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Review of The Final Year (2018)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

At 89 briskly-paced minutes, 'The Final Year' skimps a bit on some topics, and has a tendency to portray POTUS 44 through rose-colored glasses…

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Review of Battle of the Sexes (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

The problem is that King's story is so much more compelling than Riggs', so (in spite of Carell's best efforts), the character just becomes…

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Review of Euphoria (2018)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

Watching Green play a depressed dying girl is like watching Michael Jordan when he was playing baseball…

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Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

The Killing of a Sacred Deer' opens with a giant close-up of a heart in mid-surgery, pumping away as operatic music blasts over the soundtrack,…

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Review of Mother (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

It doesn't all work; long stretches, in fact, don't play at all…

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Review of Brad's Status (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

You may have to be of a Certain Age for 'Brad's Status' to land. But for those who are, it rings loudly with hard truths…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

Lean on Pete' is a good old-fashioned boy-and-his-horse story, wandering through a series vignettes - each with the inner life and rich characters…

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Review of Hostiles (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

The slower tempo means the out-of-nowhere attacks and shoot-outs hit harder, and some of the imagery is straight-up horrifying…

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Review of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

Film Stars' could've been a dull bio-drama, and for fleeting moments, it is (in particular, their cycle of fights and reconciliations gets…

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Review of Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

Scotty and the Secret History' is a fascinating portrait that neither lionizes nor judges its subject. It merely lets you take him for what he is…

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Review of Mother (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

It doesn't all work; long stretches, in fact, don't play at all…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

Unique in contemporary cinema, it's a film that takes religion and scripture seriously, and because it does, it must go to the very dark place…

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Review of Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets (2014)

By Judy Berman (17) for Flavorwire (598) on 20 Sep 2017

Whatever the reason, this truly is a film about life, death, and supermarkets, which means it's a far better film about Pulp than any mere…

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Review of Pasolini (2014)

By Judy Berman (17) for Flavorwire (598) on 20 Sep 2017

Pasolini may not be the film we were promised, but it turns out to be something better: a thought-provoking - if not quite masterful - cinematic…

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Review of Love (2015)

By Judy Berman (17) for Flavorwire (598) on 20 Sep 2017

That philosophical freedom is what gives his earlier films value, and the lack of it is what makes Love, with its adherence to worn-out binaries,…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 24 Aug 2017

It would be a fabulously funny and endlessly entertaining summer treat no matter who was making it - though it's hard to imagine anyone making…

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Review of Cop Land (1997)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 24 Aug 2017

Cop Land' holds up as a pretty good little thriller, a Sidney Lumet movie in a Martin Scorsese movie's clothing…

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Review of Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 24 Aug 2017

It's quite a thing, 'Ninja III,' less a movie and more a Buzzfeed list of 23 Things Only '80s Kids Will Remember…

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Review of Patti Cake$ (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 24 Aug 2017

It has some emotional resonance and its fair share of laughs…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 11 Aug 2017

It's a rattling experience, a one-long-night-in-New-York movie that's set in the present but filtered through the scuzzy gaze of the city's…

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