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Review of Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Mar 2015

While director Joe Mantello (who also helmed the stage production) often uses the opened-up space of the movie well, he doesn't always avoid…

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Review of The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Mar 2015

Though [Guinness's] performance may not immediately announce itself as his best, it's certainly one of his most representative, a thoroughly…

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Review of Withnail & I (1987)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Mar 2015

Withnail And I works as a comedy, but it's a comedy of desperation, and the ever-present specter of failure, overdose, and addiction haunting…

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Review of Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Mar 2015

Temple introduces viewers to Strummer the punster, Strummer the womanizer, and Strummer the poseur, whom his mates could only really talk to…

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Review of Fanboys (2009)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Mar 2015

Fanboys has a lot of talent in its margins, including Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, and other usual suspects…

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Review of Home Sweet Hell (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Mar 2015

Katherine Heigl has exactly one funny moment in the dire black comedy Home Sweet Hell, which is still one more than anybody else has…

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Review of Champs (2015)

By Josh Modell (41) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Mar 2015

As a documentary, Champs feels a bit punch-drunk — weaving from one idea to the next while never quite zoning in on any particular target…

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Review of Walter (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Mar 2015

Much of Walter’s behavior resembles, at very least, a movie version of mental illness, only to have the story reclassify it as a coping mechanism…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2015

Fans of early John Carpenter will immediately identify the master’s influence — on the voyeuristic slink of the camera, the synth pulse…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2015

Clothed in a colorful mishmash of historical fashions and scored to sweeping strings, the movie is like an antique cut-crystal vase: gorgeous,…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2015

Clothed in a colorful mishmash of historical fashions and scored to sweeping strings, the movie is like an antique cut-crystal vase: gorgeous,…

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Review of Cinderella (1950)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2015

Clothed in a colorful mishmash of historical fashions and scored to sweeping strings, the movie is like an antique cut-crystal vase: gorgeous,…

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Review of Pieces of April (2003)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Mar 2015

Though Pieces Of April comes together with improbable grace, Hedges evokes unearned tears from a premise that's already loaded from the start…

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Review of The Hangover (2009)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Mar 2015

It's an agreeably unambitious comedy that might be called a romp, if that word didn't imply a little too much energy…

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Review of The Hunted (2003)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Mar 2015

Aided by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, Friedkin works economically, lending the film the mark of a master craftsman, albeit of the coldly…

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Review of X+Y (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Mar 2015

It’s just that the quality of Williams’ script varies wildly, from superb to dire…

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Review of Mimic (1997)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Mar 2015

The latter half, set in the less visited parts of New York's subway system, bogs down considerably, abandoning its hybrid approach and becoming…

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Review of Along Came Polly (2004)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Mar 2015

With a cast this gifted, some of the throwaway jokes stick, but when Along Came Polly goes for its biggest, grossest laughs, the strings show…

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Review of Nights and Weekends (2008)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Mar 2015

To some extent, if you've seen one Swanberg film, you've seen them all; Nights And Weekends contains the usual mix of frank, awkward sex scenes…

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Review of The Lesson (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Mar 2015

In exploring how an honest person might compromise her integrity in the face of insurmountable obstacles, The Lesson compromises its own sense…

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