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Review of I Love You, Daddy (2017)

By Chelsea Phillips-Carr (52) for PopMatters (2,617) on 30 Nov 2017

It's only an empty reflection on the abuse of power, which is just as focused on CK's self-proclaimed stature as a great comedian as it is…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Susan Kemp (5) for PopMatters (2,617) on 29 Nov 2017

It's probably the wrong time to release a movie where a victim of domestic violence is the one whom you're going to demonize…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 28 Nov 2017

a slashing, kickass comedy about class warfare, media manipulation, and one of history's stupidest criminal conspiracies…

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Review of The Breadwinner (2017)

By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Nov 2017

Parvana creates art and energy in the stories she tells Zaki, inspiring and distracting him as the movie takes on another set of possibilities,…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Nov 2017

a handy political strategy companion piece to the more abstracted combat narrative of 'Dunkirk…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Susan Kemp (5) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Nov 2017

What makes Call Be By Your Name stand out from the films it will be compared to is Guadagnino's play on juxtapositions, which go much deeper…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Nov 2017

If the plot of Mudbound is familiar, its very repetition is devastating, especially in this moment in US history…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 16 Nov 2017

If McDonagh's dark comedy-drama doesn't quite out-Fargo Fargo, it brilliantly illustrates the chaos a few choice words can cause in the hands…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 16 Nov 2017

As if watching listless characters exchange infantile monologues isn't bad enough, the villain of the week is a complete bore…

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Review of Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

By Argun Ulgen (34) for PopMatters (2,617) on 14 Nov 2017

A hilarious and poignant film that would prove to be particularly relevant in the upcoming years…

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Review of Certain Women (2016)

By Argun Ulgen (34) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Nov 2017

Certain Women's extraction of so much humanity and visual beauty from this despondent outlook renders it a minor masterpiece…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Nov 2017

What was magic on the page comes off as overly opportunistic on the screen, the sort of wish fulfillment that works in a fairy tale but seems…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Susan Kemp (5) for PopMatters (2,617) on 02 Nov 2017

[Martin] McDonagh hasn't created a movie about murder. It's about about reclaiming a sense of justice when the world seems senseless and cold…

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Review of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 01 Nov 2017

The God of Thunder removes the giant hammer from his backside and drops his stodgy pretentions in favor of having a good time…

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Review of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 31 Oct 2017

One imagines Marvel turning the keys over to director Taika Waititi and saying, There's a couple hundred million on the kitchen counter, have fun…

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Review of Suburbicon (2017)

By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 26 Oct 2017

Baffling and frustrating in equal measure, it's difficult to judge who Suburbicon was made for and impossible to imagine who will actually like it…

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Review of Gemini (2017)

By Paul Risker (9) for PopMatters (2,617) on 18 Oct 2017

Kirke and Kravitz's performances are as bold as the writing and the direction, LeBeau, in particular, remains in our minds, not only with an…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Oct 2017

Mudbound is a small-budget movie with big ambitions…

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Review of mother! (2017)

By Alex Bevan (3) for PopMatters (2,617) on 12 Oct 2017

Mother…

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Review of Mother (2017)

By Alex Bevan (3) for PopMatters (2,617) on 12 Oct 2017

Mother…

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