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Review of Lucía, Lucía (2003)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Feb 2015

Has its moments, but by the time it reaches its anticlimax, Roth won't be the only one irritated at getting jerked around for no discernible reason…

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Review of Bluebird (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Feb 2015

Earnestly well-intentioned and doggedly uncommercial, this is the kind of film that’s worth rooting for in principle, but a solid cast and…

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Review of Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Feb 2015

Myers returns as his menagerie of repulsive characters, but this time, his frantic mugging feels more like an insipid parlor trick than ever…

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Review of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2005)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Feb 2015

Thankfully, it boasts a story that doesn't require a surplus of style to be compelling…

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Review of Focus (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Feb 2015

On the most basic level, the con-artist romance Focus is a Cary Grant movie in the North By Northwest or Charade mold…

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Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Feb 2015

It’s a testament to the wealth of this material that the point is a passing one — just one incidence of institutional hypocrisy among many…

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Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Feb 2015

It’s a testament to the wealth of this material that the point is a passing one — just one incidence of institutional hypocrisy among many…

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Review of Wild Tales (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Feb 2015

The filmmakers have cannily structured this crazed collection of shorts, using running time and general quality as organizational criteria…

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Review of Queen & Country (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Feb 2015

As a sequel, Queen & Country doesn’t work at all, primarily because Boorman waited far too long…

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Review of Approaching the Elephant (2015)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Feb 2015

The footage, edited by Actress director Robert Greene, coheres into what feels like one long, chaotic school day…

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Review of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Feb 2015

Like the worst of late-period Allen, the film recycles character types from his previous work without inventing new reasons to summon them…

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Review of A Christmas Tale (2008)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Feb 2015

It's the definition of a film meant to be admired more than loved, but Desplechin's fierce intelligence and uncompromising sense of character…

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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Feb 2015

The result is more often amusing than gut-busting, but it doesn’t wear out its welcome, and that’s fairly impressive in itself…

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Review of Joe Kidd (1972)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Feb 2015

Not particularly complicated, and sometimes as confused as it is concise, 1972’s Joe Kidd is nonetheless a lean, reasonably satisfying slice…

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Review of The Happening (2008)

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

Shyamalan still has an abundance of personality and ambition, and there are scattered moments of craft throughout, but the gulf between his…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Feb 2015

Seventh Son is brisk and unpretentious, though the fact that these two qualities can be considered remarkable probably says more about the…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Feb 2015

It is, in other words, just a few musical numbers and a whiff of marijuana smoke short of being the Thomas Pynchon book of big-budget, effects-driven…

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Review of The Voices (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Feb 2015

Satrapi makes some bad calls in her attempts to balance bleak humor with bleaker thrills, including ending the film on a glibly cheerful note…

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Review of Australia (2008)

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

It almost goes without saying that the film looks gorgeous, but the filmmaking behind it feels unsure how to work on this grand a scale…

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Review of Beowulf (2007)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Jan 2015

Ten years from now, Beowulf may look like the groundbreaking project that helped kill live-action movies, but for the moment, its uncomfortable…

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