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Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Nov 2021

Working from a script by Edmund North (Patton), taken from a story by Harry Bates, Robert Wise directs the movie with a minimum of spectacle…

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Review of Licorice Pizza (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Nov 2021

Licorice Pizza is a woozy time-warp shuffle of a comedy: a California daydream of infatuation, aspiration, and protracted adolescence that…

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Review of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Nov 2021

While Jude succeeds at lampooning the chaos of contemporary political discourse, Bad Luck Banging takes on a few too many issues to make a…

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Review of Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Nov 2021

There’s a hagiographic aspect to Truth Or Dare that’s disquieting even now, especially given that an honest movie about this genuinely…

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Review of The Power of the Dog (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Nov 2021

The Power Of The Dog divulges its secrets in deliberate, measured fashion, growing richer with each new reveal…

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Review of Zeros and Ones (2021)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Nov 2021

What Zeros And Ones conveys, in its shoestring terms, is the actual mood of a world of uncertainties…

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Review of C'mon C'mon (2021)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Nov 2021

Mills’ core insight remains the same in every film: We’re all screwed up to some degree, all constantly improvising, all doing the best…

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Review of King Richard (2021)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Nov 2021

The movie keeps enough of Richard’s messy past off screen to feel like a hagiography with a few concessions, rather than a true warts-and-all…

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Review of Jagged (2021)

By Annie Zaleski (1) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Nov 2021

The documentary ends up both a delightful ’90s time capsule and a sharp analysis of the social and cultural forces that shaped Morissette’s…

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Review of Encanto (2021)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Nov 2021

For all its compelling individual elements, Encanto doesn’t quite manage to weave them together into something greater than the sum of its…

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Review of tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Nov 2021

In joyfully embracing just about every tool in the movie-musical toolbox, Miranda crafts a fitting tribute to the act of artistic creation…

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Review of Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Nov 2021

An argument can be made for not parsing the social messaging of films like this one too deeply, as the creative team probably didn’t…

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Review of Procession (2021)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Nov 2021

Greene, whose earliest documentaries were rooted in the cinéma vérité tradition and its portraits of ordinary American lives, has crafted…

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Review of Belfast (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Nov 2021

This may, in content, be the most “personal” film in the up-and-down career of the classically trained stage and screen veteran…

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Review of Cusp (2021)

By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Nov 2021

In walking the line between asking empathy for these girls and also using them as a sort of cautionary tale, Cusp fails to offer more than…

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Review of Mayor Pete (2021)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Nov 2021

Moss spends the better part of a year just trying to get his subject to betray some raw emotion, even going so far as to have Chasten pose…

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Review of Beans (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Nov 2021

A specifically French-Canadian and Native coming-of-age story that’s heavy handed in some ways and delicate in others…

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Review of Beans (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Nov 2021

A specifically French-Canadian and Native coming-of-age story that’s heavy handed in some ways and delicate in others…

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Review of The Beta Test (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Nov 2021

Cummings and McCabe zero in on an angle they do understand—the death scream of the untouchably powerful man—and can make fun of with precision…

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Review of Spencer (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Nov 2021

Stewart never seems to find an emotional reality for the icon she’s playing; the resonance begins and ends with the stunt casting of one…

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