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Review of Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 19 Mar 2019

Ineffectual, irrelevant and amateurishly conceived from start to finish, this movie is so bad it could kill off Nancy Drew forever…

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Review of The Hummingbird Project (2019)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 19 Mar 2019

While The Hummingbird Project may not be reap the benefits of a 13-episode season, at times, watching this dramatically flaccid tale of late-cycle…

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Review of Never Grow Old (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 19 Mar 2019

It’s too monstrous and mean-spirited to please everyone unconditionally, but I found it challenging and honest — and hair-raising enough…

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Review of Five Feet Apart (2019)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 14 Mar 2019

The honesty of the actors and their commitment to each other bails the movie out…

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Review of I'm Not Here (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 08 Mar 2019

Simmons silently mopes and boozes with conviction, but everyone with dialogue comes off like planks of plywood, thanks to the flat, one-dimensional…

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Review of Gloria Bell (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 08 Mar 2019

But to miss it would be a shame, because you won’t find a more spellbinding performance than the inimitable star in the title role…

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Review of Captain Marvel (2019)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 06 Mar 2019

The truth is, this flawed but still entertaining film’s chief asset is its representation of a young woman who has spent her life following…

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Review of Mapplethorpe (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 28 Feb 2019

For a subject of so much titillating eroticism, the script (co-authored by the director and Mikko Alanne) is as dull as navel lint, the lighting…

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Review of The Wedding Guest (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 28 Feb 2019

This anemic little so-called thriller is the next best thing to a prescription for 30 mg Dalmane…

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Review of Giant Little Ones (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 27 Feb 2019

Sensitive performances, mature and self-assured direction, and understated writing make Keith Behrman’s Giant Little Ones an emotionally…

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Review of Greta (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 27 Feb 2019

It’s a nail-biter that sends ice down the spine and proves that in the hands of a master director, any genre is capable of achieving new…

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Review of Isn't It Romantic (2019)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 14 Feb 2019

Rarely if ever has a film ostensibly about and informed by cinema been so thoroughly un-cinematic...And un-emotional: that spark of love is…

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Review of Cold Pursuit (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 08 Feb 2019

As the corpses pile up on every side of the law, it reminds me more of those nasty, sometimes laughable Charles Bronson genre vehicles from…

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Review of Untogether (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 08 Feb 2019

Another anemic and pointless stringing together of stories that are not worth telling, Untogether follows the truncated lives of a group of…

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Review of Berlin, I Love You (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 07 Feb 2019

On a scale of one to four stars, any film with a bit part for Helen Mirren, no matter how small and insignificant, deserves at least one…

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Review of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 06 Feb 2019

It’s not just emotion and creative innovation that feels MIA in this installment. The film acts as though it’s edgy, but lacks real bite…

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Review of Arctic (2018)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 31 Jan 2019

The manner in which Mikkelsen, the former Danish gymnast and dancer we chiefly know for his suave villains in 2006’s Casino Royale and the…

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Review of King of Thieves (2018)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 28 Jan 2019

It's a marvel to watch Caine, Courtenay, Broadbent and Gambon go at each other with an aplomb that dazzles…

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Review of Serenity (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 25 Jan 2019

The new year is not even a month old, but a hunk of junk called Serenity already qualifies as the worst film of 2019…

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Review of Don't Come Back from the Moon (2019)

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 18 Jan 2019

I liked the sensory strengths of a movie without anything of beauty to look at, but Don’t Come Back From the Moon eventually fails to involve…

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