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Review of Hot Pursuit (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

A picture in which every single element conspires to make it feel like a movie you rented one lonely Saturday night back in 1987 and immediately…

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Review of Lost River (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

While 'Lost River' might not be a model of narrative efficiency, it's got more striking moments and memorable images than a season of studio product…

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Review of Empire Records (1995)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

It's high on charm and low on quality; the writing is pedestrian at best, the characters are paper-thin, and director Allan Moyle lets the…

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Review of The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

A culmination of her achievement in the trilogy, which chronicles a scene with visceral skill, and often with an anthropologist's detachment…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

A crackling good entertainment, a brainy science fiction picture executed in a clean, concise style, with a narrative as logical as it is…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

It's a very funny movie, and a beautifully cast one…

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Review of Poltergeist (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

Poltergeist' assembles a very gifted group of people to go through another movie's paces, a cover band you wish would just play their own songs…

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Review of Magic Mike XXL (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

If the film looks and moves like a Soderbergh movie, it has a different feel than the original; it's lighter, for good and ill, an encore without…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

I wish it had either been much better or much worse…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 27 May 2016

I wish it had either been much better or much worse…

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Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

She's not defined by her damage, nor her sexuality…

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Review of Hudson Hawk (1991)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

Let's be clear: 'Hudson Hawk' is, by most reasonable standards, a pretty bad movie…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (1984)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

Z for Zachariah' is a film of ideas, but those ideas never overpower the people it's about…

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Review of Showgirls (1995)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

The thin, terrible people of 'Showgirls' are equally loathsome; you don't have a rooting interest in Nomi or her dream, and as a result, 'Showgirls…

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Review of Adventureland (2009)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

A film so tuned in to the pre-collegiate experience that scenes which play as comedy to some audiences will land as harrowing tragedy to others…

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Review of Fantastic Four (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

A poorly constructed, ineptly executed, flatfooted piece of Branded Product that plays as though it were written by a piece of software fed…

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Review of Creep (2014)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

Within its commercial framework, they're taking real chances - and 'Creep' is, in many ways, a puzzling character study in a found-footage…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

Say what you will about 'Apocalypse,' it's hard to know what damn fool thing Singer's gonna do next…

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Review of Vacation (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

Wacky hijinks ensue, some of them very funny, some dipping desperately into bad taste, some just falling flat…

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Review of Ricki and the Flash (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 May 2016

Its twinkly ads take pains to exclude its more compelling thematic elements…

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