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Review of Hopscotch (1980)

By James Plath (543) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Jan 2018

Bond on valium? This game of Hopscotch is a low-key but entertaining affair…

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Review of Band Aid (2017)

By James Plath (543) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Jan 2018

This winning indie comedy-drama splits those two genres as neatly as an atom but gets the most energy out of the comedy side…

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Review of Frantz (2016)

By James Plath (543) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Jan 2018

Because Frantz is 99.9 percent domestic, ponderously paced, shot in black and white…

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Review of The Philadelphia Story (1940)

By James Plath (543) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Jan 2018

For a comedy of manners, The Philadelphia Story is awfully screwball…

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Review of Brad's Status (2017)

By Paul Risker (9) for PopMatters (2,617) on 12 Jan 2018

Regardless, Brad's Status that has the potential to communicate as deeply as it does to offer a lighter, yet nonetheless touching experience…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for PopMatters (2,617) on 12 Jan 2018

Streep is particularly good as the embodiment of a woman who never expected to be running a newspaper (she was thrust into that role following…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 22 Dec 2017

Alexander Payne will do good work again, but Downsizing is more than a tiny blemish on his resume…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 21 Dec 2017

Where Downsizing starts to get interesting is in Paul's transition from happy miniature cog in the consumerist machine to a seeker of some…

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Review of The Force (2017)

By Argun Ulgen (34) for PopMatters (2,617) on 21 Dec 2017

Although it has its imperfections, The Force stands out for its uniquely equitable treatment of law enforcement as a complex organism necessitating…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Paul Risker (9) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Dec 2017

[Rian] Johnson's miscue has posed a disquieting question: Are these filmmakers authors or fans…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

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

Twist-filled and snappy, it has just enough interest in this thrill-seeking world and the proper amount of contempt for the sexist playground…

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Review of Homicide (1991)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 13 Dec 2017

In Homicide's electric pop of language, Mamet provides a grand kind of stage for the ugly catalyst of jealousy and racial hatred that curdles…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 12 Dec 2017

If Star Wars: The Last Jedi isn't a complete deconstruction of the original trilogy, it's at least an acknowledgement that these archetypical…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 09 Dec 2017

Samuel Maoz's philosophical black comedy is a triptych of surrealism laced with insights about warfare and grief that are both timeless and timely…

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Review of The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017)

By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 08 Dec 2017

In another movie, their hard to articulate relationship might be compelling, enigmatic, appealing…

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Review of Quest (2017)

By Argun Ulgen (34) for PopMatters (2,617) on 08 Dec 2017

Quest closely portrays faces of America that are all too ignored…

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Review of Quest (2017)

By Argun Ulgen (34) for PopMatters (2,617) on 08 Dec 2017

Quest closely portrays faces of America that are all too ignored…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 07 Dec 2017

Guillermo del Toro's Cold War mashup of outsider love story and Creature from the Black Lagoon is gorgeously realized and impeccably acted…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 06 Dec 2017

Though they only share a few scenes, watching Hanks and Streep perform is like watching two jazz musicians improvising together; overlapping…

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Review of The Disaster Artist (2017)

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

Perhaps the greatest compliment one can pay Franco's The Disaster Artist is that it encourages audiences to laugh with Wiseau and his clueless…

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