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Review of The Lost City of Z (2017)

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

The elegant cutting and handsome staging match the pretty pictures, and if the film never quite finds comparable emotional intensity, well,…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

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

Beyond its genre trappings and clever turns, it's very much a film about broken people…

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Review of Little Boxes (2017)

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

Writer Annie J…

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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

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

This contrast between inner life and outer claustrophobia seeps through each frame of A Quiet Passion, which manages to both grasp at the essence…

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 21 Mar 2017

Plotting isn't really what 'T2' is about, and they know it; it's about coming to terms with one's past, and how it informs what you've become…

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Review of Song to Song (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 20 Mar 2017

Of course you don't have to conform to traditional filmmaking norms…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 20 Mar 2017

I've got no quarrel with a good, goofy monster movie - I'm the guy who liked 'The Great Wall.' But that film at least felt bound by a singular…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 03 Mar 2017

Credit where it's due: this is a grown-up movie that's a drama first and superhero story second…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

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

Peele's film, which mixes horror, comedy, and social commentary with astonishing confidence and skill, takes hold of its provocative ideas…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

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

There's an art to this; at times, the 'John Wick' movies are less narratives than dance recitals…

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Review of Beat the Devil (1953)

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

It operates under the assumption that everyone in it is drunk, lusty, a little crooked, and a little crazy, and once you tune in to their wavelength,…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

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

Once you grant the film its fundamentally ridiculous premise, it becomes so much more enjoyable than some artful, respectable epic…

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Review of The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

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

The 'LEGO Movie' spin-off spoofs the ethos and aesthetics of the Bat-films so well, it's hard to imagine taking them seriously again…

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Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

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

Even someone with Johnson's considerable charisma can't get any heat going with a block of wood like this…

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Review of They Live (1988)

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

Carpenter's primary objective was to make a tough action flick, which he does; it fits snugly into his filmography's subset of urban mayhem…

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Review of Beaches (2017)

By Lara Zarum (23) for Flavorwire (598) on 01 Feb 2017

A freeze-dried remake that'll leave you wistful for the fresh taste of the original…

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Review of Gold (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 30 Jan 2017

The director is Stephen Gaghan, helming his first theatrical feature since 2005's 'Syriana,' and I have no idea what the wait was for if he…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 30 Jan 2017

With this, his third produced feature, Sheridan's limitations are starting to show; I found myself finally understanding some of the complaints…

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Review of The Hero (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 30 Jan 2017

Alas, the movie mostly falls apart when it has to start putting an actual story together, presenting and resolving conflicts, that kinda thing…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 30 Jan 2017

Its authenticity and candor is part of what makes 'The Big Sick' shine so brightly - it's got the lived-in coziness and complicated wit of…

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