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Review of Friday Night Lights (2004)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Mar 2017

When Friday Night Lights gets to the big games, the time it's spent creates an atmosphere thick with tension, one akin to the real-world experience…

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Review of Raw (2017)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Mar 2017

The film gained an unfortunate reputation as a gross-out cannibal shocker on the festival circuit, and while that categorization is not entirely,…

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Review of The Sense of an Ending (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Mar 2017

The entire movie consists of this same delayed-gratification tactic, as significant events from Tony’s past are first teased and then revealed…

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Review of Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Mar 2017

Gehry is a fascinating subject, a strangely magnetic combination of rumpled, aw-shucks humility and Herculean ambition and hubris, but every…

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Review of American Casino (2009)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Mar 2017

The film doesn’t come to life until too late in the game…

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Review of Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Mar 2017

Doesn't pretend to be objective, and the film derives much of its power from the way it invites audiences to look at the rapper's life and…

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Review of Seraphim Falls (2007)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Mar 2017

If Seraphim Falls' audience appreciates its good points and ignores an ending that tries too hard, they'll just be following a grand genre-buff…

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Review of Donald Cried (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Mar 2017

The film’s gradual shift from broad yuk-fest toward something closer to indie drama (while still striving to be funny) isn’t wholly successful;…

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Review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Feb 2017

There's little wrong with Charlie, but it needs the Burton of old to animate its candy-colored universe with mischief and awe…

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Review of 21 Grams (2003)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Feb 2017

A nearly unparalleled actor's showcase, the film boasts performances of impressive quality and quantity...Their complexity matches the film's…

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Review of Wedding Crashers (2005)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Feb 2017

In spite of its cast and seemingly can't-miss premise, Wedding Crashers is at its best a succession of mild chuckles…

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Review of The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Feb 2017

Starts off strong but dilutes its impact with every consecutive reveal…

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Review of Nancy Drew (2007)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Feb 2017

Once the rote mystery elements take over, the film devolves into a second-rate whodunit for kids, but even then, Roberts' irrepressible cheeriness…

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Review of The Missing Person (2009)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Feb 2017

Shannon’s performance takes The Missing Person as far as it goes, but when a real-world tragedy commandeers the story, Buschel’s thin pastiche…

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Review of United 93 (2006)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Feb 2017

We all lived through this not so long ago; it's an odd thing to make a film whose most striking effect is its ability to bring the feelings…

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Review of Music Within (2007)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Feb 2017

Sheen is often the saving grace of Music Within, thanks to an aggressively profane wit that gives an otherwise tapioca-bland story a little edge…

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Review of Lovesong (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Feb 2017

What stands out most are the performances, delivered by two actresses capable of generating a little emotion, even in a film that insists on…

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Review of Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008)

By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Feb 2017

Perry deserves due respect for exploiting an untapped niche…

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Review of From Nowhere (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Feb 2017

From Nowhere, a measured but fundamentally sorrowful drama about three undocumented teens applying for asylum, receives an ideally timed release…

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Review of The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

By Erik Adams (14) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Feb 2017

A rehash of The Muppet Movie that has the gang jumping over shorter hurdles to achieve the less-grand goal of mounting a Broadway musical…

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