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Review of Who's That Girl (1987)

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

Who's That Girl' is so eager to please, it ends up being a very hard movie to hate…

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Review of Pan (2015)

By Alison Herman (12) for Flavorwire (598) on 10 Aug 2017

Because between the inadvertently hilarious and the downright offensive, Pan is a generic mold for a reboot that shares little with the original…

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Review of Staten Island Summer (2015)

By Alison Herman (12) for Flavorwire (598) on 09 Aug 2017

If [Colin] Jost is angling for a big-screen, or in this case laptop screen, career, Staten Island Summer is an inauspicious start…

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Review of Raising Cain (1992)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

Movies don't get much more De Palma than 'Raising Cain,' and in its new and improved form, it can finally get the praise it deserves…

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Review of Lost in America (1985)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

It's an endlessly funny and often uncomfortable piece of work, featuring some of the sharpest, deftest writing Brooks and frequent collaborator…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

A genuinely powerful and emotionally resonant glimpse into the fog of war, told viscerally and masterfully by a top-notch filmmaker in full…

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Review of The Pallbearer (1996)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

At its best, it sports a forgiving humanism - none of these people are all that bad, they're just wounded and needy and uncertain…

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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

The film has a documentary immediacy; Bigelow captures the hair-trigger intensity of this unbearably tense situation, via the restless, unsettling…

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Review of Strange Weather (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

It's hard to imagine another actor in the world who could elicit those particular responses to those moments, or who could make the wild narrative…

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Review of Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

Jaws: The Revenge' bears the marks of its rushed production, from the seemingly first-draft screenplay to its sloppy execution to the slender…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Aug 2017

Matt Reeves's 'War for the Planet of the Apes' is a rare work, in which the power of the ideas matches the skill of the craft…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 06 Jul 2017

It's an honest-to-goodness experimental movie, a story that starts going in one direction and unexpectedly veers into unexplored territory,…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 Jun 2017

In some ways, it feels like a step backward, considering the maturity and pathos that made his previous picture, 'The World's End,' one of…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 Jun 2017

The fact that it exists at all, in what is so clearly a form unsullied by executive hands, is a victory. That it's brilliant is a nice bonus…

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Review of Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 22 Jun 2017

It speaks to the commercial and critical success of Shanley's 1987 hit 'Moonstruck' that he was handed, by a major studio, the resources to…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 22 Jun 2017

Beguiled' '17 is not as straight-up weird as the '71 version; it's a comparatively muted movie stylistically, as Coppola is (surprisingly,…

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Review of Batman & Robin (1997)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Jun 2017

Schumacher is like a bad stepdad who thinks we'll love him if he just feeds us candy all day…

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Review of All Eyez on Me (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Jun 2017

It's a film chock full of thirty-second scenes that provide plot points and biographical bookmarks, and nothing more; the script is credited…

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Review of Rough Night (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Jun 2017

It's worth celebrating that, for once, we have a wild comedy about and for women that's directed by one. You know what'll be even better…

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Review of Long Strange Trip (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 07 Jun 2017

There's something to be said for getting lost in a four-hour movie, set adrift from the traditional markers of time, so that by the film's…

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