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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

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

Gone Girl' may come advertised as a thriller, but that's Fincher being a trickster-he's gone and made the curtest, nastiest, most acidic black…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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

Just plain fun, full of the filmmaker's signature flourishes and curlicues, worked out with skill and finesse…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

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

Vivid, visceral filmmaking, twisty and entertaining, with startlingly good turns by Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

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

Movies can do a great many things - they can make us laugh, or incite our heroism, or frighten us, or make us cry…

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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

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

While it doesn't match his previous masterpieces, it frequently manages to recapture the anti-authoritarian spirit and whirling dervish quality…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

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

A movie as smart as 'American Hustle' knows that those tactile pleasures only matter if they're attached to some kind of emotional resonance…

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Review of The Drop (2006)

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 Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)

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

It's a very good film, but throughout it, its phantom limbs tingle, hinting that it was something much more special before its Frankenstein job…

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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 Road House (1989)

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

The Peruvian marching powder is all but dusting the corners of the frame throughout 'Road House,' which may as well go into a museum for '80s…

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Review of The Trip to Italy (2014)

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

Under the direction of returning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, their new 'Trip' is just as funny, sharp, and telling as its predecessor…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

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

For much of its 122 minutes, Gunn's grab-bag of quirky characters, genre ribbing, and incongruent '70s pop tunes goes over like gangbusters…

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Review of Hits (2014)

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

Cross faces the rather challenging task of sustaining a narrative that dislikes pretty much every character that inhabits it…

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Review of Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

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

118 minutes of endless flashy-light hypnotism, staggeringly terrible locust effects, and Richard Burton wandering around what appears to be Tatooine…

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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 Central Intelligence (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 16 Jun 2016

Sure, it's junk. But it's high-spirited, good-natured junk, and its heart is in the right place…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 13 Jun 2016

This new 'Conjuring' sequel has all sorts of problems, but there's never a moment's doubt that you're in the hands of a professional…

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Review of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 13 Jun 2016

The script Lawrence Kasdan constructed from Lucas and Philip Kaufman's original treatment built a real structure for those breathless set pieces,…

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Review of O.J.: Made in America (2016)

By Lara Zarum (23) for Flavorwire (598) on 07 Jun 2016

A penetrating look at a fallen hero in the context of race and police brutality in Los Angeles and the country as a whole…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

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

It's all slavishly conformed into a woefully predictable formula, as inflexible as the Meet Cute Rom-Com or the Superhero Epic, every scene…

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