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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Indiewire (3,631) on 21 Jan 2015

The director ensures this chamber piece of moral conundrums never seems too heavy-handed; his fluids camera roams through each room so that…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 09 Jan 2015

Exodus: Gods and Kings illustrates a typical contradiction of commercial entertainment: By playing it safe, the movie fails to enrich the material,…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 06 Jan 2015

Boone’s unobtrusive style takes cues from the subdued nature of the material, but there’s little about the movie that makes the filmmaking…

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Review of Frank (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 06 Jan 2015

Though more in love with its silliness than the insights buried inside them, Frank works to amusingly irreverent effect when combining the two…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 05 Jan 2015

Witherspoon excels as a committed figure battling through each rough day…

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Review of The Overnighters (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 05 Jan 2015

At first galvanizing in its depiction of survival amid dire circumstances, The Overnighters transforms into a devastating portrait of communal unrest…

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Review of Dear White People (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 05 Jan 2015

Simmien both mocks and provokes the nature of our seemingly progressive times by illuminating misguided assumptions and fears embedded in forward-thinking…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 05 Jan 2015

A Most Wanted Man allows Hoffman to go out with not only one of his best performances, but one that epitomizes his strengths…

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Review of Mr. Turner (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 02 Jan 2015

Mr. Turner is a first-rate match of director and subject. Less an explication of the man's genius than an immersion into its essence…

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Review of Appropriate Behavior (2015)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 16 Dec 2014

Appropriate Behavior isn’t a narrative about ethnicity or even LGBT struggles in the traditional sense, but rather a means of exploring the…

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Review of An Open Secret (2014)

By Greg Cwik (29) for Indiewire (3,631) on 02 Dec 2014

An Open Secret is an incisive and utterly unflinching look at a subject too rarely scrutinized…

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Review of Unbroken (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 01 Dec 2014

Jolie keeps the narrative afloat thanks to first-rate craftsmanship, a few well-honed moments of bonafide suspense, and a terrifically restrained…

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Review of Dying of the Light (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 01 Dec 2014

While its bleak assessment of American intelligence operatives imbues the story with some modicum of topicality, the specifics never keep pace…

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Review of Virunga (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 26 Nov 2014

Ever as it casts their future prospects in doubt, Virunga concludes by envying the apes’ perspective most of all…

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Review of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 20 Nov 2014

Shot in gorgeously expressionistic black-and-white and fusing multiple genres into a thoroughly original whole, Amirpour has crafted a beguiling,…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 14 Nov 2014

A well-intentioned and resolutely minor period drama, Big Eyes isn't exactly a catastrophe, but its bland depiction of a fascinating story…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Indiewire (3,631) on 12 Nov 2014

Propulsive battle sequences in which sandstorms make the fog of war quite literal are the ostensible focus of American Sniper, but the real…

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Review of We Are the Giant (2014)

By Robert Cameron Fowler (5) for Indiewire (3,631) on 12 Nov 2014

It turns material that could have resulted in a sporadic narrative into a profound statement that the Arab Spring is a continuation of humanity's…

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Review of The Gambler (1974)

By Michael Nordine (446) for IndieWire (3,631) on 11 Nov 2014

For all the hundreds of thousands of dollars being thrown around, The Gambler is much closer to a friendly game of poker with some loquacious,…

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Review of Before I Disappear (2014)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 11 Nov 2014

Before I Disappear features several moments of genuine emotion in an otherwise underwhelming plot involving the main character coming out of…

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