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Review of Parasite (2019)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 10 Oct 2019

Parasite, maybe the best film Bong has yet made, begins as a social-realist drama about a poor family struggling to find work in modern-day…

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Review of Gemini Man (2019)

By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 09 Oct 2019

Smith, to his credit, comes closest to selling the screenplay’s grandiose nonsense — that is, after all, a movie star’s job, and the…

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Review of Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 03 Oct 2019

Dolemite Is My Name delivers on titties, funnies, and kung fu, all mixed up in a syrupy nostalgia that makes the picture’s feel-good populism…

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Review of Joker (2019)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 03 Oct 2019

Joker is a bad movie, yes: It’s predictable, clichéd, deeply derivative of other, better movies, and overwritten to the point of self-parody…

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Review of The King (2019)

By Isaac Butler (4) for Slate (2,081) on 02 Oct 2019

This Hal can only mumble resentfully in one language…

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Review of The Irishman (2019)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 30 Sep 2019

Between the burnished sheen of Rodrigo Prieto’s cinematography, a soundtrack full of perfectly chosen period pop music, and countless sharply…

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Review of Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 20 Sep 2019

There’s a hint of a fugue state about it too, as if Rambo, and whatever audience for his movies remained, is trapped in an endless loop,…

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Review of Ad Astra (2019)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 19 Sep 2019

For the bulk of its two-hour-and-two-minute running time, I watched in a state of hypnotized delight…

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Review of Hustlers (2019)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 14 Sep 2019

An immediate entrant into the pantheon of female friendship movies, Hustlers — a pretty much perfect film — makes plain the hollowness…

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Review of The Goldfinch (2019)

By Heather Schwedel (4) for Slate (2,081) on 14 Sep 2019

The movie, even at two-and-a-half hours long, can’t fit in as much as does the 800-page novel, forcing director John Crowley and screenwriter…

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Review of Downton Abbey (2019)

By June Thomas (8) for Slate (2,081) on 09 Sep 2019

The plot of the Downton Abbey movie is brilliant, not so much because it is surprising, but because it allows every member of the cast to do…

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Review of It Chapter Two (2019)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Slate (2,081) on 06 Sep 2019

What director Andy Muschietti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman do with this opening murder — not to mention a bizarre subplot that appears…

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Review of Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)

By Joshua Keating (4) for Slate (2,081) on 14 Aug 2019

In another era, the film’s postmodern affectations might have been more entertaining, but in the current era, the enterprise feels a little…

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Review of Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 14 Aug 2019

The aspect of the book Linklater has chosen to focus on, and the one he infuses with playfulness and warmth, is the complex bond between a…

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Review of Blinded by the Light (2019)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 13 Aug 2019

The heart of the film is the father-son bond, but Chadha, a filmmaker long preoccupied with the inner lives of Desi-British girls and women,…

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Review of One Child Nation (2019)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 09 Aug 2019

It’s not that One Child Nation needs to cater to both sides of the argument, but it would have helped contextualize how often the acts of…

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Review of The Kitchen (2019)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 07 Aug 2019

I felt resentful of my own feelings of gratitude while watching The Kitchen, a joyless and exhausting movie that squanders the talents of a…

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Review of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 31 Jul 2019

Hobbs & Shaw is a ridiculous movie, and sometimes it’s in the best way…

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Review of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 25 Jul 2019

It’s fine to walk out of this movie not quite sure what Tarantino was using his story’s proximity to this real-life tragedy to say; that’s…

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Review of Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)

By Stephen Metcalf (6) for Slate (2,081) on 14 Jul 2019

For the first half of Looking for Comedy, Brooks' hangdog demeanor performs reliably, and there are plenty of solid laughs…

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