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Review of Good Kill (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 20 May 2015

Storywise, tact and intelligence take the day. Things grow more strained, both at home and on the job, until Was that a war crime…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 16 May 2015

Headlong, berserk, bonkers, bat----, boisterous, bountiful and big-hearted... George Miller in three sentences: We're doomed. Keep moving. Be kind…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 29 Apr 2015

I began to forget the breathless, teetering, tottering, careening, catapulting Avengers: The Age Of Ultron about 20 minutes into its 141 minutes…

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Review of Tangerines (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 27 Apr 2015

Simple, direct and achingly melancholy, Tangerines unfolds in a setting that feels timeless…

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Review of Welcome to New York (2014)

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

Ferrara's portrait of debauched capital, especially in the bison-like corpus of Gerard Depardieu on orgiastic display, libidinous, unrestrained,…

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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Apr 2015

There's also something of Joseph Mankiewicz in Assayas' taut, gnomic gab, with professional status and personal moment indicated in snappish,…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Apr 2015

Garland also seduces with clean frames, sleek, elegant surfaces, and the most physically convincing of robots on screen in memory. Sentience is sexy…

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Review of Revenge of the Mekons (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Apr 2015

Lean, cheery 95-minute portrait of almost four decades in the lives and careers since the 1977 formation of the vital, genially haunted punk-to-rock…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 31 Mar 2015

Baumbach does a rich, comic job with the contrasts between the couples, capturing both middle-aged lightheadedness and callow youth with a…

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Review of White God (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 31 Mar 2015

Mundruczó's camera is itchy, moving, darting, as if sniffing, a shaggy dog approach, little nudges and sneaks ever so closer in scenes where…

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Review of The Salt of the Earth (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 31 Mar 2015

Two masters meet, the result is glorious, rich with the contradiction of Salgado's work: beautiful images of the terror of man's suffering on earth…

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Review of Wendy and Lucy (2008)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 27 Mar 2015

Wendy and Lucy refines Reichardt as a poet of the overlooked American working class…

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Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

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

With the gorgeously shot, sweetly paced Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, David and Nathan Zellner make a strange, funny, sometimes alarmingly deadpan…

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Review of Spring (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 19 Mar 2015

Starts as a downbeat beatdown of a bad luck drama, then blossoms into a European journey, a fraught romantic pursuit, a horror movie and, ultimately,…

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Review of Seymour: An Introduction (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 19 Mar 2015

A life's wisdom, distilled, conveyed with charm, wit and bracing precision in an understated yet lucid voice…

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Review of Spring (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 19 Mar 2015

Starts as a downbeat beatdown of a bad luck drama, then blossoms into a European journey, a fraught romantic pursuit, a horror movie and, ultimately,…

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Review of Uncle Kent (2011)

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

Hi, where have you been all my life? may be learned behavior, but it always sounds good up close…

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Review of Deli Man (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 10 Mar 2015

The food is heavy but the japes are light. What could have been small beer instead makes the viewer hungry and hungrier…

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Review of The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 10 Mar 2015

Burgundy is a keen pastiche of 1970s Euro-sleaze and high art, and looks amazing on the big screen, calmly florid, precise yet bonkers, bristling…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 05 Mar 2015

Blomkamp embeds his movie-ostensibly about corporate robot cops taking over crime control in a slightly futuristic Johannesburg-in the music,…

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