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Review of Se7en (1995)

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

It's about magnitudes of corruptibility and fallibility, how we all fall prey to them and yet, so we hope, press on…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 23 Mar 2018

Steven Soderbergh again splits a difference between genre mess-around and meaningfully mining modern anxieties…

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Review of The Hurricane Heist (2018)

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

The most persuasive movie jail parole hearing in years, Rob Cohen's latest is genially goofy action reliant on both strong stunt work and cheerily…

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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 09 Mar 2018

At every turn, A Fantastic Woman chooses a bolder path of realization over revelation and intimacy over inclusion - one on which Marina learns…

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Review of The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

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

Here is Eastwood's latest warm-milk paean to embattled American heroism, hanging a hat on God-and-guns homilies rather than challenging truths…

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Review of The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

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

It feints at a parable for paranoia in an age of weaponized information…

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Review of A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

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

However fitting that a film about a man at existential odds with himself is itself at odds with its essential components, A Futile and Stupid…

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Review of The Aviator (2004)

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

Solidly entertaining and visually lush, but this is uncharacteristically safe territory for a filmmaker who relishes risk and grittiness…

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Review of Den of Thieves (2018)

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

Enduring the 140 immediately and unswervingly painful minutes inexplicably afforded to Den of Thieves is like watching a thrill-seeking liquor-store…

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Review of Proud Mary (2018)

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

Indeed, the only thing swifter than vengeance here is the revelation of how rotten it is…

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Review of The Commuter (2018)

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

The Neesploitation genre shifts from arthritic debilitation to senile incontinence with an action film so dumb it mainly gets you thinking…

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Review of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Dec 2017

A game cast labors to blow the dust off what's more recognizable IP than beloved classic…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 18 Dec 2017

A thing of beauty and work of art about which the loudest grumblers likely expected the most conventional developments - lost in Reddit rabbit…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 21 Nov 2017

A solid Southern story deserving of a far more epic canvas…

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Review of Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 28 Oct 2017

Vince Vaughn raucously and radically inverts a motormouth comic persona as a man of persuasive silent intimidation. S…

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Review of The Snowman (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Oct 2017

Do you want a thrill-less Snowmaaaaaan? This movie seems to last all dayyyyy. Rare are mainstream screw-ups like this anymore…

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Review of True Conviction (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Oct 2017

So eager to carve out a piece of the profitable true-crime pie that it slides a serving fork under the crust altogether - all topping, no foundation…

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Review of Liyana (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Oct 2017

Two films in one, each unfolding with subtlety, sensitivity and strength…

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Review of Happy Death Day (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Oct 2017

Who's Bill Murray? is the most honest line in Happy Death Day…

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Review of American Made (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 26 Sep 2017

What could've been a dark-universe inversion of Top Gun - wherein Tom Cruise feels a need for greed -is instead the star's attempt to tailor…

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