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Review of Before I Disappear (2014)

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

Christensen, who not only stars but writes, produces, and directs, does about a dozen things simultaneously that most movies can't get right…

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Review of Wild (2014)

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

For all of the trouble 'Wild' takes to get into Strayed's head, you'd think they might've drafted filmmakers with a little bit more experience…

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Review of Safe (1993)

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

In many ways, 'Safe' predicts both the insular nature of contemporary society, and the (counter-intuitive) disease of conformity that's synonymous…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

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

It's not, in any easily describable way at least, a terrible movie…

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Review of Safe (1995)

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

In many ways, 'Safe' predicts both the insular nature of contemporary society, and the (counter-intuitive) disease of conformity that's synonymous…

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Review of Tango & Cash (1989)

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

Tango & Cash' turns 25 years old next month, which means if it were a person, it'd be right around the right age to start realizing what a…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

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

Not only watchable, but quite good - the kind of lean, mean mediation on masculinity and duty that this particular filmmaker has always done so well…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

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

Kent is tapping into something far more unnerving than serial killers or the supernatural: the everyday terror of being a parent…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

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

It may be the franchise's third movie, but it plays like its 'Empire Strikes Back…

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Review of Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)

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

Everything feels like a first take, the dullest moments are padded out to their maximum duration, and even the kills are markedly lacking in effects…

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Review of The Homesman (2014)

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

If 'The Homesman' proves anything, it's that there's no movie that can't get a shot in the arm from a couple scenes of Tommy Lee Jones hollerin…

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Review of Blackhat (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

This is not a film about tight plotting or slam-bang action, but about style. Pure, hypnotic, mesmerizing style…

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Review of Prophet's Prey (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

The sadness and hopelessness of the story becomes overwhelming…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

The storytelling is clumsy, the characters are befuddling, and the Wachowskis' action sequences - once so graceful and thrilling - are ugly,…

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Review of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

Gibney boils it down with skill, his cutting, construction, graphics, and score smoothly and seductively encapsulating Scientology's appeal…

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Review of Hot Girls Wanted (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

Their previous effort 'Sexy Baby' quite literally changed the way I saw media images of young women, and it'll be difficult to look at any…

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Review of The End of the Tour (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

By the time we're at the end of 'The End of the Tour,' it's arrived at something thoughtful and true about being a writer-and, even better,…

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Review of I Smile Back (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

I Smile Back' could very well be just another addiction drama, were it not for the power and force of Silverman's performance, which she plays…

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Review of Digging for Fire (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

The size of that ensemble and Swanberg's particular way of sorta hazily drifting from one half-overheard conversation to the next gives the…

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Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 May 2016

It's got a fast pace and screwball spirit, and is the closest thing Baumbach's done to pure comedy since his peerless debut picture 'Kicking…

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