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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's a hybridized rom-com that is this summer's winning feature, equal parts funny, cringey, heartwarming and wise (and you might even shed…

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Review of Tower (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

The real punch of this film comes in its final reel, in which Maitland offers a reckoning of historical events with today…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Elle suffers from too many subplots, and runs on 15 minutes too long…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

In time, Belle sees past the Beast's dreadful visage - a puzzling CGI-generated furry blankness that suggests bad taxidermy more than fearsome…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Unsurprisingly, this one-room action movie is a non-stop parade of insults, snappy comebacks, and lots and lots of shooting…

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Review of Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

By Hannah Lynn (27) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

while this movie is completely unnecessary, it's also totally enjoyable…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Other than the lead actors - and I am sad to report that both DeHaan and Delevingne are miscast - the film is almost primarily recreated digitally…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Here, the battle is appropriately tense, horrific and tragic, not without beauty - whether in the grateful gasp of a man saved from drowning,…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's all a waste, and at best, I hope these actors learned to pick better films in the future…

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Review of Megan Leavey (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's a formulaic tale, but one for the shelf of contemporary films that are tracking our changing relationship to combat veterans, both human…

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Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

There's no pat solution here, but Daniel has one Pyrrhic victory worth a cheer…

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Review of Stronger (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's still inspirational, but does a better job than most Hollywood bio-pics of depicting the smaller, but no less difficult, emotional steps…

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Review of Bitter Harvest (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

While Mendeluk's film is well intentioned and mildly intriguing, it falls well short of grandness…

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Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Oyelowo and Pike make attractive leads -- particularly when contrasted with the cold-hearted, sherry-sipping, upper-crusty British bureaucrats…

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Review of Lion (2015)

By Harry Kloman (6) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

As much a parable as a drama, Lion quietly explores a social problem while staying strongly focused on its intimacies…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

With its screenplay by Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon, Justice League is a good balance of light and dark…

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Review of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Throughout the film, compelling arguments are made for how Western forms of music incorporated the rhythms and vocal stylings of traditional…

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Review of It (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Andy Muschietti's film has an assortment of entertaining features, but it's not likely to scare many viewers…

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Review of Brad's Status (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

So sad in the year 2017 that women get written into these reductive support roles…

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Review of Unforgettable (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Why these women are fighting over a man-shaped pair of boring khakis (Geoff Stults) is left unchallenged…

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