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Review of Apostle (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 12 Oct 2018

Gareth Evans' pivot from martial arts understands cult fervor has its own fighting stance and frantic energy…

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Review of Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Oct 2018

A scene mimicking the original's meta momentum also illustrates overconfidence with which vendors flood markets with stuff that's glanced at,…

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Review of Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Oct 2018

A pretentious piece of pulp that simply tries to ponder too much, a crime story full of motive and means but short on opportunity, and what…

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Review of A Star Is Born (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 04 Oct 2018

Songs age, too, into eulogies for euphoria or suicide notes for security. They die. They're reborn. Over and over…

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Review of Hell Fest (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 26 Sep 2018

What do you call six writers thrown together to create a horror movie…

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Review of Peppermint (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 05 Sep 2018

It's somehow hilarious and depressing that one patron vocally thought it was not rated R…

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Review of Searching (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 30 Aug 2018

Stumbles through explanatory zigzags and switchbacks, and definitely overexerts itself for a sense of justice rarely, if ever, found online…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

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

A kind-hearted drama whose consistent quiet and composure leaves you all the more floored by its low-volume, high-stakes conclusion, Leave…

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Review of Uncle Drew (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 03 Jul 2018

It's fair that so many characters don throwback jerseys…

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Review of The First Purge (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 03 Jul 2018

Maybe the upcoming Purge TV series advertised in an end-credits interruption will return to the franchise's exploration of how our analogous…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 25 Jun 2018

Perhaps this franchise is simply at the stage of breeding where the pedigree starts to fade, you know the pets are going to get debilitating…

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Review of SuperFly (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 12 Jun 2018

Always tryin' to get over. Never quite does…

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Review of Hotel Artemis (2018)

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

A so-so idea and a good cast squandered on an eight-figure scramble of the movies and books of which writer-director Drew Pearce is fond…

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Review of Adrift (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 31 May 2018

A more emotionally engaging bit of misery business next to the cheeky exploitation of 47 Meters Down or The Shallows…

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Review of Upgrade (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 31 May 2018

Seems headed toward glory days of David Cronenberg or Paul Verhoeven before settling for intermittently amusing ways to separate heads from…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 28 May 2018

The first act is glacial, the extended universe connections weak and the entire concept and execution of L3 abysmal…

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Review of Bad Samaritan (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 06 May 2018

Often stump-dumb. Its own title doesn't make much sense…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 24 Apr 2018

Only now could the MCU arrive at a place where bluffs can be irrefutably called and gauntlets, real or metaphorical, can be thrown down…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 05 Apr 2018

A tension machine with a tender mien…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 05 Apr 2018

A tension machine with a tender mien…

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