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Review of The Walk (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 25 Sep 2015

There are bits of poetry and flickering wit that grace Petit's passage into an ebullient boor and bore…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 23 Sep 2015

Martin Gschlacht's 35mm widescreen images pop and burst and glow with nightmarish vivacity, and intent sound design largely substitutes for…

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Review of X+Y (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 23 Sep 2015

A Brilliant Young Mind is not only warm-hearted, but offers surprises in a symmetrically crafted script, and a handy rebuke to the compounded…

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Review of The New Girlfriend (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 21 Sep 2015

There's frippery and flummery a la Almodóvar and Hitchcock, two of Ozon's favorite directors, and he also cites Wilder's understanding of…

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Review of Envy (2001)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 21 Sep 2015

There's frippery and flummery a la Almodóvar and Hitchcock, two of Ozon's favorite directors, and he also cites Wilder's understanding of…

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Review of The Second Mother (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 14 Sep 2015

Comedienne Regina Casé is vital and present in every moment, especially the minuscule and picayune humiliations that have compounded for years…

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Review of Sleeping with Other People (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 14 Sep 2015

The romcom will never die as long as comic innovators find new veins to drain, and as long as the profane imagination of someone like Headland…

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Review of Gabriel (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 14 Sep 2015

[A]ll is transcended when an actor like Rory Culkin sets to a role with such ardor, such wide-eyed, hollow-faced habitation…

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Review of Gabriel (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 14 Sep 2015

[A]ll is transcended when an actor like Rory Culkin sets to a role with such ardor, such wide-eyed, hollow-faced habitation…

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Review of The Mend (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 07 Sep 2015

The Mend is alive and left me feeling tempestuously alive…

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Review of Meru (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Sep 2015

Terror: give it a new name, call it Meru. Instead of don't look in the basement, do... not... look... down... Jimmy Chin and E…

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Review of 7 Chinese Brothers (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 01 Sep 2015

Byington's words elucubrated by Schwartzman's rich varieties of mutter and mumble and banter are one of the genuine moviegoing treasures of…

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Review of Queen of Earth (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 01 Sep 2015

Psychological horror ensues, and how. I'd hate to reveal a single teardrop in this sharp chamber drama. It's all chill, no pill…

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Review of She's Funny That Way (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 25 Aug 2015

They all yawned... strains at screwball... It's a pale pastiche of a pasticheur's pastiche…

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Review of Grandma (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 25 Aug 2015

[S]mart, elemental comedy…

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Review of Learning to Drive (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 25 Aug 2015

[M]odest, near-timid cross-cultural drama enlivened by two of the most live live-wires of modern movies, Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson…

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Review of 10,000 Saints (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 17 Aug 2015

The cinematography by Ben Kutchins works more from grime than grim, capturing a battered backdrop for the characters rather than a cartoon…

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Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 17 Aug 2015

Mistress America landed like $10,000 of finely focused therapy…

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Review of People, Places, Things (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Aug 2015

The comedy is cute but restless, sometimes implausible, often missing the mark by miles. Charm goes a certain distance, depending on personal taste…

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Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Aug 2015

[Minnie] learns; she learns better, and she learns well, but the movie is about becoming, not being judged, and not about judging oneself…

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