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Review of Beast (2018)

By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Jan 2019

Something stirs beneath Beast, until it explodes with the glory of emotional expression…

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Review of Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Jan 2019

An ahistorial jam session where everything is off cue…

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Review of Final Score (2018)

By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Jan 2019

Bautista carries this otherwise unmemorable VOD action flick…

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Review of Bumblebee (2018)

By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Jan 2019

At last: a Transformers movie with the humor and heart of the source material…

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Review of Galveston (2018)

By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Jan 2019

An amateur script that can't be saved by the talent both behind and in front of the camera…

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Review of I Kill Giants (2017)

By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Jan 2019

I Kill Giants is well-acted and -directed but ultimately too short on the imagination to make it distinctive…

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Review of Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Jan 2019

Never achieves much tension, but Neeson's great…

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Review of Aquaman (2018)

By Evan Dossey (48) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Jan 2019

Too much going on; too little of it matters…

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Review of Glass (2019)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 17 Jan 2019

Glass betrays the elegant narrative of Unbreakable and James McAvoy's command performance from Split…

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Review of Holmes & Watson (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 02 Jan 2019

Smart about how it's stupid, the comedy suggests an embrace of remorseless logic will only rot your soul and friendships…

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Review of Ben Is Back (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 19 Dec 2018

It's a hunk of garbage that cheaply and casually diminishes America's silent opioid crisis by loudly shouting up the very worst ideas on how…

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Review of Welcome to Marwen (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 19 Dec 2018

Zemeckis follows what interests him rather than what incentivizes him and his professional touch here makes it easy to shake off any grudges…

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Review of Vox Lux (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 13 Dec 2018

A doom-laden, dark-humored pop-culture allegory. You could translate the title as either the voice of light or light voice…

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Review of Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 13 Dec 2018

In all, you wonder if Rourke should have let two tremendous actresses simply read their letters to one another, with light dramatization as…

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Review of Mirai (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 27 Nov 2018

There certainly are some lovely moments and imaginative animations in Kun's mind-bending journey to find the confidence and conviction to truly…

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Review of The Front Runner (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Nov 2018

Jason Reitman's turgid political treatise wants us to think it's depicting character assassination as tragic as mortal ones at the Ambassador…

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Review of Overlord (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 10 Nov 2018

A blitzkrieg bop of blood and bullets, Overlord is the best kind of movie monstrosity - scratching and clawing a new airway whenever its current…

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Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 08 Nov 2018

Rupert Everett's mostly handsome movie never quite shifts out of a languorous dies irae for a depleted soul. It hits a gear and stays there…

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Review of Outlaw King (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 08 Nov 2018

Aiming for something more primal and less prestigious than Braveheart while hoping to retain the power, Outlaw King winds up merely passable…

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Review of Boy Erased (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 07 Nov 2018

A tad too safe and sanitary…

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