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Review of Life Itself (2014)

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

No film in the festival is as critic-friendly; watching it, I finally understood how football players must feel about 'Brian's Song…

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Review of Neighbors (2014)

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

It may seem counterintuitive to praise the emotional maturity of a movie whose climax includes a dildo fight, but there you have it…

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Review of Dark Night (2017)

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

We know where he's headed, which allows some agonizing false alarms; he's toying with our expectation for bloodshed, and, on some level, our…

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Review of Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

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

Y Tu Mamá También' remains Cuarón's most fascinating work - and, increasingly, an outlier in his idiosyncratic filmography…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

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

If you've ever doubted how thoroughly a poor score can wreck an otherwise perfectly acceptable motion picture, get thee to 'Monuments Men…

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Review of Joshy (2016)

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

Ace performances all around, each perching on the razor's edge between comedy and tragedy, and falling freely from one side to the other…

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Review of In a Valley of Violence (2016)

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

West recaptures not only the look and sound of Spaghetti Westerns, but the unsparing nastiness at their center…

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Review of The Drop (2014)

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

The Drop' reminds us of what Gandolfini always did well: providing support, heft, and color, in the tradition of our finest character actors…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2' will certainly make a bazillion dollars, but after you sit through it - all 142 minutes of it - it's very hard to…

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Review of The Childhood of a Leader (2016)

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

He spends 100 or so minutes coiling his film tightly, before letting it explode in psychological warfare and horrible violence…

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Review of Labor Day (2013)

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

Too often, 'Labor Day' feels like a sternly resolved, self-consciously determined break from that tradition, a filmmaker deciding I am making…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

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

Godzilla' doesn't feel cynical; there's a sense of joy to the picture, of honest-to-God fun, which separates it from many of its summer movie…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

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

Boyhood' reveals itself as something deeper, more noteworthy and ambitious than even its remarkable production would suggest, for Linklater…

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Review of Joe (2014)

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

The way director David Gordon Green uses Cage, and the way the actor modulates the performance, seems a quiet commentary on who he's become…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

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

In their big, expensive, hyper-marketed Christmas studio movie, they're doing the same kind of Fox-mocking that Jon Stewart does every night…

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Review of Noah (2015)

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 Nebraska (2013)

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

Forever typecast as nutjobs and con artists, Dern's Woody Grant is a little chubby, a little bewildered, and a lot unkempt…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

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

A thunderbolt reminder of the kind of quick-thinking, quick-talking, quick-witted characters that Keaton used to specialize in, and Iñárritu…

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Review of Tusk (2014)

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

Tusk' opens with the sound of two men laughing at their own jokes, so I guess a doff of the cap is due to the filmmaker for encapsulating…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

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

It's his 'White Album,' overlong and overwritten, corny and self-important, and also a great movie. And yes, it can be all of those things at once…

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