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Review of National Champions (2021)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Dec 2021

This movie is all talk and no action. It’s a two-hour pregame show, with no game…

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Review of Being the Ricardos (2021)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Dec 2021

The Lucy-Desi material that should be at the heart of the story never really pays off, as if it’s wandered off and found another, secret…

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Review of Don't Look Up (2021)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Dec 2021

Don’t Look Up is both types of blunt: It makes no bones about exactly what the filmmakers think of climate-change deniers and social-media…

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Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Dec 2021

It seems questionable whether this was really intended as a movie in the first place…

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Review of The Forever Prisoner (2021)

By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Dec 2021

Gibney’s challenging interview style, the uncompromising tone of his questions, and the way he undercuts Mitchell’s self-aggrandizing martyrdom…

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Review of Nightmare Alley (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Dec 2021

Film noir is a cynical genre, and the script makes gestures toward establishing that these characters live in a cold world where nothing matters…

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Review of Benedetta (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Dec 2021

Belgian movie star Virginie Efira plays the title character with complete conviction, whether she’s kneeling in awe before the Virgin Mary…

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Review of West Side Story (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Dec 2021

Of course, the real star here is the staging, a balm for an age of lead-footed Broadway translations…

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Review of The Hand of God (2021)

By Leila Latif (37) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Dec 2021

It has as many superfluous sequences as great ones, with moments that serve no grander purpose than landing a single joke…

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Review of The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

By Anya Stanley (15) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Dec 2021

Nekrasova borrows from the best, courting comparisons to more highbrow pictures like Eyes Wide Shut and The Tenant…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Nov 2021

As the film reveals its intentions around Ahmed’s character, too many scenes rely on superficial dialogue and contrived situations to push…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Nov 2021

As the film reveals its intentions around Ahmed’s character, too many scenes rely on superficial dialogue and contrived situations to push…

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Review of Silent Night (2021)

By Jason Shawhan (7) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Nov 2021

For a film written and nearly finished before the pandemic (with some reshoots in late 2020), Silent Night practically bleats for relevancy…

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Review of The Humans (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Nov 2021

The Humans holds a smudged mirror up to any unsuspecting viewers who might enter its cramped Chinatown abode in search of distraction from…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Nov 2021

As the film reveals its intentions around Ahmed’s character, too many scenes rely on superficial dialogue and contrived situations to push…

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Review of The Unforgivable (2021)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Nov 2021

The whole thing comes across as a movie star’s anti-vanity project, just an opportunity for Bullock to demonstrate her ostensible range…

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Review of Bruised (2021)

By Jason Shawhan (7) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Nov 2021

When it’s firing on all cylinders, Bruised finds the Sirk amid the Stallone, wringing truly grand melodrama out of women reshaping their…

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Review of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Nov 2021

Alas, there’s no covert greatness to the just-plain-underwhelming Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, a reboot totally bereft of the…

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Review of Drive My Car (2021)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Nov 2021

Drive My Car effectively captures the double-edged nature of storytelling as a means of both processing and deflecting emotions; Uncle Vanya…

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Review of House of Gucci (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Nov 2021

Ridley Scott's melodrama about the Italian fashion family has its moments, but not enough of them…

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