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Review of The Revenant (2015)

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

Making 'The Revenant' was an ordeal, you see, in which people froze and suffered and came to blows, and they'd like to pass the ordeal on to…

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Review of Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)

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

The film seeks to humanize an artist who'd been demonized, but not by ignoring his own demons…

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Review of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

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

Less a disciplined documentary than a free-form essay film about connectivity, less a comprehensive history or analysis than a casual exploration…

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Review of Wiener-Dog (2016)

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

He's just spinning his wheels, continuing to tell the same stories in the same way, and expecting them to elicit the same response…

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Review of Concussion (2015)

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

A crusading whistleblower movie, not too far from (though slightly inferior to) 'The Insider,' both an actor's showcase and a vehicle for creating…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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

The Force Awakens' does what the original films did well - and is also its own, thrilling thing…

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Review of Race (2016)

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

It's an important story about a groundbreaking African American, and it's disappointing to see it reframed, by its (white) director and (white)…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

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

A film that surrounds you with a general yet mostly indescribable sense of unease, less through its violence or blood than its mood and tension…

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Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

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

Agonizingly paced and bewilderingly outdated, Ben Stiller's long-awaited sequel is a sad march through every single joke from the 2001 original…

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Review of Anomalisa (2015)

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

By the time Michael and Lisa are up in that hotel room, trying so heroically to say the right thing, the picture has transcended its gimmicks…

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Review of Band of Robbers (2016)

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

Sharp, funny, big-hearted, and absolutely true to the spirit of the author in question…

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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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Review of Sisters (2016)

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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Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

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

Punishingly paced, flimsily constructed, and tackily executed, with the subtlety and panache of a third-rate 1930s melodrama…

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Review of The Intervention (2016)

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

The wit is sly, the laughs rooted in character and behavior rather than easy punch lines…

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Review of Certain Women (2016)

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

There are no verbose emotional arias or chest-beating screaming matches…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

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

Above all (and surely to the relief of those prone to resist costume drama) it's just a very playful picture…

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Review of Actor Martinez (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Apr 2016

The film keeps working its way around to the very questions we're asking, and bouncing up against its own boundaries in ways that are either…

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Review of Wolves (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Apr 2016

Freundlich gets at the occasional moment of truth, but it's the kind of movie that clearly doesn't know how far ahead of it we all are…

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Review of Contemporary Color (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Apr 2016

This movie is just bursting with joy, and it's impossible not to get swept up in it…

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