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Review of Fences (2016)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 16 Mar 2017

It's Washington's third directorial effort and, as in his previous films, the camera serves the actors. He remains true to the play…

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Review of Blue Velvet (1986)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 10 Mar 2017

David Lynch looks behind the smiling faces and stucco houses of small town America and finds a shadow world of pure evil in Blue Velvet…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 10 Mar 2017

Some emotional wounds can't be healed. Manchester by the Sea…

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Review of Queen of Katwe (2016)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 15 Feb 2017

Queen of Katwe is hardly revolutionary but it defies one defining convention of the familiar Disney underdog/culture clash drama: it presents…

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Review of Indignation (2016)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 13 Jan 2017

James Schamus, the longtime maverick film producer who co-wrote many of Ang Lee's films, adapts the 2008 Philip Roth novel and directs this…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 13 Jan 2017

Star is a girl that grew up fast and [actress Sasha] Lane invests her with a mix of survivalist experience and emotional immaturity suddenly…

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Review of Eraserhead (1977)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 13 Jan 2017

In heaven, everything is fine, but in Eraserhead (1977) nothing is fine…

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Review of Boogie Nights (1997)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 13 Jan 2017

Boogie Nights is an impassioned and creative portrait of American souls in distress from a young, passionate filmmaker who threw himself headlong…

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Review of We Are What We Are (2013)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 27 Oct 2016

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 20 Aug 2016

You could call A Hologram for the King (2016) a mid-life crisis drama, which is true enough, but it is really a crisis of purpose and identity…

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Review of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 28 Jul 2016

The tale is pure pulp, a catalogue of seventies martial arts revenge dramas and American B-movie action thrillers, and the style is pure Tarantino…

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Review of Election (2005)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 15 Jun 2016

Alexander Payne's wicked satire of power and (social) politics set in the overheated incubator of a high school student body election is as…

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Review of Election (1999)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 15 Jun 2016

Alexander Payne's wicked satire of power and (social) politics set in the overheated incubator of a high school student body election is as…

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Review of Into the Wild (2007)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 21 May 2016

Sean Penn's adaptation of Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book is a bracing cinematic plunge into the odyssey of Christopher McCandless…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 18 May 2016

It's dark and spooky and suggestive and at times genuinely terrifying, and it leaves you wondering just how much belief guides our perceptions…

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Review of Losing Ground (1982)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 14 Apr 2016

Collins proves to be an intelligent, insightful, and nuanced filmmaker…

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Review of Battle Royale (2000)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 09 Apr 2016

This savage social satire revels in the brutality and gore and plays it for dark comedy and gallows humor, a teen melodrama gone feral as cliques…

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Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 30 Mar 2016

It's not exactly a culmination of Tarantino's work to date but it echoes themes and storytelling ideas we've seen him play with since Reservoir Dogs…

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Review of Django (1966)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 24 Mar 2016

Corbucci, who co-wrote the story, fashions an unrelentingly violent tale of rival gangs squeezing the life out of a muddy, bloody border town,…

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Review of Machine Gun McCain (1969)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 03 Sep 2010

(T)his Italian-American crime movie cocktail has some great flavors in the mix, thanks to Cassavetes and to the unraveling chaos that director…

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