston's too-brief supporting turn, this is mighty forgettable stuff, a by-the-numbers sequel to what was already the slightest…

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Review of Noah and the Last Days (2014)

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

It's as odd and schizophrenic a picture as you're likely to see in the focus-grouped, play-it-safe moviemaking climate of the moment, and the…

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Review of Oldboy (2013)

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

The first hour or so of Lee's 'Oldboy' is so gripping that it's dispiriting to watch the wheels fall off the wagon so spectacularly in the third act…

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Review of White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

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

Woodley reminds us that she's not just the hippie queen of YA adaptations, but a bracing actress who's not averse to taking some gutty risks…

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Review of Blazing Saddles (1974)

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

Its genius, then and now, was the manner in which director Mel Brooks and his writers turned a broad Western spoof into what was, for its time,…

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Review of Wish I Was Here (2014)

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

Just about all of the compromises that Braff says he'd have been forced to make (and I'm slightly perturbed to say this, being a fairly consistent…

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Review of Young Frankenstein (1974)

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

The Brooks of 'Young Frankenstein' isn't really skewering the conventions of the horror movie - he's paying tribute to them, and using them…

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Review of Harmontown (2014)

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

A film that is far more complicated and entertaining than the fanboy home movie you might anticipate (and dread)…

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Review of Men, Women & Children (2014)

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

It's the kind of movie where you wouldn't be surprised to discover Reitman and co- writer Erin Cressida Wilson were ticking the boxes on a…

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Review of Dear White People (2014)

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

A dagger-sharp satire, a film filled end-to-end with tiny sticks of dynamite, each lit carefully with a gleeful smirk…

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Review of Camp X-Ray (2014)

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

The baggage Stewart brings to 'Camp X-Ray' makes its first hour more compelling than anything in the screenplay…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

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

After a decade spent making two films that are like pressure cookers, Anderson was clearly ready to blow off some steam…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

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

Frozen' feels like it's breaking new ground in telling a story where the women are actually in control, and where the clichés of their narratives…

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Review of All Is Lost (2013)

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

A vital, exciting piece of work from Mr. Redford, an actor whom you'd have been forgiven for counting out by now…

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Review of God's Pocket (2014)

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

Slattery shows real promise as a director, guiding his actors with ease and effectively evoking a very specific time and place…

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Review of Captivated (2013)

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

No one gets away from 'Captivated' clean: not the viewer, not the participants, not even the filmmaker…

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Review of Tomorrow Night (1998)

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

It's more weird and off-balance than genuinely funny; I laughed out loud more at his email selling the film than the film itself…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

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

Captain America: The Winter Soldier' delivers the superhero movie goods, but it does so with a grin and a wink, and that seems more and more…

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Review of In Your Eyes (2014)

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

It's the kind of total miscalculation that can only be cooked up by a writer of real skill and passion, going all in on a spectacularly bad idea…

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Review of Seymour: An Introduction (2015)

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

Not only a very fine documentary, but a warm and likable one to boot…

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