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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

What's perhaps most impressive about 'Spotlight' is how they're all complicated people, given the opportunity to gun it, to hesitate, to reach,…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

This is a film that trusts its audience, and takes its time letting them in on the particulars of what these two are doing in this room…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

M. Night Shyamalan made another good movie, and I'm as surprised as you are…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

Spectre' isn't the best of these films, but it may well be the most thought-provoking, because there's always something fascinating about…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

This viewer appreciated 'The Lobster''s willingness to take this premise all the way, without pulling any punches…

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Review of Remember (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

It's not hard to say this is his best work in years - but don't take that as faint praise…

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Review of Trumbo (2007)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

For all the smart people involved in its making, and for all the smart people it's about, this is not a movie that's all that interested in…

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Review of Junun (2015)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

The style mirrors the vibe of the sessions, where the music is tight but the atmosphere is casual…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

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

A terrifying, seemingly irreversible dirge, gloomy and rainy and blood-soaked…

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Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015)

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

The script is puzzlingly devoid of wit, the conflicts and character arcs are unimaginative and stale, the pacing is inexorable, and the plotting…

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Review of Creed (2015)

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

Its own great, singular achievement, outside of the considerable iconography…

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Review of Rocky IV (1985)

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

Rocky IV' still stands, not as a highlight of the series (certainly not that) but as a quintessential artifact of mid-'80s studio filmmaking…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

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

An unlikely but oddly effective mixture of dark comedy, character study, based-on-a-true-story drama, rabble-rousing, and detective story…

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Review of Dreams Rewired (2015)

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

It's a marvel of montage, charming and bizarre and frequently funny, thanks in no small part to the good humor of our narrator…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

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

A terrifying, seemingly irreversible dirge, gloomy and rainy and blood-soaked…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 28 Apr 2016

It's marketed as a twinkly rom-com, but it's about as depressing as 'Requiem for a Dream…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 28 Apr 2016

It's marketed as a twinkly rom-com, but it's about as depressing as 'Requiem for a Dream…

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Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016)

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

A vital, stirring, and powerful film by and about people of color - and which arrives like a hand grenade in the midst of a deafeningly loud…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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

It is, all in all, mid-level Coens. But as so many others have noted, mid-level Coens still tops most other filmmakers at their peak…

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Review of Sisters (2015)

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

Sisters' is a Fey & Poehler picture, a comedy vehicle designed to showcase the skills and personalities of its stars, and for the most part,…

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