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Review of Wind River (2017)

By Janet Smith (81) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 09 Aug 2017

It's the subject matter that chills the most, from the opening scene of violence on a frost-encrusted Indigenous reservation to a harrowing…

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Review of Landline (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 09 Aug 2017

All problems are on this level of, um, complexity in Landline, which serves up a laundry list of humdrum conflicts…

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Review of Menashe (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 08 Aug 2017

The script seems overly determined to knock its hero down, when the people around him could stand to do some growing up…

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Review of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 02 Aug 2017

Sequel is a validation of the earlier film's projections, most of which show the biosphere much worse off than expected 11 years later…

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Review of The Trip to Spain (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 02 Aug 2017

In the real world, it might be a pain to keep hearing the voices in their heads, but for a roughly 100-minute journey, they are good company indeed…

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Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 02 Aug 2017

With pedestrian direction provided by SNL veteran Dave McCary, Mooney and company drop the ball just when they decide to ground James in the…

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Review of Icaros: A Vision (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 26 Jul 2017

The 90-minute movie reaches for the ineffable, and is downright lysergic in how much it gets right…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Janet Smith (81) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 25 Jul 2017

A leak and brutally excellent new film -- echoing similar lessons from the equally savage, but less complex period piece The Beguiled…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 25 Jul 2017

Christopher Nolan eschews Batmanesque grandiosity, not to mention irony and blatant special effects, to pursue a more authentically immersive…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Craig Takeuchi (26) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 25 Jul 2017

While the film overexercises its imaginative muscle visually in dazzling ways, its characters and plot suffer from neglect and undernourishment…

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Review of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 20 Jul 2017

An obvious must-see for students of film history and history in general, the two-hour movie is somewhat overcrowded by Morrison's clearly passionate…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 20 Jul 2017

Most impressively, this Story is good at capturing that sense of ineffable connection with what has come before us and what persists when we…

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Review of The Black Prince (2017)

By Jagdeesh Mann (1) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 20 Jul 2017

[Raz] has crafted a story to win the hearts and minds of this audience…

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

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 11 Jul 2017

The sentimentality on display verges on saccharine, but the wild action sequences, lush photography, and first-rate production-design make up for it…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Janet Smith (81) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2017

The main beguiler may be Coppola herself, who, through rich atmosphere and enigmatic characters, bewitches her audience…

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Review of The Journey (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2017

A poorly written two-hander that's just as dull as its forgettable name…

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Review of Hermia & Helena (2016)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2017

There's definitely some inspiration here for budding storytellers. Hopefully, they would take these ideas and add some genuine emotion. Plus acting…

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Review of The Journey (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2017

A poorly written two-hander that's just as dull as its forgettable name…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Adrian Mack (57) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 27 Jun 2017

With his welcome appearance at the top of the bill, Silicon Valley's Kumail Nanjiani is just one of the good reasons to catch this summer charmer…

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Review of The Hero (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 27 Jun 2017

Apparently, some dictionaries don't go past archetype…

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