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Review of National Bird (2016)

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

A gripping indictment of America's increasing reliance on drone warfare. Scary, potent, powerful stuff…

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Review of Life, Animated (2016)

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

It's a rich and emotional story, warm and kind and often overwhelming…

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Review of Betting on Zero (2016)

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

The film is, at times, a bit much (particularly in terms of length and its manipulative score), but it's undeniably thorough and affecting…

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Review of AWOL (2017)

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

It's an authentic and emotional film, with first-rate turns by Wool and especially Kirk…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

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

Saulnier's script unfolds with airtight logic and tick-tock tension, and his direction is forceful yet efficient…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

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

A free-wheeling good-time Charlie of a movie, detailing the strange circumstances by which Presley and the President met one December afternoon…

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Review of All This Panic (2017)

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

It's a marvelous, absorbing film, with truth vibrating through frame after frame…

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Review of AWOL (2017)

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

It's an authentic and emotional film, with first-rate turns by Wool and especially Kirk…

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Review of Always Shine (2016)

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

It's a dazzlingly confident film, spinning like a wind-up toy, yet slicing with insight on each go-round…

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Review of Command and Control (2016)

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

Kenner creates a brisk, efficient exploration of a troubling moment in our history, with questions that are very much of this moment…

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Review of Mr. Church (2016)

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

It's clipped badly by its fuzzy conflicts, twinkly score, comically predictable narrative, and endless, telling-not-showing narration…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

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

Bateman's second trip to the director's chair is a tricky bit of business, full of tonal shifts that he mostly pulls off, and complex relationships…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

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

It's certainly not a crowd-pleaser, but it offers rich rewards for those who can tune in to its peculiar energy…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

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

It's a gentle movie, but with a bittersweet edge - and it's funny as hell to boot…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

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

That knockout sequence holds the key to 'Sing Street,' and to all of Carney's musicals - the idea that when you find your way into a song,…

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Review of The Last Laugh (2017)

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

That's a lot of ground to cover, and the end product is a little scattershot. But it's always compelling…

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Review of Keep Quiet (2016)

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

Sam Blair and Joseph Martin's elegant documentary tells Szegedi's stranger-than-fiction story with political distance but emotional empathy…

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Review of Special Correspondents (2016)

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

Gervias's script is a lumpy mess, filled with clumsy exposition and turns that are either frustratingly inexplicable or irritatingly predictable…

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Review of The Last Laugh (2016)

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

That's a lot of ground to cover, and the end product is a little scattershot. But it's always compelling…

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Review of Equity (2016)

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

The sleekness of the production, the skill of the performers, and the sociological interest are all but toppled by its middling screenplay…

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