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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 07 Mar 2018

Some of those advocacy aspects may play a bit broadly with contemporary American arthouse audiences more familiar with trans-rights issues,…

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Review of Submission (2018)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 07 Mar 2018

There's an archness to the film that keeps this from devolving into Lifetime melodrama, and a few twists that keep it erring on the side of…

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Review of Submission (2019)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 07 Mar 2018

There's an archness to the film that keeps this from devolving into Lifetime melodrama, and a few twists that keep it erring on the side of…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 28 Feb 2018

The downbeat material is matched by a quiet celebration that the dogged pursuit of the truth can and should matter, and that journalists, given…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 28 Feb 2018

Moonlight is a beautifully layered film filled with so much emotional content and lyricism…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 28 Feb 2018

Birdman is never less than entertaining - brash, funny, fast-paced and a welcome return to the A-list for Keaton…

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Review of Marie Curie (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 28 Feb 2018

It is the sort of film that manages to incorporate languid baths and a duel (!) with obtuse conversations with Einstein and an overt feminist message…

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Review of Game Night (2018)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 28 Feb 2018

Game Night offers a well-trod set-up, but the crack cast make this silly comedy work…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 28 Feb 2018

Birdman is never less than entertaining - brash, funny, fast-paced and a welcome return to the A-list for Keaton…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 28 Feb 2018

It was like catching a laughably bad movie from the late 1980s on cable, and just sitting through it…

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Review of Annihilation (2018)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 28 Feb 2018

It's heady sci-fi horror, with plenty of analogies to ponder, and some truly gorgeous imagery…

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Review of Million Dollar Baby (2004)

By Bill O'driscoll (6) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 27 Feb 2018

In Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood makes us believe both that [the] relationship is completely surprising and wholly a product of fate…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By Harry Kloman (6) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 27 Feb 2018

After all these years, Ben Affleck is still a listless actor. But he's a terrific director, and in Argo, he's done it again…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Harry Kloman (6) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 27 Feb 2018

The Artist is a bore, just like the hammy has-been around which it revolves…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 27 Feb 2018

Tom Hooper's film is a handsomely made, well-acted story that, for the most part, wins hearts by transforming a potentially mega-watt historical…

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Review of Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

By Harry Kloman (6) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 27 Feb 2018

It's a big spoonful of sugar, and I suspect its message will finally be lost on its core audience of cinematic junk-food junkies…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Bill O'driscoll (6) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 27 Feb 2018

Depicting that toll fairly, and soldiers as flawed people with doubts and fears as well as triumphs, deepens our understanding of war…

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Review of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 21 Feb 2018

It's really Bening and Bell who sell this; Bening is especially good, calibrating Grahame's magnetic presence with her crippling vulnerability…

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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Harry Kloman (6) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 21 Feb 2018

The cast is the best French cinema has to offer, and they perform with natural ease through many long takes in Haneke's eerily unnatural film…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 21 Feb 2018

Normally I'm inclined to not see comic-book movies in the first place, but this is one I'd like to see a second time…

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