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Review of Young & Beautiful (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 13 May 2014

No Buñuel-like, Belle de jour surrealism, no enormous political canvas to be drawn and illumined, no reductionist pronouncements of psychology…

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Review of For No Good Reason (2012)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 13 May 2014

There are many gems of earned wisdom, both spoken and demonstrated through the prowess of the man's process in conjuring his righteous satires,…

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Review of Palo Alto (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 13 May 2014

Coppola finds a dreamlike drift to her first feature, suffused and detached, a woozy memory or a memory of a memory of a memory…

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Review of Moms' Night Out (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 08 May 2014

They aren't caricatures, per se, but in the behavior-reinforcing fashion of simple sitcom, we see an unflattering portrait of brittle, hostile,…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 01 May 2014

The two tease, their grins dazzle. Their flirtation is freighted yet weightless. The melting chemistry between Stone and Garfield…

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Review of Fading Gigolo (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 29 Apr 2014

Its strange flavor lingers, which is why I'd recommend it to those patient enough to contemplate such an earnest, cracked project for its flagrant,…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 29 Apr 2014

The righting will be bloody, and he will be good at only some of it…

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Review of Watermark (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 24 Apr 2014

Grave, momentous, lush, threatening, engulfing, the HD imagery surveying the epic scale of bodies of water and the thrash and volume of currents…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 21 Apr 2014

McQueen works from ferocity to felicity. Scenes of body horror bear higher emotional stakes than your average horror film…

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Review of Captain Phillips (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 21 Apr 2014

About an hour in, though, much hell breaks loose. Greengrass' avid, excitable camera moves begin to match the action, to become the action…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 16 Apr 2014

Present-tense future shock that mashes up an unholy hybrid of movies past and clichés everlasting, notably The Lawnmower Man and An Inconvenient…

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Review of Hateship Loveship (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Apr 2014

If this is a Cinderella story, I'm sorry I went to the ball. A story centered on glorious natural talent Steinfeld? That could have been magic…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Apr 2014

Visual elements draw from a theatrical vocabulary, such as a besorrowed M overlooking gray London at a window slashed with billions of cold…

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Review of The Unknown Known (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Apr 2014

Morris has questions, Rumsfeld has quibbles, and most of what he gets from the man are those infernal little grins that someone must have told…

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Review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Apr 2014

My eyes were accountably wet from the opening image of cold, unflinching stars in the sky that then twirl to blur under the opening credits…

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Review of The Gardener (2012)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 13 Apr 2014

The screen blooms with beauty: Makhmalbaf and his family of fellow filmmakers have always filled their screens with rapturous imagery…

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Review of The Rocket (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 12 Apr 2014

A vital fairytale about a ten-year-old Laotian boy whose family thinks he's been cursed since birth, The Rocket is an unlikely heartwarmer…

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Review of The Bag Man (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 12 Apr 2014

Robert De Niro brandishes an epic white pompadour that looks like a prank on eternal producer Robert Evans…

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Review of Cuban Fury (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Apr 2014

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Rashida Jones' freckles are one of the great, underappreciated special effects of twenty-first-century…

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Review of Joe (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Apr 2014

What ought to be bleak is instead a report on the tender dramatic attentions of one of our most generous contemporary filmmakers…

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