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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 04 Apr 2014

The sky extends forever across the flat land, never suggesting expanse, but lowering, confinement, pushing small, human figures to the ground…

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Review of The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 04 Apr 2014

A rock-solid portrait of Ali's passions about faith and conscience, and a stirring case that his political legacy is more important, and will…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 04 Apr 2014

Peirce's imagery is pungent: the mark of Carrie's bloody palm print on the eggshell blue of her gym teacher's skirt; a slow-motion whirling…

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Review of A Touch of Sin (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 04 Apr 2014

I can't imagine a comparable American movie, militating passionately, lyrically over on the economic inequities of American life. It just isn't done…

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Review of Adult World (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

Adult World goes all kinds of satisfying places and the lowercase niceties begin with knowing how to use Emma Roberts' eyes, and their bright,…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

The success of Anderson's admirable ambition is to have elevated anachronism, pastiche, personal passions and larger cultural memory to a heady…

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Review of The Counselor (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

McCarthy and Scott capitalize their themes: this is The End. This is The End of the Road, the End of Civilization, the End of Capitalism…

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Review of Finding Vivian Maier (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

Not a composition of the late, secretive Chicago photographer Vivian Maier is askew or amiss in her vast, breathtaking, even thrilling body…

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Review of Visitors (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

Staring at Visitors, not only do many things seem unusual, many more seem familiar, paralleled by other artists…

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Review of Stranger by the Lake (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

Classically constructed, as rigid in its construction of suspense as any recent thriller, Alain Guiraudie's Stranger by the Lake is a masterful…

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Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

The Great Beauty is a great romance: a man and a city and a love that cannot be consummated but which will consume you surely…

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Review of Visitors (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

Staring at Visitors, not only do many things seem unusual, many more seem familiar, paralleled by other artists…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

Kechiche captures a staggeringly intense amount of orality: kissing, smoking, talking, spitting, ----ing and eating, oh, such eating…

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Review of The Selfish Giant (2013)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Apr 2014

The first great fiction film to be released in 2014, Clio Barnard's second feature, The Selfish Giant, is breathtakingly assured, ruggedly…

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Review of The Raid 2 (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 02 Apr 2014

The abiding melancholy of The Raid 2″ is that there's no swagger, no bravura, no false, heroic gestures, just desperate remorseless forward motion…

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Review of Kids for Cash (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 10 Mar 2014

While the film has heroes -- this is part of the utility of May's filmmaking -- the conclusions about the juvenile justice system in this country…

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Review of 100 Bloody Acres (2012)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 26 Jun 2013

A blend of horror and comedy is the kind of tonal impertinence that should be near-impossible to pull off, but that's not stopping filmmakers…

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Review of The Talent Given Us (2004)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 12 Oct 2005

Andrew Wagner's deeply original, awe-inspiring The Talent Given Us defies classification, another mongrel marvel traducing the boundaries of…

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Review of There's Something About Mary (1998)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 01 Jan 2000

Sometimes tender, mostly wildly over-the-top, the Farrellys have managed to make a movie at least ten times funnier than Dumb and Dumber…

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