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Review of Pump Up the Volume (1990)

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

As a movie, 'Pump Up the Volume' is a lot like a teenager: at times unbearably self-important and pretentious (Nora's poems, good lord), yet…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

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

A loud, ugly, slapdash combination of action movie, pot comedy, criminal romance, and conspiracy thriller - and about as lumpy and ungainly…

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Review of Irrational Man (2015)

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

It's a picture so dire, its problems so base and elementary, that I'm honestly not sure Allen still has good ones in him…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

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

First-rate popcorn, a meticulously devised and elegantly executed spy movie that manages to thrill with its stunts, jangle with its set pieces,…

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Review of Paper Towns (2015)

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

Paper Towns' may well be the Manic Pixie Dream Girl's nadir…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

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

Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer are fine. They're FINE. They're maddeningly, generically fine…

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Review of Vacation (2013)

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 Ant-Man (2015)

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

Is Ant-Man worth seeing? (As if my answer matters; like all Marvel movies, it'll make a mint.) Sort of…

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Review of Pump Up the Volume (2001)

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

As a movie, 'Pump Up the Volume' is a lot like a teenager: at times unbearably self-important and pretentious (Nora's poems, good lord), yet…

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Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015)

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

In spite of its many formal and structural flaws, 'Straight Outta Compton' works, because it captures a moment, and positions its music at…

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Review of 7 Days in Hell (2015)

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

7 Days in Hell' is a funny diversion, with some great moments…

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Review of Best of Enemies (2015)

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

If even these two witty, well-educated, well-mannered men of letters couldn't keep their on-air interactions from degenerating into cheap shots…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (2015)

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 The Nice Guys (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 23 May 2016

Sliding into theaters between 'Captain America: Civil War' and 'X-Men: Apocalypse', its busted-out protagonists are a long way from spandex-land…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Lara Zarum (23) for Flavorwire (598) on 18 May 2016

Sorority Rising' is a broad summer comedy that has an unapologetically feminist message and is also hilarious. See? That wasn't so hard…

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Review of Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)

By Lara Zarum (23) for Flavorwire (598) on 16 May 2016

Norman Lear' paints a picture of a long-lost time when a sitcom could start a national debate - because the entire nation was watching…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 12 May 2016

Finds intelligent craft at the service of a script that opens with the warning It's about to get complicated, and then proceeds to dumb itself…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 12 May 2016

What Kriegman and Steinberg put across most vividly is a mixture of sympathy and exasperation for the candidate, and there are moments where…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 08 May 2016

The mood is simultaneously idyllic and tense, deceptively casual and off-handedly sensual, with wandering gazes and thoughts leading to some…

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Review of Unlocking the Cage (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 08 May 2016

A thoughtful, hopeful film, filled with dedicated and inspiring advocates, and the courtroom scenes are absolutely fascinating…

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