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Review of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

By Duncan Gray (3) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

Lo and Behold makes sure to inextricably tie utopian goals to darker, more deadly possible outcomes…

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Review of Drinking Buddies (2013)

By Greg Gerke (1) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

The script points toward the consequences of leashing onto someone who's already leashed, but it isn't able to find its way to them or a visual…

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Review of The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014)

By John Lehtonen (1) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

The film never lingers too heavily, and for all the story contrivances Tsui manages to quite deftly balance his impulses…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Duncan Gray (3) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

Moonlight is a drama that can be separated from representational politics, but shouldn't be…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

Stripped of the extra-textual baggage so central to the interpretation, what does Zero Dark Thirty amount to…

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Review of Bridesmaids (2011)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

The director is sitcom vet Paul Feig but the auteur is star and co-writer Kristen Wiig, who takes center stage after displaying flashes of…

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Review of Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

Anderson's movie is a musical, composed work about how all of the instruments play together; what it achieves is…

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Review of Sun Don't Shine (2013)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

What Seimetz accomplishes is a unity of camera style, acting style, editing style, and narrative rhythm; it's no small feat to make a small…

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Review of Dragon Eyes (2012)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

When it all gets pared down to characters confronting one another (and their own endurance) within a space, it takes on a certain kinetic grandeur…

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Review of Hugo (2011)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

Scorsese luxuriates in artifice, but at its generous best Hugo offers a lovely instance of technology made human and spun from one generation…

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Review of The Double Hour (2009)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

As directed by Giuseppe Capotondi with little more than a chilled eye for sleek surfaces, the rug-pulling games make for mental chewing gum…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

The newest chapter has a mermaid rampage shot like Ovidian Piranha outtakes, variously mummified cameos by Ponce de León and Keith Richards,…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

It's lucid, ingenious filmmaking, at least until the action motor slows down and the paint-by-numbers handling of flesh and bone turns glaring…

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Review of Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

It proves that Mekas is still very much awake, contemplating the broad gulfs of the past and future, the little life that, as Shakespeare put…

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Review of House of Bamboo (1955)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

[House of Bamboo] is an example of the iconoclastic filmmaker's ribald eye for cinematic collisions of characters and forms…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Lawrence Garcia (34) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

Despite its modest trappings, 20th Century Women reveals itself to be a surprisingly ambitious, freewheeling exploration of a precipice moment…

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Review of Bullet to the Head (2012)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

At times it feels as though the whole thing has been scrubbed clean of anything resembling theme…

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Review of The Gang's All Here (1943)

By Mike Archibald (1) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

we're all part of the show when it comes to this 1943 musical comedy, accepting and delighting in its escapist frivolity…

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Review of War Horse (2011)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for MUBI (191) on 09 Jan 2018

All the sumptuous pomp and sweep add up to little more than an inflated remake of Lassie Come Home, a step backwards from his mostly splendid…

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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Lawrence Garcia (34) for MUBI (191) on 27 Dec 2017

There's a flatness to the overall picture, here, that underwhelms…

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