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Review of Loving (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 03 Mar 2017

The film asserts that racism isn't always loud, but always hideous and overbearing, that hatred is a conscious act of the human brain, corrupted…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 03 Mar 2017

Jackie is artful when it needs to be heartful; its overly ambitious visual dramatics are often a glass wall between Portman and the audience…

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Review of Assassin's Creed (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 03 Mar 2017

As I squinted at the screen, mentally parsing reams of exposition, trying to distinguish one character from the next, I wondered if playing…

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Review of Lion (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 03 Mar 2017

The film sometimes has no strict thematic focus, but that's fine. Neither does life…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 03 Mar 2017

It's satire, it's noir, it's melodrama; it's all of the above, but also not quite any of the above…

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Review of Hidden Figures (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 03 Mar 2017

The film isn't always subtle, but a broad brush sometimes leaves behind a big, beautiful swath of color…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 03 Mar 2017

The most lighthearted movie about existential despair you'll likely ever see…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 30 Dec 2016

Of course movie critics love this film; shamelessly referential, it clearly loves movies as much as we do. But don't let that scare you…

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Review of Collateral Beauty (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 21 Dec 2016

The absurd premise body-checks the movie's well-meaning intentions right out of the hockey rink, across 4th Street, into the river and downstream…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 13 Dec 2016

Very good, and often great... A true cockle-tickler for fans hoping to stoke the excitement of their inner nine-year-olds…

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Review of Allied (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

The romantic chemistry between Pitt and Cotillard is more of a light microwaving than scorching sensual flame. But I liked the movie anyway…

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Review of Certain Women (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

Reichardt has no desire to state any intentions outright, stripping the storytelling bare so its simplicities can reveal truths in the margins…

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Review of Trolls (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

Far more sufferable in execution than in concept…

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Review of The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

I could spend many more hours with these people, who are warm, funny, lived-in personalities existing in a plausible sphere outside the contrived…

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Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

It meets expectations where its predecessor significantly exceeded them…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

Pops with the type of psychedelic, kaleidoscopic weirdness that'll have you wondering who dosed your popcorn with psilocybin…

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Review of The Accountant (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

Affleck's dead-eyed performance is weirdly inert and awkward, and he looks uncomfortable, like he's trying not to laugh, or holding in a fart…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

Arrival, remarkably, tugs at the emotions and intellect with equal insistence…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

Those of us without the pre-existing condition of fandom will likely be left cold by the film... it's strangely empty…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Nov 2016

Burton's latest finds the distinctive visual stylist chasing his own tail out of duty instead of inspiration, like an aging black cat bored…

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